Category: Free-Speech

WHAT? Students for Life Group in Iowa Labeled a “Hate Group”
Brenna Lewis | October 9, 2020
In an act of abysmal discrimination, the NISG (Northern Iowa Student Government) decided to deny the creation of a new Students for Life group. Why? A whole host of biased, untrue reasons. In a virtual vote, pro-choice student senators could not get past their own views in favor of abortion, calling the proposal for a pro-life group “hate speech.”

Pro-life Students and Teachers Harassed in Three Separate Events
Jessica Nardi | October 7, 2020
Across the country, pro-life student activists are organizing for Respect Life month, and these shows of peaceful solidarity have been met with intense backlash. In the past week, students were harassed in-person and online to such a degree that US Senator Marco Rubio came to their defense on Twitter. Pro-Abortion Protestors Crash Peaceful Pro-Life Events On October 4,

We Won’t Go Back (To Debilitating Censorship)
Caroline Wharton | September 25, 2020
Conservative censorship has been coming to light with each passing year, and conservatives are fed up with it. On September 17th, Free Speech America (FSA), an organization that will fight national and worldwide censorship, was launched by Media Research Center (MRC). At their launch meeting, they had Brent Bozell, founder and president of MRC, Dr. Robert Epstein, Senator Marsha

Another Day, Another… TWO Pro-Life Chalk Vandalisms
Brenna Lewis | September 17, 2020
Sidewalk chalk is a favorite for pro-abortion vandals to destroy because they don’t actually have to defend themselves or face any sort of accountability. When pro-life students go out and chalk positive, life-affirming messages on campus, all the vandals have to do is wait until nightfall and ambush the artwork with a couple water bottles. Unfortunately, it feels like

City of Baltimore Washes Pro-Life Message Off the Street, Leaves Others
Brenna Lewis | September 8, 2020
On August 5th, Students for Life of American teamed up with the Frederick Douglass Foundation and black pro-life community leaders in Baltimore to paint “Black Preborn Lives Matter” on the street outside the Baltimore Planned Parenthood. But the city of Baltimore’s apparent approval of the event turned out to be a ruse. Overall, the activism event was a success.

SERIOUSLY? Professor Chloe Clark at Iowa State Forbids the Pro-Life Viewpoint in Her Classroom
Sarah Michalak | August 19, 2020
This week, Young Americans for Freedom discovered that Professor Chloe Clark from Iowa State University warned conservative and pro-life students that if they express their opinions in her English Course, they will be dismissed. Her syllabus started with the following warning: “GIANT WARNING: any instances of othering that you participate in intentionally (racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, sorophobia, transphobia, classism,

The Crime of Children’s Sidewalk Chalk (But Only if You’re Pro-Life)
Brenna Lewis | August 7, 2020
On August 1st in Washington D.C., a peaceful demonstration by pro-life students resulted in two Students for Life members being arrested. The crime? Children’s sidewalk chalk. There’s a double standard at play. Three weeks ago, Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington D.C. organized a group to paint “Black Lives Matter” along the public streets of D.C., paving the way for this

Yes, Black Preborn Lives Have ALWAYS Mattered
Jessica Nardi | August 6, 2020
In the wake of Students for Life team members being arrested for sidewalk chalking as they do every week outside the D.C. Planned Parenthood, abortion supporters are asking if the pro-life movement genuinely cares about racial issues, or if the “Black Lives Matters” slogan has been hijacked to promote our own agenda. The answer is simple: There’s no hijacking

Students for Life Leaders Unfazed by Harassment from Abortion Facility Escorts
Brenna Lewis | August 5, 2020
August 1, 2020 was Students for Life’s National Pro-Life Generation Sidewalk Day. This is the day that hundreds of students from all over the country gather to take action and have an immediate and direct impact on the abortion industry. Sidewalk counseling is a way one can fight against abortion on the front lines by significantly impacting abortion-minded women.

FRIENDS FOREVER: PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND THE MAYOR OF WASHINGTON, D.C.
Brenna Lewis | August 3, 2020
Over the weekend, all available evidence suggests that Washington D.C.’s Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered D.C. police to stop Students for Life from painting a pro-life message on the street outside the D.C. Planned Parenthood. In the midst of the riots and protests, Bowser had opened D.C.’s streets for “free public expression.” When Black Lives Matter took advantage of that and