By Bill Fancher
Technology and personal experience — a pro-life group says those are two major factors in a national “attitude adjustment” concerning abortion over the past three decades.
A recent poll from the Center for the Advancement of Women supports an earlier poll from several years ago. The earlier poll found that more than 50% of Americans believe abortion is murder. The more recent poll found that 51% of all women feel abortion is wrong because it takes innocent life.
Wendy Wright, senior policy director for Concerned Women for America, says the polls reflect the truth about the nation’s beliefs.
“This polling data shows a trend that more people are becoming pro-life, and [fewer] people are pro-abortion,” Wright says. “That’s a logical outcome of the advancements we’ve seen in the last 30 years — [such as] with ultra-sound, where now we can see that an unborn baby is truly a human being and not just a blob of tissue.”
While Wright gives credit to ultra-sound technology for helping change how people view the unborn, she is quick to add another key reason for the attitude shift.
“The personal experiences of women who have had abortions touch not only them, but also those surrounding them,” she explains. “They have seen how abortion harms women — so many, particularly in the younger generation, have grown up knowing how devastating abortion can be.”
Wright expects this trend of growing opposition to abortion to continue until one day when the procedure is no longer legal.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press).
