By Dave Andrusko
It’s only two days from when pro-lifers from across the country will come to Crystal City, Virginia, minutes from our nation’s capital, for the beginning of the 42nd NRLC convention. This premiere pro-life educational event of the year draws right-to-life activists together from across the country to meet with and listen to leading experts in all issues that matter to the greatest social justice Movement of our day.
Carol Tobias, NRLC President and host of Pro-Life Perspective, is using PLP to look back at the opening address delivered at last year’s convention by The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes.
Mr. Barnes is co-founder and executive editor of The Weekly Standard and a Fox News Channel contributor. From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for The New Republic. He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star before moving on to the Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote the “Presswatch” media column for the American Spectator.
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The following are additional remarks from Mr. Barnes’s opening address.
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I’ve been interested in Crisis Pregnancy Centers for a good while and I’ve known some people involved in them. And what’s amazing is that there are at least twice as many crisis pregnancy centers as there are abortion mills, at least twice as many maybe three times as many. What really struck me when I’ve looked into this a little bit, I talked to the legal counsel for Care Net just the other day, Jeanneane Maxon, and there are so many different names, there are crisis pregnancy centers, pregnancy care centers, pregnancy resource centers, pregnancy health centers or just plain pregnancy centers and there are lots of other names. A friend of mine in Northern Virginia a guy I go to church with named Jim Wright was in commercial real-estate in Northern VA and some years ago must have been a decade or decade and a half, he gave that up and started a crisis pregnancy center which he calls “Birth Mothers”, there are so many different names because there are so many more crisis pregnancy centers. I guess I use the old fashioned name “crisis pregnancy centers” oh and some are just called “crisis centers”. It’s very indicative of growth.
And as Carol said, the movement is so much younger, I hadn’t heard this Marris poll that she mentioned that 60% of people under the age of 45 say abortion is immoral. And indeed it is but what this means is that more and more young people are coming to that conclusion.
The Marist Poll which Fred refers to was conducted in 2010 for the Knights of Columbus. It found that 56% of the population as a whole said abortion was morally wrong, compared with only 19% who felt abortion was morally acceptable. 60% of Generation X-ers who were born at the time of Roe v. Wade, and 58% of millennials said abortion was morally wrong.
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