We are Returning the Nativity Scene to the Public Square

Every year you read of nativity displays being banned from public areas, crosses taken down as Christmas tree decorations, and even the greeting of Merry Christmas forbidden in government work places. Why? Because of real or threatened lawsuits from atheists.

Why do atheists hate the symbols of Christmas and Christianity? It isn't because they don't believe in a god. I don't believe in Buddha but I don't get angry every time I see one.  

There is a reason atheists hate Christmas displays and Christian symbols . . . 

Because they hate the light!

This is not a minor point, it is the point! Jesus Christ is the Light of the world. Our faith is a light to a lost and dying world. Jesus says: "Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."

This year the Survivors are going to be that light!

The Survivors are going to lead a Festival of Lights!

We are going to bring to the city streets and government buildings -Light!

Using large format mapping projectors we are going to project nativity scenes on the buildings from which they are banned. We are going to project the Christmas message on skyscrapers, government buildings, city halls, court houses, and public places.

We will sing Christmas carols beneath the glow of projected nativity scenes. We will gather and pray as we project reminders of the massacre of innocents both in Jesus' time and the massacre of innocents going on in our country today.

We will project famous works of art celebrating the birth of Christ. This has already been done in Europe on famous buildings and it is beautiful.

We will sing and we will shine our light for all the city to see! 

These large-scale projections are set to be the signature trademark of the Survivors. As we travel from city nightscape to city nightscape with a message so large it will be like a Bat-sign over Gotham.

I know Survivors will get invitations from people in cities all across America to shine the light of love, life, and Jesus Christ in their city and towns and schools and government buildings!!!

Imagine a display that can be seen for miles and the ACLU can't shut it down!

During the winter we can project images from 5pm until midnight and beyond for cities that never sleep.

We can gather, shine the light of Christ, we can sing and share the joy of the Christmas season with our neighbors.

I am reminded of the words from the hymn "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." They go like this: 

I heard the bells on Christmas Day

their old familiar carols play,

and wild and sweet

the words repeat

Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Written in the midst of our Civil War when Americans were fighting Americans, by Henry Longfellow as his son lay severely wounded.

One could imagine the despair he felt for his nation.

Another verse follows that rings so true today, and I often feel just this way. The verse goes:

And in despair I bowed my head;

"There is no peace on earth," I said;

"For hate is strong,

and mocks the song

Of peace on earth good-will to men.

Today many in our nation speak of a civil war once again. And I believe we are indeed in a Civil War. Abortion, the killing of over a million Americans per year, is legal in all 50 states, prayer is not allowed in schools, nativity scenes are banned and crosses are being removed!

Our nation is divided and I think it is accurate to echo his words that hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth good-will to men. Our 21st Century Civil War is not a war of bombs and bullets but a war of light versus darkness.

Our job is to let our light shine and this Christmas season the Survivors intend to do just that. Not just to "stick it to the haters" but to really shine the love of Christ, the glory of the good news and the value of all human life because that little unplanned pregnancy changed the world forever!

So I have modified the last verse of I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day and it goes like this:

Then flashed the lights without a peep;

God is not dead nor doth He sleep;

the Wrong shall fail,

the Right prevail, 

With peace on earth, good-will to men!

We are in a Civil War and so what better time than Christmas to let our light shine before men? What better time to shine the good news and a warning of the tragedy of abortion in and on our cities?

And who better than the Survivors of America's Abortion Holocaust, Survivors of the modern massacre of the innocents in the middle of their nation's second civil war to take that light to the skyscrapers and city buildings?

This project is bigger than anything we have attempted before. We believe the impact will be greater than anything we have done before because of the sheer size of the projection! 

We know it will be a newsworthy and impactful story as the Survivors light up the night with forbidden phrases, scenes and symbols. 

Will you help Survivors shine the light of Christ, the nativity scene, and great works of Christian art in the public square from which they have been banned?

Please, help us shine the light this Christmas season by giving a generous Christmas gift today. Your gift of $35, $50, $75, or $100 will light of the world this Christmas.

If you can give a special end of the year gift of $1000, $5000, $10,000 or more, it will mean the Survivors have the resources and powerful projectors we need to put the Christmas message and the message of life on full public display where even the ACLU can't stop us!!!

Time is short, Christmas is upon us.  Please send the best gift you can today!

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

Let us be thankful for the country we have and not despair.

And please give today and let's really light up our cities with the Christmas message of life!  

Shining the light of Christ this Christmas,

Jeff White 

Founder, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust

P.S. God say to not hide our light under a bushel but to let it shine before all men. And that is exactly what the Survivors intend to do this Christmas Season. We are going to light it up and light it up big! Please give the best gift you can so we can really shine the light in our cities, public places, and on our government buildings. Help make this possible with a donation today.

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A Revolution in Pro-Life Activism

It is time for a revolution in pro-life activism!

Our colleges have been captured by extremists!

Today, being pro-life or a Christian on campus is like being black in the 1960's. 

Today, the only place to be safe is in schools for Coloreds Only- we call them Christian Colleges. And even there the oppression and influence of the outside world is felt.

There is another way to be safe on college campuses . . .

. . . be silent!!!

Don't share your beliefs, don't talk about loving life and preborn babies. No, you sit still and listen to everything your liberal professors want to cram down your throat!Our young people are told to accept that abortion is a moral positive. That it is all about women's rights and social justice and equality. But that is a lie!

And Martin Luther King said: "A lie cannot live."

Abortion is a lie that must not live! Because that lie leads to the death of millions of preborn babies every year. 

Can I give you a piece of sad news?

Abortion rates among those who identify as Christian is nearly the same as those who don't. Why is that? Well, for starters our young people are often not taught what abortion is at church, home, or school.

Oh, they may have a general idea that abortion is wrong, maybe even a grave sin, but they don't really comprehend the evil of abortion. Then when they get to college and realize they are today's "coloreds" they are at best - silent. 

Their beliefs are not convictions and all too often they fall to the false ideals of today's liberals.

A Revolution Is Coming!

If indeed being pro-life is like being black in the 1960's, then we must find the courage the civil rights leaders had in the 1960's.

My friend Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., told me about the day her home was bombed by those opposing civil rights for blacks. She was only a child, but someone hated enough to blow up her home and if possible, her family. 

The men and women of the civil rights movement faced tremendous risk of life and limb but they would not be silent!!!

Alveda King, a pro-life hero and activist said, "Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed."

There it is again - the same evil lie! Will we be silent?

Will we, will our young people be silent? 

The Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust will not be silent!

The Survivors call on young people to stand up, to look to the creative minds and the boundless energy God has given them and to take a stand in their day!!!

It is their turn to make History!

It is time for silence to end. 

It is time for cowering before those who promote the killing of children to end.

It is time our young people act like they believe that abortion is the evil of their day.

It is time for them to stand against that evil and to win the day with truth and love!

It is time to affirm the words Martin Luther King said, "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."

It is time for a revolution in pro-life activism!!!

It is time for . . .

Fetal Uprising!!!

Fetal Uprising is a no holds barred, in your face, unapologetic attack on the lie that abortion is a social or moral good!!!

Abortion is evil - period. 

But how do we begin this revolution?

In theory, our numbers are great; so many students do indeed hold pro-life beliefs.

In reality, those with pro-life convictions are few. And those willing to suffer for those convictions are fewer still.

So how can we wage an effective war against the killing of preborn babies?

Fetal Uprising has a plan!!!

The Fetal Uprising will use strategies and tactics first developed by the civil rights leaders of old and combine them with many of the tactics of today's leftists.

We will add to those tactics a ton of today's technology!!!

But the most important ingredients Fetal Uprising will add to the strategies, tactics, and technology are truth and love as defined by God.

Fetal Uprising is going to focus on college campuses and public forums.

Someone might say: "But there are already campus pro-life groups on campuses across the country."

Yes, there are a good number of campus pro-life groups and clubs.

But Fetal Uprising is not about a college group or club!

Groups and clubs have meetings and treasurers and secretaries and more meetings and pro-life cupcake sales and sock drives and other nice attempts to get the pro-life message out. Always nice and never wanting to offend. I applaud their efforts.

But Fetal Uprising is not about being nice.

Abortion is evil.

Fetal uprising is going to expose the evil of abortion and challenge even those who don't want to think about it to be forced to do just that.

You cannot wait for people to want to change, they will not come to you! You must confront them with truth.

So how is Fetal Uprising different?

Fetal Uprising only needs one student.

That's right - one student.

One student with the right tactics and tools!

Fetal Uprising is not going to play by the rules

We will take that one student and teach him or her to act with courage and audacity!

We will equip that student with modern tools of activism, many snatched from the leftists themselves. With wit and creativity that student will be able to single handedly create a stir on his or her campus!!!

But how?

Lauren Handy, a creative dedicated young woman spent the last year working and researching with Cheryl Conrad the tactics of social resistance.

They have gathered a comprehensive collection of some of the most effective tools used in years past and some of the cutting edge technology used today.

Survivors are going to take this training online and recruit students to join Fetal Uprising and demand an end to abortion without exception and without apology.

Fetal Uprising is not going to play fair.

Fetal Uprising is not going to be nice.

Fetal Uprising is going underground .

But how?!?!?

Let me give you one example. 

Introducing Guerrilla Projection!!!

Imagine, it is 5 p.m. on a university campus. The early setting of the winter sun makes the campus a dark quiet place. Students mill around, engaged in conversations or walking to dorms.

Suddenly a flash of light on the wall of a building catches their attention.

There are words on the wall! Everyone stops to look at it as it dances and flashes its message. It is asking a question . . .

Is abortion evil?

The words are large and bright but the question is even bigger.

Students stop and stare.

Within just a few minutes it is gone.

What was that, they wonder. 

Then the questions hits home and they talk amongst themselves. What do you think? They ask each other. Most dismiss it and go on about their way.

Suddenly another wall lights up.

Is killing a child evil?

Suddenly some start to get angry. The dots are beginning to be placed and they are connecting them. Finally, one last flash upon the wall brings it full circle.

Does abortion kill a child?

The lights are gone but the debate has just begun. 

Then around the corner the same light display is reaching a different group of students.

And evening after evening these light displays pop up over and over. Sometimes the pictures of abortion victims randomly appear but for only a moment for it only takes a moment for the mind's eye to see and understand what is going on.

In time the liberals will begin to freak out.

They will not like losing control of the debate. They will demand the perpetrators be arrested but there are no laws violated.

That won't stop them from trying to create some arrestable offense.

This is why we are only looking for the most courageous to join Fetal Uprising!

Again, I turn to the words of Martin Luther King:

"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right."

Fetal uprising is looking for that rare one.

That is just one tactic but a tactic we believe will be very effective.

The Socratic Method lays bare the truth of a subject by continually asking questions. We know the answers to the questions above. They are Yes, Yes and Yes!

But many students have never asked themselves that question.

Pro-abortion students will scream women's rights, equality and a right to choose.

The next night the guerilla projection might ask:

Is it a woman's right to kill a child?

Questions, questions, questions.

I believe in the Socratic Method because I believe the image of God is written on every heart. And many students will have been taught right from wrong at home and at church.

It is the prayer of Fetal Uprising that students will be confronted with questions of truth and that boldness will be birthed within them.

A boldness to say Yes! Abortion is Evil! Yes! Killing a child is wrong! Yes! Abortion is the killing of a child and No! It is not a woman's right, or at least it should not be, to kill a child.

This is but one tactic Fetal Uprising will be using but it is one of my favorites. The equipment to carry out this tactic can easily be handled by one student.

But I also know this - If I find that one student he or she will attract other likeminded students and even if it is only two or three students together they can bring the discussion of abortion to every student's lips!

This is one of over 200 tactics and methods that have been compiled by Cheryl and Lauren.

I am going.

I so believe in this project that I am personally going on the road to train up even an individual student in the tactics of Fetal Uprising!

I have videos and training materials that I will share. Then I will spend a day with that one or more students giving them the encouragement and modeling for them the courage and fun of leading a resistance movement.

Fetal Uprising will have its own YouTube channel and Twitter account.

Fetal uprising will use social media to spread the word not only about 

Fetal Uprising but to also spread the message of hope that indeed one person can make a difference and have a huge impact for life!

Here are two examples of Guerrilla projection from our Dallas training camp. I loved the blank wall next to Planned Parenthood. It made the perfect set up to expose Planned Parenthood for who they are and what they do! The other was the apartment building of abortionist Curtis Boyd. 

Here are some examples of larger guerrilla projections by leftist groups. I believe Fetal Uprising projections will have greater impact because abortion is so controversial. But don't you just love it!

And may we never forget the low tech but unbelievably effective sidewalk chalk and spray chalk.

Fetal Uprising strikes again!!!!

Unless I want to take the time to write a book I cannot share the hundreds of tactics and creative ideas in store for the Fetal Uprising resistance!

Let me just say we are not going to play fair. We are not going to allow the silence on campus to reign any longer!

The cries of the preborn babies and their defenders will be heard!

Fetal Uprising will be in the face of silent oppression and on the walls and sidewalks and bathrooms and libraries and public forums and private meetings.

Please join me in this new fight!

Help me lead the Survivors in the new resistance. Help me teach even one young person how to have an impact on their campus! Help me introduce and recruit for ...

Fetal Uprising!!!

I will need your help like never before. I will need your help to equip each student with not only training but real equipment! 

I am going on the road and I will be holding trainings wherever I am needed. I am asking you to help make this possible by giving generously and joining this resistance by helping me to get the funding necessary.

I believe this can spread like wildfire!

But I need your help today to get the resources needed to make this a reality. We will be testing many of these new tactics and strategies at our Survivors Training Camp in San Francisco. 

This is going to be one exciting year. 

Will you join the resistance? Every successful resistance had backers. Those who make it all possible. The youth have the time and the energy and the boldness, will you join me in supplying the tools they need?

I have been taught that if your plan is bold ask boldly. I have been in pro-life leadership for over 30 years and not since the days of Operation Rescue sit-ins have I felt so enthusiastic about a time such as this.

So bold I will be.

The largest gift Survivors has ever received is $25,000. My friend, if you are still out there - we need you!

That was only one time. We have received some gifts of $10,000 or $5000 or $1000 or $500 on a few occasions. My friend, if that was you - we need you again! 

Still, every month we get gifts of $35, $50, $75, $100 and it is these faithful gifts that keep the Survivors on the road and on the frontlines - these gifts sustain us. Please, if you can give today - give the best gift you can.

I am 60 years old now and my energy is not what it was 30 years ago when I led Operation Rescue. But my zeal is still there and my years of experience and even my past of being jailed for the preborn will hopefully impart wisdom, courage and boldness to these young people.

I am willing to go. I am willing to lead.

And if you are willing to equip, we will see a revolution born on campuses all across this country! We will see the resistance born. We will see a . . .

Fetal Uprising!!!

I am asking you with all boldness and with all my heart to join me in this new advance in college activism. Please give the best gift you can today and join the resistance!

There is so much preparation needed, not only in developing the and getting ready to train but there is technical preparation also as we seek to make every tool imaginable - available!

We are counting on the imagination and energy of these young people.

I want to train these students, equip them and then I want to unleash them!!!

It will be an exciting year and you have an opportunity today to be a part of this revolution from the beginning. Please give generously today.

It is the resistance - it is Fetal Uprising - it is a revolution!
Join with me today and give the best gift you can today, and we can and will launch the Fetal Uprising.

Your friendly revolutionary,

Jeff White

Founder of Survivors

Leader of Fetal Uprising

P.S. The time has come to end the silence about abortion on college campuses. It is time to equip even one bold young person to be a loud and interrupting voice on his or her campus. The days of playing fair are over. It is time for a revolution, it is time for the resistance, it is time for a Fetal Uprising! Please join me in making this revolution possible, give today and join the resistance. Give today and be a part of the Fetal Uprising!

George Orwell’s 1984 was a cautionary tale – Not a training manual!

I just dropped my son off at college, a very liberal college. My son wanted to go there to make his way in the topsy-turvy university and be a light and a force for change.

As a parent, I am worried. I know my son has the grounded faith necessary to defend his beliefs, I know he has been trained to debate in a hostile environment.

Still, the Devil prowls like a roaring lion according to 1 Peter 5:8. The bible commends us to be sober minded –watchful.

Please keep my son in your prayers.

God often does this to me, tests my own commitments by putting my own children where I lead others.

Once, when I led 8 of my youth group to go into full time missions work, I faced backlash from some parents. “What are you afraid of?” I would ask parents.

Then God sent some of my children to Botswana, Western China, Poland, Japan and numerous other foreign countries. I felt the fear and concern. Yet my commitment to missions remains.

Now it is Fetal Uprising!

Sending students in small groups to fight against the modern Orwellian university education center.

My son is part of Fetal Uprising, as are a growing number of college and high school students.

They have a big fight ahead of them and my prayer is that we can continue to be their support system.

Recently, during a Fetal Uprising “action” one of the young people wrote in chalk on the sidewalk:

“1984 was not a training manual”

That got me thinking: What our young Survivors face today is best described as Orwellian.

Like 1984’s Oceania, schools can’t stand dissidents and will ruthlessly pursue our pro-life, Christian dissidents.

Language restriction is one loony idea our colleges want to force upon students. College Newspeak intends to force young adults to “speak correctly”. This may be as small as asking a fellow student what pronoun he or she prefers to be called. (By the way, my use of he or she would be a violation of some school speech codes!)

Created by the crazy totalitarian state, Newspeak is a truncated version of English, where words are strung together and abbreviated to create new words.

Then there are the over-broad limitations on speech such as micro-aggressions, potentially offensive phrases, disproportionate impact and outright banning of references to God.

Imagine how radical it is to believe all life is sacred?

In the new Orwellian land we call universities, our young people face being ostracized and mocked for their faith and their scientifically held belief that life begins at conception and their religious belief that all life is sacred.

This is why we need Fetal Uprising!!! In the book 1984 one of my favorite lines is:

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

That is what Fetal uprising is! A revolution!

Fetal Uprising is subversive to liberal anti-science anti-life, anti-Christian and anti-God constructs.

The “actions” of Fetal Uprising will at times be bold and illuminating and at other times soft and thought provoking.

My current favorite request is for 1000 stuffed animals!

Yes, 1000 stuffed animals. Why? This Fetal Uprising operative wants to leave them abandoned throughout the university with hand made little signs attached to each one saying: Will you adopt me? My child was aborted and I never got the chance to love or be loved. Please take me home and love me.

As the stuffed animals appear in dorm rooms, a buzz will begin to stir. Who is doing this? There will be anger at the inference that abortion takes a child’s life. Then Fetal uprising will announce a “Save the stuffed animals, stop abortion” day.

I love it!

Now I just need to find out how to get 1000 stuffed animals!

This is where I am asking for your help. I don’t know what creative ideas these young people will devise but I want to be able to help and supply them as much as possible.

This type of creative outreach, along with guerrilla projection, will give a platform for conversations about abortion.

We can win the debate about abortion. Through science, love, and logic we can demonstrate that abortion, the evil of our day, must end!

But without our support for bold and creative activism their efforts may go nowhere or worse yet, never get past the planning stage.

Our students can do their part to end abortion by engaging in civil disobedience against their respective universities. Radicals did it in the 1960s and succeeded. There’s no reason pro-life students shouldn’t do it in this decade to make their voices heard.

Fetal Uprising is a movement –Not an organization!

This is critical.

Organizations grow fat. Salaries and structure encumber their efforts. Of course, I realize Survivors is indeed an organization and I have done all I can to keep the organization lean and mean but is still true to some degree even of us.

This is why I want Fetal Uprising to only be a movement, a platform for radical, creative activism.

It is also why Survivors is needed right now.

With your help, we can equip these young people with the tools and props they need and request. We can make their creative plans come true!

I want Survivors to be the Fetal Uprising supply depot!

This is a movement we will see grow as one creative event spurs on and inspires another creative event and then on and on until the impact of Fetal Uprising becomes a national discussion.

This will not happen overnight. But the work begins now.

In fact, your support at these early stages is even more critical. There are less than a dozen Fetal Uprising students. They are few in numbers but bold and creative!

Your gift and support in these early stages will be the reason this effort succeeds! Will you give today?

Your gift may buy some stuffed animals or a video player or small skeleton heads (another idea we can talk about later!) –you name it! I don’t know what the next request will be and I hope they continue to surprise me and imagine all kinds of creative actions.

Whatever it is I want to be able to say YES and supply their need.

Remember these “actions” are meant for social media distribution where thousands upon thousands will be reached with these innovative “actions” for life.

Will you give today? Your gift of $35 $50 $75 or $100 will be used effectively and creatively and will continue to give for years on social media.

And if you are able we would be blessed if you can give a gift of $500, $1000, $5000 or more and become a virtual supply depot for the Fetal Uprising.

The “actions” are beginning on universities across the nation please be a part of the revolution and give generously today!

For the Fetal Uprising,

Jeff White

P.S. School is in and the fight is on. Help our young people fight the 1984 Orwellian control at our universities where speaking the truth is a revolutionary act!

Why I Had An Unprotected Interview With Sarah Silverman

Don't do it!

She is liberal beyond words!

She is evil.

She is blasphemous.

Have you seen her shows?

She is going do a hit piece!

These were the warnings from many of my friends about sitting down for Sarah Silverman's “I Love You America” TV series.

But I did it anyway. Why, why, why!?!?!

Well, this isn't my first encounter with the liberal media. My experience has been that, as often as not, I get a good if not fantastic result. For example, Al Jazeera News stayed with our Survivors for nearly 5 days. What resulted was an five-minute piece Survivors could use as a promo piece. Then the BBC embedded a reporter in our Summer Training camp as a camper. The name of the piece -- and we knew this before she came -- was "Brainwashing Stacey Dooley!!!" The 45-minute documentary was a great piece and the young people won Stacey over.

My core belief is that even though the liberal media may hate us, and in this case, she would probably mock us, The core of what we believe rings true to the listener and for that matter the person doing the interview.

Often, we get our message out in spite of the best efforts of the host.

In the case of the Sarah Silverman show, I found it fair enough. It is comedy on an explosive topic and generally not funny.

But I found Sarah very nice in person. When I sat down with her I said -- "Sarah, not a lot of conservatives are willing to sit with you but I do so willingly. I have just one request: Be funny without being cheap."

I think she did that.

I think Cheryl Conrad and the Survivors did a great job too. The Survivors on the street showed engaging activism on Pier 39, Even Sarah's description of Survivors was good enough for me. There are a couple of crude parts and I think the Survivors handled it well.

We are going to be getting more and more requests to do shows as word of Survivors and the Fetal Uprising spreads. Would you consider giving a donation right now so the work of Survivors and the revolution that is Fetal Uprising can continue?

Your giving makes our work possible.

Now back to the show, Let me know your thoughts!

And so I live to be mocked another day!

Enjoy!

Here are links to some of our outstanding media coverage!

The Abortion War: Fault Lines by Al Jazeera English

A Trip to a Summer Camp Pushing to End Abortion by Al Jazeera America

Brainwashing Stacey by BBC

The Man Who Runs Anti-Abortion Summer Camps for Kids by BBC

“I Love You, America” with Sarah Silverman

The Ongoing Debate to Define Personhood

By Mallory Knight

After a fatal mishap with a cryogenic freezer at a fertility center in Cleveland, OH, women are mourning the loss 4,000 frozen eggs and embryos. This immensely tragic event sparks the discussion over what exactly was lost. The women who lost embryos and eggs have taken to the courts to get help, and they seek personhood for the lives lost in the freezer malfunction, which would charge the center with wrongful death.

IVF not only freezes eggs, but it freezes embryos, the first stage of a person’s life. At this stage, even with only 8 cells present, scientists are able to decipher if the embryo will be a baby boy or baby girl. 8 cells is so minuscule and yet they are markers of new life.

Many are fighting back against this debate, saying that these women have nothing to mourn as they claim that embryos are nothing more than a clump of cells. Kate Plant, who lost 5 embryos in the event, received an angry message shaming her for mourning saying
“Thanks for disrespecting those bereaved parents” who “birthed, held, nurtured, raised and cared for and buried” their children, from a woman who had lost her son to cancer.

We need to support these women and families who lost not just an embryo, but their children. It is more than appropriate for them to mourn as such, and seek justice for the lives lost.

This debate will be instrumental in the debate on how we define personhood. Our law should treat life in all stages the same. A person is a person, whether they have 8 cells or 37.2 trillion.

The Survivors ProLife Boot Camp Returns!

The Survivors are returning to San Francisco for our 21st annual Survivors ProLife Boot Camp.

Last year I asked humorously, "San Francisco?  Are you crazy?"

I didn't know what to expect.  After all, San Francisco is a liberal, pro-choice, immorality hotbed and what would be the reaction to the anti-abortion message of our young Survivors?

I feared violent reactions, police harassment, aggressive counter protesters and angry passersby.  For the most part it didn't materialize.  What common incredulous response did we get?

"What are you doing in OUR city?!?!?!?!?"

How dare the Survivors take a stand in what they call -"The City."  Now it is not only "The" City, it is "their" city!

How dare these young people boldly stand in the public square and declare abortion to be the evil of their day?

But they did!  And the news covered us like an unexpected snow storm!

The San Francisco Police Department, long used to angry and violent protestors from the left, was impressed by the young Survivors.  The Survivors were bold but polite, strong but not violent, and courageous in the face of the angry citizens they did meet.

The SFPD described one Survivors event in a San Francisco Chronicle article as "well planned and perfectly executed" - that is a great endorsement of the training of the Survivors.

I love activism in San Francisco!  

It is a hotbed of liberalism and an international tourist destination.  

The distance from one location to the next is only a matter of miles!  In, fact we only left the city once to travel to nearby UC Berkeley to take a stand in Sproul Plaza where again our young Survivors engaged and answered every argument thrown at them with ease!

San Francisco is the perfect place to train young people to be bold and to know they can hold their own intellectually, scientifically and underpinned by their faith and the rightness of their cause, they can win the day!

Don't discount the Survivors because they are young!

I was recently in a national pro-life leaders strategy session.  The best of the best from all over the country and do you know what I noticed?

We are old!

It made me realize the Survivors must continue to raise up anti-abortion leaders as if this fight is going to last for generations and fight for all we are worth to end abortion now!

We must continue to refresh our ranks, not with namby-pamby pro-life activists who just want the world to love them but rather activists who believe abortion is the killing of a little baby and will act like it!

And graduates of Survivors training camps know that they will not be loved by this world while they are confronting the evil of their day.  

They know, and the next graduates will know, that social transformation is not a popularity contest and the greatest of social reformers were hated long before they ever had streets named after them.

Now I am proud to say that graduates of our Survivors ProLife Boot Camps are bold!  They were trained and equipped and prepared to fight!

And they are everywhere!  They come up to me at walks and marches and conventions and say hello.  Many of them I do not even recognize -they were kids when I trained them!

Many of those young people trained are today's youngest and brightest leaders.

At our Dallas training camp and last year in San Francisco, we had former camp graduates who did our trainings.  Leaders who are leading in their own right in Students For Life of America, Stanton Health Center, Priests for Life and many other fine organizations!!!

It makes me proud!  It should make you proud!

For it is and always has been because of friends like you that the Survivors ProLife Boot Camps have continued year after year!

Twenty-one years ago, pro-life college campus groups were nearly non-existent.  When the Survivors would go onto campuses the administrations were often so angry they would order illegal arrests!  

The Survivors were constantly harassed and arrested!  The Survivors won every one of those cases and continued in the training you helped provide and now today the tide has changed.

Campuses no longer arrest the Survivors for they know they will not back down. The Survivors are advocates and they will not surrender their First Amendment rights and they will not be silent about the killing of their brothers and sisters in the womb.

The Survivors graduates make great leaders.  Groups all across the country have Survivors graduates actively working and leading.

Our friend, Mark Harrington of Created Equal knows the value of our training camps and the value of our graduates!  His team is and has been led by numerous graduates of Survivors camps. 

This is why we have our Survivors ProLife Training Camps:  To recruit, train and equip young people to continue on in the fight for life in whatever organization God calls them to and wherever God calls them to!

We train and equip young people so when God calls they can answer:

"Here I am Lord, send me!"

This year at camp, we will see some graduates joining us from our very first Survivors camp, twenty-one years ago!  Yes, Twenty-one years ago our camp was made up of less than twenty young people and the oldest was just 17!

They are still in the fight, leading on organization boards, leading organizations and still fighting the good fight across this nation and around the world!

The Survivors training camps transforms teenagers and college students!

Just one example I love to speak of is that of Hector Moreno.  Hector was a well-educated man, a District Attorney for Santa Clara County in California.  How did I meet Hector?

It was in my Operation Rescue days and his office was prosecuting me for blockading baby killing centers.  Hector was a good man and he went to a great local church.  I did my time for saving babies and many years later started Survivors.

When Hector heard of our Survivors ProLife Boot Camps he sent his own precious daughter, April.  

Now, April was a quiet and demure girl.

April graduated our camp and later that year I was standing with Hector in San Francisco after the first Walk for Life.  The Survivors were there doing an after-walk event.

As I stood there with Hector, suddenly some angry passerby stopped to engage, but mainly yell at, the Survivors for daring to speak the truth about abortion.  

As the yeller walked away smug in her banalities, suddenly a young girl stepped out of our line to challenge her face to face!

The demure April Moreno!

As I stood next to her father, a district attorney -I watched his mouth drop open!

Was that really his little April going nose to nose with an angry San Francisco citizen and not only holding her own but backing her down!???!??

Hector told me he would never have dreamed April could ever be so bold.  He thanked me and therein the entire team of people who train at Survivors training camps for transforming his beautiful little girl into a fearless, faithful defender of life!

That is one of my favorite stories, but it is one of a hundred.  Survivors training camps transform young people into courageous and bold Soldiers of the Cross!

How are they transformed?

The young people are transformed with training from national leaders from all across the country and the world.  

Those who have taught and led at our training camps reads like the who's who of national and international pro-life leaders!

Let me take a moment and try and remember the organizations that have sent leaders to train at Survivors:

Priests for Life, Created Equal, Students for Life of America, Rock for Life, American Life League, Stand True, Stanton Health Centers, Stand to Reason, Life Training Institute, Christian Defense Coalition, Life Legal Defense Foundation, Operation Rescue, Youth Defense from Ireland, Abortion Free New Mexico, CEC for Life. On and on it goes - I know I am forgetting dozens of organizations who have graciously given in the past to train Survivors. 

I thank them all again and apologize for those omitted!

That is what I love about the pro-life movement - they sacrifice their time and their energy willingly and graciously to train and equip others to fight for life!

The Survivors do not pay our speakers, sometimes we are able to help with airfare but each and every speaker and trainer who comes to camp is sacrificing to be there!

I love them and thank them for their sacrifice and generosity.

These leaders know our camp is a financial loser.  They know the staff of Survivors sacrifices to make it possible.  My own wife and children and friends do all the cooking during camp, sometimes for upward of 100 people!

Everyone gives of their time and energy and finances to make this camp possible!

This is why we are able to keep our nearly two-week camp at only $450.00.  That is only $45 per day for food, housing, staff, transportation and a myriad of supplies! 

But I need your help!  I want to make this camp even more affordable! 

I want to offer a special discount, an early bird discount through June 15th.  What I am thinking is giving this discount to anyone who signs up before June 15th and an even deeper discount for those who come in a group!

There is nothing better than a mini-team coming from a town or pro-life group.  

But I can't afford to do that without your help and your own sacrificial giving!

I ask every leader, every speaker, to give of their time and energy to make this camp possible.  This camp costs way more than we charge and if I had my way I would charge nothing at all!  But I'm not rich so I can't do that.

However, together, you and I and others giving as generously as we can with what God has given us -we can make this camp and early bird discounts a reality.Our lowest group and early bird discount price is $300.  That means we will be at least $150 short per person.

Will you give $150 to help make up the difference so a young person can come to camp on the early bird?

Maybe you can give enough for a mini-group of five to come and can give $750?  That would be spectacular!  Last year we were saved by one very large and generous gift -it really helped us last year and we are thankful to those who can give so generously.

However, in the end, this camp is usually made possible by friends who give faithful gifts of $35, $50 $75 and $100.  Your gift does make a difference.

Please give the best gift you can today by clicking the buttons below. These camp expenses come fast and furious before camp ever starts.  We need you and your support today if you can.  Thank you very much.

Your Friend for Life,

Jeff White
Founder, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust

P.S.  Camp this year is July 23rd through August 2nd in San Francisco.  As I said earlier, I love activism in San Francisco!  It is a hotbed of liberalism and an international tourist destination.  It is the perfect place to train young people to be bold and to know they can hold their own intellectually, scientifically and underpinned by their faith and the rightness of their cause, they can win the day!

But we can't win the day if we don't put the camps on!  And the only way we can do this is with your support of the work of Survivors and this camp in particular!  Please invest in the future of those called to defend life.  Give the best gift you can today.  Please, we will handle the rest!

Tactics Never Before Used. Strategies Never Before Unveiled. A Grassroots Youth-Led Revolution.

It is time for a revolution in pro-life activism!

Our colleges have been captured by extremists!

Today, being pro-life or a Christian on campus is like being black in the 1960's. 

Today, the only place to be safe is in schools for Coloreds Only- we call them Christian Colleges. And even there the oppression and influence of the outside world is felt.

There is another way to be safe on college campuses . . .

. . . be silent!!!

Don't share your beliefs, don't talk about loving life and preborn babies. No, you sit still and listen to everything your liberal professors want to cram down your throat!

Our young people are told to accept that abortion is a moral positive. That it is all about women's rights and social justice and equality. But that is a lie!

And Martin Luther King said: "A lie cannot live."

Abortion is a lie that must not live! Because that lie leads to the death of millions of preborn babies every year. 

Can I give you a piece of sad news?

Abortion rates among those who identify as Christian is nearly the same as those who don't. Why is that? Well, for starters our young people are often not taught what abortion is at church, home, or school.

Oh, they may have a general idea that abortion is wrong, maybe even a grave sin, but they don't really comprehend the evil of abortion. Then when they get to college and realize they are today's "coloreds" they are at best - silent. 

Their beliefs are not convictions and all too often they fall to the false ideals of today's liberals.

A Revolution Is Coming!

If indeed being pro-life is like being black in the 1960's, then we must find the courage the civil rights leaders had in the 1960's.

My friend Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., told me about the day her home was bombed by those opposing civil rights for blacks. She was only a child, but someone hated enough to blow up her home and if possible, her family. 

The men and women of the civil rights movement faced tremendous risk of life and limb but they would not be silent!!!

Alveda King, a pro-life hero and activist said, "Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed."

There it is again - the same evil lie! Will we be silent?

Will we, will our young people be silent? 

The Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust will not be silent!

The Survivors call on young people to stand up, to look to the creative minds and the boundless energy God has given them and to take a stand in their day!!!

It is their turn to make History!

It is time for silence to end. 

It is time for cowering before those who promote the killing of children to end.

It is time our young people act like they believe that abortion is the evil of their day.

It is time for them to stand against that evil and to win the day with truth and love!

It is time to affirm the words Martin Luther King said, "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."

It is time for a revolution in pro-life activism!!!

It is time for . . .

Fetal Uprising!!!

Fetal Uprising is a no holds barred, in your face, unapologetic attack on the lie that abortion is a social or moral good!!!

Abortion is evil - period. 

But how do we begin this revolution?

In theory, our numbers are great; so many students do indeed hold pro-life beliefs.

In reality, those with pro-life convictions are few. And those willing to suffer for those convictions are fewer still.

So how can we wage an effective war against the killing of preborn babies?

Fetal Uprising has a plan!!!

The Fetal Uprising will use strategies and tactics first developed by the civil rights leaders of old and combine them with many of the tactics of today's leftists.

We will add to those tactics a ton of today's technology!!!

But the most important ingredients Fetal Uprising will add to the strategies, tactics, and technology are truth and love as defined by God.

Fetal Uprising is going to focus on college campuses and public forums.

Someone might say: "But there are already campus pro-life groups on campuses across the country."

Yes, there are a good number of campus pro-life groups and clubs.

But Fetal Uprising is not about a college group or club!

Groups and clubs have meetings and treasurers and secretaries and more meetings and pro-life cupcake sales and sock drives and other nice attempts to get the pro-life message out. Always
nice and never wanting to offend. I applaud their efforts.

But Fetal Uprising is not about being nice.

Abortion is evil.

Fetal uprising is going to expose the evil of abortion and challenge even those who don't want to think about it to be forced to do just that.

You cannot wait for people to want to change, they will not come to you! You must confront them with truth!

So how is Fetal Uprising different?

Fetal Uprising only needs one student.

That's right - one student.

One student with the right tactics and tools!

Fetal Uprising is not going to play by the rules

We will take that one student and teach him or her to act with courage and audacity!

We will equip that student with modern tools of activism, many snatched from the leftists themselves. With wit and creativity that student will be able to single handedly create a stir on his or her campus!!!

But how?

Lauren Handy, a creative dedicated young woman spent the last year working and researching with Cheryl Conrad the tactics of social resistance.

They have gathered a comprehensive collection of some of the most effective tools used in years past and some of the cutting edge technology used today.

Survivors are going to take this training online and recruit students to join Fetal Uprising and demand an end to abortion without exception and without apology.

Fetal Uprising is not going to play fair.

Fetal Uprising is not going to be nice.

Fetal Uprising is going underground .

But how?!?!?

Let me give you one example. 

Introducing Guerilla Projection!!!

Imagine, it is 5 p.m. on a university campus. The early setting of the winter sun makes the campus a dark quiet place. Students mill around, engaged in conversations or walking to dorms.

Suddenly a flash of light on the wall of a building catches their attention.

There are words on the wall! Everyone stops to look at it as it dances and flashes its message. It is asking a question . . .

Is abortion evil?

The words are large and bright but the question is even bigger.

Students stop and stare.

Within just a few minutes it is gone.

What was that, they wonder. 

Then the questions hits home and they talk amongst themselves. What do you think? They ask each other. Most dismiss it and go on about their way.

Suddenly another wall lights up.

Is killing a child evil?

Suddenly some start to get angry. The dots are beginning to be placed and they are connecting them. Finally, one last flash upon the wall brings it full circle.

Does abortion kill a child?

The lights are gone but the debate has just begun. 

Then around the corner the same light display is reaching a different group of students.

And evening after evening these light displays pop up over and over. Sometimes the pictures of abortion victims randomly appear but for only a moment for it only takes a moment for the mind's eye to see and understand what is going on.

In time the liberals will begin to freak out.

They will not like losing control of the debate. They will demand the perpetrators be arrested but there are no laws violated.

That won't stop them from trying to create some arrestable offense.

This is why we are only looking for the most courageous to join Fetal Uprising!

Again, I turn to the words of Martin Luther King:

"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right."

Fetal uprising is looking for that rare one.

That is just one tactic but a tactic we believe will be very effective.

The Socratic Method lays bare the truth of a subject by continually asking questions. We know the answers to the questions above. They are Yes, Yes and Yes!

But many students have never asked themselves that question.

Pro-abortion students will scream women's rights, equality and a right to choose.

The next night the guerilla projection might ask:

Is it a woman's right to kill a child?

Questions, questions, questions.

I believe in the Socratic Method because I believe the image of God is written on every heart. And many students will have been taught right from wrong at home and at church.

It is the prayer of Fetal Uprising that students will be confronted with questions of truth and that boldness will be birthed within them.

A boldness to say Yes! Abortion is Evil! Yes! Killing a child is wrong! Yes! Abortion is the killing of a child and No! It is not a woman's right, or at least it should not be, to kill a child.

This is but one tactic Fetal Uprising will be using but it is one of my favorites. The equipment to carry out this tactic can easily be handled by one student.

But I also know this - If I find that one student he or she will attract other likeminded students and even if it is only two or three students together they can bring the discussion of abortion to every student's lips!

This is one of over 200 tactics and methods that have been compiled by Cheryl and Lauren.

I am going.

I so believe in this project that I am personally going on the road to train up even an individual student in the tactics of Fetal Uprising!

I have videos and training materials that I will share. Then I will spend a day with that one or more students giving them the encouragement and modeling for them the courage and fun of leading a resistance movement.

Fetal Uprising will have its own YouTube channel and Twitter account.

Fetal uprising will use social media to spread the word not only about 

Fetal Uprising but to also spread the message of hope that indeed one person can make a difference and have a huge impact for life!

Here are two examples of Guerilla projection from our Dallas training camp. I loved the blank wall next to Planned Parenthood. It
made the perfect set up to expose Planned Parenthood for who they are and what they do! The other was the apartment building of abortionist Curtis Boyd. 

Here are some examples of larger guerilla projections by leftist groups. I believe Fetal Uprising projections will have greater impact because abortion is so controversial. But don't you just love it!

And may we never forget the low tech but unbelievably effective sidewalk chalk and spray chalk.

Fetal Uprising strikes again!!!!

Unless I want to take the time to write a book I cannot share the hundreds of tactics and creative ideas in store for the Fetal Uprising resistance!

Let me just say we are not going to play fair. We are not going to allow the silence on campus to reign any longer!

The cries of the preborn babies and their defenders will be heard!

Fetal Uprising will be in the face of silent oppression and on the walls and sidewalks and bathrooms and libraries and public forums and private meetings.

Please join me in this new fight!

Help me lead the Survivors in the new resistance. Help me teach even one young person how to have an impact on their campus! Help me introduce and recruit for ...

Fetal Uprising!!!

I will need your help like never before. I will need your help to equip each student with not only training but real equipment! 

I am going on the road and I will be holding trainings wherever I am needed. I am asking you to help make this possible by giving generously and joining this resistance by helping me to get the funding necessary.

I believe this can spread like wildfire!

But I need your help today to get the resources needed to make this a reality. We will be testing many of these new tactics and strategies at our Survivors Training Camp in San Francisco. 

This is going to be one exciting year. 

Will you join the resistance? Every successful resistance had backers. Those who make it all possible. The youth have the time and the energy and the boldness, will you join me in supplying the tools they need?

I have been taught that if your plan is bold ask boldly. I have been in pro-life leadership for over 30 years and not since the days of Operation Rescue sit-ins have I felt so enthusiastic about a time such as this.

So bold I will be.

The largest gift Survivors has ever received is $25,000. My friend, if you are still out there - we need you!

That was only one time. We have received some gifts of $10,000 or $5000 or $1000 or $500 on a few occasions. My friend, if that was you - we need you again! 

Still, every month we get gifts of $35, $50, $75, $100 and it is these faithful gifts that keep the Survivors on the road and on the frontlines - these gifts sustain us. Please, if you can give today - give the best gift you can.

I am 60 years old now and my energy is not what it was 30 years ago when I led Operation Rescue. But my zeal is still there and my years of experience and even my past of being jailed for the preborn will hopefully impart wisdom, courage and boldness to these young people.

I am willing to go. I am willing to lead.

And if you are willing to equip, we will see a revolution born on campuses all across this country! We will see the resistance born. We will see a . . .

Fetal Uprising!!!

I am asking you with all boldness and with all my heart to join me in this new advance in college activism. Please give the best gift you can today and join the resistance!

There is so much preparation needed, not only in developing the and getting ready to train but there is technical preparation also as we seek to make every tool imaginable - available!

We are counting on the imagination and energy of these young people.

I want to train these students, equip them and then I want to unleash
them!!!

It will be an exciting year and you have an opportunity today to be a part of this revolution from the beginning. Please give generously today.

It is the resistance - it is Fetal Uprising - it is a revolution!

Join with me today and give the best gift you can today, and we can and will launch the Fetal Uprising.

Your friendly revolutionary,

Jeff White
Founder of Survivors
Leader of Fetal Uprising

P.S. The time has come to end the silence about abortion on college campuses. It is time to equip even one bold young person to be a loud and interrupting voice on his or her campus. The days of playing fair are over. It is time for a revolution, it is time for the resistance, it is time for a Fetal Uprising! Please join me in making this revolution possible, give today and join the resistance. Give today and be a part of the Fetal Uprising!

No! Don't Talk to Al Jazeera! No! Don't Talk to the BBC!"

No!  Don’t talk to Al Jazeera!  No! Don’t talk to the BBC!  Why did many tell us this?  Because they believed the liberal media hates conservative pro-lifers and they are worried they will lie about the Survivors.

Now I am not naive, but there two things I do believe in and even though I agree the liberal media is not our friends, I believe.

I believe our young people are sincere and transparent and good teens and college students. I was confident their goodness would come out.

I also believed our camp would take those great young people and teach them to be truthful, bold, loving and well educated on the topic of abortion.  Which would make them powerful ambassadors for life!

Watch the videos below, they are great!

These are not our friends, these are people who told me right up front they were pro-choice. The BBC even called their documentary -- Brainwashing Stacey!

The portion of the Al Jazeera video that features Survivors is only about five minutes.  The BBC Brainwashing Stacey video is 45 minutes.

These both aired all around the world.  

Take a look and also read the Al Jazeera newspaper article -- I think it is the best article we have ever had written.

Watch and read these media accounts of the Survivors Summer Training Camp and you will understand why leaders from around the country consider it the best youth training camp in the nation and why many send their own teens and students to our camp.

Enjoy, and then join us or send someone to camp this summer in San Francisco!

View the BBC “BRAINWASHING STACEY” documentary:

Brainwashing Stacey Season 1 Episode 1 (S01E01) Anti Abortion Camp Full Episodes Brainwashing Stacey Season 1 Episode 1 (S01E01) Anti Abortion Camp Full Episodes Brainwashing Stacey Season 1 Episode 1 (S01E01) Anti Abortion Camp Full Episodes

View the clip from the Al Jazeera "THE ABORTION WAR" documentary:

Read the article from Al Jazeera English:  "A trip to a summer camp pushing to end abortion"

Register Here for Camp!

The Fight for Ireland's Life-Valuing Society

Love knows no borders!  Survivor and young American Emma Mysko traveled to Ireland to defend the preborn at a critical point in Irish history.  She was on the frontlines, giving her all for children she will never know, in a country that is not even hers. We at Survivors are proud of her tireless efforts.  Now hear, in her own words, her experience. Thank you for helping to send her.

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By Emma Mysko

For three weeks, I traveled all over the beautiful country of Ireland; experiencing their culture, meeting locals, making friends that become like family, and coming to love everything about it.

For three weeks, I lived in a country that constitutionally acknowledged the equal rights of all its people.

For three weeks, I was a part of the fight to keep it that way.

For three weeks, I was pushed to my limit, and then some.  My team and I were spit on, had things thrown at us, were verbally abused, and physically assaulted.  We were told that we would have been better off being aborted, and the women were called traitors to our own gender.

For three weeks, I was constantly challenged.  I was forced to acknowledge my own complacency when lives are on the line.  I was forced to grapple with optimism, pessimism, and realism on a daily basis.

The battle, however, was much longer than three weeks.

For over three decades, Irish children were guaranteed the right to be born.

For over three decades, the people of Ireland have fought hard to maintain equal rights under law.

For over three decades, people diagnosed with disabilities and medical conditions in-utero were given the chance to live a full, happy life.  The resulting diversity of life that has developed is so beautiful and unlike anything I’ve experienced in America.

For over three decades, Irish mothers received the help, care, and support needed to continue in their pregnancies.  The proactive mentality is that pregnant women in crisis deserve help to get out of the crisis, not abortion to get out of the pregnancy.

For over three decades, Irish medical professionals have challenged themselves to do better for mother and child.  They have chosen to do the right thing for both patients, not the easiest. They’ve adapted, overcome, and now Ireland is a global leader in maternal health.

For over three decades, Ireland has proven the rest of the world wrong.  Not only have its people survived without abortion, they have thrived. Hundreds of thousands of Irish citizens are alive today because of the eighth amendment.

On Friday, May 25th, that life-valuing society ceased to exist.

On May 25th, two-thirds of Irish voters chose to remove constitutional protections for preborn humans.  As a result, Ireland has gone from being a country that stands out from the rest to being just another face in the crowd.  What once made Ireland special is now gone.

As an outsider, the pain and loss I’m feeling is nothing compared to that of those who have dedicated their lives to maintaining the 8th amendment.  As a Survivor of America’s Abortion Holocaust, I’ve grown up in a society that allows the killing of its most innocent members. The Irish people have never experienced that, and I don’t think that as an American, I can actually comprehend the heartbreak and profound loss they are facing.  In the days following the referendum, I witnessed many tears. I saw people who had truly lost the nation they once loved and their grieving was authentic and raw.

But the Irish have never been known to quit!  I saw them gearing up for the next round, wiping their tears, strategizing, determined to continue the fight.

In the aftermath of the referendum, the saying, “We’re not called to win every battle, but we are called to fight,” has been running through my head.  We may have lost, but we fought. And if there’s one thing I learned about the Irish people, it’s that they’re resilient. They won’t hang their head in defeat and lose hope.  They lost this battle, but there’s more to come, and they are ready for the fight.

"Rest in Peace Dear Children."

The loss in Ireland was heartbreaking for sure.  So many friends worked so hard. I am reposting this blog from my friend from the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, Jonathon Van Maren, where he in turn is forwarding a heartfelt letter of grief from Tim Jackson, who was there and gave his all in the arena only to come up short.  We pray for Ireland.

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By Jonathon Van Maren  

In the months leading up to the abortion referendum on May 25, one of the most tireless pro-life activists in the Republic of Ireland was Tim Jackson, a young man who quit his job to work fulltime to save the 8th Amendment. For weeks, he led the Vote No Roadshow right across Ireland, and my colleagues and I witnessed firsthand his passion and dedication to saving the lives of pre-born babies—and the love that Tim received from the army of activists that he led out onto the streets each day.

There is nothing Tim is not willing to do for the pro-life cause—he launched a hunger strike to force the committee considering the removal of the 8th Amendment to view a video of an abortion procedure before they made any decision. He brilliantly confronted Health Minister Simon Harris—who ran for public office as a pro-lifer—at a press conference where Harris intended to promote abortion, asking whether he supported killing innocent human beings—and whether he’d considering repealing the right to life for politicians, as well. The night before the referendum, he was still at the Life House Office—the headquarters of the Save the 8th Campaign—organizing last-minute activism for the next day, so tired he could barely stand. On the day of the referendum, as we drove to the airport to fly home from Dublin, he was sending out messages to pro-lifers urging them to find “No” voters and get them to the polls.

And like all the Irish activists who poured their heart and soul out to save the 8th Amendment, Tim was heartbroken by the result. Today, I saw that he had posted his thoughts on Facebook and fired him a message to ask if I could publish them here. With his permission, here are his thoughts on Ireland’s decision to bring abortion on demand to the Emerald Isle:

Rest in peace dear children. Rest in peace dear land.

A nation has voted to kill its children. The Ireland of St. Patrick, O’Connell, Pearse and Plunkett was sacked on May 25th as the sovereign people turned persecutor with the stroke of a pencil. The carefully crafted Constitution was also destroyed by inserting a fundamental right to kill, whilst celebrations that followed were as tasteless as they were cruel. Who among the cheering fathomed the darkness of the deed? Who else could celebrate a nation choosing to kill its own children but a propagandised and vacuous generation, bereft of love for country or feeling for the innocent to be slaughtered. Is there a more treasonous deed than this?

In times of persecution, famine and grinding poverty, the Irish were a resilient people, clinging to faith, hope and love with a lion-hearted defiance. Children were blessings, welcomed and sacrificed for, proof that there was a future despite mortal dangers and hardship. Now, babies of burden, they are threatening and therefore disposable, to be sacrificed if chosen on the idol altars of self-fulfilment and pleasure.

The underlying obstacle to abortion in this country was not the 8th Amendment. It was the spirit of the Irish people expressed so beautifully in the Preamble of the Constitution, affirming a willing devotion to the goodness of Christ and a sure sense of justice, purpose and integrity. As the bright flame of Christ was extinguished in soul after soul, it was inevitable that evil would envelope the land. The ship is sinking, the passengers asleep, and everywhere “the ceremony of innocence is drowned.” Nihilism reigns. Christ is mocked. And Barabbas is free.

The level of irrationality was astounding: incessant appeals to equality, compassion and care were enough to convince the masses that this murder most foul was not glaringly discriminatory, barbaric and inhumane, but actually progressive. Little thought was given to a proper application of human rights, with a right to kill sought and sanctioned by popular demand.

But this will not be the last word. Whilst the deconstruction of the island of saints and scholars is nearing completion, the architects in their haste have forgotten to ask: who will inherit the land – is it those who kill their young or those who welcome each as gift?

I know the answer, many know the Truth, but the pain of stamping on the faces of Irish saints, martyrs, patriots and children is too much to witness. The land that kept the flame of western civilization alive on Skellig Michael, in Glendalough and Clonmacnoise has become a savage parody of nobler days gone by. Exiled and dejected, it is to the empty tomb that we turn again. He is Risen and with us, and we will not forget.

With men like Tim Jackson to fight for her, we can all have hope for Ireland. Her children could not ask for a better champion."