Kaitlyn Ruch: Gen Z's Impact On Pro-Life Legislation
The Kristan Hawkins Show
Savannah Slattery
3.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Kaitlyn Ruch, Students for Life Action Alumni, was America’s youngest candidate when she ran for the Montana House of Representatives at just 17 years old. Some people believed she wasn’t qualified to run, but after listening to this episode, we think you’ll understand why it was critical that she did, and how she gained huge support during her race. Kristan Hawkins interviews Kaitlyn Ruch, a Gen-Z political activist and the youngest-ever Republican nominee for Montana State House. The two discuss the next generation’s impact on the pro-life movement and legislation, and how young Americans can take on leadership roles in their communities & in the pro-life movement.
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| 0:00.0 | There are a lot of young people, high schoolers, college students who know abortion is wrong. |
| 0:06.3 | I meet them all the time. |
| 0:07.8 | In fact, I would say probably the majority of young people know abortions wrong. |
| 0:12.2 | But either consciously or not, many don't really want to do much about it. |
| 0:17.9 | They kind of leave the heavy lifting to abolishing abortion to adults. |
| 0:22.3 | That's not the philosophy of my guest here today. |
| 0:30.7 | Hey, Polo-Ched, I'm Kristen Hawkins. Welcome to this new explicitly pro-lite podcast episode. |
| 0:37.2 | Today we're going to get wisdom from America's youngest candidate. |
| 0:42.3 | I am so excited to have you all with me and have Caitlin Rook with me. |
| 0:46.8 | She just flew in from Montana. |
| 0:48.4 | I come down here to Florida to meet with me. |
| 0:50.8 | Caitlin, you may have seen at some of Students for Life action, social media or blogs. We do |
| 0:56.3 | a bunch of stuff bragging about Caitlin. While in high school, Caitlin started, felt moved to |
| 1:02.4 | start a Students for Life group, received a ton of backlash at school from her peers for doing so. |
| 1:09.9 | Never faced. She pushed through, assembled an |
| 1:13.7 | enthusiastic crew of students to change hearts, change minds, participate in events, |
| 1:19.0 | impact Helena, Montana, which if you're from California, stay out of Montana. |
| 1:23.6 | We've discussed that before because you wouldn't think Montana is this like very liberal place. |
| 1:30.0 | But cities like Bozeman and Helena, it's getting very liberal, very pro-abortion, very fast. |
| 1:36.6 | But Caitlin didn't stop her activism there with Students for Life. |
| 1:41.8 | She's actually one of the youngest people not only in Montana history, |
| 1:45.0 | but in American history, to run for office. She won the Republican primary for Montana State |
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