Showing posts with label College Campuses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label College Campuses. Show all posts

Monday, January 29, 2018

Planned Parenthood Infiltrates Over 300 Colleges and Universities With New Pro-Abortion Student Groups


By MIcaiah Bilger
Life News


The pro-abortion movement has not been able to match the enthusiasm of young pro-life advocates, but it is trying.

Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion business in America, now has more than 300 clubs on college campuses that encourage students to advocate for abortion on demand, PJ Media reports.

While that number does not nearly match the 1,000-plus pro-life clubs affiliated with Students for Life of America, the abortion chain has millions of tax dollars on its side to promote its pro-abortion clubs.

Planned Parenthood created an arm called Generation Action in 2014 to push youth into abortion advocacy on campus, according to the report. Its pro-abortion clubs urge students to fight for “reproductive freedom” and against abortion “stigma.”
“We advocate for our health centers to provide crucial health services, including abortion care,” the program says on its website.
The clubs engage in education as well as political action, with key priorities including “inclusivity, abortion stigma, trans inclusion, elections, and movement/power building.”

As PJ Media notes, taxpayers are supporting these programs:

A lesser-known aspect of this activism, however, is that college clubs typically receive funding from their home institution. Resources such as meeting space and audio-visual equipment services often are required. Who pays for that? Parents, students, and taxpayers.

The PPGA club at the University of Arizona, a public school, is a good example. Under the name VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood, the school’s PPGA club receives special support from the school’s Women’s Center by way of event funding and operational support.

The club’s president, Sedona Lynch, affirmed her club’s commitment to “reproductive justice” during a recent interview.
“Whether [women] want to have any kids, whether they want one, or none. I want people to be able to have that option to decide what they want,” Lynch told Campus Reform.
These clubs are pushing abortion on an already extremely vulnerable population. College-age women are the age group most likely to have abortions. Many fear that they will not be able to raise a child and achieve their educational goals, and many do not know where to turn for support.
“This is the MO of the abortion industry: tell women they can’t do it, that they can’t have a child and continue their education, that they can’t have a career and become a mom, that they can’t fulfill their dreams following an unplanned pregnancy,” Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins wrote in 2017.
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Monday, June 12, 2017

Abortion Survivor Melissa Ohden: Despite Resistance, Pro-Lifers are Saving Lives, Changing Minds on College Campuses

Abortion Survivor and Pro-Life Activist Melissa Ohden

By Danny David
Live Action News


Pro-life activist Melissa Ohden shouldn’t be alive today. Decades ago, Melissa’s mother was pressured into getting an abortion. Luckily, the abortion attempt failed. As Live Action News reported in 2013:

The saline abortion, an injection of toxic salt solution into the amniotic fluid that surrounds a baby in the womb, scalds the unborn baby to death by burning through skin and into the organs. The process normally takes 72 hours, but in this case, it took much longer.

They believed that the baby girl was dead when she was delivered at St. Luke’s hospital on August 29, 1977, and they would have disposed of her, except that a nurse heard her “weak grunting noises” and made a decision that she legally did not have to make. She decided to give her care.

In a recent interview with The College Fix, Ohden shares about her experiences encountering resistance and attempts at censorship as a pro-lifer on college campuses. But what is most interesting is the way Ohden views the progress the pro-life movement has made, and the reality that we can continue it.

In order to best communicate with those who do not currently agree with pro-life values, we need to comprehend who they are, where they are coming from, and why they perceive pro-lifers as a threat. 
“Whether it’s openly discussed or not, we live in this culture that has embraced this narrative that abortion is a choice, it’s right, it’s legal,” explains Ohden. “So anybody who’s going to say anything different from that is seen as a threat.”
Ohden went on to describe experiences on campuses reflecting general attitudes of skepticism toward abortion survivors like her, along with pressure upon pro-lifers to keep silent. However, she also called attention to pro-life groups, specifically Students for Life and Feminists for Life, which have created support for fellow pro-lifers on campuses, providing them with the opportunity to unite and speak out for life regardless of the surrounding campus culture that seeks to silence them.