It was Friday evening and attendees were gathered in the Oakland Center. Along with the giveaways, other freebies also included free food and diapers.

That’s right, diapers.

In order to help raise awareness, giveaways and a guest speaker comprised a pro-life baby shower hosted by students for Life on Feb. 10.

“The group’s primary goal is to spread awareness and education about the dignity of unborn children and the negative emotional and physical effects that abortions have on women,” Megan Wolf, treasurer of Students for Life, said.

The group hosts a pro-life baby shower every year, which benefits Crossroads Pregnancy Center, in Auburn Hills.

“Students for Life is also concerned with all human rights issues, from conception to natural death, that pertain to the termination of life,” she said.

Since 1984, the center’s purpose has been to help those in need by providing counseling, ultrasounds, material support, parenting classes and sexual education to over 2,000 women and families every year.

All of the services offered are confidential and completely free of charge. So the center is supported by monetary and material donations from those who participated.

Tim Stickel, executive director of Crossroads Pregnancy Center and Oakland University alum, spoke to students at the pro-life baby shower about the services offered by the center.

He shared his beliefs about the importance of changing people’s minds about abortion and encouraging pregnant women to choose life for their unborn children.

Along with Stickel’s talk about the center’s current projects and needs, the baby shower offered students a meal provided by Chartwell’s, complementary bags of popcorn, bracelets from the center and a few baby shower games for fun.

Students for Life asked that guests bring a baby gift to the event to be dominated to the clinic.

For more information, contact Megan Wolf at [email protected].

Students interested in joining students for life can request to be a part of the Grizz Orgs group online.

—Contact photographer Shannon Coughlin via email at [email protected]