Bryan Ens of the Student Free Press Association:
Planned Parenthood has claimed that college students were among its strongest supporters in the debate over the $368 million Title X program. Pro-choice groups have sought to portray college students as monolithically supportive of Planned Parenthood — but long-term polls may not reflect this trend.
Professor Michael J. New believes that the millennial generation is more receptive to pro-life arguments.
“Younger people are considering themselves to be pro-life, more so than their previous cohorts,” he said.
New, an associate professor of political science at the University of Alabama, and fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, pointed to a Gallup poll conducted in 2009 showing that 51 percent of Americans described themselves as pro-life.