New website educates and activates pro-lifers to speak up

from Pro-Life Illinois

Champaign, IL — www.WhyProLife.com is a new website to educate pro-lifers and help them to be active at spreading the pro-life message.  “We want pro-lifers to have the basic facts and reasons for the pro-life position at their fingertips,” said John-Paul Deddens, Director of Students for Life of Illinois (SFLI), a collegiate pro-life organization that built this site. “I believe that equipping pro-lifers with well organized facts and arguments will hasten the end of abortion.” He said.

The opening of this website also coincides with the “I’m Pro-Life, Ask Me Why!” Day of Action on November 11th. On this day, participants will use the knowledge gained from the website to tell others why they are pro-life. They will wear buttons and t-shirts with the phrase “I’m Pro-Life, Ask Me Why!” to provoke the dialogue.

The facts and figures come from Sharing the Pro-Life Message, a book released by the Pro-Life Action League. This book is a quick reference for answering the common pro-choice reasons for supporting abortion. “Now more than ever pro-lifers need to be equipped to confidently defend the pro-life message. This little handbook gives you all the answers you need to win friends and neighbors over to the pro-life side.” Said Eric Scheidler, Executive Director of the Pro-Life Action League.

Deddens works for the collegiate pro-life movement, but created the website to help both college students and the general public.  “This website serves two groups. First, it provides an ‘Activism Day’ for our student groups,” he said “And second, for all pro-lifers to have online access to a tool to empower them to say: ‘I’m Pro-Life, Ask Me Why!’”

Comments

[John Bak]

Great Idea! I've donated to them in the past and I hope to do so again. Real energetic and passionate crowd with smart thinkers...

[John Bak]

Great Idea! I've donated in the past and I hope to promote Students for Life as much as I can...

Real energetic and passionate crowd -always send a good group of smart young people to DC every year for the March!

[Democracy In Action]

Mark Rhoads is so afraid me calling out his half-baked, pseudo-intellectual nonsense about President Obama and embarrassing him that he's closed off comments to his newest paranoid Marxist rant. See http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2009/11/barack-obamas-left-wing-superstitions.html

So tell me Mr. Rhoads; how is the President a radical? And you still haven't answered my other question; what does freedom mean to you?

Mark really wants to scare you into thinking President Obama is some kind of evil marxist boogeyman whose true radical motives are to enslave America in a Soviet style planned economy. How crazy is that? Pernicious nonsense.

His ideas are radical? What's so radical about making sure that every American has some access to the health care system? That you don't have to go bankrupt or die just because you aren't rich.

No country can be strong whose people are sick or spending their time jumping through hoops to find adequate medical coverage, if they can get it all because of a pre-existing condition. This is a matter of national security. Heck, Harry Truman(that damned Commie!) was trying to enact a universal health care system in the 1940's! Radical guy that Truman.

"The irony of such radicals is that they always thought of themselves as on the cutting edge of the future, when in truth their ideas would turn back the clock to the middle ages when many people worked as serfs whose labor belonged not to themselves but to their feudal lords who ruled them." Mark Rhoads

Why in God's name do we get our health care from our employers (if they are feeling generous enough to give it to us; mine doesn't). Because the GOVERNMENT gives them tax breaks to do it! Why else would they give you medical?

Now when I go out and buy my own health insurance I get NO tax break. None. It's all after tax dollars. So the government is helping the companies make you "as serfs whose labor belonged not to themselves but to their feudal lords who ruled them." I.e. your corporate masters. Why should a corporation get a tax break for an employee benefit?

Ask a Brit or a Canadian if they feel like, "serfs whose labor belonged not to themselves but to their feudal lords who ruled them." When I was overseas I asked Canadians, Brits and a few Germans about how they felt about their health care system. I never heard them complain like Americans do. Actually, they can't understand why we labor under such an antiquated, messy, health care system.

Honestly, they think we are backwards. Go ask one. Try an experiment, go to a random chat room somewhere on the web and ask a Canadian if they get good health care. You'd be surprised.

So Mr. Rhoads never actually states how President Obama is a "radical" he just paints him with that brush to scare you. Just like Stalin knew, if you repeat the same lie enough people start to believe it. I assumed that universal health care would have been on Mr. Rhoads short list of radical ideas.

BTW, those scary Fabians? They purposed radical ideas in the early part of the last century like..., prepare yourselves, a minimum wage. They basically laid the groundwork for the Labour Party, now in power in Britian. George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells were Fabians. Scary guys.

[Steve]

Guess we don't care about vets anymore...

[Sam Pierce]

Steve,

What does this have to do with vets? Is it anti-veteran to be concerned about babies? I wonder how many vets would be offended about: “I’m Pro-Life, Ask Me Why!” Day of Action on November 11th. I would guess the vets wouldn't mind for the most part. I know several other vets and I can't imagine they would be offended. Certainly there are likely pro-choice vets who might oppose this happening on Veterans Day, but if they strongly support abortion, they would probably oppose this on any day of the year.

DIA,

What does your copy and paste job have to do with this pro-life site?

[spintreebob]

I just tried to go to the website. It is taking forever to load. Someone needs to make technical improvements.

The website is slowly dying.

[?]

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Certainly there are likely pro-choice vets who might oppose this happening on Veterans Day, but if they strongly support abortion, they would probably oppose this on any day of the year.
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I think Steve's point might be that many--regardless of their position--would find someone approaching them to discuss abortion at an event on a day we have reserved to honor our Veterans a little uncomfortable.

I hope the Day of Action goes well, but would also hope that the group consider another day in future. Mostly, because folks would probably be more open to discussion on the topic on another day.

[Jerry Vachaparambil]

?: As the press release states, people wear "I'm pro-life, Ask me why!" T-Shirts and buttons. We don't approach randoms and try to engage in awkward conversations. More than anything else, this is a testament to the presence of pro-lifers in what many people assume to be a liberal state...

I just went to the website and it loaded easily within a couple seconds. I guess sometimes there may be server overload or you may have hit it during a time when they were trying to update it or something...

I've seen about 80 students with the pins on their backpacks or clothes and I think it's a real testament of the growing solidarity to the movement that is building momentum on college campuses all over the country.

I see 'Pro Choice Follow me to the Ballots', " If you ban abortion what's next? Women's right to vote? Women's right to an education?", "Banning abortion will lead to more illegal, unsafe abortions", "Illegal abortion will cause less loving families"?!

-bumper stickers and signs all around college.

www.whyprolife.com is a GREAT resource for anyone interested in life issues. ALSO, you can get a FREE book that has is real comprehensive and talks about all the potential situations people like us might encounter