Cupcakes for Life?!?!?

Why Cupcakes?
Simply because everyone wants them!

Cupcakes were designed for children's birthday parties. We love Children and we love birthdays. We think this would be a good way to tell people that we think that every child should be allowed to have a birthday.

Bring in a tray of cupcakes for any group of people and you will find that they will flock to get them. As soon as they take a bite they will probably ask, "Who's birthday is it?"

Then you answer. "It's no ones birthday. These cupcakes represent the 50,000,000 children who weren't allowed to be born, who never had a birthday." The cake in their mouth will become dry and the moment will hopefully become quite somber. Then you say, "If you and I were aborted we wouldn't have a birthday party either."


The idea behind www.CupCakesForlife.com is to spread the terrible truth about the assault on the unborn in a thoughtful, unique, and kind way.

Cupcake Ideas
No matter what the cause is, everyone wants a cupcake!

We want you to have total freedom to dream about how to bring forth the pro-life message using cupcakes! You are going to have fun making and handing out these cakes! Here are a few suggested ideas, however they are just suggestions.

The only rules for our campaign are these:

Make beautiful cupcakes!
Give them out in the name of life!
Try to do it on October 9th 2008
Take some pictures and send them to our myspace!
Ideas for high school kids:
Bring the cupcakes to your homeroom or to your lunch table and hand them out. Then explain that for every two people in the room there is one person who was not allowed to have a birthday.

Hand the cupcakes out with plastic baby fetus's, they normally come at the size of a 11 week baby which is the age and size of the average abortion.

Hand them the cupcakes and ask people if they would like to see what an abortion looks like. If they say yes show them a picture of an aborted baby. These can be downloaded and printed from the internet. Just put the word Abortion into google and hit "images" and you will see abortion in full color. Burn an image onto a C.D. and then take it to staples to be printed on photo paper. Please don't show anyone who does not want to see it, and also don't show anyone under 13. (Note: this type of pro-life activism is not for everyone so don't feel like you need to do this to participate in National Pro-Life cupcake day.)

Ideas for elementary school kids:
Some kids are not ready to know everything about abortion; however, a mom could bake a batch of cupcakes that just say: I Heart Babies on them. The young student could go into class and tell all of his or her friends about how babies need lots of love as they slowly grow inside their mommies.

Ideas for Mothers:
Invite some teenage girls over to bake the cupcakes then in your kitchen. Educate them about pregnancy and abstinence. Then challenge them to make cup cakes that represent how they feel about the unborn. Then have them take the cakes to their school and hand them out.

If you are a mother who has had an abortion, then this is the perfect opportunity for you to invite some young girls over and share your testimony with them. Maybe your story will save their unplanned children's lives.

Ideas for youth pastors:
Invite your youth to your house the night before national pro-life cupcake day and make a thousand cupcakes with them. Make sure to take the time to dialog with them why life is so sacred. Then have your youth hand them out at school.

Contact your local bakery and ask if they are willing to partner with you by giving you cupcakes at a discounted rate all with the word LIFE on them.

Ideas for Bakery's
Put the word Life on all of your cup cakes and give them out free on October 9th 2008National Cupcake day! Invite some kids into your bakery the night before to make cupcakes for school.

For more info: http://www.cupcakesforlife.com/why.html


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PAGE- Post Adoption Group Encouragement

Birthmother Support Group Meeting coming up!
When: September 20, 2008, 10 AM to Noon
Where: Caribou Coffee, 1531 East Blvd., Charlotte
If you have questions or need directions please contact Meg at 704-995-6435.
Bring Anything You Want to Share or Just Bring You!
RSVP to Meg at pagegroup@yahoo.com or call 704-995-6435

PS: Next meeting is December 13th at Charlotte Pregnancy Resource Center.

Prolife Video Contest

Contest Inspires Pro-Life Video Activism
http://www.studentsforlife.org/index.php/videocontest/.
Students for Life
Yesterday, Students for Life of America launched the first-ever pro-life video activism contest in cooperation with Stand True Ministries and Rock for Life. The contest asks high school and college-aged students to submit homemade videos, posted on YouTube, regarding pro-life voting in the 2008 presidential election and de-funding Planned Parenthood. Multiple prizes will be awarded with a top prize offered at $2,000.

Students in U.S. high schools and universities as well as homeschoolers may enter their videos on either De-funding Planned Parenthood or Pro-Life Voting in the 2008 Election. All entries must be posted on YouTube and submitted by October 11, 2008 at 11pm ET. They will be judged in five categories ranging from creativity and originality to newsworthiness. Whether documentary style or scripted, each video must be under 10 minutes in length and entirely factual.

For more info go to: www.studentsforlife.org/index.php/videocontest/

Interesting Adoption News and Research Findings

REPORT SUGGESTS RELIGIOUS ADOPTIVE PARENTS EXPERIENCE LOWER STRESS
A study of 113 adoptive families in a rural, Southern area found that religiosity predicted lower stress in adoptive parenting and that faith was a primary factor in their adoption decisions. “The Role of Faith in Adoption: Achieving Positive Adoption Outcomes for African American Children,” by Kathleen Belanger, Sam Copeland and Monit Cheung, was published in the current issue of Child Welfare (Volume 87, Issue 2). While most families attended church weekly, the percentage was even higher among Blacks (91 percent) than Whites (78 percent), and the authors concluded that greater recruitment from African American churches and tailoring the message to key aspects of their faith would be the most effective strategies for increasing the adoption of African American foster children. To access a free abstract, go to: http://www.cwla.org/articles/cwjabstracts.htm#0803

MAJOR STUDY LINKS ADOPTION OPENNESS TO BETTER OUTCOMES FOR PARENTS
Based on data from 323 adoption triads sampled from 33 agencies in 10 states, greater openness in adoptions is linked with more satisfaction with the adoption process for both adoptive parents and birthparents and with more positive post-adoption adjustment for birthmothers and birthfathers. “Bridging the Divide: Openness in Adoption and Postadoption Psychosocial Adjustment among Birth and Adoptive Parents,” by Xiaojia Ge, Misaki Natsuaki, David Martin, Jenae Neiderhiser, Georgette Villareal, John Reid, Leslie Leve, Daniel Shaw, Laura Scaramella and David Reiss, was published in the August issue of the Journal of Family Psychology (Volume 22, Issue 4). This is the first major study on openness to include birthfathers (n=112) and reports on the first wave of data collection six to nine months post-placement. To access an abstract, go to:
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=browsePA.volumes&jcode=fam

Bristol Palin's Pregnancy Highlights the Prevalence of Teen Pregnancy

PRESS RELEASE
September 2, 2008

For Immediate Release
Contact:
Kay Phillips
919) 226-1880

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina

Bristol Palin's Pregnancy Highlights the Prevalence of Teen Pregnancy
Every 28 minutes an NC teen becomes pregnant.

Durham -The revelation of the pregnancy of Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, 17, brings the issue of teen pregnancy to the national forefront once more. "Our hearts go out to the Palin family as they deal with this difficult issue under a national spotlight," said Kay Phillips, Executive Director of the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina. "This issue is too common in America today and deserves a frank look at what we can do to help teens become adults without the fear of an early pregnancy." In North Carolina, a teen girl becomes pregnant every 28 minutes.

"This is an issue that can happen to anyone, anywhere; parents need to take this opportunity to speak to their children about sex and the consequences of sex. Teenaged mothers are less likely to complete high school and less likely to go on to college. If we are committed to building a better life for our daughters, we must provide them with information about sex and how to prevent becoming pregnant, either through abstinence or contraception."

For further information and statistics on teen pregnancy in North Carolina, please visit our website at www.appcnc.org or call (919) 226-1880 for information.

The Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina (APPCNC) is a nonpartisan non-profit that works with health workers and those who work with teens to prevent teen pregnancy and promote better teen parenting skills. Its services include training, resources, advocacy and information as well as community mobilization. Its services are available to all 100 counties in North Carolina.