Claire Levis, a 17-year-old Pennsylvanian with the group Generation Life, said, "I feel like we're all survivors of abortion."
"Abortion feels more personal for us," said Kristan Hawkins, who supervises 400 college clubs through the group Students for Life of America.
In a speech last week, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America Nancy Keenan spoke of the pro-abortion movement’s failures. "Our reluctance to address the moral complexity of this debate is no longer serving our cause -- or our country -- well," she said. Referring to her own movement’s leaders as the “menopausal militia,” she suggested her allies concentrate on less controversial issues such as the rising cost of birth control on college campuses.
Abortion-rights supporters also engage in outreach to youth, using Facebook, MySpace, text-messaging, and YouTube videos.
But far more viewers have visited YouTube’s pro-life videos, which include a UCLA sophomore’s undercover footage of an abortion clinic clerk suggesting a teen lie about her age on a form so that her much-older boyfriend would not be charged with statutory rape.