The kids may be alright...

Are kids today more pro-life? According to this article, they may be:

New York Times: Surprise, Mom: I'm Anti-Abortion

It seems many of the adults are saying, "What's the matter with these kids today?"

"I was shocked that there were that many students who felt strong enough and confident enough to speak about being pro-life," said Nina Verin, a parent of another student in the class (whose oral argument was about war in Iraq). "The people I associate with in town are pro-choice, so I'm troubled — where do these kids come from?"

Apparently, the kids are thinking about this issue differently than their parents:

Britni Hoffbeck, another speech student at Red Wing High who opposes abortion, and who says her views are more conservative than those of her parents, put her argument succinctly: "It's more about the baby's rights than the woman's rights."

Tom Cosgrove, a communications consultant in Cambridge, Mass., who has researched the views of young people for national abortion-rights groups, said: "All the restrictions that the right-to-life movement has imposed young people look at and say, `They're a good thing, because it's meant to protect a young woman's health.' They don't want the label of pro-choice. The pro-life side figured out a long time ago that this is about children, whereas the pro-choice movement is focused on women and choice."

I'll take this as a good sign, although teenagers have a tendency to change their views about things as they get older. For example, I went from being pro-life to pro-choice and then back to pro-life again (as an adult). But maybe there is a true shift in public opinion coming on this issue. Perhaps by the end of this century, people will look at abortion the same way people look at slavery now.

(Via E-Pression).