Come the end of the 2024 election, a Bowling Green Falcon will be seen on televisions across the nation.

Morgan Reece, a senior at Bowling Green State University, is one of three anti-abortion activists selected to be featured in an ABC Nightline documentary about how young people can influence an election, with a focus on abortion. Producers will follow the activists throughout the year, leading up to the election.

"[The crew set up] this ginormous technological setup in my bedroom, which was kind of startling … but it was still super exciting," she said of when ABC producer Rosa Kim met her in northwest Ohio in November.

“They came to my house at 7 a.m. that day, and they wanted to get lots of B-roll of me, interviews in my bedroom, interviews and B-roll on campus,” Ms. Reece said a few days after the filming. “They followed me around for 10 hours that day.”

Originally from the Cleveland area, Ms. Reece founded BGSU’s Falcons for Life in 2022 and helps with communications for the University of Toledo’s Students for Life group. She’s the Ohio/Michigan regional intern with Students for Life of America and plans to work full time with the organization after graduation.

The Nightline news crew met up with Ms. Reece again Friday and Saturday in Washington during the 51st annual March for Life and National Pro-Life Summit.

Producers have also interviewed Jamie Curry, 23, who oversees around 80 student-led anti-abortion efforts across the state. Ms. Curry said she’s since been filming vlog-style clips of different aspects of her job as a staff member.

Ms. Reece said it’s significant that two of the featured activists work in Ohio because “the whole country was watching” Issue 1 on the state’s 2023 ballot.

Ms. Curry noted that she’s "a product of Students for Life that worked," having gone on to work full time for the movement after first getting involved as a student at Winona State University in Minnesota, and that Ms. Reece is a top student at Students for Life and the “perfect candidate” for the documentary.

"Morgan is wonderful. She is fantastic. She's a powerhouse," Ms. Curry said. "She sees [the abortion issue] from a full and more holistic approach, and she's involved in just about anything and everything."

She also commended the Falcon's ability to create social media content and convey the anti-abortion position to digital audiences.

Ms. Curry said young voters will play a huge role in the upcoming election.

“A lot of people don't realize that under 25 is the largest voting block in America, and they're also the most underrepresented,” she said. “They can completely sway an election. I think as time continues to go on, we're going to see them getting more involved, because people are finally understanding that their voice does matter.”

But she also warned of the importance of being well-educated voters, noting that young voters often get information from the political party they align with, their friends, and social media.

“I think it's really important to be able to make sure that we're having face-to-face conversations with people and also telling them that you don't have to vote along party lines,” Ms. Curry said. “That whole idea, to me, is something that hopefully the youth will get behind is voting for candidates that they truly feel represents them and represent their values.”

Ms. Reece was unsure whether the producers were also following abortion rights activists for the documentary. Requests to reach ABC’s Ms. Kim were unanswered.

The documentary is set to air in late 2024 or early 2025.

Both Ohio activists said they hope sharing their cause on a national television program will educate viewers on anti-abortion legislation and clear up misconceptions about the movement.

“I think the biggest thing that it does is it brings visibility to us,” Ms. Curry said. “We're not all old white Christian men. We need them of course, but there's just a stipulation that that's who we are. To see thousands and thousands of young, lively, vibrant faces sticking up for what they believe in from all different cultures and backgrounds is really what our movement needs.”

“A lot of people have never personally met young pro-lifers,” Ms. Reece added. “It is a lot more personal when you put a face to someone your age or at your school or in your community who is a pro-life activist. It makes the pro-life movement not seem as out of touch with our culture.”

First Published January 20, 2024, 6:41 p.m.