About Us

About Us

History

Pinckney Pro-Life (PPL) was founded by Alex Hastings in the spring of 2000. As a freshman in high school, Mr. Hastings saw the power of using popular media venues to reach our society with the pro-life message. Along with several other young people, Alex posted his first pro-life billboard and pursued what is now called Project LIFEBOARD^TM. A year later, in March 2001, the organization obtained its 501 c (3) status, which was formalized in the fall of 2006. In these seven years Pinckney Pro-Life has successfully posted over 200 LIFEBOARDS ™.

The organization has also expanded its outreach beyond southeastern Michigan and has posted LIFEBOARDS^TM in Bridgeport, Conn., Kansas City, Kan., and Mercer County, Pa. PPL is currently working with groups to post LIFEBOARDS^TM in Sun Lakes, Ariz., Jacksonville, Fla., Chicago, Ill., St. Louis, Mo., Helena, Mont., Long Island, N.Y., Nashville, Tenn., and Arlington, Va.

Since it’s inception over seven years ago, Pinckney Pro-Life has grown beyond Project LIFEBOARD™ and the youth that started it to include:

Project LIFEtalk

Annual March for Life Attendance

"Victims of Choice”

Prayer Warriors

Eucharistic Processions to abortion clinics

Door to Door Missions

Annual Life Chain Attendance

These programs change hearts, encourage youth to create a culture of life, bring hope and healing to post-abortive women and men, and save the lives of the unborn.

We Value All Life

At Pinckney Pro-Life we value all life, including the lives of those who disagree and oppose us. For over seven years, our members have posted billboards, marched, witnessed, educated, and prayed for peaceful solutions to the violent ending of life through abortion. Violence is wrong, whether the act is perpetrated against an abortionist or an unborn baby. To respond with violence to the violence that occurs within the walls of an abortion mill is against our principles and has no part in our organization. Each day, during every abortion procedure, babies are dismembered and women often suffer long-lasting physical and psychological harm. The violence of abortion kills approximately 1.5 million babies each year.

About 1 in 3 women will have an abortion by the time she reaches age 45* and 93% of women regret their abortion**. Based on these statistics, PPL’s mission is to reduce the number of abortions in two ways. First, by helping men and women find the counseling and the spiritual healing they need through billboards, evangelization, conferences, websites and other media. Secondly, by empowering and educating the youth to make informed choices when it comes to sanctity of life issues.

We pledge to build a culture of life, peacefully, through prayer, compassion, understanding and education.

-Pinckney Pro-Life

*Guttmacher Institute

** David C. Reardon, Aborted Women: Silent No More