Face to Face with Our Future.

They should be absolutely terrified! I am speaking, of course, of the media elite who are doing everything they can to paint our movement as old, tired, and pretty much dead.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The rank and file of the right-to-life cause is getting younger and more diverse with each passing day. One has only to attend any of the many right-to-life youth events throughout the year to realize just how wrong the mainstream media is.

Over the course of the summerduring which I spent most of my time surrounded by pro-life young peopleI marveled at just how bright our future really is. And I wished that there were a way I could share them with all of you.

Then I realized that I can. I can, as we all learned in kindergarten, "show and tell." Of course it's not quite as fabulous as actually being there, but it will give you an idea of just how secure our future really is.

Among the ranks, for example, of our Wisconsin Right to Life summer campers this year we had 55 young women and 10 young men (many of whom stayed to be trained at multiple camp sessions)a ratio typical of Teens for Life events. (Note to mainstream media ... the girls outnumbered the guys about five and a half to one. How's that for our allegedly "male-dominated" movement??)

We had children adopted from Liberia and Bosnia, as well as within the United States. We had young people with disabilitiesone young man had bilateral prostheses on both legs and a personality that just would not quit.

We had a contingent of young Hispanic men and women from southern Wisconsin who are, as we speak, starting our first completely bilingual chapter of Wisconsin Teens for Life. We had accomplished violinists and trumpet players, scholars, home-schoolers, students from public and private schools, and kids with skin in a variety of hues.