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| ====== PBS100Y: The Mission ====== | ====== PBS100Y: The Mission ====== | ||
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| - | ===== Lesson ===== | + | <note>Largely based on the 2015 UTSFL introductory meeting: https:// |
| - | ==== The Issues ==== | + | |
| - | Mission Statement: | + | |
| - | > The University of Toronto Students for Life Club is committed to proclaiming and defending the dignity of all human life from conception to natural death. We seek to do this by educating the students and faculty at the University of Toronto | + | |
| - | | + | FIXME General outline: |
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| + | * Open with a testimony | ||
| - | FIXME this sense of mission needs to be better instilled, per [[PBS101Y]]. | + | > "There is a difference between passive goodness and active goodness, which is, in my opinion, the giving |
| - | ==== Introductions ==== | + | * [[https:// |
| - | Go around the table and have each person introduce themselves: | + | * The problem |
| - | * Name | + | * Lack of law |
| - | * Year and area of study | + | * (can also pull info from “reforming our movement…”) |
| - | * Why are you here, or why do you think it's important to be in a pro-life club on campus? | + | * Briefly, the stats and the history |
| + | * Facing the victims | ||
| + | {{youtube> | ||
| - | ==== Our Cultural Context ==== | + | OR Canada150 video: https://vimeo.com/349086213 |
| - | === A Story === | + | |
| - | * With life issues, we are not facing primarily a legal or political challenge, but a // | + | |
| - | * Pick a recent example of a tragic event that our culture responds to //as tragedy//, with abortion, which our culture responds to //as if nothing is happening// | + | |
| - | * e.g. 2004 tsunami -- 186,000 dead; 100,000 die from abortion annually in Canada | + | |
| - | * e.g. 2013 chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria may have left (on high-end estimate) up to 1500 dead, including over 400 children; nearly 300 children are decapitated, | + | |
| - | * With these other tragedies, society rushes to aid the victims, or the injustice makes headlines | + | |
| - | * We need to change people' | + | |
| - | * Similarly, with EOL issues, a cultural shift is underway, and our society is increasingly looking to killing instead of caring as a solution, especially since we've already accepted " | + | |
| - | === The Facts === | + | * The woundedness of our culture |
| - | * The law in Canada | + | * Abortion' |
| - | * Frequency of abortion, ratio | + | * We need to be pro-life ambassadors who approach this issue with knowledge, wisdom, and character. |
| + | * The classroom | ||
| + | * “Our purpose…” with links to relevant sections | ||
| + | * Give you a grounding in pro-life apologetics and dialogue so you can change hearts and minds through conversation (include testimony video(s) from CC?) | ||
| + | * Give you a grounding in pro-life strategy and politics | ||
| + | * You can join us as we work to end the killing in Canada | ||
| + | * Your campus, where students are statistically most likely to get abortions, and where the next generation of leaders is being formed... | ||
| + | * Your high school, where students are beginning to face the choice of abortion... | ||
| + | * Your city, where individuals every day are at best ignoring abortion--and at worst, considering it or planning it. | ||
| + | * Strategy: A Vision Zero for the abortion rate | ||
| + | * Goal: Our mission is to make abortion unthinkable in our community | ||
| + | * ETK Plan | ||
| + | * The vision is an abortion-free Canada, bringing the abortion rate to 0 | ||
| + | * In order to do this, we need three complementary efforts | ||
| + | * Pastoral: make abortion // | ||
| + | * Political: make abortion //illegal// by changing the law | ||
| + | * Prophetic/ | ||
| + | * The success of the pastoral and political arms depend on the success of the educational, | ||
| + | * That's why our focus is educational: | ||
| + | * Mission: Our job is to do our local part to end the killing — to make abortion unthinkable in our community | ||
| + | * We need to make abortion impossible to ignore, engage in regular, engaging and visible outreach that will reach // | ||
| + | * We need to present clear reason (human rights apologetics) and compelling evidence (AVP) so that we can actually change hearts and minds | ||
| + | * Our job is not simply "raise awareness" | ||
| + | * Our job is not to gather pro-lifers in a room to play volleyball or have pizza together, but to go out and engage a pro-choice culture in our community and to shift the culture in our community against abortion | ||
| + | * We need to be efficient and effective, focused on presenting the best evidence possible in a way that will reach the most people, fastest | ||
| + | * We can't just squirt a watergun at a wildfire, we need to employ serious street-tested apologetics and time-tested strategies of successful social reform movements of the past | ||
| + | * This is why we need to reach everyone in our community with **human rights apologetics** and **abortion victim photography** in order to **make abortion unthinkable** in our community | ||
| + | * HR apologetics: | ||
| + | * AVP: we are employing the strategy of successful social reformers of the past, like the British abolitions, the National Child Labour Committee in the US, or the American civil rights movement | ||
| + | * Theory of Change: Working backwards from the goal | ||
| + | * // | ||
| + | * In order to make abortion unthinkable, | ||
| + | * In order to reach everyone, we'll need to employ regular, engaging and visible activism | ||
| + | * In order to run regular activism effectively, | ||
| + | * In order to have a healthy team, we need to build a sense of community and become friends — this is why we hold regular socials | ||
| + | * Everything that we do is in the service of the mission of making abortion unthinkable in our community | ||
| + | * This is also why we encourage people to gain valuable and life-changing experience with pro-life projects outside of our community too! | ||
| + | * Promote the Abortion Awareness Project trip in Florida (on the next big upcoming opportunity to get activism experience and training) | ||
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| + | {{youtube> | ||
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| + | * Close with a testimony of a mind changed in your community, and invite people to practice active goodness by getting involved with your group and applying for AAP | ||
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| + | ===== Lesson ===== | ||
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| + | ==== Our Cultural Context ==== | ||
| + | * :?: Do you know the law in Canada? | ||
| + | * There is none. | ||
| + | * http:// | ||
| + | * :?: Do you know how many abortions happen in Canada each year? | ||
| + | * ~100,000 | ||
| + | * http:// | ||
| * For every four children born, one is killed by abortion | * For every four children born, one is killed by abortion | ||
| - | * "One in three Canadian women will have an abortion in her lifetime, Dunn said, citing the findings of a 2012 study by University of British Columbia researcher Wendy Norman." | + | * "One in three Canadian women will have an abortion in her lifetime, Dunn said, citing the findings of a 2012 study by University of British Columbia researcher Wendy Norman." |
| - | * Wounded | + | * Repeat abortions, 38% in 2005((http:// |
| + | * FIXME age demographics, | ||
| + | * What does this tell us? | ||
| + | - This is not a charitable cause; this is an emergency. 275 children were decapitated, | ||
| + | - Our culture | ||
| + | * [[http:// | ||
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| + | ==== Being an effective ambassador ==== | ||
| + | **Key point:** We need to change people' | ||
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| + | But, given the cultural context -- the emergency, the woundedness -- we need more than just moral arguments. | ||
| - | === Being an effective ambassador === | ||
| * Aristotle on persuasion((http:// | * Aristotle on persuasion((http:// | ||
| * ethos (credibility): | * ethos (credibility): | ||
| * pathos (emotional) (Collins: touch the heart) -- heart | * pathos (emotional) (Collins: touch the heart) -- heart | ||
| * logos (logical): persuasion by use of reason, argument (Collins: deliver the message) -- head | * logos (logical): persuasion by use of reason, argument (Collins: deliver the message) -- head | ||
| - | * Qualities of effective pro-life ambassador | + | * Qualities of effective pro-life ambassador((http:// |
| * knowledge (logos/ | * knowledge (logos/ | ||
| * wisdom (pathos/ | * wisdom (pathos/ | ||
| * character (ethos/ | * character (ethos/ | ||
| - | * "Whom you would change, you must first love, and they must know that you love them." -Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| - | * FIXME CCBR: why truth matters? beINSPIRED? | ||
| - | ==== Formation ==== | ||
| - | === Truth (Head) === | ||
| - | * Key argument against abortion | ||
| - | - Intentionally killing an innocent human being is a serious moral wrong; | ||
| - | - Elective abortion is the intentional killing of an innocent human being; | ||
| - | - Therefore, elective abortion is a serious moral wrong | ||
| - | * If pre-born children are //not// human beings, no moral justification for abortion is necessary. But if pre-born children //are// human beings, no justification for abortion is // | ||
| - | * Either elective abortion kills a defenceless child or not. If it does, we should not tolerate it. | ||
| - | * An unplanned pregnancy may be emotionally, | ||
| - | * This is not to condemn or to belittle the stress of an unplanned pregnancy. There' | ||
| - | * Similarly, most of us are not used to talking about EOL issues. We need to be well-informed in order to be good ambassadors for the pro-life position. | ||
| - | === Understanding the Culture (Heart) === | + | > "Whom you would change, you must first love, and they must know that you love them." |
| - | * But being right isn't enough. We need to //change | + | |
| - | * This means effective [[.:pre-born: | + | FIXME concrete examples...pick 1 or 2 |
| - | * listening | + | |
| - | * asking good questions | + | |
| - | * focusing on the central issue | + | |
| - | * left/right brain, Charles Kenny -- don't let the left brain yell back at the right brain | + | |
| - | * Heart apologetics: | + | |
| - | * Challenging a pro-abortion cultural requires //all the skills// (an interdisciplinary approach): visuals, media, relevant arguments, technology, sensitivity, | + | |
| - | FIXME EOL issues | ||
| - | === Activism (Hands) === | ||
| - | * Three arms of the pro-life movement: political, educational (prophetic), | ||
| - | * **Political** activism (CLC, WNAL, 4 My Canada, etc.) | ||
| - | * But before you can change public policy, you must change public opinion -- change hearts and minds to save lives | ||
| - | * Also, in the meantime, services, support and counselling are desperately needed for women in crisis pregnancy | ||
| - | * But so long as the cultural problem persists, very few abortion-minded women turn to these services | ||
| - | * The success of the other two arms depends on the success of the educational arm -- changing hearts and minds, engaging the culture to transform it through dialogue and activism and witness | ||
| We must... | We must... | ||
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| * train the active to work effectively (hands) | * train the active to work effectively (hands) | ||
| - | FIXME EOL issues (more education than activism in the prophetic, but also pastoral and political here) | + | === How our club models this too === |
| - | + | * **Head**: we grow our knowledge through... | |
| - | ==== Our Club ==== | + | * weekly |
| - | Pass out interest sheets here. | + | * pro-life speakers series, bringing great speakers to our club members |
| - | + | * **Heart**: we stretch our hearts through... | |
| - | === On Campus === | + | * approaching |
| - | | + | * dialogue: a strategy of outreach that emphasizes // |
| - | * special events: debates, lectures, symposiums | + | * listening |
| - | * volunteer outreach | + | * asking good questions |
| - | | + | * not just knowing // |
| - | | + | * heart apologetics: |
| - | * assisting or joining | + | * **Hands**: we lend our hands through... |
| - | * writing for our blog or campus | + | * putting our ideas and our empathy into // |
| - | * mention some upcoming events planned for the seminar/ | + | * this is not a charitable cause, this is an emergency -- emergencies demand //action// |
| - | + | * weekly activism | |
| - | === Off Campus === | + | * weekly volunteer outreach |
| - | | + | * getting active off campus, e.g. TRTL Speakers Bureau, March for Life, etc. |
| - | * Participating | + | |
| - | * Volunteer Outreach (Aid to Women, TRL Christmas Card Campaign) | + | |
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| - | * Education | + | |
| - | ===== Goals ===== | ||
| - | ==== Formation ==== | ||
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| - | ==== Perspective/ | ||
| - | Set the tone for the club, on the issues, and the perspective from which we will be approaching them. | ||