Social media has become the land of the message as the Pro-life versus Right-to-choose war wages on.

Voice for Life national president Bernard Moran spoke at the anti-abortion group's Stratford meeting for its Taranaki members last week.

"We used to put adverts in newspapers and now we focus on the internet," he says.

"We've got young people coming in now that are really social media savvy."

The first male president in 25 years, he was accompanied by his wife and former group president Annetta Moran, who also spoke at the gathering.

They both joined the group during its early stages in the 1970s.

Mr Moran says although it has suffered a loss in numbers over the years, it has been growing again recently.

More than 400 Auckland University students have joined the Voice for Life movement in the last two years.

He is worried about the long-term effects of abortion on a woman's mental state and says there is strong research to indicate it has a huge negative impact.

"The implications are, there are hundreds of thousands of walking wounded. We just see the tip of the iceberg."

He says in the early days of abortions nobody knew how it affected women.

"Now we know it's a really serious problem and it's not being addressed here."