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| ====== PBS100Y: The Mission ====== | ====== PBS100Y: The Mission ====== | ||
| - | <note important> | ||
| - | ===== Lesson ===== | + | < |
| - | ==== The Issues ==== | + | |
| - | FIXME more action-oriented mission statement, like 2015 clubs fair materials | + | |
| - | FIXME this sense of mission needs to be better instilled, per [[PBS101Y]]. | + | FIXME General outline: |
| - | * Why does this matter even more in our demographic on campus? | + | * Inspiration re: //why are we here?// |
| - | * young women having the most abortions | + | * Open with a testimony of someone who changed their mind on abortion |
| - | * people' | + | |
| - | * tomorrow' | + | |
| - | ==== Introductions ==== | + | > "There is a difference between passive goodness |
| - | Go around the table and have each person introduce themselves: | + | |
| - | * Name, plus adjective starting with the first letter | + | |
| - | * Year and area of study | + | |
| - | * Why are you here, or why do you think it's important to be in a pro-life club on campus? FIXME need a better ice breaker question | + | |
| - | === Exec intros === | + | * [[https:// |
| - | * Introduce your role, and what activities you're leading for members | + | * The problem |
| + | * Lack of law | ||
| + | * (can also pull info from “reforming our movement…”) | ||
| + | * Briefly, the stats and the history | ||
| + | * Facing the victims | ||
| + | {{youtube> | ||
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| + | OR Canada150 video: https:// | ||
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| + | * The woundedness of our culture | ||
| + | * Abortion's shockwaves | ||
| + | * 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 | ||
| + | * 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 ===== | ||
| ==== Our Cultural Context ==== | ==== Our Cultural Context ==== | ||
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| * http:// | * 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." |
| - | * Repeat abortions: the post-abortive are the pre-abortive | + | * Repeat abortions, 38% in 2005((http:// |
| * FIXME age demographics, | * FIXME age demographics, | ||
| * What does this tell us? | * What does this tell us? | ||
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| > "Whom you would change, you must first love, and they must know that you love them." -Martin Luther King Jr. | > "Whom you would change, you must first love, and they must know that you love them." -Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| - | FIXME concrete | + | FIXME concrete |
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| We must... | We must... | ||
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| * getting active off campus, e.g. TRTL Speakers Bureau, March for Life, etc. | * getting active off campus, e.g. TRTL Speakers Bureau, March for Life, etc. | ||
| - | ==== Why Women Choose Abortion ==== | ||
| - | http:// | ||
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| - | Important things to note: | ||
| - | - the hard cases that people constantly appeal to are rare -- if abortion were only legal is cases of rape, we'd have ~1000 children killed each year instead of 100,000 (still important to address the hard cases, but need to understand they' | ||
| - | - the common cases of things that material, emotional, spiritual support can seriously address | ||
| - | * Family Care Office | ||
| - | * Aid to Women / Sisters of Life | ||
| - | * //What can we do to decrease the perceived need for abortion?// | ||
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| - | ==== Our Club ==== | ||
| - | Pass out interest sheets here. | ||
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| - | === On Campus === | ||
| - | * seminar for training, formation, growth (apologetics, | ||
| - | * special events: debates, lectures, symposiums, panels | ||
| - | * volunteer outreach | ||
| - | * activism | ||
| - | * opportunities for leadership and involvement | ||
| - | * assisting or joining the exec | ||
| - | * writing for our blog or campus publications | ||
| - | * mention some upcoming events planned for the seminar/ | ||
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| - | === Off Campus === | ||
| - | * Networking and connecting you to the broader movement (NCLN, TRL, CCBR/CLCY activism, etc.) | ||
| - | * Participating in other activism projects (" | ||
| - | * Volunteer Outreach (Aid to Women, TRL Christmas Card Campaign) | ||
| - | * Political Activism: March for Life, Defund Abortion Rally | ||
| - | * Education and Training: Conferences, | ||
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| - | ===== 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. | ||