A team of professional pro-lifers released a video Sunday spotlighting the growing youth presence in the fight against abortion.
"Planned Parenthood insists that America's youth are primarily pro-choice," reads a statement in the video, created by Population Research Institute (PRI). "They're dead wrong."
The video – the third in a series released by PRI on YouTube – documents last week's March for Life which draws tens of thousands of abortion opponents to Washington, D.C., every year. As the crowd of peaceful protesters has grown larger over the last three decades since the legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade, the crowd has also gotten younger over time.
"More and more young people in their teens and in their early twenties are coming out to protest the killing of their unborn brothers and sisters," says PRI president Steven Mosher in the video. "They're the future of the pro-life movement in the United States and the future is now."
Colin Mason, director for Media Production at PRI, says he wants the video to be a witness to members of the pro-choice movement who think that they have America's youth in their pocket, according to a released statement.
"PRI wanted to show compelling evidence that America's young pro-lifers are vocal, joyful, and ultimately very numerous," says Mason.
At this year's Jan. 22 March for Life, teens wore matching sweat shirts and held banners representing their school or organization, holding "Life" signs as they marched along Constitution Avenue.
"I believe that life begins and conception and that every human has a God-given right to be born," says one female young adult in the video.
"I can't see myself being pro-choice. It's murder," says a young male.
It is estimated that 50 million lives have been lost since the Supreme Court decision in 1973 to overturn all state laws banning abortion. And today's generation of youth is taking up the issue in a personal way as they see themselves as survivors of what some call "the largest continuing holocaust in American history."
"I was born in 1989 and I know that part of my generation is missing and that really saddens me. And I don't want the future generations to be missing out on people who are aborted," says one girl in the video.
"If my mom wasn't pro-life, I wouldn't be here, so neither would anybody around here," a young male comments.
The latest PRI video is the third in a series released on YouTube, documenting abuses of human rights around the world and violations of U.S. and international laws. The first video features China's one-child policy and how pregnant women are arrested and forced to have abortions while the second documents the largely pro-life Latin American countries where a coalition of radical feminists and population controllers are trying to change laws to allow abortion on demand.
The Population Research Institute was founded in 1989 and is comprised of a small, skilled team of professional pro-lifers, "working hard to stop the evil of abortion throughout the world."
Comments
"Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The combination of 23 chromosomes present in each pronucleus results in 46 chromosomes in the zygote. Thus the diploid number is restored and the embryonic genome is formed. The embryo now exists as a genetic unity."
[O'Rahilly, Ronan and Müller, Fabiola. Human Embryology & Teratology. 2nd edition. New York: Wiley-Liss, 1996, pp. 8, 29. This textbook lists "pre-embryo" among "discarded and replaced terms" in modern embryology, describing it as "ill-defined and inaccurate" (p. 12}]
A new, genetically distinct human organism is formed. Sounds like life to me.
And if you want to protect unborn lives so badly, you can stop using contraceptives all together and end up with sixteen children.
Chris/ Slacker
Who are you to say what makes a Christian. The Bible says nothing about abortion. You can be pro-choice and be a Christian.
Some stupid little video on youtube dosen't stand for the opinion of all teens. No one asked me what I thought. I happen to think that if someone gets pregnant, it's their body. They shouldn't have to have a baby if they don't want to.
Citizen: Question 14 on the survey shows that most of the youth surveyed have some respect for life of the unborn. I am thankful for that, and it is important to mention this when referring to the survey.
Citizen, how are you a member of a Christian Church and not a Christian, that honestly confuses me. Christianity is not a club. It is fine if you go to a church for whatever reason and be an observer, but you can't just claim you are a member.
Open Source: if you have read Roe v. Wade, you understand that the decision itself does not mandate legal abortion up until the moment of birth. After viability, the state can ban abortion so long as it has exceptions for the life and health of the mother. So the two numbers you cite are perfectly consistent.
Not at all. Christians do many things that I find practical and admirable. Community, ethics...singing. I'm a member of a christian church, did you know that? So's my girlfriend. It's where we met, actually. She's one of a multitude of fine people I am associated with, thanks to my affiliation with this church. Some of them even know that I'm no longer a christian, but those that know like me just the same, as far as I am aware.
I, too, am a "pro-logic" person, which is why I understand the difference between potential, and actuality. I am potentially a future President of the United States, but that does not mean I am currently the President, which explains why it was not me giving the State Of The Union last night. Surely, someone as pro-logic as yourself can see that, right?
The poll that Citizen identifies actually gives me hope that America's youth do have at least some concern for the life of the unborn. Although question 13 shows 57% vs. 34% in favor of Roe vs. Wade, question 14 shows that only 24% favor abortion to be legal in all circumstances. That implies that there is at least some respect for life among the rest of those surveyed (not including the 2% who offered no opinion).
So Citizen are you against everything that christians stand for, you like to comment against pretty much every story on CP...
Just curious...
Btw i am a Pro-Logic person, where if the cookies are still in the oven, does that make them less of a cookie... Think about it...
I notice this article offers no numbers to back up their claim. That's because they can't: the numbers actually show the opposite. American youth supported Roe v. Wade 57%-34% in the spring of 2006
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/pdfs/survey/spring_poll_2006_topline.pdf