Upcoming Events!

Hi Everyone!

Here are some of the happenings that are coming up:

Wednesday, Sept 23 @ 7pm in the MTCC Blue Room we have a meeting about the Stop the Abortion Mandate, 40 Days for Life, and the October Leadership Summit.

Friday, Sept 25 @ 4pm in the MTCC Auditorium, John-Paul Deddons, the Founder and Executive Director of Students for Life of Illinois, will be speaking to us about his story and experiences in the pro-life movement and how Students for Life of Illinois came to be.

Wednesday also marks the beginning of 40 Days for Life. For those of you new to 40 Days for Life I encourage you to check out the website: http://40daysforlife.com/getinvolved.cfm.

We hope to see you soon!

Activisim Day Wednesday September 16th

It's time for a plug for one of Students for Life of Illinois's Activism Days. This month's focus is healthcare and stopping the abortion mandate. There has been a lot of hubbub surrounding Obama's proposed health care reform. As I mentioned in my previous post, it is important to know where you get your information.

Visit the website and download the activism day checklist. If you have any questions email us or visit the Students for Life of Illinois website.

Where do you get your knowledge?

I'm sure most of you have heard by now of these white house sponsored websites dedicated to debunking "myths" related to healthcare legislation that Obama has recently been pushing. Luckily our friends at stoptheabortionmandate.com and Americans United for Life (AUL) are keeping a watchful eye and providing witness to the myths that the government is trying to push. Take some time to visit Stop the Abortion Mandate's fact guide and AUL's own investigation into the truth about abortion in healthcare.

In a time where the media (in general) tends to simply regurgitate whatever the government wants them to say it is important to thoroughly check the sources of the news you get to establish credibility and a deeper understanding of the knowledge you acquire.

Update:
In my rush to post I almost forgot to include a link to the independent fact checking website: factcheck.org. Here's their article regarding abortion in the new healthcare legislation.

Pictures!

At the request of one of our senior members I have compiled a few of the photos that I have taken throughout the past year. There will be more to come!

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.

Finally an Update!

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.

First Post

Hi There!

IIT finally has a Students for Life group! We're starting up this fall and have some really exciting events planned for our inaugural semester. We're looking for students that support our pro-life message and spread the word to the IIT community and Chicago as a whole.

If you're interested send us an email at studentsforlife (dot) iit (at) gmail (dot) com

We're also on facebook.