Respect Life Club at
Hackett Catholic Prep
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Mission StatementWelcome to the Club Where You May Help Save a Human Life!
To promote and defend the sanctity of all human life from the moment of conception (fertilization) until natural death.
- Respect life is a club that is dedicated to promoting respect for human life - already born and the preborn. Our mission encompasses education, prayer, and activism.
- Through education, we seek to make our members aware of the issues surrounding abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research and assisted suicide.
- Each year we travel to Washington D.C. to participate in the March and Rally for Life and attend workshops to equip us to effectively stand for life. We seek to promote the dignity of each person as created in God's image, regardless of abilities or strengths.
In living our pro-life message, our hope is that we can help inform mothers in crisis pregnancy situations that help is available and that there are many options other than abortion. The child in the womb has a soul and a heart and deserves a chance to live. We strive to promote and defend the sanctity of all human life from the moment of conception (fertilization) until natural death, regardless of one's age or ability.
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March and Rally for life
Hackett’s Respect Life Group began participating in the annual March and Rally For Life in 1997. Seven Students traveled on a marathon bus trip sponsored by our diocese to attend the event. For the next several years, varying numbers of students joined in on the grueling trip: twelve-hour bus ride, followed by the twelve hours of activities, and ending with a twelve-hour bus ride home. In 2001, Hackett students joined the bus group from Grand Rapids Right to Life in order to stay longer and participate in the many prayerful and political activities surrounding the presidential inauguration. Subsequently, our diocese is no longer able to sponsor a trip, so we have continued to travel with Grand Rapids Right to Life (as do groups from the two Catholic high schools in Grand Rapids).
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REspect life meetingsWe meet approximately every other Wednesday during the school year.
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The meetings usually consist of educating ourselves on current threats to life and discussion over topics relevant to the group-activities fundraising ideas, budgets, projects, etc. Through guest speakers and research, we strive to be informed on the issues of abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide in order to defend the truth.
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We encourage members to pray in the chapel each day at the beginning of A and B lunch and we stress the necessity of prayer and that there can be no change in the anti-life laws in our country without a change of hearts.
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Group activities include participating in life in Washington D.C., helping with Kalamazoo Right to life projects, and organizing a special pro-life outdoor display in January.
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