At long last someone has decided to update this blog that I set up AGES ago. In short, we at Students for Life at IIT would like to apologize for the hiatus. There are many valid reasons why we didn't update during our first full academic year of being an official organization but the main reason was we were too busy! Soon, however, with the help of a fresh exec board and the energy of incoming freshman we hope to update regularly with news about campus happenings as well as what's going on in pro-life news around the US and world.
First I'll give a run-down of all the goings-on that occurred last year, just to give you a taste of how busy we were:
Monthly Speakers
Sidewalk Counseling
Monthly Protests at the Planned Parenthood Fortress in Aurora
Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity
Face the Truth Tours (yes multiple)
40 Days for Life (multiple)
Baby Bottle Project
Students for Life of Illinois Regional Conference at Northwestern University
March for Life in Washington DC
Students for Life of America National Conference in Washington DC
Students for Life of Illinois Leadership Summits
Students for Life of Illinois Activism Days (Abortion is Bad for Women, What the FOCA, etc)
Right to Life Conference at University of Notre Dame
Pro-Life T-shirt Week
Clipboarding on Campus
Poster Campaigns on Campus
We did all of that
and more in our first year as an official IIT student organization!
Here's a preview of what we have planned for the fall 2009 semester:
Welcome/Service BBQ
Monthly Movie Series (Demographic Winter and Invisible Children with a couple others)
Students for Life of Illinois Conference
Fetal Development Speaker
Stem Cell Research Speaker
Needless to say we are very excited about next year. Thanks for reading and please keep in touch! Feel free to
email us or find us on facebook by searching for IIT Students for Life.
This picture is from one of the Christmas Parties that the Women's Center throws for it's clients. A small group of IIT SFL members volunteered at the event. We bussed tables, served food, handed out bags of gifts, and helped people to their cars.
This is a picture of some of the sidewalk counselors outside of the Planned Parenthood "fortress" in Aurora.
Vitali prays outside of the Washington Street clinic during one of our sidewalk counseling ventures downtown.
That's me in my Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity red duct tape. We printed up fliers to hand out to people and notified our professors before-hand so that we could keep people informed about our protest without breaking our vow of silence for the day.
This is Alejandro at the last stop of the summer of 2008 Face the Truth Tour. The Pro-Life Action League organizes various Truth Tours throughout the year but the summer tours are by far the most extensive. This year's tour began today and lucky for me it was close-by. Of the three sites we visited today it only rained for one of them. The 2009 tour will continue through next week. Visit http://prolifeaction.org/truth/tours.htm for more information. WARNING: graphic images of abortion are present both on the website and at the tours themselves.
