It seems the tide has turned in public attitudes toward abortion.(While We're At It)(Brief article)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May, 2008 by Neuhaus, Richard John

It seems the tide has turned in public attitudes toward abortion. Especially among young people. Two pro-abortion warriors, Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe and activist Gloria Feldt are not at all happy about it. Both address a spate of movies--Juno, Knocked Up, Waitress, Bella--in which the decision to reject abortion and have babies is favorably portrayed.

Goodman writes: "I am supposed to go with the flow and not point a scolding finger at cultural propaganda. But fuddy-duddy be damned. Sitting behind those tweens [in the movie theater]--girls somewhere between preschool and pubescence--I wondered what was being absorbed through their PG-13 pores." She quotes Stephanie Coontz who says: "Social conservatives are backing off on the condemnation of single...

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