Emily Geiger will be speaking at Grace Lutheran Church and School’s Life Ministry Convocation. Registration required.
| Date: | October 18, 2025 |
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| Time: | 11:00 a.m. |
| Event: | Life Ministry Convocation |
| Sponsor: | Grace Lutheran Church and School |
| Venue: | The Kahler Grand Hotel |
| Location: | Rochester, MN |
| Public: | Public |
| Registration: | Click here to register. |
Rebecca Carlson will be conducting a training for Wisconsin Right to Life’s Teen Camp.
| Date: | July 21, 2025—July 22, 2025 |
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| Event: | Wisconsin Right to Life Teen Camp |
| Sponsor: | Wisconsin Right to Life |
| Location: | Stevens Point, WI |
| Public: | Private |
Rebecca Carlson will be conducting a training for Protect Life Michigan’s summer internship program.
| Date: | July 15, 2025 |
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| Event: | Protect Life Michigan Summer Internship Program |
| Sponsor: | Protect Life Michigan |
| Location: | Royal Oak, MI |
| Public: | Private |
Pro-choice people: “You pro-lifers don’t actually want to help women and babies, you just want to take away abortion rights.”
Pregnancy centers: *exist*
Pro-choice people: “You’re manipulating women!”
On the one hand, that’s a little bit of a caricature—I’ve never seen a conversation quite that blatant. But on the other hand, I do see pro-choice people make both of those comments online a lot, and I get why that’s frustrating to pro-lifers: Pro-choice people say we don’t want to help women, we point out the many, many volunteered hours and donated dollars the pro-life movement pours into helping women, and then pro-choice people reject that obvious proof that we want to help women by saying our help is actually just a guise for manipulation. It can come across as frustrating, ad hoc, or even duplicitous.
On February 18, 2025, President Trump signed the executive order “Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization,” setting off a firestorm of comments, criticisms, and confusion among pro-life and pro-choice people alike. “We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder, you know that…that includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every state in America,” Trump said on the campaign trail last spring. “I strongly support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious, little, beautiful baby.”
It’s not hard to see why Americans overwhelmingly believe access to IVF is a good thing. I mean, Trump is right; IVF means that more couples can have more babies! What’s the problem with that?! So pro-choice people (and even some pro-life people) are incredibly confused why Trump’s Executive Order just 30 days into his presidency didn’t make us pop the champagne.
By us, I mean Rebecca, Emily, and our awesome ERI Affiliate Groups who researched and brainstormed how to effectively respond to the bewildered looks we’ve been getting on college campuses. Rebecca and I co-wrote this article, but really the credit goes to our awesome Affiliate Group members. The pro-choice train of thought we all thought through together goes something like “Isn’t more babies exactly what pro-lifers want? But they don’t support IVF?! Oh, so it really IS just about controlling women’s bodies and sex lives after all…” Here’s what we found.
