College Outreach Program

Feminists for Life's College Outreach Program shares our rich pro-life feminist history with those at highest risk of abortion, as well as future leaders who will ultimately change our culture-because Women Deserve Better^® Than Abortion.

In 1997 Planned Parenthood's INsider magazine to clinic staffers called FFL's College Outreach Program "the newest and most challenging concept in anti-choice student organizing... a campaign that could have profound impact" on the pro-life student movement, "as well as Planned Parenthood's public education and advocacy efforts." Planned Parenthood was right!

"College students are constantly told to challenge the status quo. Thirty-two years after the Roe v. Wade decision, abortion has become the status quo — one out of every five abortions is performed on a college woman. FFL serves as a catalyst for developing resources and progressive solutions for pregnant and parenting students by asking women what they really want — because women deserve better."

"FFL's College Outreach Program challenges students to question abortion and asks college and university administrators to provide resources for pregnant and parenting students."

— Serrin M. Foster, President
Feminists for Life of America

Since 1994, when FFL started the College Outreach Program, there has been a 30% drop in abortions among college students. Click here for the full report.

Overview of the Feminists for Life College Outreach Program
It's a serious wake-up call when you realize 44% of abortions are performed on college-aged women. But Feminists for Life believes that it’s time to take your campuses back. If you care about the rights of women, you can help to make carrying pregnancy to term a realistic choice with FFL's Tools for Schools.
Meet Our College Outreach Speakers - our highly acclaimed speakers visit campuses across the country to share their stories and educate college audiences about our rich pro-life feminist history. They include:
- birthmothers who believe that "adoption is an empowering option" for women facing unintended pregnancies
- a rape survivor who "didn't know who the father was, but knew who the mother was" and chose life for her child
- women who faced unplanned pregnancies during college - and succeeded as both students and mothers.
Watch FFL speaker videos
See what other students are saying about FFL speakers
Welcome to FFLU, our dream campus
"Perception is Reality" - Do pregnant and parenting students have the resources they need and deserve?
Request your FREE FFL Pregnancy Resources Survey^TM to evaluate your campus for pregnant and parenting resources!

Feminists for Life's College Outreach Program mobilizes an array of coordinated strategies. Learn more about:

Lectures and Workshops
FFL Pregnancy Resources Forums^SM - FFL moderators bring together key campus policymakers and stakeholders to identify and develop resources for pregnant and parenting students
Pregnancy Assistance Fund - The first federal grants of their kind - inspired by Feminists for Life's work on college campuses to develop resources for this underserved population - will be distributed beginning in Fall 2010 to evaluate, establish, operate, and maintain services for pregnant and parenting students, including birthparents.
Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions^SM: FFL President M. Serrin Foster's e-series
Our Feminist "Herstory" e-tutorial

Internships at the National Office

Resources for student leaders and invididuals:

FFL's Exclusive Activism Guide Helps Smart, Strategic Activists Transform Campus with Woman-Centered Solutions-- Change your campus today by requesting your FREE copy or viewing online!
FREE Online Student Activism Kit - All the steps you need to transform your campus with woman-centered solutions, including a year-round activism calendar. Request access by emailing coordinator@ffloncampus.org.
Free iron-on decals to create your own FFL t-shirts, bags, and more
Posters and Ads - download FREE FFL ads
Brochures and Kits for individuals and Groups on Campus:
- Refuse to Choose^® brochure - membership brochure
- Say NO the Status Quo^TM brochure - FFL "walks our talk"
- You Have Better Choices^TM brochure - choices and numerous resources for women
- Pro-Life Feminist Books
- Pro-life feminist history
- The American Feminist^®, FFL's magazine
- FFL gifts and materials

NEW Revolutionize Your Campus Kit: FFL's NEW kit for student leaders contains the resources and tools you need to revolutionize your campus. Order your FREE kit today by emailing coordinator@ffloncampus.org. Your kit will include:

Powerful and provoking FFL ads to copy & post around campus
Voices of our Feminist Foremothers poster
Tabling brochures and magazines
You Have Better Choices Brochure - FFL's NEW brochure is packed with information on national resources and services to assist women facing unplanned pregnancies, such as counseling, medical care, and paternal support.
Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions
Use FFL President Serrin M. Foster's tutorial to equip yourself and your group members with common pro-woman answers to pro-choice questions.
FFL Activists Change Campuses, Change the World - FFL's guide is filled with practical resources and event ideas, stories from student parents and birthmothers, and step-by-step ways you can make a difference.

College Outreach Program Feedback and Updates

Are you the president of your campus pro-life group? If so, contact us to find out how you can gain access to our FREE student kits!

Sign up for our FREE e-list today for access to all of these resources and more! Club presidents, make sure all of your officers join too. Email our College Outreach Program Coordinator to join!

Do you have more questions? See if yours is answered in our College Outreach Program FAQ!