Pro-life news brief 1-24-13
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Detroit News columnist Laura Berman has a rudderless and rather pointless column entitled, “Rhetoric impedes abortion debate,” discussing Planned Parenthood’s attempt to re-frame the abortion issue and dump the “pro-choice” label. The title is odd coming from someone whose columns have been permeated with pro-choice rhetoric for years. Maybe it’s just pro-life rhetoric that impedes pro-choicers from having their way?
I think a lot of the talking heads (who are basically tools of PP) are finding difficulty making Planned Parenthood’s newest talking points cohesive with their beliefs and arguments.
- Some pro-choice tolerance at DePaul University:
At about 5:00 PM Tuesday evening the DePaul YAF chairman, Kristopher Del Campo, along with other executive board members, went to remove the flag display. But what they found was startling; the flags had been removed and stuffed into trash bins [pictured] inside and outside the entrance to the DePaul library. - Naomi Cahn and June Carbone talk abortion, the pro-life movement and single mother families in Salon, arguing that the pro-life movement’s success is the cause of rising of out-of-wedlock births. Ross Douthat responds:
But Cahn and Carbone’s suggestion notwithstanding, for whites as well as minorities the steepest increase in the out-of-wedlock birth rate actually occurred in the years immediately following Roe itself…. ([T]he white out-of-wedlock birth rate nearly quadrupled between 1970 and 1990; it has only risen by about fifty percent in the two decades since.)Meanwhile, divorce rates and teen pregnancy rates both rose with the abortion rate and then fell with it from the early 1990s onward — which, again, is not exactly the pattern you’d expect if abortion-on-demand was a major boon to the two-parent household, and pro-life sentiment a significant driver of family breakdown.
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
To decrease out of wedlock births we need to make it possible for people to support themselves — and others — at younger ages than is currently true. If people don’t marry until have finishing college — in their early or mid 20s — they are much less likely to wait for marriage to become sexually active or even to wait for marriage before deliberately becoming pregnant since most females want to start families when they are young and fertile.
The legality or illegality of abortion is irrelevant. Concentrate on what is relevant: enabling people to marry young.
Good Luck at March for Life, Jill! ;)
The legality or illegality of abortion is irrelevant. Concentrate on what is relevant: enabling people to marry young.
People or women?
18 year old men may not be ready to marry but plenty of 18 year old women are. Academic achievement is inversely correlated with teen pregnancy, so this is just advocating marriage rather than single motherhood for women who are not going to college anyway and are having children anyway.
hippie says:
January 25, 2013 at 8:24 am
The legality or illegality of abortion is irrelevant. Concentrate on what is relevant: enabling people to marry young. People or women?
(Denise) Both. However, it might be true that an 18-year-old female married to an older man could start a family within marriage that would turn out to be a happy family.
For several decades, abortion was illegal and the out of wedlock birth rate MUCH lower that it is today. Legal abortion may do nothing regarding this rate — or it may paradoxically increase it because it leads to fewer “shotgun” marriages. Responsible men used to marry women they thought they impregnated as a matter of course.