March 8, 2011
Last night, Students for Life along with the members of the Expose Planned Parenthood Coalition launched a massive grassroots social media campaign on a critical webcast to federally de-fund Planned Parenthood. By launching a grassroots campaign on the coalition website and using the newest pro-life grassroots mobilizer, AbolishAbortion.com, the Coalition will be engaging pro-lifers of all ages to organize, unite, and activate online.
Listen to the full webcast here.
Abolishabortion.com will allow users to register on the site and link their Facebook and Twitter accounts with the “Status 365″ feature. This feature will automatically change the user’s Facebook or Twitter status message once per day with a fact about why America should de-fund Planned Parenthood.
In addition, AbolishAbortion.com allows pro-lifers to post/find events in their community, sign/create their own pro-life petitions, find a pro-life job, and interact with other pro-lifers though commentary.
The Expose Planned Parenthood Social Media Campaign features sample status messages, a Facebook/Twitter profile icon picture, and an unique ticker that shows the number of preborn children aborted by Planned Parenthood and federal dollars spent by the organization by the second. Website owners and bloggers are encouraged to go to exposeplannedparenthood.com to get a copy of the code to embed in their own websites.
To coincide with the campaign, the Expose Planned Parenthood “Tell Congress” contest has also been extended to this Thursday, March 10th at 11:00pm.
Upon the commencement of the campaign, Kristan Hawkins, Executive Director of Students for Life of America and Leader in the Expose Planned Parenthood Coalition, commented,
“The grassroots campaign that we are now engaged in will not only support Congress, but unite pro-life Americans as never before. We live in an age where people of all ages across the country can work together to end federal funding of abortion in America simply by using their own social networks. AbolishAbortion.com is truly a revolutionary tool that SFLA is proud to inaugurate with this social media campaign.”
Lila Rose, President of Live Action, also commented,
“Social media is a powerful tool to expose the truth about abortion and the abuses of the abortion industry, and to organize youth to stand up for life. At this crucial time, as the battle rages in Congress over the defunding of Planned parenthood, we must use every persuasive tool at our disposal to urge our elected leaders to make defunding a non-negotiable. Our generation is ready and eager to use social media to call for the defunding of the biggest abortion chain, an organization that destroys our unborn brothers and sisters and covers up the sexual abuse of so many of our vulnerable peers.”
For more information about the Social Media campaign, visit the Coalition website at www.exposeplannedparenthood.com. For more information about AbolishAbortion, visit AbolishAbortion.com.