Vice President Mike Pence predicted last week that legal abortion would end in the U.S. “in our time.”
Pence told a luncheon hosted by the Susan B. Anthony List & Life Institute, “I know in my heart of hearts this will be the generation that restores life in America.”
It appears his comment was more than just wishful thinking. In the past month, there have been several references in the mainstream media to a growing opposition to abortion among millennials.
Buried at the end of a Chicago Tribune story the day after the March for Life in Washington, D. C. in January was this paragraph:
“But much attention should be paid to next generation of voters….a growing number of young Americans have become more vocal about their opposition to abortion.”
On February 21, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said, “You are seeing poll numbers move on abortion for banning abortions after 20 weeks. Because for the past decade, younger Americans have been going in and they have been seeing 3D imagery where they can look into the womb.”
The poll numbers Scarborough referenced came from a January 2017 Quinnipiac poll that asked Americans whether they would support a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy if it were enacted in their state. Nearly half—49 percent—of 18- to 34-year-olds said they would support it.
In his address this week, Pence said “Life is winning… Americans — especially younger Americans — are choosing and embracing the sanctity of life more and more every day.”