The Younger Generation Is Choosing Life.

With as many staunch allies as the pro-abortion movement has in the media, when even reporters recognize that pro-abortionists have a problem, the situation must be dire indeed. Such is the case with the undeniable shift of youth out of the pro-abortion camp and into the ranks of the pro-life movement.

Of particular significance is the number of young women speaking out for life. Symbolic of this reluctant media recognition of the obvious was an article in the March 30, 2003, New York Times.

Practically the house organ of the pro-abortion movement, the Times ran a Sunday Style front-page article with the revealing headline, "Surprise, Mom. I'm against abortion." An August 2005 Glamour magazine article was like a matching bookend. The article's tantalizing lament was "The mysterious disappearance of young pro-choice women."

And who should bemoan this shift? None other than Alexander Sanger, chairman of the International Planned Parenthood Council (and grandson of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger). Mr. Sanger looked at the current numbers and told Susan Dominus, the author of the Glamour article, that he "finds them unbelievably shocking."

The numbers he is referring to are the poll results showing that opposition to abortion is growing among young people. Glamour cites CBS News/New York Times polls where the percentage of young women ages 18 to 29 who said abortion should be available to anyone who wants one (the situation as it is now) dropped 21 percentage points in 12 years: from 49 percent in 1993 to 35 percent in 2003 to 28 percent in 2005.

The same polls show that opposition to abortion among these women has grown since 1993. In 2005, 40% of the young women thought abortion should be available but with stricter limits and 30% thought abortion should not be permitted.

This clear evidence of a much-heightened pro-life sentiment among young people is shown in the sidebar that appears on this page.