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“Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: Master we would see a sign from you.
Who answering said to them: An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.” (Matt 12:38-39)

This is the Gospel; these are the words of Jesus to a generation that asks Him for a sign. Because for them, He Himself is not a good enough sign.

So how is this related to the pro-life movement? What do we find here that is familiar to us? I would suggest that we are often much like the people in the Gospel who ask Jesus for a sign in spite of everything that He already is to them, and all that He is already doing for them.

So often, before we are willing to do a good work, we want another sign, another probing, another call. So often, it is not enough for us to do a good work simply because we are Christians and are thus already called to great love and good works. We are always saying, “Master, show us a sign”. (more…)

Fletcher Armstrong of the Center for Bioethical Reform sent me this interesting photo from a recent Genocide Awareness Project event in Knoxville, TN. Check out the banners on the Knoxville Museum of Art behind the GAP crew. They read “Open your eyes” and “Open your mind.”

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Don’t let your prolife group be inactive in these remaining summer weeks!

Now is the best time to prayer witness and sidewalk counsel in front of abortuaries! There is no poor weather, you’re less busy than you are during the school year, and it’s now when our presence is needed most!

Remember, there’s 168 hours in a week; during the summer how many of those are devoted to academics? I’ve no doubt everybody can at least make an effort to give some time out of their week for this (literally speaking) life and death mission! Try to be out there and make a difference!

*You could host a pro-life movie night and have it benefit a pro-life cause!

*You can start rallying people together to take part in the 4th annual Wash for Life on Sept. 19, 2009. (The Wash for Life is a pro-life youth event held all across the country on the same day to benefit local pregnancy care centers! Pro-life youth groups hold a car wash in their own home town and then donate the proceeds. Last year 72 groups partook in this fun event, and over $32,000 was raised for local pregnancy care centers!)

*You can encourage your prolife friends and family to participate in the 40 Days for Life campaign! Over 215,000 people in 240 cities have participated in this life-changing event — and at least 1,561 lives (that we know of) have been saved from abortion. The dates for this year’s Autumn campaign are Sept. 23- Nov. 1st.

Look to see if you’re city is participating, contact the coordinators, and sign your club up for an hour. Better yet, if you’re able, have your group take a day and have each of it’s members, their families and friends spend an hour praying for an end to abortion.

Also, you may wish to start preparing for the upcoming March for Life in Washington DC. The date is Friday, Jan. 22nd, 2010. Many of you attended last year, and can concur that it is an experience of a lifetime!

As someone who’s gone for eight consecutive years, I can say it only gets better every time! The opportunity to interact and just be in the company of hundreds of thousands of prolife people, mainly youth like ourselves, is inexplicably uplifting and powerful!

Show your community you’re truly invested in the prolife movement and put your beliefs in action! Go out to the abortuary in your vicinity as much as you can for as long as you can! Whether or not someone walks out of an abortuary and tells you this, it goes without saying that your presence not only has an ‘impact’, but saves lives!

Our Face the Truth Tour last week went great!

We had big crowds of pro-lifers at all our sites, and on two sites on the last day we had enough volunteers to hold all 88 of our large signs.

Before the Tour, we realized we only had a few thousand Face the Truth brochures left, so we had another 10,000 printed. It’s a good thing we did, because we now have only a few hundred left—everything else was distributed to drivers and people walking by our display who wanted to know more about it.

It’s not uncommon during a Face the Truth Tour to have some people just happen to pass by and decide spontaneously to join us, but this seemed to happen even more often than in years past. Praise God!

Thankfully, we had no major run-ins with local police departments this year, unlike the last two years.

Most importantly, though, countless hearts were changed after seeing the ugly reality of abortion.

We hope to have a full report on this year’s Tour on the Pro-Life Action League site soon.

Our friends at Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust are asking us to spread the word about their 2009 ProLife Training Camp, and we’re glad to help.

Here’s their promo video:

Here are the details: (more…)

On May 17, our parent organization, the Pro-Life Action League, and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society are teaming up for a massive protest of President Obama’s commencement address at the University of Notre Dame.

The protest day will include two components:

1. 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m: A Face the Truth Tour will be held off campus along Angela Boulevard and Michigan Street in the hours leading up to commencement.
2. 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.: Protesters will join the prayer vigil taking place on campus during the commencement ceremony.

Register to ride on a protest bus from Chicago

Buses to South Bend on May 17 will be leaving from three Chicagoland locations. The cost for a seat on the bus is $20, which includes lunch.

Register now to reserve your seat:

• REGISTER for the bus from the North Side of Chicago, departing 7 a.m. from the Pro-Life Action League Office, 6160 N. Cicero Avenue, Chicago
• REGISTER for the bus from the South Side of Chicago, departing 7 a.m. from St. Thomas More Parish on the South Side: 2825 W. 81st Street, Chicago
• REGISTER for the bus from the Western Suburbs, departing 6:30 a.m. from Aurora Central Catholic High School: 1225 N. Edgelawn, Aurora

Parking in South Bend

If you plan to drive to South Bend on your own, park at St. Joseph High School, 1441 N. Michigan Street, South Bend (map).

Hi again, everybody!
Whew, I’ve been away from here awhile. I’m totally immersed in the awesome 40 Days for Life Campaign! It is indeed wonderful and powerful, and it looks like truly the beginning of the end of abortion.

So today I’m going to talk about something that is very much a part of 40 Days for Life, and something that I’ve been talking about a few times lately to people getting involved with the 40 Days.

I’d title it, “Why Go Out There?”
I think this question is on a lot of people’s minds who are newly getting active in this great movement, or who are deciding if it is worthwhile for them to get involved. Why go out there to the abortion clinics and pray and witness for life? Why should we stand there and pray, or why offer information and help to the mothers going in for abortions? Why can’t we all just pray at home for an end to this great tragedy? (more…)

Carol Everett. Anthony Levatino. Beverly McMillan. Joan Appleton. Joy Davis. McArthur Hill.

What do these people have in common?

All of them used to work in the abortion industry. Doctors Levatino, McMillan, and Hill used to perform abortions themselves. Joan Appleton was an abortion clinc nurse. Carol Everett and Joy Davis were abortion clinic administrators.

Along with many other former abortion providers, they have all spoken out publicly about how they came to be pro-life.

I thought about these former-abortion-industry-workers-turned-pro-lifers when I realized today, March 10, is the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers. (more…)

If I could only pick one word to describe the 2009 March for Life, it would be:

Huge.

I was helping to hold the Generations for Life banner, so I wasn’t able to take any pictures during the March itself, but I was able to take a few before and after. I’ll try to have more up next week once I get them from others, but I’m posting these below for now:

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Generations for Life will be marching together with other members of the Youth Life Alliance in a show of unity of among national and international pro-life youth organizations.

• WHEN TO MEET: 12:00 noon on Thursday, January 22
• WHERE TO MEET: Madison Dr. NW, one block west of 4th St., Washington, DC
• WHAT TO LOOK FOR: The Generations for Life banner

See you there!

If you haven’t yet made plans to attend the March for Life in Washington, DC, there’s still time, but not much. It’s just over two weeks away, on January 22.

If you’re going to the March, join us! Generations for Life will be marching together with other members of the Youth Life Alliance in a show of unity of among national and international pro-life youth organizations.

We’ll be posting more details soon.

In addition, there are many other great pro-life events being held in and around Washington that same week. Try to attend one of them if you can:

• Georgetown Right to Life’s Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, January 21
• Rock for Life’s Training & Activism Weekend, January 21-23
• Stand True’s March for Life Week, January 20-24
• Students for Life of America’s Annual Conference, January 24

What If You Can’t Go to the March?

Even if you can’t get to Washington for the March for Life, you can still make January 22 a day of prayer in your own community. Never Silence Life is organizing one such prayer campaign you may want to take part in. Get more information here.

We now have a president-elect who said he doesn’t know when human beings should be given human rights, who promised to sign the Freedom of Choice Act—which would have a devastating effect on existing pro-life laws—and who voted to support legalized infanticide.

South Dakota’s effort to ban most abortions failed.

California’s effort to pass a commonsense parental notification law for minor girls seeking abortions failed.

Michigan voters approved a state constititutional amendment to permit stem cell research embryonic stem cell research (that is, killing little people because it might help bigger people).

And Washington state became the second state to legalized doctor-assisted suicide.

(Details on all these state ballot measures are available here.)

So, what do we do now? (more…)

“We know that the youth are not the leaders of the future; they the leaders of today.”

Our good friend Bryan Kemper (who will be giving a provocatively titled talk, “Social Justice Begins in the Womb—But It Doesn’t End with a T-Shirt”, at our TeenSpeak 2009 conference) reports that Tuesday’s Pro-Life Day of Silent Day of Solidarity was a huge success:

At Least 32 Babies Were Saved From Students’ Efforts During the Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity Yesterday

Contact: Bryan Kemper, President, Stand True Ministries, 937-339-5648, 540-538-2581 cell

TROY, Ohio, October 22 /Christian Newswire/ — Stand True, Christ-Centered Pro-life, just wrapped up their Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity on Tuesday, Oct. 21. As of this morning Stand True has been contacted by students about 32 babies who have been saved. Student around the country are telling us about girls who changed their minds and chose life after reading literature or talking to pro-life students yesterday.

“I spent most of last night choking back the tears as I started to hear back from students,” said Bryan Kemper, President of Stand True Ministries. “The stories kept coming in about girls deciding

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Tomorrow, 40 Days for Life begins in 179 cities in 47 American states, the District of Columbia, two Canadian provinces, and American Samoa:

If you live near one of the 40 Days for Life sites, you won’t want to miss the chance to take part in this historic pro-life prayer campaign. You can find the site nearest you here.

Our Face the Truth Tour last week went great.

We had the biggest crowds we’ve seen in years—at three sites in particular (including one where it rained almost the entire time) we had enough volunteers to hold all 84 of our large signs.

We handed out so much literature we nearly ran out halfway through the Tour and had to have another 10,000 copies printed.

Most police we dealt with were very cooperative, with only a few exceptions, just like last year.

We returned to Libertyville, where the infamous “Libertyville Abortion Demonstration” video was filmed three years ago (and which was referred to in an Anna Quindlen Newsweek column last year) and got footage for a long overdue video response.

Most importantly, though, countless hearts were changed, and in some cases, scheduled abortions were cancelled.

We hope to have a full report on this year’s Tour on the Pro-Life Action League site soon.