(AgapePress) - The feminist movement of the 1970s was all about women and their wants -- it rejected motherhood and promoted abortion. But now the movement is taking its last breaths. That's the assessment from a professional pollster who was once recognized by Ladies' Home Journal as one of the 50 most powerful women in politics.

Kellyanne Conway is CEO and president and of The Polling Company, a Washington, DC-based research and analysis firm. Conway says the feminists' emphasis on promoting abortion and denigration of stay-at-home moms denied a physiological impulse in women. She feels that is the main reason the feminist movement is breathing its last.

"If [your entire debate denies] the fact that 80% of women alive today either have or will have borne children during their lifetime, that eventually catches up with you," Conway says.

According to Conway, when feminism exploded on the scene in the 1970s, the movement did not place any value on children. That fact was also reflected in the culture of the day, she says.

"Take account of what the movies were at the time -- The Exorcist; The Exorcist II, where the child is the Devil; Damien, the essential character in The Omen, is the Devil," she notes.

"Then, all of a sudden, in 1980 or 1981, you see those yellow stickers [on cars that say] 'Baby On Board.' Since then, we've become a culture [and] a nation that cherishes children -- even if we don’t have any ourselves."

Conway says that denial of the physiological impulse of motherhood and the devaluing of children is why the feminist movement is on its last legs. She is convinced that younger women have seen the damage the feminist movement has done to families -- because they were reared in those families.

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