USA Today columnist predicts the future of abortion in America
Though the U.S. demographic future is more skeptical of abortion, and will limit abortion more than it is now (likely bringing it into line with Europe’s far more restrictive abortion laws), future Americans will also make substantial room for choice, especially in difficult situations.
Abortion-rights activists like to tell scary stories about the possibility that women whose lives are threatened or who are victims of sexual violence will be denied abortions, but even nearly 70% of pro-lifers want abortion to be legal in those circumstances.
At bottom, young people simply don’t share the basic assumptions of an outdated abortion debate in which it’s either the mother or the embryo. While they want to limit abortion, young people also want much more social support for women, especially when it comes to their being able to keep their children. They will be the generation to finally bring us things such as mandatory paid paternal leave, affordable child care and strictly enforced gender discrimination laws in the workplace.
In short, they will refuse to choose between protecting mother and embryo.
~ Charles C. Camosy, USA Today, March 23
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And yet again: A mainstream media publication is speaking favorably about the growing pro-life culture — topics that used to be confined to pro-life and pro-abortion blogs.
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Pro-lifers already refuse to choose between mother and embryo. We help them both. So let’s not be so hasty about knocking the pro-life movement which has helped countless women through pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, and more.
However, it is not the same on the other side. “Embryo” isn’t even considered or mentioned. The embryo doesn’t exist to them. It doesn’t fit with the narrative.
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“They will be the generation to finally bring us things such as mandatory paid paternal leave”
Back in the days of say-at-home moms…when people generally got married before having children and were a bit more fertile…a benefit like paid paternal leave would have been a much bigger financial burden on businesses and the economy in general. Back then making it mandatory may have even created an incentive to discriminate in hiring younger workers. But today…not so much.
Ironically, one might say it is the contraceptive mentality that is making paid paternal leave more common.
Personally, I think paid parental leave is a great pro-family initiative, that is right for our times, and ought to be adopted widely.
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This is encouraging. They can see that the problem isn’t pregnant women but a society that is opposed to pregnant women in certain situations.
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