Below is a email I received years ago from Steve Mosher. Please read it because it's important. I don't want to get into names, but there are some
pro-life organizations which I wouldn't donate a penny. Steve's PRI is
just the opposite, if you could only donate to one pro-life group that
is the one.
Fred
Abortion may be legal in America, but
more and more Americans are choosing life. This shift in attitude will
have a positive demographic effect in the years ahead. As more and more
Americans choose life, America is shifting towards the Culture of Life.
Steven W. Mosher
President
The Coming Demographic Victory
Pro-lifers may be on the defensive in the courtroom, but they are winning the battle of the cradle.
The
first person to point this out to me was Father Paul Marx. A family
sociologist by training, Father had noticed in his travels around the
United States that pro-lifers had larger families than the American
average. I had observed the same thing. Pro-life events attracted
families with four, six, or even eight children. It only made sense, we
agreed, that those who respect the sanctity of unborn life would average
more children than those who do not. For one thing, their children are
at far less risk of being aborted than are the children of pro-aborts.
It
was left to crack HLI researcher Brian Clowes to clothe these
impressions with statistics. Dr. Clowes concluded from the sketchy
survey data then available that there were significant, even striking
differences in fertility between the two groups. While those who
professed pro-life sentiments far exceeded the American average of two
children, those who supported legal abortion fell far short of this
figure. Specifically, he found that pro-lifers averaged three children,
while pro-aborts averaged one. This is to say, pro-lifers were out
reproducing pro-aborts by a margin of three to one.
At the time,
in the mid-nineties, the polls showed that Americans were more or less
evenly divided on the abortion question. But if we were right, the poll
numbers would inexorably shift in a pro-life direction as time passed.
Demography is destiny, after all. If the pro-lifers were having three
times as many children as the pro-aborts, then the ranks of the
pro-lifers would swell while the ranks of the pro-aborts thinned. The
pro-abortion movement would have signed its own death warrant.
Pro-lifers, on the other hand, would be busy signing birth certificates.
After a generation, the country would be overwhelmingly pro-life.
The
mind is drawn toward pleasant prospects, but is there any hard evidence
of such a demographic shift? I am happy to report that there is. A new
Gallup poll of teenagers, reported on November 24, 2003 by
WorldNetDaily.com, found that 72 percent of those queried believe
abortion is morally wrong.
The survey of youth, aged 13 to 17,
indicated just 19 percent believe abortion should be legal in all
circumstances, compared to 26 percent for adults. About 47 percent of
teens said it should be legal under some circumstances, while 55 percent
of adults agreed. Most strikingly, about 32 percent of teens thought
abortion should never be permitted, while only 17 percent of adults said
the same. Religious conviction played a part in these views. Only 12
percent of churchgoing youth thought that abortion is morally
acceptable, compared with about 38 percent of non-churchgoing youth.
About 40 percent of churchgoing teens believe abortion should be illegal
under any circumstance, compared to 26 percent for non-churchgoers.
The
Gallup Youth Survey was done through a scientific methodology via the
Internet to ensure a representative sample of the U.S. population. The
questionnaire was completed by 517 youths. Richard Land, president of
the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, told
Baptist Press that "We're winning the struggle for hearts and minds. The
young people are more conservative than their parents."
But I believe it would be accurate to say that we are winning the battle
of the cradle. The young people surveyed are, by and large, the sons and
daughters of parents of pro-life sentiments. Like begets like, only in greater number.
The battle is not over yet, however.
The
pro-aborts are not going quietly into demographic oblivion. (Do they
ever do anything quietly?) While they have largely stopped reproducing
themselves biologically, they are continuing to replicate themselves
culturally. What do I mean? I mean that the Culture of Death controls
MTV and passes its anti-people and anti-baby attitudes along to
unsuspecting young viewers. It controls elite institutions of higher
education. Tenured abortion radicals are zealous in making new recruits
to their anti-life views.
This means that it is not enough to
simply welcome more children into the world. People of pro-life
sentiments must ensure that their own children_and as many other young
people as they can reach_are properly taught the Culture of Life values
that they are the product of. They will find their pro-life views under
assault as they go on to college, and must be taught to defend them.
If
this is done, then this country will move sharply in a pro-life
direction over the next decade. And the stage will be set to outlaw not
merely Partial Birth Abortions, but all abortions.
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Steve Mosher is the president
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debunking the myth that the world is overpopulated.
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