As a college professor, I have the opportunity to get to know many students in the 18-24 age range as well as some non-traditional students. In general, it seems that a greater percentage of students are pro-life than they were when I was a student. This is anecdotal evidence, yet it is shared by my colleagues at other universities. I have heard the statistical evidence bears this out as well; someday I will make the time to look this up myself. This does not mean that today’s students are more conservative than previous years (for example, a slight majority of today’s students favor homosexual marriage while every other age group believes that marriage should strictly be between a man and a woman), just that more and more youngsters are pro-life.

While there are probably several factors involved, such as the Roe Effect, I believe technology is playing a major role in these attitudes. When I was growing up, teachers and the media would talk about how the fetus was just a lump of tissue or a generic being that was indistinguishable from animals in the womb. Doonesbury was a typical example of the disinformation spread by the left, making fun of pro-lifers by showing a speck that the pro-lifers wanted to defend.

What changed? Ultrasounds made a difference; abortion "counselors" try to dissuade potential clients from having ultrasounds because once a woman sees her baby, she has no doubt that the unborn child is human. General Electric’s 4D sonogram technology is having an even more dramatic impact. GE even has a site where you can see pictures showing the week-by-week growth of the unborn. It is difficult to kill a child when you can no longer pretend that the unborn is not human.

I stand by my prediction that Roe v. Wade will be overturned in my lifetime. While this event may have to wait until enough Baby Boomers die off, the pro-life beliefs of more and more young adults are at least reducing the numbers of unborn babies killed in the States each year.

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