PRO-LIFE RESOURCES College Campuses Pro-life Activism Booming on Nation's Campuses Marginalized Majority Arising.

When news seeps out that the median age for a member of the old-line militantly pro-abortion NOW is 61, it shouldn't surprise us that the core components of the pro-abortion coalition are spending a lot more time and effort on recruiting younger women.

For example, in July NOW announced the formation of its "National NOW Young Feminist Task Force." Kate Michelman of NARAL has been visiting college campuses since last August. NARAL has a new youth advisory panel full of young up-and-comers in the pro-abortion movement, called "Generation Pro-Choice."

Not to be outdone, Planned Parenthood is starting campus clubs called "VOX" - - Voices for Planned Parenthood. And a lot of pro-abortion leaders are determined that their April 25, 2004, march in Washington, D.C. (recently renamed "The March for Women's Lives") will draw a big turnout of college students.

Pro-lifers on campuses have their own take on this. Brian Mazanec, a University of Richmond student instrumental in founding "UR Spiders for Life" last year, told NRL News about a VOX chapter founded on his campus last year.

"It seems that the pro-abortion group on campus is merely a weak reaction-based organization propped up mostly by the liberal professors who are frightened to see the high level of activity and near 100 members our pro-life student organization has," he said.

Like us, pro-abortion leaders know that today's college students are tomorrow's leaders. Unlike us, however, they are scared to death by what they see: the trend of college students toward the pro-life viewpoint.

A UCLA poll released last January showed college students' support for abortion declined from 67% to 51% in just 10 years. More importantly, the numbers continue to trend in our favor, according to recent surveys of teens. According to a 2003 Gallup survey, 72% of American teenagers agree that abortion is morally wrong. Only 26% find abortion morally acceptable.