Is Pro-Life 'Excitement' After Planned Parenthood Baby Body Parts Investigation Really 'Dead'?
Stensrud suggested that a way to get even more millennials on the front lines of the pro-life movement, pro-lifers need to do a better job of explaining that pro-life issues are pro-justice issues.
"Millennials seem to get very excited about pro-justice causes. Human trafficking seems to be the hot topic to be involved with," Stensrud explained. "Millions of dollars are donated through Christian conferences and youth events, which is a very good thing. But, one thing in the pro-life movement is that we want to help people see that pro-justice causes are pro-life causes."
Although the excitement regarding the Planned Parenthood videos may have decreased over the last few months, Mollie Hemingway, who is the senior editor for the Federalist and a participant in the panel, argued that there will be a significant and lasting impact benefiting the pro-life movement because of the possible legal ramifications of these videos.
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As Planned Parenthood filed a federal racketeering lawsuit against the Center for Medical progress and its founder David Daleiden earlier this month, Hemingway suggests that was a mistake on Planned Parenthood's part because there could be "big consequences" that come from the lawsuit.
"Planned Parenthood for some reason decided to sue David Daleiden, which I don't know why they are exposing themselves," Hemingway wondered. "When you sue someone, that gives the person being sued the opportunity to get into your records a little bit. There will big pieces of information and consequences coming out of this. Some people didn't really investigate but other people will investigate. That is huge and important and I think this is a very big moment for the country to be forced to deal with what is going on."
While the pro-life movement took many strides forward throughout the last year, ERLC Director of Policy Studies Andrew T. Walker warned that voting for the wrong candidate, like billionaire Republican Donald Trump, could potentially harm the progress that the pro-life movement is making.
Walker pointed out that during a 1999 interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Trump explained why he was pro-choice even though he can't stand abortion. During the interview, Trump stated that he would not ban partial-birth abortions.
"I think we should pause for a second and say that the pro-life movement is at a point where we have momentum, we shouldn't sacrifice momentum just for expediency for the campaign trail," Walker stressed. "So, as we are evaluating as pro-life individuals, we need ones who are principled, not just ones who are filling in that bubble just to get our votes."
