Pro-Life Generation News

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25 Apr 2023

“Jesus Loves Abortion” Says Georgetown University Students in Protest to Kristan Hawkins Event  

Caroline Wharton | April 25, 2023
Pro-abortion hostility is rampant on college campuses across the country, and even Catholic higher education institutions aren’t safe from the intolerant abortion lobby. In fact, some schools historically rooted in Catholicism like Georgetown University seem to abound in it. Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins recently visited the campus, and she was met with some strong opposition
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12 Apr 2023

SFLA Reports Free Speech Violations on School Campuses have TRIPLED!

Caroline Wharton | April 12, 2023
More Than 100 Free Speech Violations for 2022-2023 School Year & Counting Pro-Life Students report they’re Silenced & Strongarmed by Peers, Faculty, & Student Governments “What are we teaching our students when they can’t use their Constitutional Rights on school campuses? Americans should be deeply concerned about the lack of pro-life free speech in educational settings,” said Students for Life of
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05 Apr 2023

The Video Tik Tok Doesn’t Want You to See: VCU Violence Repeatedly Censored 

Caroline Wharton | April 5, 2023
When free speech is infringed upon, that’s a problem. When free speech reporting such infringements is also violated, that’s an even bigger problem — and unfortunately, it’s one that Students for Life of America (SFLA) is currently facing. Don’t let the irony of this situation escape you; we are being censored for discussing censorship. Here’s what’s happened:   After a night
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11 Jan 2023

Notre Dame’s Pro-Life Students Have Been Busy Helping Women and Protecting the Preborn

Caroline Wharton | January 11, 2023
GUEST POST: In a Post-Roe America, Notre Dame’s Right to Life group that’s supported by Students for Life of America (SFLA) has been hard at work fighting for the sanctity and dignity of all human life on our campus. As the semester comes to an end, we wish to share the educational, service, and prayer initiatives that we held on
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09 Jan 2023

Being a Pro-Life Activist is a Challenge But That’s Not a Reason to Give Up  

Caroline Wharton | January 9, 2023
GUEST POST: Being outspoken at a widely pro-abortion school like the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is one of the most challenging choices you can make as a pro-life student. My Students for Life of America (SFLA) group, Students for Life at UTSA, learned that this is a real undertaking as it requires a lot of determination and
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02 Jan 2023

Top 10 Free Speech Violations from Fall 2022  

Caroline Wharton | January 2, 2023
With a New Year here, we’re holding 2022 under a microscope, including the state of pro-life free speech last year. To say it bluntly, it wasn’t great for our student groups’ freedom of speech, but we’re proud of how many issues our Students for Life of America (SFLA) legal team resolved in order to protect pro-life speech. In fall 2022,
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23 Dec 2022

Free Speech Is Under Fire on College Campuses

Caroline Wharton | December 23, 2022
Conversation leads to common ground; curbed speech leads to confusion and upheaval — and American universities are a case study in this as many college students refuse to engage others with opposing beliefs, choosing hostility or violence instead. While the freedom of speech is a right under the First Amendment, it is also a benefit to society as dialogue helps draw us together;
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20 Dec 2022

Of All Places, Catholic Universities Should Protect Pro-Lifers, Not Punish Them  

Caroline Wharton | December 20, 2022
GUEST POST: Last year, my Students for Life of America group at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota called “Culture for Life” prepared an event to put up 2,800 flags to represent the number of abortions performed every day. We put the flags up late in the afternoon, but we were required to take them down by the administration that evening
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14 Dec 2022

Is It Problematic to Be Pro-Life in Public? This Restaurant Says So

Caroline Wharton | December 14, 2022
If you have a business but refuse to accommodate customers based upon their personal views and beliefs, you probably shouldn’t run a business. While we have seen cases decided in favor of individuals who have moral conflicts with messages that customers want them to deliver, it is a different matter altogether when a business declines a service that they already
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08 Dec 2022

Free Speech Violations for Pro-Lifers Even Happen in the Workplace

Caroline Wharton | December 8, 2022
If you’re reading this article, you’re probably no stranger to Students for Life Action (SFLAction) and Students for Life of America’s (SFLA) blogs where we often share the stories of free speech violations faced by our activists on high school and college campuses – it’s been a reoccurring theme this year.   However, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal recently
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