Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

According to the website, shoutyourabortion.com, yes, that is a real website, women who want children are the abnormal ones.

For example, take Sid, who identified herself as a convert to Catholicism.

She wrote, quote, thanks to my abortion, I will have a future.

Another woman wrote, abortion gave me a chance to focus on my own life.

An anonymous college student said this,

My future was worth it.

I'm more than just a vessel to produce new life.

She then compared her baby to a tumor that was standing between her and her career.

This website is among the many legacies of a society now well into its fourth wave of feminism.

In this context, many women see the procreative design of their bodies as a problem to be

avoided or solved, but not a gift of God. And between that consistent drumbeat and the

celebrity voices who equate abortion with mercy or who insists life without marriage and children

is better, despite overwhelming research that suggests otherwise, it's no wonder that over one

million women chose to end the life of their baby last year. Or that 40% of

young women think they should hold off having a baby until their career is established, or that

one-fifth of women say they would forego kids altogether for their career. Many young women simply

believe that they will be happier if they remain single and without kids. And yet,

study after study continues to show that the happiest people, on average, in America, are women

who are married with children. In other words, there's an incredible gap between perception and

reality in this space. God designed humans for relationships. For most, that will eventually mean marriage.

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