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30 Jan 2023

MUST-READ: How a Pro-Life Student Got Her Public University to Add Pregnancy and Parenting Resources to the School Health Page

Caroline Wharton | January 30, 2023
GUEST POST: Anyone who attends a public university knows that the terms “pro-life” and “pregnancy resources” are often taboo on campuses that normalize support of Planned Parenthood, America’s biggest abortion vendor.  As a student of the University of Connecticut and President of UConn Students for Life, I decided to meet with my school’s health center to learn about the resources
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08 Oct 2021

Remembering Two Pro-Life Heroes on the 10th Anniversary of a Tragic Accident

Kristi Hamrick | October 8, 2021
  Ten years ago today, a fatal auto accident claimed the lives of two pro-life heroes and a sweet baby girl.   The evening of October 8, 2011, Jon Scharfenberger and a pregnant Kortney Blythe Gordon were traveling back from a Students for Life of America conference in Georgia. Kortney was SFLA’s Field Director, and she worked to activate, train, and mobilize pro-life groups on college campuses, building
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31 Aug 2021

Student in Pro-Abortion State is Fighting Back (with love)

Brenna Lewis | August 31, 2021
  Guest post by Josie Rose, SFLA Student Leader My name is Josie Rose, and I am the current President of Students for Life at Queens College, New York. I want to share something that I’m very proud of: I created my own non-profit scholarship foundation for pregnant and parenting students. When I first started fundraising for this scholarship, I
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19 Jul 2021

Student’s Pro-Life Music Recital Helps Support EIGHT Local Women’s Centers

Brenna Lewis | July 19, 2021
Guest Post by Kathryn Amdahl, SFLA Hildegard Art Fellow My name is Kathryn and I am a junior at Eastern Washington University studying Piano Performance. I was a Hildegard Art Fellow during the 2020-2021 school year. This SFLA Fellowship encourages student artists to incorporate our pro-life values into our art. As part of the Fellowship, each fellow does a special
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15 Jun 2021

SFLA Fellow Established a $500 Scholarship for Pregnant & Parenting Students

Mary Briganti | June 15, 2021
  Johnny Lane, an SFLA Wilberforce Fellow, political science major, and student leader of Students for Life at California State University Fullerton, established a $500 scholarship for pregnant and parenting students on campus.   Johnny collaborated with a local chapter of the Knights of Columbus and Kolbe Charity group to raise the funds for the scholarship.   “I wanted to do this
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24 May 2021

Fresno Student Who Chose Life Walks Graduation with Daughter

Brenna Lewis | May 24, 2021
  Walking through campus during undergrad at Fresno State, Jessica came across the Fresno State Students for Life table. The student group had various literature on abortion and life-affirming support along with 12-week-old fetal models. Jessica thought the fetal models were very cute and asked if she could take one home with her. About two weeks later, she found out
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16 Mar 2021

Win Prizes for Pro-Life Sidewalk Chalking on March 23rd!

Caroline Wharton | March 16, 2021
  Show your support for pregnant and parenting students this semester during the 2021 Spring National Pro-Life Chalk Day on Tuesday, March 23rd!   This is an opportunity for students across the country to spread the word about Students for Life’s NEW Standing With You initiative (previously Pregnant on Campus) that helps you and your group help pregnant/parenting women on your campus find life-affirming resources instead of abortion.    By chalking this March, we are peacefully spreading the pro-life message that women do not
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15 Mar 2021

These Pro-Life Candles Help Support Young Moms!

Brenna Lewis | March 15, 2021
  Standing With You has JUST launched a collaboration with Kerygma Candle & Co. to support pregnant and parenting moms!  Kerygma Candle & Co. was founded amid the 2020 pandemic chaos by Kadi, the single mom of a precious little boy. She was working three jobs to support herself and her son and, shortly after finding a candle–making video on YouTube, thought this would be a great way to cope with the pandemic. She ordered some supplies and soon found herself taking a
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09 Feb 2021

PROBLEM: Our New Poll Shows That Young People Are Uninformed about Resources Available to Pregnant Students

Kristi Hamrick | February 9, 2021
PROBLEM: Students for Life of America Releases Poll Showing that Millennials and Gen Z Largely Uninformed About Those Standing Ready to Assist Pregnant and Parenting Students    SOLUTION: SFLA Launching Re-Branded Pregnant on Campus Program as STANDING WITH YOU    “As we work daily in all 50 states, our Students for Life team deals with an education deficit as young women just don’t know that many on their campus and
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21 Dec 2020

Students for Life Leader Creates NEW Scholarship for Pregnant Peers

Jessica Nardi | December 21, 2020
  The philosophy that “students should never have to choose between their college education and motherhood” drives the Empower Her Scholarship endowment fund for college students in Lincoln, Nebraska. The $1,000 scholarship is awarded annually and is open to pregnant or parenting female college students in the Lincoln area.  The project seeks to financially support student moms through pregnancy and
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