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====== PBS100Y: The Mission ====== | ====== PBS100Y: The Mission ====== | ||
- | FIXME lots of content is already very polished here https:// | + | < |
FIXME General outline: | FIXME General outline: | ||
* Inspiration re: //why are we here?// | * Inspiration re: //why are we here?// | ||
+ | * Open with a testimony of someone who changed their mind on abortion in your community | ||
> "There is a difference between passive goodness and active goodness, which is, in my opinion, the giving of one's time and energy in the alleviation of pain and suffering. It entails giving out, finding out, and helping those, who are suffering and in danger, and, not merely in leading an exemplary life in a purely passive way by doing no wrong." | > "There is a difference between passive goodness and active goodness, which is, in my opinion, the giving of one's time and energy in the alleviation of pain and suffering. It entails giving out, finding out, and helping those, who are suffering and in danger, and, not merely in leading an exemplary life in a purely passive way by doing no wrong." | ||
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* Facing the victims | * Facing the victims | ||
{{youtube> | {{youtube> | ||
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+ | OR Canada150 video: https:// | ||
* The woundedness of our culture | * The woundedness of our culture | ||
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* Your high school, where students are beginning to face the choice of abortion... | * 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. | * 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 | ||
===== Lesson ===== | ===== Lesson ===== | ||
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FIXME concrete examples...pick 1 or 2 | FIXME concrete examples...pick 1 or 2 | ||
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- | "Case in point—my colleague Maaike recently shared this testimony about the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) when it was displayed at the University of Lethbridge last fall: | ||
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- | 'In one conversation, | ||
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- | **No one had ever told her that she deserved to be loved by her own parents.** | ||
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- | When we seek to understand, we find ourselves amidst profoundly beautiful opportunities** to build up the brokenhearted, | ||
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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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- | FIXME * Rape / Incest | ||
- | * http:// | ||
- | * http:// | ||
- | * http:// | ||
- | 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?// | ||