A Prolife Rebellion
Last week, Gallup released a poll showing that younger Americans (18-29) are more pro-life than their parents. This is particularly interesting since 18-29 year-olds only represents about half of the Millenial generation, yet we are trending more conservative than our parents did on this issue.
This could be a reflection of society growing more pro-life, which Gallup has reported for a while now. However, the generation billed as the most “socially liberal” is far more pro-life than our parents were at our age.
Today, via Feministing, I saw the results of a survey the Girl Scouts released, Good Intentions: The Beliefs and Values of Tweens and Teens today that surveyed the younger members and complements the Gallup survey. The Girl Scout survey was actually a better sample than Gallup with 3,263 girls and boys in grades 3-12 who were both in and out of scouting (Gallup only had about 1,000 in the 18-29 cohort). The survey revealed similar findings for the school-aged sample as Gallup did:
Another topic of interest in this survey was youth’s attitudes about abortion. The proportion of 7th- to 12th-graders who agree that abortion is all right is lower today than it was in 1989. Fewer youth today (25%) than in 1989 (33%) believe that “abortion is all right if having a baby will change your life plans in a way you find hard to live with.” Six in ten (60%) disagree that “abortion is all right, if having a baby will change your life plans”. Fifteen percent do not know how they feel about the matter. Boys are more likely than girls to agree that abortion is all right (29% compared to 20%), and as youth get older they are more likely to agree. White (28%) and Asian (35%) youth in this age bracket are more likely than African Americans (15%) to agree with this as well. (emphasis mine.)
What has made this generation–and society overall–more pro-life? Is it the constant presence of abortion in the news? The development of neo-natal medicine or the loudly silent population of 52 million missing people that were killed before they were born?
Tags: Abortion, Feministing, Girl Scouts, Millenials, pro-life
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