Over the years, I've noticed that many people who convert to being pro-life end up becoming Catholic.

These include people like former abortionist Bernard Nathanson and former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson.

Lila Rose started live action as a teenager when she was an evangelical, but then she later converted to Catholicism.

And of course, there are many people who were non-religious or even

Protestant and became Catholic after spending years in the pro-life movement. In today's episode,

I'm going to examine those reasons they convert, some of which should really move all pro-lifers

to consider the moral worldview that is unique to Catholicism. But before we do that,

I hope I can move you to hit the like button and subscribe to our channel so you can help it grow and reach a lot more people.

Now, I admit that in many cases, these conversions come about because of social reasons.

Catholics have been overrepresented in the pro-life movement for decades.

And so it's not surprising that non-Catholics entering the

pro-life movement may see Catholicism as a foundational belief system within it. Kristen Hawkins,

the president of Students for Life, said of her conversion to Catholicism, quote,

I think my conversion story, it's fairly simple. It's meeting other Catholic leaders within

the movement, talking with staff members over the years,

and just really hearing the truth about our faith. As I showed in my episode about pro-choice Protestants,

which I'll link in the description below, the Catholic Church started the pro-life movement in the

United States through things like founding the National Right to Life Committee. Major conservative

Protestant bodies like the Southern Baptist Convention even had pro-choice views until the mid-1980s.

The hierarchy of the Catholic Church also provides a way to mobilize Catholic pro-life activists that's not as robust in other Protestant denominations.

Finally, if you get involved with grassroots pro-life activism, like praying outside of abortion facilities,

you'll often find the people praying next to you are Catholics reciting the rosary.

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