The Planned Parenthood building project on S. Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans remains dormant for over six months now.

On January 23, Cosmopolitan Magazine (whose target demographic aims at today's 18- to 35-year-old females) published a rather insightful article about the state of so-called "reproductive rights" in New Orleans and throughout our state. In great detail, the author, Jill Filipovic, laid out the struggling sentiments of the pro-abortion community in Louisiana. In particular, she highlighted those involved in the withering endeavor to establish a new 8,000-square-foot, $4.5 million   facility that would ultimately become a new mega-abortion center for the Gulf South.

The article was less an upbeat piece to encourage the pro-abortion base and more a chronicle of the frustration experienced by Planned Parenthood at the hands of  the vast majority of our citizens who are opposed to terminating the lives of healthy unborn children. One quote from Planned Parenthood's Louisiana leader, in particular, caught my attention.

"It makes me tired," said Melissa Flournoy.... "It's worse in 2014 and 2015 than it has been in 30 years. The opposition to women's reproductive health care access and rights is better organized, better funded, and more effective now."  

It's motivating to hear about Planned Parenthood's fatigue in its efforts to expand its unjust abortion services that tragically end the lives of unborn children and bring increased suffering to the mothers of these children. Even more, I am motivated by what we are seeing statewide and nationally from young people. In contrast to the anti-life fatigue, today's youth are neither tiring nor disengaging from defending the lives of unborn children. Last week, the Washington Times reported the findings from a recent Marist poll of millennials that reveal 59 percent think abortion is "morally wrong," 58 percent think abortion "does more harm than good," and 64 percent think the abortion rate is "higher than it should be."

Hundreds of thousands of millennials (not the mere tens of thousands most of our nation's media outlets insist upon with blind harmony) descended upon our nation's capital for the annual "March for Life." Despite enduring long drives on buses from all parts of the country, these young people arrived bursting with energy and dedication to take their place in the great civil rights movement of our time.  There was no fatigue to be seen.

Some critics hopelessly proclaim that Washington, D.C. is a place where politics wins and life loses. But the hundreds of thousands of young people boldly declared this despair to be unfounded and showed that hope and life will prevail. The youth, encouraged and taught by generations of pro-life advocates, demonstrate a deep understanding of the tragic reality of the Roe vs. Wade decision and of the injustice imposed upon the unborn children of Louisiana.

These same young people understand that all lives matter. Black and white, on streets and in the womb, all life is sacred. Truth and the facts that accompany it, like the Center for Disease Control's data that black women experience abortion 483 times for every 1,000 births, matter. It is a tragedy to stand silently as one black baby in every three dies because of abortion!

Today's young people have heard the testimonies of their peers who survived abortions and are grateful for their lives. They've also heard the tragic stories of women who regret having had abortions and who lament that if they had had more information they would have made a better choice.

Today's young people, these millennials, benefit from an enormous amount of informational and technological development. The Supreme Court of 1973 failed to judge that there was actually life in the womb. Today, young mothers and fathers can actually see the gift of life in the womb and can hear the child's tiny little heartbeat as early as 19 days after conception. Sonogram technology continues to be the best tool in helping abortion-minded women see their child growing in their wombs and change their minds.