who is a frequent presence at anti-abortion events: “When young people join your movement, you know victory is on its way.” She recalled a line she heard from the conservative activist Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King Jr. “It’s always been a movement of youth,” said Kristan Hawkins, who became the president of Students for Life of America in 2006, when she was 21. But overwhelmingly, young anti-abortion women view themselves as human rights activists - happy warriors on the right side of history. Historical touchstones - commonplace within the movement and much-disputed outside it - include the Civil Rights movement and 19th and early 20th century suffragists.įor the majority of American women who support abortion rights, other women’s enthusiasm for stripping away their own constitutional rights can be baffling and enraging, a profound betrayal. It positions itself as a countercultural alternative to mainstream conventional wisdom but also champions broadly popular beliefs about the importance of justice and equality for the vulnerable. “The pro-life movement up until now has had the best of both worlds in terms of attracting young people,” Mr.
Just 21 percent of young women say that abortion should be broadly illegal, Pew found. Women ages 18 to 29 are significantly likelier than older women to say abortion should be generally legal, and that it is morally acceptable. “That’s where a lot of the change happens.”Ī clear majority of Americans say abortion should be legal with few or no exceptions, according to a Pew survey taken in March. Purvey to provide help to women like her mother.“At this point in my life, I hold the rights of pre-born children and women equally, but I consider myself a little more women-forward and women-centered,” she said. The family later received financial and emotional support from their church, which inspired Ms. Her mother was poor and in an unstable marriage, she said, and received prenatal care from Planned Parenthood. Purvey was born in a Mexican community in South Texas.
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She prefers “life-affirming,” and she works at a pregnancy-resource clinic in Dallas that uses the same term to describe the free and low-cost prenatal care, postpartum doula services, lactation consulting and other services offered to its primarily Black, low-income clientele. But she is increasingly uncomfortable with using the term “pro-life” to describe herself, because it evokes an emphasis on preventing abortions at any cost, rather than on helping women.
Purvey said she supported a legal ban on abortion from conception.
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