Younger Women Rejecting Abortion Advocacy: NARAL Leader to Step Down

By Lisa Correnti | May 11, 2012

NARAL president Nancy Keenan has announced that she will be stepping down at the end of the year to allow the oldest pro-abortion rights group the ability to bring in younger leadership. Keenan mistakenly believes this is the answer to recruit and engage a younger membership that places a priority on abortion rights as a voting issue.

A 2010 poll conducted by NARAL confirmed the growing concern among ageing abortion rights feminists like Keenan that younger women dismiss abortion rights as a primary issue. The poll showed that while 51% of pro-life women under 30 considered abortion the single most important voting issue only 25% of pro-choice women thought it equally as important.

During Keenan’s tenure as president the country has been trending more pro-life. In 2011 states passed 92 restrictions on abortion and the 2010 midterm election saw a landslide of pro-life candidates elected at both the state and federal level.

The pro-life movement is young, growing and motivated. Hundreds of thousands of young people come to Washington, DC every year for the March for Life in solidarity. They recognize abortion is morally wrong and they reject it as a “choice.”

Keenan is right, it’s time the “post-menopausal” militia move on.

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