We recently got an e-mail from New Millennials of Fort Worth, asking us to promote their upcoming BBQ Cook-Off & Bake-Off fundraiser, and we’re happy to help.
This is the first I’ve heard of New Millennials, and it sounds like they’re doing great and necessary work:
New Millennials was formed to help teen mothers between the ages of 13-19 with assistance for themselves and their baby. We realize that many people make mistakes, but sometimes someone needs that extra PUSH to let them know that they can make it! We will assist with housing, food, re-enrollment into schools, and necessities for the baby. Each month the teen mother can take a class provide by New Millennials and receive free donations.
The Cook-Off will be held on Saturday, August 28 from 10:30am - 6:00pm at the Greenbriar Community Center in Fort Worth, TX.
Our Face the Truth Tour last week was a great success. (You can read more details about it at the additional links listed at the end of this post.)
Among the hundreds of pro-lifers who participated in this year’s Tour were dozens of teens, including members of three Chicago area pro-life clubs (Apostles for Life and Crusaders for Life, both based in Lombard, and the pro-life club at St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago).
It was great to see so many teens jump right in and voluntarily take on some of the hard jobs — like passing out literature — and engage in (sometimes lengthy) discussions with people passing by who didn’t at all like what we were doing.
Case in point — Alex, one of the members of Crusaders for Life:
Just released this week, here’s the latest installment of The Rosa Acuna Project, a series of undercover investigative videos from UCLA student Lila Rose and Live Action:
On July 13th, the nation will watch as Major League Baseball’s elite players gather for the 81st All-Star Game at Angel Stadium, Anaheim. Hours before the game is scheduled to begin, the streets will be lined with fans waiting for the All-Stars to drive by in the red carpet parade to the stadium.
But, amidst the multi-million dollar salaries, interviews, sponsors, and celebrities, Major League Baseball will honor 30 “All Stars Among Us” – ordinary people who have made a difference through volunteering, founding organizations, or through other charitable work. [Continue reading this entry »]
I recently came across a powerful post-abortion testimony written by a woman named Lindsay Sherbondy.
Writing in the form of an Open Letter “to the men and women of the pro-choice movement,” Lindsay begins:
As a senior in college, becoming a mother was not a part of my agenda. My boyfriend and I had lofty dreams, goals, and aspirations. We were prepared planners who knew the importance of higher education and were grounded in the fact that we were going to become professionals first and parents later.
Statistical believers, we were devastated to find that we fell within the two percent margin in which the birth control pill does not in fact prevent unwanted pregnancy. Products of a generation groomed to feel more entitled than any group preceding us, we probably took the right to choose more casually than the pro-choice activists of the 1970s. In an era where the Roe vs. Wade decision is as normal to American 20-somethings as the desegregation of public schools, our reaction to the first positive pregnancy test was what you have been fighting for: “We have a choice to make.” In our situation, we chose abortion.
Stand True Director Bryan Kemper reported recently that one of his group’s pro-life T-shirts was banned at a Christian music festival in Kentucky.
The reason? It was too “offensive.”
Hearing about this reminded me of one of the objections we can expect to hear over the next few weeks, during and in the wake of our 11th annual Chicago Area Face the Truth Tour.
I mentioned in a post a couple weeks ago about our page that answers common objections to Face the Truth, but in this post I’d like to focus on one particular objection that I must admit I find it hard to get my head around. Specifically, the charge that showing graphic abortion pictures in public is uncharitable—and even un-Christian, especially because of the supposedly damaging effects it has on children.
July is shaping up to be a busy month for pro-life activities in the Chicago area. In addition to the Pro-Life Action League’s Face the Truth Tour, there are a couple of other great events I’d like to mention.
LIFEapalooza
On Sunday, July 11, the Crusaders for Life Club in Lombard is inviting all high school and college age pro-lifers to come to the first annual LIFEapalooza:
The youth are the energy of the country, so if anyone is going to make a change, we are! We pro-lifers really believe in what we say: LOVE LIFE! We know babies deserve to live a full and exciting life, so we definitely think we should do the same. We love to have fun!
LIFEapalooza is the event to realize our importance, establish our power, and have a immeasurable amount of fun! It will begin to to UNITE the pro-life youth of Chicago into a close network–an unstoppable army to defend life. It’s a picnic for the pro-life youth (high school and college age) of Chicagoland to bond over food, sports, and unforgettable fun. … Bring a picnic lunch and all your pro-life friends! We will be selling T-shirts and accepting donations for the pro-life cause, but otherwise the event is entirely free.
LIFEapalooza will be held on Sunday, July 11 from 12:00 noon until 10:00pm at Knolls Park in Lombard, Illinois [see map here].
While doing some reading over the past few days, I came across this passage that inspired me enough to share it. It is taken from a series of private revelations from Christ to “Anne”, a lay apostle, in 2005.
While the messages have not yet received the imprimatur (official approval of the Catholic Church), the bishop of Kilmore - Anne’s diocese - has given permission for their publication on the basis that there is nothing in them that is contrary to faith or morals, and much that is positive and nourishing for the faith. [Continue reading this entry »]
If you’re anywhere near Chicago, join us! If not, please say some prayers for us—and, even more importantly, pray that many people’s hearts will be changed by seeing the ugly reality of abortion.
After several years of experience showing graphic abortion pictures out on the streets, we’ve gotten used to hearing complaints. That’s why we’ve posted a FAQ-type page on the Pro-Life Action League’s site that answers the most common objections we hear:
What if children see these graphic abortion pictures?
What effect do these pictures have on a woman who has had an abortion?
Doesn’t the public display of graphic abortion pictures make the pro-life movement look extreme?
Doesn’t it dishonor the unborn babies in these pictures to show them out on the street?
It was pouring rain last Saturday when my Pro-Life Action League co-worker Corrina Gura went to pray outside the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in downtown Chicago, so she wondered if any other pro-lifers would show up.
Not only were many of the regular sidewalk counselors and prayer supporters there, but so too were a group of 20 college students, many of whom are involved with a group called Totus Tuus.
While watching the video, I was very happy to see that Annie and I know two of the students Corrina spoke with: John Bishop (the first interview) was formerly part of a very active pro-life club at Dowling High School in West Des Moines, Iowa), and Sean Grismer (the last interview) was involved with Youth for Truth, which was formed in response to Planned Parenthood’s sneaking into Aurora, Illinois in 2007:
Jill Stanek reported this week that the pro-choice blog RH Reality Check has decided to scrap “On Common Ground,” its attempt to “bridge the divide” between the two sides in the abortion debate less than a year after its launch.
Calls for “common ground” like those issued by RH Reality Check are always doomed to fail, because predictably, one of the first proposals is an increased push for contraception — which is a non-starter.
Not long after learning of RH Reality Check’s decision to abort “On Common Ground”, I learned (via Pro-Life Florida) that Orlando abortionist Randall Whitney had been arrested earlier this year for slapping one of his patients as he was preparing her for an abortion. (See Whitney’s booking photo at left.)
If the “pro-choice” movement were truly interested in finding “common ground,” they might start here: Denouncing creepy abortionists like Whitney would surely be something that both sides in the abortion debate can agree on. Right? [Continue reading this entry »]
I recently heard from Laurie Tefft, the moderator for the Lifesavers Pro-Life Club at Rosary High School in Aurora, Illinois, who told me about a hugely successful fundraising project their club did this spring to benefit a local pregnancy resource center.
Aware that Dairy Queen commonly partners with schools to organize fundraising events called “Treat Days”, Laurie contacted the regional manager and made arrangements for the club to do such an event at Rosary, which they called Blizzards for Babies.
The club members prepared order forms, distributed them to students and teachers, and collected them a few days later. They also posted signs around school with pictures of babies with word bubbles saying, “Buy me a Blizzard!”
There was an entry posted this week on The Abortioneers — a group blog whose contributors work in the abortion industry — that provides an interesting glimpse into their mindset.
As with most other entries on The Abortioneers blog, apparently its purpose is to reaffirm the belief that providing abortions is right, good, and noble. This particular post also aims to make “antis” (i.e., pro-lifers) feel as if all of our efforts are worthless:
Despite the hatred flowing out of your mouths, they have their abortions anyway. What you say, though it may upset, does not stop them from getting abortions.
Watch No Greater Joy and hear interviews with three of the thousands of women who went to an abortion clinic planning to have an abortion, but then freely chose to change their minds and give birth to their babies instead. (Notice also the lack of hatred flowing out of the mouths of the sidewalk counselors.)
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Laces for Life is a new pro-life initiative that sells pro-life shoelaces, and each month they make a donation to a different pro-life organization.
During the month of June, Laces for Life will donate a portion of the proceeds for every pair of shoelaces sold to Generations for Life!
I encourage you to get a pair of shoelaces from Laces for Life this month — not only is it a great conversation starting way to help spread the pro-life message, but it is also a great way to help support our work at GFL.
There have been some interesting discussions taking place recently in the comments section of a few posts here on the GFL Blog.
In one discussion thread on Elizabeth’s recent post on Pro-Lifers and the Death Penalty, one commenter, Rebecca, wrote the following in the context of arguing the “pro-choice” position:
You have your belief and I have mine. There is nothing which makes one more valid than the other. Therefore, if I don’t intend to force anyone to have an abortion, what gives you the right to force someone not to?
I told Rebecca that I intended to respond to this comment in a post of its own (that’s this one), primarily because the question she asks is one that’s commonly thrown at pro-lifers.
We recently got an e-mail from New Millennials of Fort Worth, asking us to promote their upcoming BBQ Cook-Off & Bake-Off fundraiser, and we’re happy to help.
On July 13th, the nation will watch as Major League Baseball’s elite players gather for the 81st All-Star Game at Angel Stadium, Anaheim. Hours before the game is scheduled to begin, the streets will be lined with fans waiting for the All-Stars to drive by in the red carpet parade to the stadium. 
I recently came across a powerful post-abortion testimony written by a woman named Lindsay Sherbondy.
On Sunday, July 11, the Crusaders for Life Club in Lombard is inviting all high school and college age pro-lifers to come to the first annual 
While doing some reading over the past few days, I came across this passage that inspired me enough to share it. It is taken from a series of private revelations from Christ to “Anne”, a lay apostle, in 2005.
Calls for “common ground” like those issued by RH Reality Check are always doomed to fail, because predictably, one of the first proposals is an increased push for contraception — which is a 
I recently heard from Laurie Tefft, the moderator for the Lifesavers Pro-Life Club at 
There was an 
Want an easy way to support the work of Generations for Life?
