"Generation Y"-The Most Pro-Life Generation Yet.

"Look at the bright sideif we keep reproducing, eventually we'll outnumber them!" We laughed as pro-life champion and educator Molly Kelly shared this with usa room full of eager Teens for Life. That was 16 years ago, and it seemed as if we were vastly outnumbered by our pro-abortion peers. Frankly, it took some doing to look on the bright side.

Fast forward to the present. Molly was right. Everyone seems to agree on one thing: Generation Y is more pro-life than its parents' generation.

Consider in the past year such headlines as the Atlanta Journal Constitution's "Abortion Activists Fight Youth Apathy" and Glamour magazine's "The Mysterious Disappearance of Young Pro-Choice Women." Read the pro-abortion spokespeople quoted and their frustration is almost palpable. They seem shocked that this generation of young people isn't buying into the abortion mentality.

But it's not such a surprise, really. Pro-life people have children, and raise them to understand that life should be protected. Pro-abortion people frequently have abortions.

But raising life-affirming children is only part of the explanation.

Anyone born after January 22, 1973, is a survivor. At some levelconsciously or subconsciouslythey know they could have been just another statistic.

That tends to have an effect on a generation. How much that is true is showing up in many ways.