Pro-Life Work Continues in Pandemic

By Nickie Snyder, Community Outreach Specialist Like you, our worlds have been flipped upside down by this pandemic. Here in the Education Foundation office, Dawn, our events coordinator, and I are not even working together in the same location due to social distancing. I’m working from my home while she works out of the home […]

ORTL Delivers Late-Term Abortion Report to Lawmakers

Oregon has no restrictions whatsoever on abortion (or even the abortion industry). Oregon does, however, keep fairly good records on abortion in Oregon. We took the annual statistics and made a comprehensive report about late-term abortion in Oregon. One staff member said that the report was the most visually-compelling and appealing piece of material they […]

A Society That Values Human Life

By Melody Durrett, ORTL President The COVID-19 pandemic has enlivened new respect for the value of human life. I was shocked listening to (pro-abortion) Governor Cuomo’s speech on March 24, 2020. Quoted by the New York Times, he said, “[people are] not expendable and we’re not going to accept a premise that human life is […]

Together We Advocate Conference a Success

On February 29, approximately 300 pro-life advocates gathered for Together We Advocate, the largest pro-life conference in the Pacific Northwest. In order to keep our new venue at Rolling Hills Church, we moved the conference from mid-April to the end of February. With everything we know now, that was unexpectedly great timing. We hosted four […]

Second Congressional District Seat Up for Grabs

By Liberty Pike, Deputy Director For the first time in almost a decade, one of Oregon’s congressional seats is open. Not only that, the open seat is the Second Congressional District (CD 2) currently held by Rep. Greg Walden. This seat is Oregon’s only pro-life Republican seat in Congress. With Rep. Walden’s announced retirement, it […]