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Guess who is speaking at Saturday’s Iowa March for Life?

By Pulse Life Advocates | June 18, 2025
Jennie Bradley Lichter

As if you need any additional motivation to attend this Saturday’s Iowa March for Life, we’re excited to announce that Jennie Bradley Lichter will be speaking! She is President of…

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“I had an abortion yesterday.”

By Pulse Life Advocates | June 5, 2025

“Nah … I can’t go for a run today because I had an abortion yesterday.” Thus begins an extraordinary scene from the 2015 HBO series, “Girls.” Mimi-Rose (Gillian Jacobs) stuns…

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Greatest love songs ever: #37 “What’ll I Do?”

By Pulse Life Advocates | May 30, 2025
What'll I Do?

By Tom Quiner This lovely song was written 102 years ago by one of the great American songwriters, Irving Berlin. The 1920s was a decade of dazzling creativity, rivaled only…

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Cringe-worthy journalism wins a Pulitzer Prize

By Pulse Life Advocates | May 28, 2025

ProPublica won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism for its “urgent” series on “pregnant women who died after doctors delayed urgently needed care for fear of violating vague ‘life of mother’…

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Rosary for the City of Des Moines.

By Pulse Life Advocates | May 13, 2024
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Sidewalk Advocates training coming soon

By Pulse Life Advocates | March 23, 2024
Sidewalk Advocates

The mission of the Sidewalk Advocates organization is to train, equip, and support communities across the United States and the world in sidewalk advocacy: to be the hands and feet…

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Sidewalk Advocate Training

By Pulse Life Advocates | January 28, 2024
sidewalk advocate training

Pulse Life Advocates and Students for Life at Iowa State will be offering a ONE-DAY Sidewalk Advocate Training Class on Saturday, February 10th from 8:00am-2:00pm at Carver Hall in Room…

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A letter from Maggie DeWitte

By Pulse Life Advocates | November 14, 2023
A letter from Maggie DeWitte

Dear Fellow Pro-lifer: I just read an interesting article in the National Review. Tim Busch, the founder of the Napa Institute writes that the pro-life movement must fight for the…

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The 40 Days for Life Fall Campaign has Begun

By Pulse Life Advocates | September 28, 2023
40 Days for Life Des Moines

September 17 – November 5 2023 Help change hearts and minds by praying for an end to abortion during 40 Days For Life outside one of the Iowa abortion facilities.…

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Mark your calendar for Life Chain 2023: October 1st

By Pulse Life Advocates | September 18, 2023
Life Chain 2022

Life Chain 2023 takes place on Sunday, October 1st from 2PM to 3:30PM. For the second year in a row, the event takes place at 35th & University Avenue in…

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