Pro-Life Generation News

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24 Oct 2022

A Week of Pro-Life Activism Brought to Campus by a Wilberforce Fellow  

Caroline Wharton | October 24, 2022
GUEST POST: At Marian University, our Students for Life of America (SFLA) campus group called the “Knights for Life” recently hosted a special “Week for Life” by throwing special events to support the mission of the pro-life movement. Throughout the week, participation from our group officers and 70 other members proved to make a statement on Marian’s campus with other
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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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10 Jun 2021

Announcing the 2021-2022 Students for Life Fellows!

Mary Briganti | June 10, 2021
  We are so excited to announce this year’s Fellowship Students. Students for Life Fellowships are designed to take students who are passionate about the pro-life movement and refine their skills to help them be more effective pro-life advocates.   These 57 students have proven themselves to be true leaders amongst their peers and have a passion to save the
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25 Feb 2021

Student Highlight: Leading the Pro-Life Gen While Becoming an American Citizen

Brenna Lewis | February 25, 2021
  Fernanda Urbina is a Students for Life Wilberforce Fellow from the University of Texas El Paso. Despite being in the process of immigrating and becoming an American citizen, Fernanda is an active leader of the Pro-Life Generation. “If you are like me and are unable to vote, don’t be discouraged. There is SO much you can do. You can
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15 Oct 2020

Meet the 2020-2021 Wilberforce Fellows

Mary Briganti | October 15, 2020
  20 college students are taking on projects throughout this school year that will impact campuses and communities across the country, both in person and digitally.  Meet four of the fellows and their projects: Max Montana from Boston College will be taking on the “BC Diaper Deck Initiative”. Max noticed his campus doesn’t have diaper changing stations readily available in
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05 Aug 2020

49 Pro-Life Students Gather for Start of Virtual Fellowship

Mary Briganti | August 5, 2020
  Despite in-person restrictions, 4 of the 5 SFLA Fellowships spent all week on Zoom training, planning projects, and participating in fun activities to start the year strong. Students heard from speakers like Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life of America, Camille Pauley, Executive Director of Healing the Culture, and David Bereit, founder of 40 Days for Life.  On Wednesday, the fellows were trained in advanced apologetics by Steve Wagner,
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16 Jun 2020

Pro-Life Students Raise Over $700 in Donations & Supplies for Pregnancy Centers During COVID-19

Mary Briganti | June 16, 2020
  Three students from the 2019-2020 William Wilberforce class adapted their fellowship projects to help Pregnancy Help Centers in Nebraska, California, and Texas during the pandemic. By hosting online item drives and Facebook fundraisers, these students raised over $700 in monetary donations and item donations combined. One student collected almost 50 items for her local center in Rio Grande Valley,
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12 Jun 2020

Pro-Life Student Establishes Permanent Scholarship for Students to Travel to D.C. Each January

Mary Briganti | June 12, 2020
  This year, I was one of the 20 other college students across the country who were chosen for the William Wilberforce Fellowship. I had a group of 19 to encourage me, back me up, and support me. Doing pro-life activism can be hard and the opposition can be very cruel, but these other students always had my back and
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09 Jun 2020

SFLA Fellow Hosts a Speaker Series about Abortion

Mary Briganti | June 9, 2020
  As a Wilberforce Fellow, my goal this year was to hone my leadership abilities, gain more experience in the pro-life movement, and work with one of the top pro-life organizations in the country. My Wilberforce project shows I accomplished exactly that.   My project was a speaker series aimed to discuss the impact of abortion from physiological, psychological, and
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12 Mar 2020

APPLY NOW: Students For Life Launches National Leaders Collective

Brenna Lewis | March 12, 2020
Students for Life of America is launching a National Leaders Collective this summer to bring together the top 200 students who have shown a dedication to the pro-life movement and abolishing abortion. And they want to see YOU there! The opportunity involves an opportunity for you to… network with other pro-life leaders spend a week in D.C. (all expenses paid!)
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