We reached tens of thousands of students!

Our first ever internship launched this month! Six interns, Leyna, Gianna, Sean, Leslie, Trinity, and Tyler, joined us to learn how to persuasively advocate for the unborn in the public square and then put that teaching into practice. 

After classroom training on fetal development, abortion methods, contraception, and common pro-abortion arguments, fallacies, and misconceptions, we headed out to meet the public. Over the last two weeks we have shown images of abortion victims to tens of thousands of college and high school students, distributed 4000 copies of our outreach magazine, and engaged in civil and friendly conversations with hundreds of students. At the end of our encounters, many students told us they had changed their minds from supporting abortion to opposing abortion in all cases. 

During our very first outreach after training, at Los Angeles Valley College, Leslie spoke to a student, “Yvette,” who was considering abortion. At the end of the conversation Yvette didn’t say whether she had decided not to abort her child, but she thanked Leslie repeatedly for everything she had learned. 

The next day, at Pierce College, Gianna spoke to a student, Nick, who thought abortion should be allowed in certain cases, especially if a baby was conceived in rape. After asking him some questions to clarify his views, Gianna asked if we should give the rapist a second victim by aborting the baby. The question shocked him and helped him recognize the inconsistency of his position, changing his mind.  

At another campus, the next week, Trinity talked to a self-identified “pro-choice” student named Parker. Trinity said that as she pointed out the mistakes in his position during their conversation, he had the honesty and humility to agree with her on each point. At the end, he told her he had changed his mind and opposed abortion. 

Leyna tried to engage a group of three students outside a high school, but two of the girls kept whispering and laughing. Eventually the two girls walked away and tried to get the third girl, Lucia, to come with them, but she stayed. Leyna explained the abortion procedures and Lucia seemed especially curious about the abortion pill regimen and abortion pill reversal. She asked a series of serious questions and finally wanted to know if babies born after abortion pill reversal have health problems due to the process. When we told her that their health is unaffected, she broke into a smile and thanked us several times before finally catching up with her friends. Could she have taken the abortion pill? We’ll probably never know. 

And these are just a handful of the hundreds of encounters we had. 

The interns are dedicated and passionate, enduring blazing hours of sun on paved college center quads without a break, hoping to have just one more conversation with a student before heading to the next outreach of the day: reaching students on the sidewalk outside a high school at dismissal, a protest of a pro-abortion fundraiser, sidewalk counseling, or volunteering for a pregnancy center. I’m proud of them! They meet the occasional rude comments of passersby with grace and step up to the next person with a smile and invitation to take a magazine and share an opinion on abortion.

Please pray for our interns and for Yvette, Lucia, and all the thousands of students we have met over the last two weeks!