Students for Life announces video contest winners
Explained today’s Students for Life of America press release:
This fall, Students for Life of America hosted the first annual Pro-Life Video Activism Contest. The goal was to inject YouTube.com with pro-life videos produced by students (currently enrolled in either high school or college) all over the U.S. to help educate Americans about Planned Parenthood and the stances the presidential candidates had taken on abortion issues.
The students were asked to produce videos under 10 minutes in length based on one of two categories: De-funding Planned Parenthood or Pro-Life Voting in the 2008 Election…. [for] cash prizes ranging from $500 to $2000.
These are great!
1st place, $2,000: University of Florida Pro-Life Alliance, a video documenting some of history’s greatest tragedies, from famine to genocide, and challenges today’s generation to take up the key human rights issue of our time, the rights of preborn children.
2nd place, $1,500: John Paul the Great Students for Life, a video supporting CO’s personhood amendment based on science – our DNA….
3rd Place, $1,000: University of Michigan Students for Life, a video examining the difference between the 2 ’08 presidential candidates in the ’08 election on abortion, telling the story of a little 26-weeker who survived her premature birth. View here.
Hon. Mention for Creativity, $500: Chris Kaiser, a video arguing for CA’s parental notification amendment narrated by a young man raised by foster parents after his young mother chose to allow him to live. View here.
Hon. Mention for Video Editing Skills, $500: Franciscan University Students for Life, a video honoring various American freedoms and encouraging voters to vote pro-life so the preborn can enjoy those same freedoms. View here.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Jill:
You felt depressed before and I felt better. Now you are feeling up and I am feeling down.
I looked at each of these awards and got more depressed. They were promoting the California amendment, the mildest possible restriction (defeated); the Colorado amendment, very strong (crushingly defeated); looking at history’s greatest tragedies (the abortion holocaust will continue for two more years at least); the presidential candidates and their positions and a premature baby (the sociopath won, the one who believes in killing premature babies); supporting freedom and the rights of the unborn (I am afraid the Democrats get to 59 or 60 in the Senate and if they do the unborn will be in even greater danger and our economic freedom will be badly and perhaps irreversibly ravaged by the unions and others).
The abortionists have enjoyed a perfect storm. George Bush got into Iraq, it went badly and we lost the House and Senate in 2006. The Democrats caused the oil price spike and the horrific financial meltdown, the swing voters blamed the Republicans and we lost more House and Senate seats and the White House. We are now down to rock bottom and may take a long time to come back.
The Democrats could do irreversible damage to our economy through union card check and socialized medicine. In the meantime millions of unborn children will die, the government will be filled with human beings who lack compassion and moral understanding and horrible anti-life ideas will reign supreme.
And all for what? Because Bush made terrible mistakes and the swing voters wanted to punish him. Now we all have to live with the consequences. I do not know where we go from here.
It will be a long two years to the 2010 midterm elections.
Did I mention that the final nail in the coffin could be that the Constitution Party and the Libertarian Party could cause the Republicans to lose THREE Senate seats, the final three that we had to hold to prevent the Democrats from taking TOTAL power?
In a tragic irony those parties could end up wrecking all the causes they hold dear.
Great work producing factual videos.
May be a little above hal’s paygrade to follow?
At least the students are representing life. I was beginning to think that no young people represent life.
It is depressing (Joe) but not all hope is lost. These students are part of our future too.
And while I wish we never went to Iraq, I wont for a moment say we’ve done no good there either.
Jill,
JOIN THE FIGHT!!!!
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January 20, 2009 – McCain and Palin are sworn into office.
McCain and Palin won’t be sworn into office.
If the Supreme Court declares Barack Obama constitutionally ineligible, the Electoral College will probably vote for Hillary Clinton for President. If Obama is tossed out after the Electoral College has elected him, then Joe Biden will become President.
oh, I don’t know. I have never seen Biden’s birth certificate. Or McCain or Palin’s either. Or Bush’s. Or Clinton’s. Or Reagan’s. Oh my.
Well done, contest winners!
I want to see “James'” birth certificate.
Great videos. What wonderful young people they are.
Off topic but funny: Sean Hannity has a countdown clock to the 2012 election.
Hey guys, I wanted to let you know that my inability to get ahold of 911 actually made news. The reporters came to my house to interview me. Ignore the fact that I look terrible, I only had 30 minutes to prepare and thought the time was better spent on my house than my face.
Here’s a link to the site, I think you have to click on “mother couldn’t call 911” to actually view the video.
http://www.kxan.com/subindex/news/local
I called the AG of Texas and the ball got rolling and I even talked to the executive of customer care of Vonage. What a day.
Oh yeah, and my legal first name is Rebecca, which is why I am refered to as such in the video.
Awesome, Lauren Pope! I like how when they talk about how you had to dial 911 several times, they made you reenact dialing the number. That was fun.
Haha, yeah they actually had me calling my husband’s cell phone. So I would call and he’d answer and we’d be like “so…er”.
The camera man was like, “eh I was just holding the shot to make you guys feel awkward for a few seconds.”
Though I think Oliver had the right idea about declining to be on camera. I thought they’d give me a few minutes to get put together, but instead they walked in when I was nursing Anna (I have a cover) and I just had to set her down and start rolling.
Oh well, if it prevents someone else from going though the same thing it was definitely worth it!
Lauren, your kids are so cute. Glad your son is okay.
The scary thing is they still don’t really know why I wasn’t able to call 911. So it could happen again without my knowledge.
Thanks Liz. I was so scared that Holden was going to go bouncing off the walls with all the commotion, but he actually did very well. I am so thankful that those vitamins taste terrible! All I could think last night was “the leading cause of poisoning deaths in toddlers is iron-containing vitamin overdose.”
Aw Lauren Holden is super cute! When I was watching the video though I couldn’t help but thinking about how it must have been 100 years ago when only a few people had phones. Or living out miles away from anyone and not having a phone. Chilling.
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Patriot Brigade Talk Radio Network – Launching New Lawsuit Against Barack H. Obama – The Right Way!
November 12,2008: Norman, OK
The Patriot Brigade Talk Radio Network has teamed with new legal counsel, in Texas, and Oklahoma, to force Barack H. Obama ( President-Elect ) of the United States of America to produce a Certified Birth Certificate from the state of Hawaii ( or other state ) in compliance with the United States Constitution.
A public trust fund is currently being established which will be represented by the legal office of Todd Nalagan: Norman, OK, in which all funds donated, and given, as financial support will be used to ensure the success of legal counsel. This trust is public, which means that anyone wanting to know how the money is being used, and to whom it is being paid and for what reason(s) is public information.
Currently, a phone number is being set up as a support line for any inquires being made to Mr. Nalagan’s office. We’ll post that number in the next day or so. More information is being readied as we have just started this process. Please check back soon as information will be updated as needed. Note that a special page here on the Patriot Brigade Talk Radio Network and on Lan Lamphere’s website will be created with all the details once we have them established and are able to make them public.
Lauren,
I’m glad your son is OK, yea it’s good those vitamins taste awful. They’re suppose to have those safety caps where you have to push down on then twist, but I suppose not all have it. Thats neat you were on TV :)
Joe – If it was all because of people wanting to spite the Rep party because of Bush, (which I don’t think it was) that doesn’t explain why ALL of the pro life ballot measures failed.
Why is it so hard to accept the simple fact that the majority of Americans are pro choice?
Lauren –
Did they give you a copy of your story on DVD?
My dad was on CNN when he came back from the Gulf War and they sent him a video of it – it was pretty cool.
Its good that it turned out to be no big deal, so you can look back on your moment of fame and smile about it.
What kind of vitamins were they, if you don’t mind me asking?
You can get vitamins without the safety cap, and most other meds too- it’s to make it easier for folks with arthritis to open them.
Lauren I don’t know why you don’t think you look gorgeous, because you do!
You all are so blind.. do you understand why people cannot stand the Republican party? Bush and Cheney are evil people.. they are liars and they went to war for reasons that were lies..
Have you noticed our country lately? It is a mess..
All I can hope for is some type of change… I was once a Republican..not anymore..
What’s a “faminies”? You’d think for a prize of $2000, the video’s creators could at least spell check.
Ahahahaha… wait – and that one got first place?
Ohhhh boy, that’s pretty sad.
If the Supreme Court declares Barack Obama constitutionally ineligible, the Electoral College will probably vote for Hillary Clinton for President. If Obama is tossed out after the Electoral College has elected him, then Joe Biden will become President.
Posted by: Joe at November 12, 2008 4:42 PM
Either would be a huge improvement.
mod’s… clean up at 11:43
The vitamins were prenatal, and thankfully low iron. They had a safety cap, but apparantly Holden figured it out! I don’t know what he thought they were, but he had to climb up on the furniture to get them in the first place. I thought they were out of his reach, but apparantly not.
Also, I didn’t get a video, but I did dvr it so Oliver could watch it when he got home from work. I’m just hoping that they will be able to track down exactly what happened so that they can fix whatever the glitch was. They’re pretty much grasping at straws at this point, but I’ll keep everyone updated on whatever we find out!
mod’s… clean up at 11:43
Truthseeker, have to laugh – I heard that like hearing the loudspeaker at a supermarket calling for a clean up on aisle 3…..