Pro-Life Youth Groups Coming Soon to a Campus Near You
At each college campus they visit, a youth-focused pro-life group fans out around the main walkways armed with large displays and comprehensive pro-life literature to engage students, faculty, and other passersby in explicit dialogue about abortion.
Made up of 8-10 men and women between the ages of 18 and 28, the Campus Life Tour team of Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust travel throughout the United States with educational displays designed to impassion high school and college students across the nation about the abortion issue . The Los Angeles-based group, also known for its annual pro-life leadership training camp, will kickoff the spring semester of Campus Life Tours on Jan. 29.
Utilizing graphic photos and explicit descriptions of fetal development and abortion techniques, educational literature and forceful debate, the “Survivors” challenge students to rethink their position on abortion at hundreds of campuses every year.
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Kortney Blythe, director of the Campus Life Tour team, explains, “The pictures and statistics stick with them. Our hope is that they will leave our displays and use their newfound knowledge to talk a friend out of abortion or become pro-life activists themselves. Once we show them the truth, it is hard for them to ignore it and return to their lives of apathy.”
Instead of setting up on high school campuses, Survivors catch the younger students as they walk home on the public sidewalks.
According to a Survivors press release, many have dubbed Survivors as the “marines of the pro-life cause” because of their frontline tactics and no-nonsense defense of first amendment free speech rights.
The group’s own website also indicates that their ministry is not for the faint-hearted; those involved must prepare to face “persecution, mockery, and abuse.” Yet, the organizers also have a clear focus to “watch God work in the hearts of students across the nation … [and] see lives saved.”
Jeff White, the group’s founder, was also a national leader in Operation Rescue and the current executive director, Cheryl Conrad, is a 15-year veteran leader in the pro-life movement as well as former member of Operation Rescue.
Operation Rescue is a group known as one of the most aggressive groups opposing a woman’s right to abortion as established in the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.
In 1988, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry became a national icon when he organized 1,200 demonstrators to “rescue” babies by blocking access to abortion clinics in Atlanta, Ga., during the Democratic National Convention.
