A Third Reason Why the Abortion Rate is Falling

You might have heard or read some headlines about the U.S. abortion rate falling over the last 5 years. The MSM [main stream media] likes to point out that it may be because of a handful of reasons: less abortion clinics, more (abortifacient) contraception available, more Crisis Pregnancy Centers with ultrasound machines. Coconut says we still have the highest abortion rates in the world. I think there is a third reason why we Americans are slowing the baby-killing mill.

If my generation is doing anything right, it is loving babies. Thats right, we have established a ‘baby-positive’ atmosphere after decades of barely tolerating procreating. Babies are no longer life- and career-wreckers because technology has helped many women stay at home with their children and keep a small business on the side. We want to stay home because most of the Gen X folks were left alone. We don’t want that for our children! If we screw up our kids, it will be our fault. If they turn out well, then we have accomplished something real in a world of virtual everything. And…we might have more than 2!

Pregnancy is the chic thing to do, regardless of the mama’s religious creed. Midwives and breastfeeding are mainstreaming into daily life again. We want everything organic and cloth and recycled. Toys are wooden, silken, metallic or cardboard box. Television is out; cloud-gazing is in. Education is a way of life, not something to be checked off a list. Words like “Crunchy Granola Earth Mama” are taken as a compliment.

Old style feminists don’t know what to make of the younger set who gain a college education, only to “waste” it by getting married and having several children in their twenties. To them, there is only one choice, which is no choice at all: sacrifice everything for the career, because that is the way you can become as good as the guys. Husbands, children, and home are of inestimable value that a career cannot give you. There is nothing demeaning by being different than men.

Look around you and you will see a better future for babies and women, one we have fought for ourselves.

[I will be editing this throughout the day as more thoughts come to me...]

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