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Hannah Sheboy with her donated items for Birth Right.<\/p><\/div>\n

Hannah Sheboy, 16, has been a Girl Scout most of her life and believes that there are some clear positives to being a part of the organization. From helping girls build their confidence and making new friends to having a strong foundation to grow up with, the Girl Scouts have helped Hannah become who she is today.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe positives can\u2019t outweigh what\u2019s going on [with the Planned Parenthood-Girl Scouts connection], but they are certainly there,\u201d says Hannah. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019d be able to do a project like this without the strong foundation I have from both my church community and my Girl Scout community. So even if it\u2019s not Girl Scouts that you\u2019re involved in, it\u2019s important to have some foundation. I\u2019ve gained a lot of confidence, gained a lot of friends, and gained a strong relationship with my older sister and my mom through Girl Scouts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hannah\u2019s Girl Scout Gold Award project needed to include something that had a lasting impact. It had to be something that would affect her community in a positive way. So Hannah decided that she would help pro-life causes. With the support of her parents and her church, Hannah got to work on her three-part project.<\/p>\n

The first part involved collecting clothes for Birth Right and spreading awareness about the non-profit organization which is devoted to helping pregnant women and their children. Hannah held a clothing drive that included advertisements in the local newspaper and a fundraiser at the local Lowe\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clothing drive went really well,\u201d says Hannah. \u201cThe main box was in my living room, but we had an entire side of my living room completely covered in bags at one point. A lot of people called to set up donations and a lot of people donated money. I had a bake sale and people gave money to help buy clothing and receiving blankets. We had 20 to 30 bags of maternity, baby, and kids\u2019 clothes and 10 big boxes of diapers.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the second part of her project, Hannah showed October Baby, a pro-life film following a teenage girl who discovers she was an abortion survivor, to her church youth group. She also showed the group to the 8th<\/sup> grade CCD class. While a lot of the teens had a hard time taking it seriously at first, Hannah feels that they ended up having a great discussion after the movie because October Baby makes it easy to appreciate being pro-life.<\/p>\n

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Hannah and her family in front of the garden she created in memory of all aborted babies.<\/p><\/div>\n

The final part of her project needed to make a lasting impact. Hannah was considering creating pro-life brochures to have at church or starting a blog; however, her pastor had a different idea. After receiving some donated statues he asked Hannah if she would like to use them to build a garden. So Hannah and her family and friends built a garden at the front of the church that is dedicated to the memory of all aborted babies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very important to spread awareness that this is an issue without being in peoples\u2019 faces to the point where they resent you for it,\u201d says Hannah. \u201cThe little messages of watching October Baby, or a pretty garden where they read the plaque, or the box for Birth Right. It turns their heads in a subtle way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Hannah has sold Girl Scout cookies in the past, she didn\u2019t choose to do that this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough it\u2019s often kind of denied that there\u2019s some sort of pro-choice connection, [the Girl Scouts] are not exactly pro-life,\u201d she explains. \u201cThey donate to a lot of different groups, and they don\u2019t tell you who they are donating to or who they\u2019re getting money from. So I\u2019m not sure about it. And also, it\u2019s not really worth it. We don\u2019t make money individually off cookie sales; it\u2019s all going to the national level, and it doesn\u2019t stay local. So I would have rather done this to work at a local level. It\u2019s got to start from home first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hannah enjoyed every aspect of her Gold Award project and is really proud of how many people it affected. Strangers and friends alike appreciated that Hannah brought the subject of abortion out in the open. And she\u2019s really proud of all the people who helped make it possible, especially her parents, saying she couldn\u2019t have done it without them.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note 3\/8\/2019: While Hannah states that money from the sale of Girl Scout cookies goes to the Girl Scouts USA, the Girl Scouts USA website<\/a> says the money from cookie sales all stays local. However, it seems that money does go indirectly to the Girl Scouts USA, according to AOL<\/a>. The bakers who make the cookies get a portion of the sale of each box of cookies. Those bakers give a royalty to the national office of the Girl Scouts USA. So while the local Girl Scout troops aren’t sending cookie money directly to the national office, they are sending money to the bakers and the bakers are sending money to the national Girl Scouts USA.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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