This past semester, the PHC Students for Life Club outdid itself, totaling around 17 events in a single semester. Their purpose is to inform students and the community about the harsh reality of abortion, engage in the pro-life fight to end it, offer support, and show compassion to those affected by abortion.
The club hosted at least one event under each of SFL’s Five Pillars (Effective Education, Supportive Services, Public Policy, Industry Impact, and Rapid Response).
“Within the first week of classes coming back on campus, we lobbied at the club fair, participated in National Sidewalk Advocacy Day, and participated in the Fairfax school board meeting protest that was on national news,” said Rebecca Rose, last year’s president of PHC’s SFL club.
Along with these events, the club did door-knocking deployments for pro-life candidates and phone banking against an amendment in VA. This amendment, if added to the state constitution, would allow abortion up until birth in the Commonwealth with no parental consent and no safety regulations for women. “It would be incredibly disastrous, and it would make abortion in the state of Virginia increase by the thousands," Rebecca said.
The club also hosted speakers on campus to raise awareness, wrote letters to young single mothers, volunteered at the Family Foundation Gala and Mosaic Virginia Gala, tabled against the Amendment at PHC and a local church, raised awareness for a rally, and put up flyers about pregnancy resources on local businesses' community boards.
The club ended the semester strong, attending a virtual rally that Alliance Defending Freedom held as the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in First Choices Pregnancy Centers, Inc. v. Platkin. They supported First Choices Pregnancy Centers, which resisted a subpoena that would require them, a non-profit, to give the state all material that they use to advertise their services and any information that they offer to patients, as well as the names and addresses of all their donors.
As a testimony to the preparation received at PHC, Arles Hines, the current PHC SFL president, and Rebecca see firsthand how the events they’ve hosted have helped provide education and offer supportive services that help individuals and society as a whole.
View a powerful video of PHC students at the 2025 March for Life
Patrick Henry College exists to glorify God by challenging the status quo in higher education, lifting high both faith and reason within a rigorous academic environment; thereby preserving for posterity the ideals behind the "noble experiment in ordered liberty" that is the foundation of America.
