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I mentioned a few weeks ago that among the hundreds of pro-lifers who participated in our Face the Truth Tour last month 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).

One of the members of Crusaders for Life, Alexandra Cheatham, was one of those who participated. Her reflections are included below.

Reflections on Face the Truth

By Alexandra Cheatham, Crusaders for Life

People these days are affected by pictures more then they are by words. Words go right through many people and the only way to reach them is by presenting them with something visual.

Realizing this, many of my friends and I decided to participate in Pro-Life Action League’s annual Face the Truth Tour.

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With the new school year right around the corner, we’ve recently heard from a number of students across the country who are looking for help in getting pro-life clubs started at their high schools.

We love getting these requests, since helping get new pro-life clubs up and running is one of the main reasons GFL exists.

It’s for this reason that we created our Pro-Life Curriculum, which is designed as a manual for forming and maintaining an effective pro-life club. (more…)

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.

There’s more information available here.

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:

My Pro-Life Action League co-worker Corrina Gura was the one who filmed this exchange, and she wrote this on the PLAL blog earlier this week: (more…)

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:

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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].

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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:

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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!”

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Our friends at Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust are asking us to spread the word about their 2010 ProLife Training Camp, and we’re glad to help.

Here’s their promo video:

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I just saw a story on LifeSite about Prolife Auckland, a group that gained recognition as an official student club this week at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

This means that Prolife Auckland now has the same rights and privileges that other student clubs have — the ability to use university facilities, apply for funding, etc.

For those of us in the U.S., it might not seem like big news that a pro-life student club was established at a college, since there are hundreds of pro-life clubs on campuses across the country, and although there are some exceptions, most are approved without much controversy.

But in this case, it is news, because before Prolife Auckland could become officially affiliated with the university, their members first had to get a discriminatory school policy overturned:

Since 2002, anyone wanting to start a pro-life club on campus has had only one opportunity every 365 days, at an annual general meeting, to try and gain official club status, whereas any other club simply had to apply at a Student Forum, which takes place weekly.

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I was privileged to give a series of talks on Saturday at the Diocese of Brownsville’s Youth Chastity and Pro-Life Conference held at St. Joan of Arc Parish in Weslaco, Texas.

The Diocese’s Pro-Life Apostolate organized the event, which attracted a crowd of over 300 teens, along with dozens of college students, young adults, and parents. As I’m primarily accustomed to speaking in classrooms or at pro-life club meetings, this was the largest group I’d ever spoken to!

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Just released this morning, here’s the latest installment of The Rosa Acuna Project, a series of undercover investigative videos from UCLA student Lila Rose and Live Action:

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I came across this video earlier this week:

I liked it because it had a strong message, but was very simple.

Just today, I happened to come across it again, but this time accompanied by an article, “Changing Hearts One Video at a Time”, written by the guy who created it, Matthew Warner.

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Seven years ago, our friends at Rock for Life came up with a simple idea: they asked pro-lifers of all ages to wear a Pro-Life T-Shirt on the last Tuesday in April.

They called it “National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day”.

Since then, the Day has gotten bigger and bigger each year. In fact, it’s so big that National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day has now become National Pro-Life T-Shirt WEEK!

The great thing about wearing a pro-life T-shirt at your school, at work, or wherever, is that it gets people talking about the humanity of the unborn child and the violence of abortion — which a lot of people never think about.

Imagine how many people’s minds can be changed — and babies’ lives can be saved — when we give this witness for 7 straight days from April 27 through May 3!

There’s more information here.

To participate, you can wear one of the official NPLTW shirts, or any other pro-life shirt, such as the “In His Eyes It’s a Life” winning design from our Pro-Life T-Shirt Workshop earlier this year.

I hope you’ll join me in participating in National Pro-Life T-Shirt Week. Just by wearing a pro-life T-shirt and being out there in public, you’ll be helping to build a Culture of Life!

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.

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