It was a wonderful honour for the Pro Life Campaign to have Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life of America, as our special guest on Tuesday evening’s monthly webinar, to hear her reaction to last week’s historic pro-life win with the overturning of Roe v Wade.
For millions of Americans, Kristen was the person who broke the news to them last Friday live on television that Roe was no more.
On the webinar, she referred to the dismantling of the 1973 decision that legalised abortion as an “indescribable feeling” for her and others who had worked for so long and to finally witness what they had toiled for come to fruition.
Kristen also paid tribute to older members of the movement, those alive and those sadly departed, who refused to stay silent and who never gave up the fight for life. She said they were the real heroes “who put this defeat [for Roe v Wade] in motion.”
She said younger members of the pro-life movement were not going to sit back and relax now that Roe has been overturned but instead have set a goal to make abortion “unthinkable in our lifetime.”
Other contributors to the webinar included Professor William Binchy, Jacki Ascough and Jason Conroy. Professor Binchy talked about the significance of the US Supreme Court decision and the encouragement it gives to the pro-life movement. Jason Conroy talked about the amazing work Students for Life of America are doing in transforming the debate in the US and referenced the growing enthusiasm in Ireland among young people life people to get involved in politics and pro-life activism.
Jacki Ascough described the incredible feeling of hearing the news last Friday that Roe had been overturned and she talked about the hope and possibilities for the future of the pro-life movement. She also called out large corporations who have vowed to pay the travel expenses for employees who opt to travel to neighouring states in the US to access abortions. She challenged their motivation and pointed out that it’s cheaper for these companies to pay for an abortion than the cost of an employee taking time off work to have a baby.
She encouraged people to stop supporting these corporations and to try and take their business elsewhere. Among the corporations who have said they’ll help fund employees abortions are: Disney, Amazon, PayPal, Starbucks, Netflix and Apple.
Click here to watch webinar interview with Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life of America.
Click hereto watch webinar panel discussion with Jacki Ascough, William Binchy and Jason Conroy.
Click here to watch Students for Life of America video showing the moment when it was announced that Roe v Wade had been overturned.
Since 2nd May, pro-life groups in the US have received hundreds of threats, including death threats, and more than 70 pro-life centres have been vandalised, five of which involved firebombings. Added to this was the assassination attempt on Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, by 26-year old Nicholas John Roske from California.
Just a few days ago, the extremist pro-abortion groups issues for following chilling threat to pro-life groups in the US: "We will hunt you down and make your lives a living hell. You started this war but we will win it. So far it's just been pregnancy crisis centers, but tomorrow it might be your cars, your homes, or even your lives. We support a diversity of tactics and we will not step down in this fight." - Signed, Expect us, Jane’s Revenge.
This is a magnificent moment for the pro-life movement in the US and is a time to celebrate the historic overturning of Roe v. Wade. But it’s also a very volatile time where senior political leaders are slow to condemn the violent and dangerous attacks being perpetrated against the pro-life movement.
Raise a glass to the pro-life victory that has been won for certain, but also keep the safety of pro-life volunteers and everyone in the US in your thoughts and prayers at this time!
Don’t forget that tomorrow (2nd July) the Life Institute’s Rally for Life takes place in Dublin City Centre, starting at 2pm. We are encouraging everyone to attend and take a stand for Life!
Click here to listen to Eilís Mulroy of the Pro Life Campaign on Newstalk's The Hard Shoulder.
Some of the media outlets that covered the Pro Life Campaign's response to the overturning of Roe v Wade, include: RTÉ, Newstalk, Irish Independent, Irish Times, Irish Catholic, Evening Herald, Evening Echo.
We are Human, the podcast where we aim to empower, educate and inspire people on the pro-life issue.
In the new latest episode we will hear from President of Students for Life of America Kristen Hawkins on the recent incredible news of Roe Vs Wade being overturned.
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We’re looking for a Media Officer to join our high performing and growing human rights organisation.
We have an opportunity for an ambitious and passionate individual to help drive and foster good media relationships in order to achieve positive pro-life change across Ireland. As a Media Officer you will lead in planning, organising, communicating, and delivering media content across traditional and new media platforms.
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The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly is expected to make a decision very soon on whether to end or sanction the continuation of telemedicine home abortions.
In a very distrubing new finding, 15% of women in the UK said they experienced pressure to go though with an abortion they didn't want to have.*
The HSE in Ireland recently acknowledged** that coercion is MORE likely to occur when abortions happen remotely.
Telemedicine abortion is anti-woman as well as anti-baby.
Take one minute to send an INSTANT message to your TDs asking them to urge the Minister for Health to immediately STOP telemedicine abortion now that Covid 19 measures have been eased in every other area.
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Participants on the programme will have an opportunity to network with other young people and develop skills in advocacy, campaign management and project planning.
Internships run for one-week periods and are suitable for second level (Transition year or older) and third level students.
Each intern will do 4 hours supervised work each day and will be working on areas such as social media, contact with members of the movement nationwide, project planning and contributing to support work for women and their babies.
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