BSFL at Brock’s O-Week Vendor Fair

By Margaret Stephenson

Members of BSFL brought the pro-life message to crowds of students at Brock today!

BSFL set up a booth at the Vendor and Club Fair which showcases community services, campus services and student clubs. In a flurry of activity a few thousand students checked out the fair today and happily scooped up all the free-bees they could carry.

Predictably, the BSFL table didn’t attract hordes of students. Most passersby noticed us, though. A few abortion advocates asked questions; one hopes to engage us in dialogue later in the semester. Some pro-lifers connected with us, too: we look forward to working together this year!

James, in a stroke of pro-active presidential genius, suggested walking through the crowds to hand out as many of NCLN’s We Know Better Now information flyers as possible. We handed out 500 flyers (497 to be exact – we kept 3 copies at our booth). Tomorrow we’ll pass out another 500. This is what the cover looks like:

Thank-you NCLN for producing a resource that looks so unassuming! We’d ask each student “did ya get one yet?” and almost without fail they’d grab one from us and say “thanks!”  Distributing pro-life info couldn’t be easier.  Some stuffed the flyer into their bags, hopefully to read it tonight or when they rediscover it in a few months on their bedroom floor. Others opened the flyers up right away and started reading. Right away people were talking. Awesome! Let’s get people talking.

Come by and visit our booth at the Vendor Fair tomorrow!

Pro-life Super Bowl Ad

By Stephanie Della Smirra

How can you spread the pro-life message to hundreds of millions of people? Show a commercial during the Super Bowl, of course!

As much as it’s known for serious football the Super Bowl is known for high-profile ads that attract millions of viewers (myself included!). A commercial with a pro-life message was aired during this year’s Super Bowl on February 7, 2010 amidst much controversy.

The advertisement, produced by Focus on the Family, features star University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, who had refused to have an abortion many years ago. While living as a missionary in the Philippines Pam Tebow was advised to have an abortion after she took strong medications to treat amoebic dysentery. Why? Because the medications put the fetus at risk for serious disabilities. But she refused to abort her child and gave birth to a healthy baby boy: Tim Tebow. Now Tim is a Heisman Trophy-winning American football quarterback.

Pro-choice advocates were less than thrilled with CBS’s decision to air the ad. Groups like Planned Parenthood, NARAL and NOW protested loudly and drummed up much controversy over the matter. After all the hype many expected the commercial would be a harsh, distastful anti-abortion plug. In reality, it wasn’t offensive at all.

Judge for yourself. View the commercial.

Many were puzzled as to why all the controversy had been created in the first place.While heartwarming, the ad is so mildly pro-life that viewers may have missed the point if not for the protests of pro-choicers.

One of the perks of the freedom of speech is that if Focus on the Family wishes to spend $2.5 million on airtime they have a right to do so.

Admist all the Super Bowl ads that promote immorality, this 30-second clip was devoted to an important moral issue. Despite complaints that you shouldn’t mix sports with politics, I think it’s refreshing to see a young football star standing up for his beliefs.