College Outreach Program

Feminists for Life's College Outreach Program shares our rich pro-life feminist history with those at highest risk of abortion, as well as future leaders who will ultimately change our culture-because Women Deserve Better® Than Abortion. In 1997 Planned Parenthood's INsider magazine to clinic staffers called FFL's College Outreach Program "the newest and most challenging concept in anti-choice student organizing... a campaign that could have profound impact" on the pro-life student movement, "as well as Planned Parenthood's public education and advocacy efforts." Planned Parenthood was right! Since 1994, when FFL started the College Outreach Program, there has been a 30% drop in abortions among college students. Click here for the full report.

"College students are constantly told to challenge the status quo.  Thirty-two years after the Roe v. Wade decision, abortion has become the status quo — one out of every five abortions is performed on a college woman.  FFL serves as a catalyst for developing resources and progressive solutions for pregnant and parenting students by asking women what they really want — because women deserve better." "FFL's College Outreach Program challenges students to question abortion and asks college and university administrators to provide resources for pregnant and parenting students." — Serrin M. Foster, President Feminists for Life of America

• Overview of the Feminists for Life College Outreach Program
• Meet Our College Outreach Speakers - our highly acclaimed speakers visit campuses across the country to share their stories and educate college audiences about our rich pro-life feminist history. They include:
  • birthmothers who believe that "adoption is an empowering option" for women facing unintended pregnancies
  • a rape survivor who "didn't know who the father was, but knew who the mother was" and chose life for her child
  • women who faced unplanned pregnancies during college - and succeeded as both students and mothers.
• Watch FFL speaker videos
• Welcome to FFLU, our dream campus
• "Perception is Reality" - Do pregnant and parenting students have the resources they need and deserve?

• Lectures and Workshops
• FFL Rally for Resources^SM bring attention to the needs of pregnant and parenting students on campus
• FFL Pregnancy Resources Forums^SM - FFL moderators bring together key campus policymakers and stakeholders to identify and develop resources for pregnant and parenting students
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act - inspired by FFL's Pregnancy Resource Forums, the ECS Act would provide matching grants for colleges and universities to create a central location on campus for the coordination of crucial resources and support for pregnant and parenting students
• Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions^SM: FFL President M. Serrin Foster's e-series
• Our Feminist "Herstory" e-tutorial by Cat Clark
• Internships at the National Office