Students for Life of Illinois

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Over the past couple weeks, I have heard in the news about the slaying of Byrd and Melanie Billings, a couple from Florida. This couple had 16 children, 12 of which were adopted. Several of these children had special needs such as Down Syndrome, autism, and other developmental disabilities.
This family really exemplifies an often-overlooked portion [...]

This weekend, I celebrated the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence of this great nation from British rule. As Americans, we tend to have a great sense of patriotism, especially around the Fourth of July and its festivities. This year, as I was thinking about what it truly means to be [...]

Earlier this week, I went to a spiritual healing service. In this service, the idea was to open yourself to God and to let the Spirit flow into you. Through this, God heals you of your struggles and pain. This brought to mind an important part of our movement that is sometimes over-looked.
It is not [...]

Over the course of the past three weeks, I have had the pleasure of spending a fair amount of time among young Catholic missionaries. These missionaries are living here at UIUC’s Newman Center for their training, which concludes two weeks from today. The program they are in is called FOCUS, which stands for Fellowship of [...]

Last Friday, I was with John-Paul and the other interns outside Planned Parenthood here in Champaign. With us, as always, was a great woman named Joy, who devotes her time to working with various pro-life groups around here, and especially giving help to young women going into and out of abortion clinics. This particular day, [...]

Hello! My name is Steve Joebgen and I am one of the three interns working for Students for Life of Illinois this summer. I will be working on creating and forming six to eight Activism Days for the upcoming school year. This is an exciting task because activism is very important to the pro-life movement [...]