Why is it that, when a young woman says she's pro-choice, she's heralded as intelligent beyond her years, but if a similar young woman is passionately pro-life, she's marked as "too young to understand?"
-Phil, Rock for Life
Teen Culture Takes Another Look At Abstinence/Abortion
The majority of teenagers in high school are virgins.
Surprised? And the increasingly pro-life views of young people may be due to "refram[ing] the national debate… shifting the emphasis from a woman’s right to the rights of the unborn child. Graphic descriptions of the partial-birth abortion procedure have also impacted young people." [American Family Association Journal, 5/28/03; Abstinence Clearinghouse E-Mail Update 4Jun03, www.abstinence.net/library/ind2; Star Tribune, 1Apr03; HLA Action News, Spring03]/