OCTOBER 2022 NEWSLETTER
- Featured Article
- Prayers
- Pro-Life Quotes
- News
- Upcoming Events
- Submit Content
Featured Article:
By Elizabeth Boda
In October, we celebrate Respect Life Month. It’s a reminder that all life is sacred, and helps us to consider even more deeply how precious each individual human soul is. Even though Roe V Wade has been overturned, the fight is still continuing. We must show our support for the Pro-Life movement especially but not limited to throughout this month. Show that you are and will be willing to uphold all ages' right to life. You could take place in peaceful protests outside abortion clinics, participate in pro-life chalk day, and send encouraging letters to those at pregnancy help centers. Even if you think something small won’t help, do it anyway. “Imperfect action beats perfect inaction.” - Kerry Egeler
This battle is a very important one, not just physically, but mentally. We cannot stop, we cannot give up. We must not back down. Thank you for reading this friendly motivational post. If you would like to learn more about Respect Life Month, visit their website here.
God bless!
~EAB
Prayers:
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I love you very much. I beg you to spare the life of the unborn child that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion. Amen.
Source (I encourage you to read about it): https://www.ncregister.com/features/spiritual-adoption-sheen-style
Pro-Life Quotes:
"How dare they tell us we have to kill our children to fulfill our dreams. Woman are better, stronger, and more deserving than that." – Laura Klassen
"It's a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish" – Mother Teresa
"How can there be too many children? That's like saying there are too many flowers!" – St. Teresa of Calcutta
"For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." – Ephesians 2:10
News:
Hey, Harry: For a Guy Who Sings About Love, You Should Know Abortion Ain’t It
It’s always sad to see celebrities use their platforms to promote the injustice of abortion, and pro-life fans of Harry Styles were recently disappointed when he used a tour stop in Texas to publicly support abortion. The former band member of One Direction and current solo artist is presently in the middle of the ‘Love on Tour 2022’ , but is abortion ever loving? Absolutely not. For someone who sings about love and kindness, Styles couldn’t be more confused about the opposite effects of abortion. In Austin, Texas, Styles recently took a moment in the middle of a concert to pointedly tell his audience, “No one can tell you what to do with your own body.” His statement was clearly directed at Texan abortion laws which are some of the most pro-life in the country as abortion is prohibited throughout the state. Over the roar of the crowd, Styles continued to say, “It is your choice…Stick together and fight together.” Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time Styles has spoken out on abortion, either — in fact, just before Roe v. Wade was reversed with the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, Styles appeared on the “Howard Stern Show,” making several pro-abortion comments. Styles stated, “I just don’t think anyone should be able to make decisions about anyone else’s body…. It’s quite scary to see just how far backwards we’re going in a lot of ways.” He then continued, saying, “There should be backlash and uproar for these things.”
Planned Parenthood Finally Gets Around to Noticing Their Mega Abortion Business, Dumping Their Annual Report
The nation’s largest abortion vendor ended more lives than ever before, and the largest source of their income was the American taxpayer. Here is some of what they have been hiding in the 2020-2021 report (ending June 30, 2021): an astounding 383,460 lives were lost to abortions committed by Planned Parenthood in that time frame. That’s an increase of close to 30,000 from the previous report. Making more than $1.7 billion, Planned Parenthood did well during COVID (up from $1.6 Billion in 2019-2020). Taxpayers lost more than ever. Planned Parenthood made $633.4 million from taxpayers (up from $618.1 million in 2019-2022). The report also shows that Planned Parenthood performed more abortions in 2021 while providing fewer health services. The number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood increased by 8.5 percent over 2020. At the same time, cancer screenings fell by over 30 percent, well-woman tests fell by 39 percent, STI tests fell by 17.4 percent, and pregnancy tests fell by over 14 percent. An examination of past Planned Parenthood annual reports shows a durable, long-term trend of performing more abortions and providing fewer health services.
Upcoming Events:
October chalk display competition!
This month, our group is having a Pro-Life Chalk Day competition! Here's how it works:
Write/draw a pro-life message in chalk on your sidewalk or driveway (have your younger siblings help out and make it a fun project for the whole family!)- Take a picture of your sidewalk display and send it to us - limit one entry per family (send to this email: hscstudentsforlife@gmail.com)- Our leadership team will review the entries, and the contestant with the best chalk display will win a $20 gift card to the Students for Life online store! The top three entries will be featured in our November newsletter! You can submit your work all through October. We can't wait to see your chalk displays! This is a fun, creative way to share the pro-life message with everyone around us.
Submit Content:
This newsletter relies heavily on the contributions of group members. There are a number of items we are looking for:
- Creative content: We have implemented a segment of the newsletter dedicated to the topically relevant artistic contributions of group members, regardless of medium. If you have anything to share, please send it in. We'll accept most mediums, including (pictures of) paintings, graphic design pieces, songs, videos, poems, etc.
- Articles: We are accepting topically relevant articles from group members. Please note, however, that the newsletter editors reserve the right to modify articles in order to make them suitable for publication. Such modifications may include grammatical corrections and removal of potentially offensive content.
- Quotes & Literary Passages: We are also looking for any topically relevant quotes or literary passages to fill a segment of the newsletter. Anything from a simple sentence spoken by a saint to a paragraph from a book can be accepted.
If you want to submit anything from the above categories, or you simply want to provide feedback or suggestions, please email us at hscstudentsforlife@gmail.com and we will get in touch with you shortly.