• “What are your ideas for solving the social security crisis?”
• “What is your stance on pro-life issues?”
• “How do you vote on legislation?”
• “What can we the people do to get our nation going in the right direction?”

You can read about his ideas and stances regarding these topics by going to his website: Georgeforflorida.com

While Students for Life is not a political group, we do participate in political events to advance pro-life legislation.  I highly, highly encourage you to do your homework, look at the voting records for the candidates in your voting district and vote in TRULY, AUTHENTICALLY pro-life leaders.  When we do not vote or when we vote out of ignorance, we do a great disservice to our country as well as those who fought for the freedoms we so often take for granted.  Remember, if a candidate does not recognize the dignity and worth of human life (no matter the age), that candidate has no moral compass to make responsible legislation regarding other issues.

*Candidates that support “reducing the number of abortions” are NOT PRO-LIFE.  A little bit of killing is still killing.  We cannot afford to compromise on the most basic of values.*

Bill Nelson has been a Florida Senator since 1972!  He has promoted anti-life bill after anti-life bill amongst other bad legislation!  We cannot afford to allow career politicians like Bill Nelson to stay in power because of ignorance of the damage they create.  After meeting with George Lemieux, I know for certain that he is truly 100% pro-life and pro-America.  Because of his unwillingness to compromise on the most basic of rights, he is also unwilling to compromise on responsible long-term solutions that will be good for Florida and good for the United States.  Do your homework and vote smart!

• If you would like to get involved with supporting pro-life leaders and legislation, please come to our next group meeting Thursday at 3PM in the room 260 of the Commons.
• If you would like to help pro-life candidate George Lemieux replace pro-abortion Senator Bill Nelson next fall, go to his website and sign up to help out with his campaign!  Click here to sign up for volunteer opportunities: http://www.georgeforflorida.com/take-action/

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at UWF this Thursday September 8th from 2:30-3:30 in the Nautilus Chamber.  He is a great candidate for Senate as he is a unabashedly pro-life.

Learn more about his stance on issues on his blog here: http://www.georgeforflorida.com/issues/values/

He will be running to unseat pro-abortion senator Bill Nelson who has supported anti-life bill after anti-life bill.  We need to get Senator Bill Nelson out of the Senate; he doesn’t listen to his constituents when they urge him to vote pro-life and he doesn’t seem to care about America’s future: the unborn.

More details on his pro-abortion stance: http://www.ontheissues.org/social/Bill_Nelson_Abortion.htm

Come with all the questions you’ve ever had for this great candidate for Senate.  We really need good honest pro-life candidates to be voted in this year.  Look at all the damage that has been done by Obama and the rest of the valueless, compromising leaders who supported the pro-abortion health care bill, Mexico City Policy being repealed, mandates for laws that violate conscience-rights, etc.  Please DO YOUR HOMEWORK this fall and vote for candidates based on voting history – NOT on how cool or slick they look and what fake promises they may make.

• 107 criminal charges, which includes 23 felony charges of late-term abortions and falsifying documents, at the Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid Missouri;

• Allegations of targeting minority communities across the country by willfully and in some cases, excitedly, taking donations earmarked towards aborting black babies;

• Defrauding the State of California of $180 million in taxpayer funds;

• Lawsuits alleging they shelter child rapists by not reporting underage rape and abuse;

• Allegations of advising teenagers to experiment with pornography and sex without telling parents through their website for teens at www.teenwire.com (Caution: explicit content)

You might be asking yourself, “How did our country end up funding an organization this horrible?”  The answer is, someone made it happen.  Now we need to do something to turn this around because it won’t do it on its own.  That’s why I am challenging YOU, every single person who receives this email, to take out 5 short minutes of tomorrow to tell our Florida representative to support the de-funding of Planned Parenthood in the upcoming Budget Votes.  I am asking everyone of you because I know you can do it and the unborn babies need every possible person to help out if we are going to make a difference.  If Rep. Nelson gets enough phone calls telling him to do so, he will be forced to acknowledge his constituents and honestly represent them – otherwise we will vote pro-abortion.

CHALLENGE: Take 5 minutes today AND tomorrow to call FL Senator Bill Nelson at all 9 offices and say,
“Hi, I have a message for Senator Nelson.  I strongly urge him to de-fund Planned Parenthood in the up-coming Budget Votes.”

It is easy, fast, and painless. JUST DO IT!

Here are the phone numbers:

Here’s your opportunity to get your feet wet!

Tonight: 7PM in front of American Family Planning abortion mill, Candle-lit Prayer vigil as part of 40 Days for Life campaign.  We’re half-way there!

This Tuesday and Friday: Hope Bearers Seminar!

1. (Pro-life Sidewalk counselor training) Learn how to counsel women going into an abortion clinic :Tuesday 6 pm – 9 pm at St. Pius Catholic Church Sarto Center, Mobile and/or

2. (Post-abortion trauma counselor training) Learn how to approach/help women and men hurt by abortion Friday, 7:00-8:30 PM at St. Thomas by the Sea, Orange Beach

This Friday and Saturday: Have fun hanging out at the Students for Life booth at the Festival on the Greens at UWF.

1. We’ll have our table out there from 10AM-3PM both Friday and Saturday.
   

2. We’re going to be doing face-painting for donations which will help our group to put on our up-coming social!

3. Our table will help new students to find out about/join our group and even help pregnant students find help and hope!

Don’t wait for school to be over before you meet the awesome members of our group!

• People who have the same respect for life that you do!

• People you can work together with to SAVE LIVES ON OUR CAMPUS!

• This is the authentic, 100% honest story of Abby Johnson’s transformative experience from being pro-abortion to pro-life.

• It unveils the reality of what real abortion workers truly think, believe, and feel about their work.

• The power of the 40 Days for Life peaceful prayer campaign is demonstrated in the life of Abby.

• Most of all this book helps pro-lifers to intimately approach all abortion workers with hearts of understanding and compassion – which is a MUST if we are to help any of them leave abortion and work for life.

If you have never read a pro-life book before, this is a great start.  For us to be successful advocates for life, we must educate ourselves extensively on the issue.

Ask yourself these questions:

1. Do I understand why people choose abortion?
2. Do I know how to help someone who is in a crisis pregnancy?
3. Do I know how to help a post-abortive man or woman?
4. Why do people work for abortion?
5. Why is abortion wrong?

Here are some other suggested pro-life educational materials:

1. abort73.com (Has proof, explanations, and all information about the abortion issue)
2. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments Expanded & Updated by Randy Alcorn (Has answers to every pro-life question)
   
3. The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture by Scott Klusendorf
4. Pro-Life 101: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Your Case Persuasively by Scott Klusendorf (Clear, concise explanation on how to make a persuasive pro-life argument.  THIS IS A MUST-HAVE FOR ALL PRO-LIFERS)
5. Ending Abortion; Not Just Fighting It by Father Frank Pavone (essays on how to end abortion)
6. Forbidden Grief by Dr. Laura Schlessinger (understanding women suffering from a past abortion)

The same president who pledged to the graduating class of Notre Dame in 2009 to “find common ground” on abortion is now trying to remove conscience protection rights from the medical profession.

“When the Obama administration announced plans to get rid of the only federal regulation protecting conscience rights in health care, CMA swung into action and organized a coalition of nearly 50 organizations into a new entity, Freedom2Care,” he said in an email to LifeNews.com. “Our groups helped enable healthcare professionals and patients to flood the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with approximately 340,000 regulation-supporting comments, which, by law, HHS officials must review before getting rid of the regulation.”

“Such efforts apparently delayed the administration acting on its threat until now,” Imbody said.

The advocate for medical professionals said medical workers and the pro-life people who support them need to act now to try to save the regulations.

“The government is now telling the court, in response to a lawsuit by several states against the conscience-protecting regulation, that HHS plans to eliminate or replace the conscience regulation by as early as January 31,” Imbody added. “That means we must act again to raise awareness of this threat to conscience rights, which has the potential to push life-affirming healthcare professionals out of medicine and strand the patients who depend upon them for care.”

“Whether you are a student or a doctor, federal conscience protections will have a significant impact on your ability to continue to practice ethical medicine. Don’t wait for someone else to stand in the gap on this one—take action yourself to protect your rights,” he added.”Share your story if you’ve experienced overt or subtle discrimination, contact your legislators, tell your patients and engage your colleagues.”

***To see the whole article, go to: http://www.lifenews.com/2010/12/20/nat-6945/

Be aware of what is going on so you can act, pray, and make your voice heard.  Lifenews.com is a great internet news resource for pro-lifers because, oftentimes, news regarding the rights of the unborn gets undermined in mainstream news.

What is abortion really?

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Doors open at 11:30AM.

Come show your support for pro-life candidate Marco Rubio!  VOTE PRO-LIFE!

Marco Rubio’s pro-life voting record: Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Abortion waiting period, FL Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

Disclaimer: UWF Students for Life is not a political organization and so does not “side” with any party.  However, as a pro-life organization, we do support and endorse authentically pro-life candidates.

Other upcoming events:

Sep 30th – Planning meeting for Breast Cancer Prevention event in October

October 8th - 7AM-7PM Prayer Vigil in front of the abortion clinic on 9th Avenue (American Family Planning)

October 9th – 5-10PM Pro-Life table/Fun at the Fall Festival (more details found on our website calendar)

October 10th – 2-4PM Door-to-door awareness walk

We had the awesome opportunity to meet and converse with admirable pro-life leaders including: Father Frank Pavone, Dr. Alveda King, Jim Pinto, Ryan Bomberger, Joy Pinto, and other inspiring leaders.  Pictures and videos we took from the event are embedded below so that you can get a taste of what the future Pro-Life Freedom Rides will be like.  Keep in mind, these events are historical. These peaceful protests, pro-life assemblies, marches, and freedom rides are going to be in tomorrow’s history books.  Abortion is not forever. We are on the winning side, the side that exults LIFE!

What can you do to support this ministry?

FIRST – Watch the videos. Gain from the inspirational speeches. They are a gift to strengthen the pro-life community.

SECOND – Attend one of the Pro-Life Freedom Ride events.  If you cannot go to the one being held in Knoxville Tenn. this October, help us to bring it to Pensacola.  Only average Joe’s like you and I can make this happen.

THIRD – Seriously consider donating to Priests for Life, the organization hosting the Pro-Life Freedom Rides.  They are in dire need of help right now because they have $800,000 in bills to pay and are a completely non-profit, donation supported ministry.

MOST IMPORTANTLY:
Please pray for an end to abortion and for the success of the efforts of pro-lifers.

Coverage of first-ever Pro-Life Freedom Ride:

Fr. Pavone – Part 1

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Fr. Pavone – Part 2

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Dr. Alveda King

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Ryan Bomberger

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Day Gardner

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Dr. Tim Johnson

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Pictures from the events:

Life on the Rock

Pro Life Freedom Ride Rally

Pro Life Freedom Ride

BONUS:

For those of you actually still reading this, here’s a video clip of our president, Bernadette Ensley, speaking with Fr. Mitch Pacwa in German and Arabic.

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Sign the petition to encourage Governor Charlie Crist to vote YES on HB1143!

13 week old baby

When women see the picture truth of what is living inside them from an ultrasound image, most women choose NOT to abort.  On the other hand, when women go into an abortion clinic and are told “we are removing your pregnancy” or “it’s not a baby, just a blob of tissue” they more likely will abort believing the lie that their baby is not a real baby. (Proof for this claim can be found in the study below)

In order to abuse or kill someone, it is well known that you have to dehumanize it.  The Nazis did this when their Supreme Court defined Jewish people to be NON-PERSONS.  They were described as dirty vermin in various Nazi-era writings.  The same happened to the African Americans in the United States.  They were defined as NON-PERSONS too – and considered property!  Thankfully today these lies have been uprooted.

What if white slave-owners or Nazi soldiers were forced to see the humanity of their victims?  What if they were forced to see the parents and children hug each other and have family conversations?

Today, in Florida, we have the opportunity to help mothers to see the humanity of their unborn child through the use of ultrasound imaging!  This prevents mothers from being fooled by the unscientific, ridiculous lies abortion providers say about unborn children.

We need to urge our governor Charlie Crist to VOTE IN FAVOR OF BILL:  HB1143.

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Study shows power of ultra-sound imaging to influence mothers to decide AGAINST abortion:

Dr. Eric J. Keroack, then medical director of five centers run by A Woman’s Concern in Massachusetts, studied the cases of 436 women considering abortion between October 2000 and April 2002 at a center in Revere and whose outcomes could be traced.

Of those who were considered “abortion-vulnerable” — that is, facing obstacles that they may feel incapable of or unwilling to handle but who had not yet decided to abort — 75.5 percent decided not to have an abortion after viewing the ultrasound of her unborn baby, while 24.5 percent went ahead with an abortion.

“We also observed that during the utilization of these technical advances, our clients frequently demonstrated bonding responses to their pregnancies as well,” Keroack wrote in a letter to colleagues about the study. “Our examinations were not performed with the intention of creating such responses; they were performed in a fashion consistent with accepted medical standards for diagnostic ultrasonography.”

Keroack, who later served briefly as director of the Office of Population Affairs in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, compared those figures to a similar study group from July 1998 to December 1999, before the center had an ultrasound machine.

The statistics were nearly reversed. Of the 344 “abortion-vulnerable” women whose cases were studied and whose outcomes could be determined, 61 percent decided after counseling at the Revere center to go ahead with an abortion, while 33.7 percent decided not to have an abortion.

Keroack’s study concluded: “The ability to decide one’s direction in an unplanned pregnancy is the foundational theory of the ‘pro-choice’ supporters. Allowing a patient to view her ultrasound examination implies respect for the dignity and autonomy of a patient, and her ability to participate wisely in her own plan of care.”

(Retreived from: http://www.the-tidings.com/2008/080108/ultrasound.htm  on May 6th 2010)

Pro-life Ambassador Training event!

It served to create a foundation for our understanding of abortion.   To be clear, Aaron presented a expansive history of abortion; what people believed about unborn children and what laws were in place.  We learned that science asserts that human life begins at conception, and with all further advancements, science continues to reassert this truth.   Also, statistical information from the CDC provided the various reasons why women aborted.  Lastly, we were informed on the various abortion procedures employed for younger to older unborn persons.

All this information has set the stage for us to fully grasp the topic of abortion in our country and time. This has prepared us for this upcoming week’s presentation on “Wisdom & Character.” (Wed,6PM,Bldg 11/Rm 223)

• Wisdom: Knowing the facts, having extensive knowledge on a topic, having expertise.

• Character: Employing an artful method, having an attractive manner.

For those who could not attend the first Pro-Life Ambassador event, we recorded it and will have it available online soon along with notes!  This can all be used whenever someone asks you about why you are against abortion. You can then show that you have looked deeper than the pro-abortion sing-songy slogans and studied the issue thoroughly.

Trust me. I have encountered many “pro-choicers” (as they say) who do NOT expect to hear sound logic when they speak to a pro-lifer. Prove ‘em wrong.  Remember, your beliefs are founded by irrefutable scientific facts and true logic.  If they don’t let you get a word in, it’s because they are afraid of the truth you hold.  Be kind, be friendly, and speak the truth

Short video for thought: The Miracle of Life

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