Pro-life challenge on campus
By Shelley Widhalm
October 2, 2007

When Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life (FFL) in Northwest, lectured on college campuses, she never saw a pregnant woman attending school, a fact that began to bother her.

"I knew people were getting pregnant. Otherwise, there wouldn't be abortion clinics close to campus," Ms. Foster said.

With the start of the College Outreach Program in 1994, Ms. Foster began lecturing about pro-life feminist history, explaining that early-American feminists opposed abortion because of their belief in the rights of all human beings. Ms. Foster considered what FFL, a nonpartisan grass-roots organization that provides resources and support for pregnant women and students, could do beyond lecturing on feminist history.

Two years later, FFL moderated its first Pregnancy Resource Forum at Georgetown University to address ways to improve campus resources for pregnant and parenting students. the rest