Achievements

Youth Defence have kept abortion out of Ireland"

Joseph Scheidler, Pro Life Action Network, March 2006

• Pursuing a commitment to make Ireland abortion-free
• Promoting a pro-life majority in Ireland by informing Irish citizens ofthe reality of abortion through our educational work
• Giving a voice to this majority through public demonstrations and organised campaigns
• Keeping the next generation pro-life by educating, training and activating young people and bringing them into the pro-life movement
• Preparing and publishing a water-tight, non-compromisory wording for a future pro-life referendum
• Attracting more than 5,000 members to Youth Defence within a nationwide branch-structure
• Organising hugely successful National Pro-Life Information Roadshows, reaching at least 22 towns every year
• Bringing thousands together every year for the All-Ireland Rally for Life, a shared initiative with our sister organisation Precious Life
• Ensuring, through target picketing and focused lobbying, that further abortion legislation is not  enacted
• Organising Ireland's first nationwide pro-life advertising campaigns,including bus advertising, billboards, radio ads and booklets
• Providing counselling outside abortion referral agencies on a regular basis
• Holding conferences, media courses and training weekends to produce articulate and confident pro-life activists
• Organising public meetings to educate those who have not yet heard the pro-life message
• Establishing an effective pro-life presence in colleges and giving multimedia presentations and talks in secondary schools
• Designing and publishing leaflets, cards, booklets, posters, stickers and other materials for distribution

Fighting for life