{"id":46345,"date":"2014-02-13T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=46345"},"modified":"2014-02-13T22:39:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T03:39:35","slug":"alabama-group-takes-home-the-students-for-life-group-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-group-takes-home-the-students-for-life-group-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama group takes home the Students for Life Group of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"attachment_46346\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bama-Students-for-Life.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46346\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46346\" alt=\"Bama Students for Life\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bama-Students-for-Life-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bama-Students-for-Life-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bama-Students-for-Life.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bama Students for Life<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bama Students for Life at the University of Alabama has had a successful year of raising awareness about abortion on their campus and in their town. Because of their hard work and dedication to educating their community about abortion, they earned the Group of the Year award from Students for Life of America in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were so excited to win,\u201d says Elizabeth Rust, Vice President of the group.\u00a0 \u201cWe found out that night. We were surprised. We meet every week and are busy but we didn\u2019t know how active we were compared to other campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pro-life student group was very busy in 2013 placing information tables throughout campus, teaching students about fetal development and abortion, and sparking conversations about abortion.\u00a0 They continue to hand out free pregnancy tests, serve on the board of the local pregnancy resource center, and have even created a pregnancy resource website for pregnant students. Then on Saturdays, they head out to pray at the local abortion clinic.\u00a0 They even run their local 40 Days for Life Campaign, which saved six babies from abortion in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Bama Students for Life brought the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abortionno.org\/college-campus-outreach-gap\/\">Genocide Awareness Project<\/a> to their campus, displaying photos of aborted babies so that people could become aware of the realities of abortion. Their Pregnant on Campus Initiative also made a lot of waves on campus, and they plan to expand it in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But as is true for any truly pro-life group, their presence has caused a bit of backlash. Each week when they pray and counsel women outside of the abortion clinics, the pro-abortion activists stand with them, holding protest signs in front of the pro-lifers and blocking women with umbrellas. In an attempt to discourage Bama Students for Life and other pro-lifers from coming to the clinic, the pro-abortion group started an &#8220;Adopt-an-Anti&#8221; campaign, raising money for the abortion clinic by asking donors to give $5-$10 for every pro-lifer who was present. This didn\u2019t discourage the Bama students one bit, however; in fact, they turned around and asked pro-lifers to adopt them as well with &#8220;Adopt-an-Abolitionist&#8221;, raising money to save lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The pro-abortion group] didn\u2019t react to it,\u201d says Rust, \u201cbut it was our way of saying that we were going to be out there and that they weren\u2019t going to scare us away. Mostly we don\u2019t interact with them. We\u2019re there for the women, not them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last semester, Bama Students for Life started a lot of conversations on campus with people who were strongly pro-choice and with people who hadn\u2019t yet formed an opinion about abortion.\u00a0 According to Rust, most of them were affected by hearing the truth about abortion. Some left with a lot more questions than they came with and others left feeling very insecure about the pro-abortion position.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Rust says the group will keep doing what it\u2019s been doing, focusing strongly on their Pregnant on Campus Initiative and continuing to educate their classmates and larger community. They are currently planning &#8220;Life Week&#8221; in April with a different event each day to raise awareness and get discussions started. The event will include a Cemetery of the Innocents with thousands of pink and blue flags representing children killed each day through abortion. In addition, they plan on expanding their 40 Days for Life Campaign by having at least two members present at the clinic twenty-four hours a day for all forty days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re gonna keep on going,\u201d says Rust, \u201cWe have some great new members taking on a lot of responsibility. This group is not going away. We\u2019re going to keep on fighting as long as abortion is here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bama Students for Life at the University of Alabama has had a successful year of raising awareness about abortion on their campus and in their town. Because of their hard work and dedication to educating their community about abortion, they earned the Group of the Year award from Students for Life of America in January. 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