Top Five Ways Millennials Are Changing the Pro-Life Movement

3. Changing the Culture is Paramount to Today’s Pro-Lifers

When the pro-life movement was born, most Americans were still avidly resistant to legalized abortion. Bear in mind that abortion did not become legal through legislative means, but rather through legal challenges.

The culture changed significantly in the following decades, especially among progressives. Yet even into the 1990s, abortion was not culturally seen as a positive. Even Bill Clinton’s stated policy on abortion was that it should be “safe, legal and rare” (despite the fact that his actual policies were quite the opposite).

Millennials were born into a world of abortion-on-demand, but judging by the declining number of abortions, they certainly are demanding fewer of them.

Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa is the president of New Wave Feminists, incidentally the same group that was chased out of partnership with the Women’s March after complaints from pro-choice feminists. When asked if her goal was to make abortion illegal, she explained that her goal was to change the culture, not the law. “I’m not out to make abortion illegal; I’m out to make abortion unthinkable.”