Guest Post: Students For Life Prepare To Take On Opponent's Agenda

Today's post is written by Will Stewart- Starks.  

This week a united Students For Life kicked off plans for a robust campaign to defend the unborn.  They hope to impact the debate at KU with a week of educational events and activism as well as service to their community.

Kansas politics continues to become turbulent over the de-funding of abortion clinics across the state including one that recently was forced to shut down in the college town of Lawrence. Groups like the campus Commission on the Status of Women organizing with the likes of  Planned Parenthood to distort the facts of successes made by state pro-life activists have descended on the University.
Holding early events like Sextival, a seemingly harmless table to promote safe sex and poll students on previous education on the topic, also served as a platform to recruit students to come to the aid of Planned Parenthood's legal battle with Kansas lawmakers.

But Students For Life is fighting back and is exposing bias on campus in the form of a media blackout of their perspective.  Two articles in the last week have failed to meet editorial muster, even for the often slanted campus rag, the University Daily Kansan.  Each, one on Sextival and the other on a recent capitol protest lacks the standard rebuttal to meet the papers own standard of fairness and balance.  This is made even more evident after an editorial response by a Students For Life member has yet to be run in the online or printed edition.

Thursday evening, a Kansans for Life representative and long time pro-life organizer gave the students tips to radicalize their efforts.  Providing examples from history having been a veteran of the Summer of Mercy and an activist at Wichita State University, rich experiences and lessons learned were passed along to what he described as the next generation.  When describing what lives students should focus on defending he replied, the man on death row has a legal team at his disposal and a judicial process, however, the unborn child has no one, not even a small weapon to defend itself.  The student activist can play a major role in saving the lives of the 3,600 innocent babies sentenced to death each day.