A prominent anti-abortion organization is ‘seeding the culture’ at breakneck speed, amassing 1.3 billion media impressions and views in the last 5 months across all platforms, including nearly 90 million views on Facebook so far in October.
Abolitionists Rising is perhaps the most prominent and principled abortion abolitionist organization in the culture today.
Founded in Norman, OK, and led by Russell Hunter, their mission is to spread abolitionist ideas and support abolitionist organizations, projects, and legislation, with their goals being “the abolition of abortion, the repentance of the nation, and the glorification of God.”
The group is not part of the frequently problematic and mushy Pro-Life Movement and instead actively distances itself from such comparisons. Rather, they are wholly different in their theology, tactics, and goals, distinguishing themselves by possessing a more biblical and consistent ideology.
“We seek to abolish abortion totally and immediately. We do not call for incremental legislation that regulates the who, what, when, where, and why of legal abortion. We call for abolitionist legislation that makes preborn children equal under the law and criminalizes abortion as murder.”
For over a decade, they’ve clung to those differentiators, waging boots-on-the-ground conferences where street activism and engagement play a major role. They’ve distributed millions of drop cards, leaflets, and tracts, backed abolitionist politicians, staged viral campaigns, engaged in state lobbying, and introduced abolitionist legislation that pro-life groups have consistently opposed.
These groups have included National Right to Life, the ERLC, And Then There Were None, Students for Life of America, and a host of other folks who are uncomfortable with legislation that abolishes abortion without exception and which insists that women who purposefully murder their babies in the womb should be treated no differently than women who murder their babies outside the womb.
Their persistence continues to pay off.
In May of this year, the organization announced that it has surpassed 1 billion views across all platforms; a monumental achievement.
Five months later, they revealed that they’ve more than doubled their numbers, amassing 2.2 billion views and rapidly closing in on 2.3B.
At the time of writing they have more than 520,000 subscribers on YouTube, gaining 120k in the last few months with videos like:
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Mostly, however, they focus on extended discussions and interactions, objecting to arguments made by this culture of death while teaching how to respond and have a biblical mindset and understanding toward the evil of our age:
They have millions of views on X, with a recent video receiving tens of millions of views across multiple feeds.
They have nearly 300k followers on TikTok, 471k on Instagram (nearly double from 5 months ago), and 587k on Facebook, where their reels often receive millions of views, including 87M impressions so far this month.
The group isn’t in it for the likes and clicks, however. By being ‘against the world, for the world,’ they are seeking to change hearts and minds, with their biggest victories being major paradigm shifts of ideology and action.
May their influence continue to expand.
