Our primary hashtag will be #ChooseLife
We NEED your help! SO SPREAD THE WORD!
Dear pro-life community,
In response to the University of Michigan's exhibit "4000 Years for Choice" we are organizing a Tweet-fest to express our opposition to the ideas presented in the exhibit and our disappointment that the university, through the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Institute for Research on Women and Gender and The Program for Sexual Rights & Reproductive Justice would sponsor such a blatantly pro-choice exhibit. The exhibit which went up on Jan. 16th in Lane Hall, is scheduled to come down in a few short days, on May 29th, but voicing our disapproval cannot end on May 29th. PLEASE STAY TURNED FOR MORE FOLLOW UP EVENTS IN RESPONSE TO THE MESSAGES PRESENTED IN THE DISPLAY. We must remember, “The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing”, and “When bad men combine, good men must organize.” Edmund Burke
For those who don't know, a Tweet-fest is when a group of people Tweets about a single issue on a designated day and time. The goal is to get the issue "trending" so that others on Twitter notice it, and also to make our voices heard by, in this case, U of M. If you don't have a Twitter account and wish to participate, I promise you, Tweeting is very easy. Please help spread the word, even if you don’t tweet!
The Tweet-fest will happen this Thursday, May 22nd, from 12-2pm, of special interest to our catholic pro-life friends, appropriately; this is the feast day of St. Rita of Cascia, the patron saint of, among other things, parenthood. During that time, we ask that you send as many tweets as possible to U of M and the departments sponsoring the event. Attached is a document containing the Twitter addresses of the recipients of the Tweets, Twitter addresses of a number of pro-life organizations and speakers, and a list of suggested Tweets, though you are encouraged to compose your own as well.
Our primary hashtag will be #ChooseLife, which is very general while still referencing the exhibit's emphasis on choice.
Some of the suggested Tweets address the exhibit specifically, while others are more general. Other issues which could be addressed are:
--the fact that the Dept of OB/GYN is co-sponsoring the event
--the fact that the exhibit touts abortion as a "gift from God"
--the fact that a public university is using taxpayer money -- our money -- to sponsor this event. If you are a student, alumni, donor and/or taxpayer, please speak up and let UM know you are displeased! (Please note that Susan Coleman, outgoing university president, claims that no tax money is involved. Tax dollars were used to build and are used to maintain Lane Hall, where the exhibit is housed until May 29th.)
We ask that you please spread this information as widely as possible, whether to friends and family or pro-life groups that you are a part of. A Tweet-fest is only effective with a large group of participants!
Please invite your friends using our FB Event Page: https://www.facebook.
God bless, and we hope to see many of you on Twitter on Thursday!
~Kate Allen
Secretary, St. Thomas the Apostle Respect Life Committee
Secretary, St. Thomas the Apostle Respect Life Committee
and
~Sandie Weathers
Pro-Life Action Network, prolifeactionnetwork@gmail.com
PS: A great big THANK YOU to Kate Allen for creating this Tweet-Fest! Kate says that tweeting is very easy. I sure hope she is correct because, I WILL LEARN TO TWEET BY THIS THURSDAY OR ELSE!
4000 Years for Choice
Tweet-Fest
Thursday, May 22nd
12-2pm EST
Our primary hashtag will be #ChooseLife
Invite your friends using our Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/714569571915337/
Our primary hashtag will be #ChooseLife, which
is very general while still referencing the exhibit's emphasis on choice.
Recipients of the
Tweets:
@umich (The University
of Michigan)
@UMichIRWG (The
Institute for Research on Women and Gender)
@umichWS (Women’s
Studies Department)
@4000Years (Heather
Ault, the exhibit’s designer)
@UMHealthSystem
(The UM Med School and Health System)
Pro-Life
Organizations and Speakers:
@ExposeAbortion
@SFLMichigan
@RebeccaKiesslin
@LifeNewsHQ
@frfrankpavone
@nrlc
@alvedaking
@abbyjohnson
@Right_to_Life
@Safe_and_Legal
@40daysforlife
@AveMariaRadio
Suggested Tweets:
(I have put
@4000Years as the default recipient for many of these. Please adjust as
necessary)
@4000Years @umich
Women turn to #abortion because they feel they have NO #choice. #ChooseLife
Good women are
killed by “safe and legal #abortions.” http://
If @umich is
celebrating @4000Years of Choice, why do they only support one option?
#ChooseLife
@4000Years claims
#abortions allow women to be “free, independent human beings.” What about the
unborn women? #ChooseLife
Contraception is
not health care; pregnancy is not a disease! #ChooseLife
@4000Years @umich
@UMichIRWG @umichWS #abortion is anti-life, anti-family, immoral, and evil.
#ChooseLife
@4000Years @umich
#abortion is not the only choice. #ChooseLife #ChooseAdoption #ChooseLove
When Jesus said,
“Let the children come to me,” he didn’t mean “#Abort them and send them back
to me.” #ChooseLife
Real #feminism
protects the rights of ALL women, especially those who can't speak for
themselves. #ChooseLife
How is it
#reproductivejustice if a child is being denied the right to live? #ChooseLife
#abortion is not a
health issue, it is a #life issue. #ChooseLife
I am pro-woman,
pro-child, pro-health, pro-life! #abortionhurtseveryone #ChooseLife
Controlling your
own body shouldn't mean destroying someone else's. #ChooseLife
If you’re alive now
to promote #abortion, give thanks that your mom chose #life. #ChooseLife
If you can read
this, your mom made the right #choice. #ChooseLife
"Get your laws
off my body"? Which body, the child's or the mother's? #LoveThemBoth
#ChooseLife
@umich Looking
forward to your next exhibit, 4.54 Billion Years for Life! #ChooseLife
Bring our university back. #ChooseLife
Like Racism, Rape, Incest… Abortion should not
be celebrated or condoned. #ChooseLife
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