Morning Wire Is the Pro-Life Movement Gaining Ground With Gen Z? | 2.22.26
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Feb 22, 2026 Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life Action and longtime campus organizer, discusses college campuses as battlegrounds for Gen Z. She highlights generational shifts, efforts to persuade young women with value-forward messaging, the rise of chemical abortion debates, and strategies aimed at winning the next cohort of voters.
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Directness Resonates With Gen Z
- Gen Z responds to direct conversations and values clear messaging on worth and dignity.
- Kristan Hawkins argues campus outreach can shift hearts by affirming both the student and the child in the womb.
Two Decades Of Campus Organizing Mattered
- Kristan Hawkins has led Students for Life since 2006 and views long-term preparation as key to recent progress.
- She credits sustained organizing for reversing expectations, including gains after Roe was overturned.
Dobbs Opened A Window To Persuade
- Dobbs forced the ambivalent 'mushy middle' to pick sides and opened opportunities to persuade them.
- Hawkins cites polling showing majorities of Gen Z/Y want abortion restrictions and safety standards for pills.