Getting Wise to the Lies
Why Young Women are Choosing Life
August 18, 2005

The numbers have abortion advocates running scared.

Twelve years ago, 49 percent of all women between age 18 and 29 thought unrestricted abortion should be the law of the land. Today, just 28 percent of young women hold this view.
Those who promote—and profit from—abortion are trying to figure out what’s going on.

Alexander Sanger, chairman of International Planned Parenthood, complains that the numbers are “unbelievably shocking.” And he warns: “It’s not just the numbers that are down . . . It’s the enthusiasm.” When Sanger visits colleges, he finds that many no longer have an abortion rights group. But, as he told Glamour magazine, he “has yet to visit one that doesn’t have a strong, vocal faction of pro-life women.”

Abortion advocates are astonished because, after all, these are the very women who are supposed to want abortion rights the most. A story in Glamour magazine, titled “The mysterious disappearance of young pro-choice women,” came up with several possible answers. Among them are three reasons. First, young women now take abortion rights for granted. Second, they think good birth control will make abortion obsolete. And third, they’ve seen ultrasound pictures of unborn babies.

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