By Dave Andrusko

Anyone who reads National Right to Life News (and I hope and trust that includes you!) knows that for years and years we have run story after inspiring story about incredibly wonderful pro-life young people. It's encouraging to read more and more accounts that have come to the same conclusion: more and more young people are joining the ranks of the pro-life army.

The National Catholic Register is a solid pro-life publication which I read regularly. The newspaper has a new article titled: "Pro-Life Generation: Pro-life is becoming mainstream. Are we at a tipping point?" which I'd like to borrow from and expand upon.

The emphasis of the story written by Lisa Socarras is on "Generation Y," also known as "the Millennials, those 60 million people born between the late '70s and the late '90s."

The story draws on Carl Anderson's new book, Beyond a House Divided: The Moral Consensus Ignored by Washington, Wall Street, and the Media. Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, offers a plethora of statistics to demonstrate that "Young people are increasingly pro-life."

To which Socarras adds, "A January Knights of Columbus/Marist poll showed that 58% of all 18- to 29-year-olds said that abortion is morally wrong, along with Generation X -- the generation now 30-44 years old -- of whom 60% believe abortion is morally wrong." She adds, "These results are a positive increase from the baby boomers, ages 45-64, of whom 51% believe abortion is morally wrong."

A follow-up poll taken the next month found that "66% of Catholic Millennials said that abortion is morally wrong, and 63% believe that euthanasia is as well."

But as encouraging as those numbers are, they are just that--numbers. Pro-lifers draw far greater inspiration from the hands-on involvement of a surge of young people.

That can take the form of the tens of thousands who swell the ranks of the annual March for Life. Of more long-term significance, however, are the young people who attend pro-life camps run by NRLC affiliates and the "cream of the crop" who work as NRLC interns or attend NRLC's Academy. When they leave, they branch out to help the Movement around the nation.

One other thought. Young folk are intuitively pro-life. This generation is very technologically-savvy, so much so that what still seems almost miraculous to us who are older--4D color ultrasound images, for example--is taken as a matter of course by Millennials.

Thus it is that these young people laugh at the nonsense and canards that hoodwinked earlier generations of Americans--that the unborn is a "blob of tissue," for example. They also see right through the basic lie: the insanity of pitting the unborn against their mothers AND fathers.

A very good story. If you have a chance, please read "Pro-Life Generation" at http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/generation-y-the-pro-life-generation.