# GOP plan to appeal to millennials: “Make abortion funny”

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**Created:** [June 19, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-plan-to-appeal-to-millennials-make-abortion-funny/661317 "2013-06-19T00:45:51Z")\
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> **[GOP plan to appeal to millennials: "Make abortion funny"](https://www.salon.com/2013/06/17/gop_plan_to_appeal_to_millennials_make_abortion_funny/)**
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> Young Christian-right leaders think the answer to their problems with young voters lies in more snark

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> “How do you make abortion funny?” That was a key question mulled at a major conservative gathering Friday on how to make social conservatism appealing to young people, after an election where Republicans got trounced in the battle for millennial voters (who are are moving even further and further away from the Christian-right on marriage and other issues).
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> Abortion has to be made funny, the thinking goes, because funny sells on social media, and that’s where one goes to court young people. “You can engage with sarcasm, it’s hard with the abortion issue, but you have to,” said Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins at a breakout panel at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference in Washington today on how to win millennial voters. “Unfortunately we have to, because this is the generation that we’ve been dealt.”

The article is about more than just abortion, it also talks about same sex marriage, for example.

To be fair, the article title is a bit misleading. There are Republicans who want to move the party in another direction regarding social issues, but not these people. These people want to move youth in their direction, no the other way around, and they want to do it by making abortion funny. :dubious:

They almost remind me of my youth in the late sixties and early seventies when the churches tried to get “hip” and have “funky” music and “dance clubs” in church basements, to try to win us over, and we were snickering at them behind their backs. I say almost because I don’t recall them doing anything as bad as trying to make abortion funny.

IMHO, if they can’t move on the social issues, then they’re in trouble as a political party. Even their gerrymandering and legislative obstructionism will ultimately fail them. As will the absolutely brilliant idea of making abortion funny.

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