Panelists told attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, that President Donald Trump has reset the tone of the pro-life movement for the better.

“President Trump … has put an end to the failed Republican strategy of … personally professing our adherence to the pro-life cause and then equivocating when it came time to vote,” Sean Fieler of the American Principles Project said.

Fieler said Trump’s fearlessness of the media coupled with his life experience has made him an unlikely yet ideal spokesman for the pro-life cause:

We were afraid of the media’s narrative on abortion. President Trump is not afraid of the media’s narrative on abortion and he understood that he could communicate directly to the American people. He also understood that his personal life … he’s no Boy Scout, gave him the freedom to explain to the American people that abortion is the taking of a human life without a demoralizing tone and without suggesting even judgment.

The panel, titled “How the Election Has Changed and Expanded the Pro-Life Movement,” also included filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, and Marcie Little, creative director of pro-life organization Save the Storks.

The media, Fieler said, is one way the pro-life movement can act to bring change.

‘Engage the Media’

“We have to change political reality into cultural reality into action,” Fieler said.

Documentary filmmakers McAleer and McElhinney have made strides in using media to advance the pro-life message.

Their new documentary film, “Gosnell,” was made to help educate the public on the horrors of abortion.

“I was in Pennsylvania promoting a documentary … I saw this [court case of] this guy called Gosnell,” McAleer said.

McAleer said that he was intrigued and followed the case, which eventually led him to convince his colleague and spouse, McElhinney, to create a documentary film on convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell.

Gosnell was sentenced to three life terms in prison for murdering three babies that were born alive at his abortion clinic.

Gosnell’s abortion clinic, Women’s Medical Society clinic in Philadelphia, was called a “house of horrors” by some due to Gosnell’s illegal practices.

McAleer and McElhinney are screening their new film at CPAC.

‘Challenge the Assumptions’

“I think for too long we have not challenged the assumption that abortion is good for women,” Little said.

Little of Save the Storks, a pro-life organization that offers alternatives to abortion, said she has seen firsthand the struggles post-abortive women face.

“I help run social media for Save the Storks … and I sit on the receiving end of the stories we get on a weekly and sometimes daily basis of women who have had abortions and walked through that struggle … and they are full of regret,” Little said.

Be Where the Need Is

Little said she believes that one of the best things activists can do for the pro-life movement is to be where women are who find themselves in crisis pregnancies.

“We tell their stories and we go right where they are,” Little said.

Little said that one way Save the Storks goes where the women are is through its medical mobile unit outreach.

“We offer them free resources right outside the door of the abortion clinic. Our messaging is women-centric—it is women first, we focus on how empowering it is to give women real information so they see … their child perfectly formed, to hear their heartbeat, and are motivated to choose life,” Little said.

CPAC, the largest annual national gathering of conservative activists, runs from Wednesday to Saturday at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington.