College Outreach Program Update

Students across the country are mobilizing to empower women on campus with nonviolent choices - with the help of FFL's College Outreach Program. From California to Pennsylvania students are working with their university administrations, women's groups, and health centers to solve the problems that drive college women to abortion.

• At Serrin Foster's lecture at the University of California-Berkeley, a student reacted to FFL's powerful new ad supporting children conceived in rape. She shared with the audience that her mother told her that if she had been conceived after Roe v. Wade she would not have been born because she was conceived in violence. The audience responded with enthusiastic applause when the student defiantly declared, "I have a right to be here!"

• Pro-life students at the University of Pittsburgh met with Foster after her lecture there to discuss ways to work with pro-choice student groups. Both groups are eager to work together to provide resources for pregnant and parenting students on their campus.

• The Battalion, Texas A&M University's student newspaper, featured a front-page article highlighting Foster's lecture at the university. Student organizers remarked that their group and the university's women's group are "talking about similar, almost identical problems, and we are both trying to provide women with the best solutions for their situation."

These dedicated students at the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Pittsburgh and Texas A&M University - and at many other schools across the nation - deserve accolades for their tireless work on behalf of women and children. FFL members and donors deserve special thanks for giving FFL the resources to help empower these students.