When I wrote last month about the very successful TeenSpeak 2010 conference, I mentioned that this year’s conference included a talk titled, “The Anatomy of a Pro-Life T-Shirt,” given by my Pro-Life Action League co-worker Matt Yonke.
In his presentation, Matt dissected the most common styles of pro-life T-shirts, showing several examples of each. His talk served as a great jumping-off point for TeenSpeak’s first-ever Pro-Life T-Shirt Workshop.
Attendees were divided into 20 groups, and each group was given a T-shirt, a set of fabric markers, and 45 minutes to create their own pro-life T-shirt. To ramp up the competition factor, the teams were told that the winning design would be professionally printed and sold on ChristianShirts.net, and that each member of the winning team would receive one.
Carol Everett. Anthony Levatino. Beverly McMillan. Joan Appleton. Luhra Tivis. McArthur Hill.
What do these people have in common?
All of them used to work in the abortion industry. Doctors Levatino, McMillan, and Hill actually performed abortions themselves, Joan Appleton was an abortion clinic nurse, Carol Everett was an abortion clinic administrator, and Luhra Tivis was a medical receptionist for late-term abortionist George Tiller.
I was listening to the radio the other day, and heard a brief news report about college students protesting a budget cut, the story ending with, “fifteen people were arrested”. I wasn’t surprised. In fact it seems like in any protest there are always rowdy protestors or damage of property that goes along with it.
It seem that I hear stories like these a lot: “Anti-gun rally in Chicago, six people arrested”, “Police break up anti-war protest, take demonstrators away in handcuffs”, or “Environmental protest ends with fights, multiple arrests”. [Continue reading this entry »]
We recently got an e-mail from Fran Shiffler from St. Joan of Arc Parish in Hershey, PA letting us know about their Life Teen group’s T-shirt designs for Rock for Life’s National Pro-Life T-Shirt Week.
Last year, over 2,500 of the St. Joan’s Life Teen shirts were worn in 152 schools (public, Catholic, & private, from pre-schools to colleges) in 11 states. The shirts caused many people to rethink their position on abortion, and they helped save at least one baby’s life from abortion!
My favorite among their 2010 shirts is this one:
The other designs are shown here, and you can download an order form here [PDF].
*** Please note that if you decide to order one of their shirts, the deadline on the order form is listed as March 8, but I just spoke with Fran, and she told me it’s been extended to March 15.
We just heard from our friends at Human Life Alliance about their current Campus Impact Contest, and I wanted to let you know about it too.
Human Life Alliance has some of the best pro-life materials available, and if your club can come up with creative ways to use their materials to share the pro-life message on your campus, you could win $500!
The contest is open to high school and college clubs, and the submission deadline is Wednesday, March 31, 2010. There’s more information on the contest here [PDF].
— Posted by Elizabeth (February 26, 2010 at 10:22 pm)
First of all, I hope you’ve been watching the Winter Olympics. Not for any pro-life reason, but simply for the love of the sport, the thrill of the competition – not least of all victory, pride for our country, and finally, because they only take place every four years.
If you have faithfully tuned into NBC’s primetime broadcasts, you may have noticed featured bios about two athletes who have been positively influenced by their handicapped siblings.
Last week, authorities made a shocking discovery while investigating a West Philadelphia abortion clinic run by Kermit Gosnell where a woman died following an abortion in November 2009.
In Gosnell’s office, they found two dozen frozen fetuses.
On Sunday, Gosnell’s license was suspended, with the suspension order detailing “deplorable and unsanitary conditions” that made his practice “an immediate and clear danger to the public health and safety.”
Today, on the pro-choice blog RH Reality Check, Rachel Larris has a post on Gosnell and the woman who died at his facility in November (the woman is identified by the Philadelphia Inquirer as Karnamaya Mongar).
Just released this morning, here’s the seventh installment of The Mona Lisa Project, a series of undercover investigative videos from UCLA student Lila Rose and Live Action:
— Posted by Elizabeth (February 21, 2010 at 6:08 pm)
There are two abortion clinics in Pittsburgh that students from Franciscan University regularly pray outside of. One of these clinics is the Allegheny Reproductive Health Center.
As a rule, abortion clinics stay away from using terms like “baby” and “killing” but at Allegheny Reproductive, clinic counselors are not afraid to use those words when talking to the women who come for abortions. [Continue reading this entry »]
Population Research Institute has just released the second installment in its “Overpopulation Is a Myth” series— a slickly produced video that explains in easy-to-understand terms why underpopulation is the real looming demographic disaster.
I first saw this video earlier this week, and about an hour later I received an e-mail from a journalist in the UK asking for a brief comment for a story he was writing about a young British woman who, based on a belief that having children would have damaging effects on the quality of life of people already living, had decided to be sterilized.
Lila Rose shared some big pro-life news this week.
Lila, who just last month shared about her groundbreaking undercover investigations of Planned Parenthood at our TeenSpeak conference, has shone a light on the web of deceit that surrounds Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.
Now her work is getting the attention of authorities in Alabama, where Lila and her team at Live Action filmed one of their undercover videos.
— Posted by Elizabeth (February 16, 2010 at 5:26 pm)
If you truly believe in the truth of the pro-life movement, then you know that one day abortion WILL be made illegal in our country. No longer will the most helpless members of our generation be killed in the name of “choice” or “reproductive health”, but will be rightfully protected. Our country will see abortion as the evil it is, and we will look back at legalized abortion with the same disbelief and shame with which we look at slavery or the holocaust.
Look ahead into the future to when abortion has been eliminated. What will you tell your grandchildren when they ask you what YOU did at the time your country allowed parents to kill their unwanted children?
Will you tell them about how you prayed outside abortion clinics? How you volunteered at crisis pregnancy centers? How you took part in the March for Life? How you inspired others to join the pro-life movement? [Continue reading this entry »]
— Posted by Elizabeth (February 13, 2010 at 12:39 pm)
Hello! My name is Elizabeth, and I’m the newest guest blogger for Generations for Life. I’ve been blessed to have been raised Catholic in an amazing family, and have always been pro-life in my beliefs.
As a teenager, I’ve come to recognize abortion as more than just a discussion topic or political viewpoint, but as the life and death situation it is. I’ve been given the opportunity to listen to speakers such as GFL’s John Jansen, and Bryan Kemper of Stand True Ministries, who have only reinforced my commitment against abortion. It was in high school that I became actively pro-life, playing a role in starting two pro-life clubs at different parishes, and regularly praying outside of local clinics.
I’m currently a student at Franciscan University of Steubenville, and between all the college activities I take part in, I strive to continue to fight for the culture of life.
I feel that my posts will probably touch on various life issues, my personal thoughts, stories and reflections, and current events. I encourage you to make any comments about my posts, and most of all, I hope you will enjoy and possibly learn from them!
Last summer, Elizabeth Trisler of Ohio won the National Right to Life Oratory Contest at the group’s convention in Charlotte, NC.
After she won, her representative in the Ohio House, John Adams, made arrangements for Elizabeth to accept an honorary resolution in honor of her accomplishment. (These sorts of resolutions are often given at the beginning of Ohio House legislative sessions to winners of sports championships, academic contests, etc.)
Elizabeth was supposed to have been presented with her resolution on February 3. But a few days beforehand, Ohio Speaker of the House Armond Budish—who is pro-abortion choice—said he “had a problem with the subject matter”, and pulled the plug.
Think ahead to the next six months. What could you do to help fight abortion during that time? Be specific about what action you could take and why it would be helpful.
And the winner of the $1,000.00 scholarship? Julianne Winkle. Have a read. It think you’ll agree she did a splendid job. Congratulations, Julianne!
Second place, a $500.00 scholarship, went to Theresa Simeo. Her essay follows Julianne’s. Well done, Theresa!
First Prize: $1,000.00
Think ahead to the next six months. What could you do to help fight abortion during that time? Be specific about what action you could take and why it would be helpful.
By Julianne Winkle
The issue of abortion seems to be taken very lightly in today’s world. In television shows, movies, and the media, when the issue of abortion comes up, people seem to brush it off and casually move on to the next topic.
When I wrote last month about the very successful TeenSpeak 2010 conference, I mentioned that this year’s conference included a talk titled, “The Anatomy of a Pro-Life T-Shirt,” given by my Pro-Life Action League co-worker Matt Yonke.
We just heard from our friends at Human Life Alliance about their current Campus Impact Contest, and I wanted to let you know about it too.
Last week, authorities made a shocking 
Lila Rose shared some big pro-life 
Last summer, Elizabeth Trisler of Ohio won the National Right to Life Oratory Contest at the group’s convention in Charlotte, NC.
