Dear Friend,

Last night, I was so excited to get home and spend the Valentine’s evening with my husband, Jonathan, and two boys, Gunner and Bear. (I bought them a book for their Valentine’s present and couldn’t wait to get home and read it at bedtime.)

As I commonly do on my long commute home, I was reflecting on my day and the work of Students for Life especially on Valentine’s Day. Yesterday, I was honored to participate in the Washington, D.C. Vigil for the Victims in front of the D.C. Planned Parenthood facility and headquarters. I was there with other pro-life leaders and activists to take a stand and ask Congress to federally de-fund Planed Parenthood.

While I was speaking, chills ran through me, like I could feel God working. (My speech is recorded here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYhBPq-ZXwI)

And it all hit me.

2011 will be the year we note in the history books as to when legalized abortion began to end in America.

As I am sure you can see, things are starting to fall into place. Just look at what has happened during the past 4 weeks:

• A Philadelphia District Attorney has filed numerous criminal charges including those for the death of one woman and seven babies at the Kermit Gosnell abortion facility in Philadelphia. Pictures have been released of the facility showing horrific conditions that even Hollywood could not recreate. Babies that were illegally aborted in the 3rd trimester were in the freezer, baby feet were kept in jars to display, and blood was splashed on the walls and examination tables.

• Students for Life released a shocking study (www.noabortioninhealthcare.com) showing that college campuses have been secretly funding the abortion industry for years by including abortion coverage in student health care plans. In some cases, we found that our taxpayer money could be funding these abortion plans through federal grant programs. The government and most students and parents didn’t even realize this was happening!

• Three different bills have been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives with the purpose of federally de-funding Planned Parenthood and making sure no federal money can ever again be given to an organization that promotes or performs abortions.

• And Live Action headed by Lila Rose, a former Students for Life Intern, has released 7 shocking videos (http://www.liveaction.org/traffick) of different Planned Parenthood facilities, some that receive direct federal funds, aiding actors who were posing as human sex traffickers. In some of the footage, the Planned Parenthood workers even offer suggestions as to how the traffickers can skirt the law and get contraception and abortions for underage girls and how the girls can continue to work immediately after their abortion. In response, Planned Parenthood calls the videos fake but yet promises to retrain its entire staff nationwide for how to deal with human traffickers who come to them for business.

What more what we must prove? Undercover videos shot by Live Action and Students for Life in the past 3 years have already proven that Planned Parenthood covers up the rape of minors, that they lie to women about what an abortion really does, they promote the illegal practice of infanticide, and that they accept donations for abortions from racists.

Now is the time that we must keep pressure on Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. Even though they have a pro-abortion President and Senate Majority Leader on their side, they are worried. You can see it in their urgent e-mails they have been sending to their supporters every day.

At Students for Life of America, we take our role in the pro-life movement very seriously. Just a few short years ago, Planned Parenthood was targeting our mothers and told them for a mere $350 they could snuff us out of existence. Today, Planned Parenthood is targeting us again but with a different message, telling us to abort our children so that we can continue our education or advance our careers.

We know what it is like to targeted by Planned Parenthood and their allies for profit. And our job is go to the high school and college campuses across America to stand for Life to educate and counsel our peers so that they know what abortion really is and that there is real help out there for them.

We are the first lines of defense. We have the ability to help put Planned Parenthood out of business by reducing their demand and reaching their would-be customers first with areal message of love and hope.

This morning, I’m sending you this message, a belated Valentine of good news and hope, to let you know that abortion will end in our lifetime, and Students for Life will play a crucial role.

Now, can you help us?

Can you send a Valentine, a symbol of love, to those preborn children and women who need it most? Can you make a donation today to Students for Life at http://donate.studentsforlife.org so that we can reach women on high school and college campuses across the nation with real help and love?

This semester, our team will be traveling to over 100 different campuses, holding 8 weekend training seminars, and starting over 40 new pro-life student groups.

But we need you to partner with us. Please consider donating to Students for Life today at http://donate.studentsforlife.org.

For Life,

Kristan Hawkins
Executive Director
Students for Life of America

P.S. – Help the Students for Life team end demand for abortion this semester by investing in our work today at http://donate.studentsforlife.org.