Pro-choice supporters gone in 40 years?

Editor:

A few generations ago there existed in P.E.I. an acknowledged pattern when it came to voting that could be relied upon. If your parents voted for one particular party, it would come as no surprise to anyone if you voted for the same party. This same pattern exists today as far as pro-life/prochoice beliefs are concerned.

Offspring tend to adopt their parents’ attitudes. And how does this apply to the abortion issue? Quite simply, children born to pro-lifers tend to remain pro-life, and children born to pro-choicers tend to adopt a pro-choice attitude.

In general, those who are pro-life tend to have more children and fewer abortions, and those who support abortion rights tend to practice what they preach and have less children and more abortions. Estimates show pro-lifers have roughly three children for every two children of those who support abortion. As these children come of age and have children of their own, the gap between prochoice and pro-life continues to widen. This trend assumes that what I have stated about children adopting their parents’ attitudes continues to hold true.

One other major factor is contributing towards, indeed accelerating, this trend. And that is the phenomena known as survivor syndrome. A significant number of offspring of pro-choice parents wonder about their aborted siblings, and are so grateful that they themselves weren’t aborted, that they tend to become pro-life.

There can only be one result of this trend that is well underway; the elimination of the pro-choice movement. I give the pro-choicers another 40 years or so, before they are all but wiped out. However, because I am not completely without compassion, I have a suggestion on how they can reverse this trend — stop doing abortions. Rolf Tomlins, Montague