Standupgirl.com reaches hearts.Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. Right to Life Education Foundation (ORTLEF) recently created a dramatically different kind of web site. While recognizing that there were many wonderful information sites, ORTLEF wanted to create a site which would approach abortion from the woman's point of view. The goal was to create a site which would change hearts and minds in a critical segment of the population which is difficult to reach. We wanted an "online television ad" which would be exciting to young women and draw them in to hear a solid pro-life message. With the professional help of St. Max Media, standupgirl.com was created. The site opens with music, moving images, and a story about a young woman's struggle with an unexpected pregnancy. Becky, who tells her real-life story about her unexpected pregnancy, was pleased to be the subject of this web site. She struggled with her own decision about her unexpected pregnancy, deciding in the end to "stand up" and do the right thing - - choose life. The video, through word, sight, and sound, brings the viewer from confusion to decision, from dark into light. The viewer can check into the "Becky Today" segment to see how Becky's life turned out. Becky herself stays intimately involved with the site by answering questions that are e-mailed to her. The web site offers viewers the opportunity to view fetal fetal /fe·tal/ (fe´tal) of or pertaining to a fetus or the period of its development. fe·tal adj. Of, relating to, or being a fetus. development at various stages. They can view the developing child via embryoscopy, ultra-sound, or detailed drawings. The site also provides pro-life testimonials from other women who have had abortion decisions to make, connections to local crisis pregnancy care centers through two "800" numbers, a free MP3 to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. , quick facts for those in a hurry (or doing a term paper), and links to other excellent pro-life sites. The site attracts, holds attention, and has been recognized for its technical excellence by reviewers at Yahoo.com and About.com. The following sampling of site visits gives a feel for how viewers interact with the site: In Guatemala, a "young woman" (visitors are assumed to be female, although the sex is unknown) searching for pregnancy advice on Yahoo found a link to the site. After watching the introductory story, she looked through the 3D ultrasound ultrasound or sonography, in medicine, technique that uses sound waves to study and treat hard-to-reach body areas. In scanning with ultrasound, high-frequency sound waves are transmitted to the area of interest and the returning echoes recorded tour for six minutes and the embryoscopy tour for two minutes, and then read personal testimonies for nine minutes before leaving. She spent a total of 24 minutes getting pro-life information. In southern Kansas someone was searching Yahoo for advice to teenagers. Fourteen seconds later, "she" was at standupgirl.com. After going through the introductory video she selected the testimonials and spent nine minutes browsing See browse. through them. She was there 15 minutes before leaving. An Oregon State co-ed typed www.standupgirl.com into her web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. and spent the next six minutes watching Becky's story of unexpected pregnancy and reading the testimonials. She was probably led to the site by a local billboard. A student in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. discovered standupgirl.com on the Internet while searching for information about abortion. An hour later someone else (presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. an adult, perhaps a teacher) looked at the site, and then an hour after that several students visited, one after another, and went through the information. The site can be reached at standupgirl.com. It is also referred to interested viewers through many search engine names. "Fetal development," "teenage pregnancy teenage pregnancy Adolescent pregnancy, teen pregnancy Social medicine Pregnancy by a ♀, age 13 to 19; TP is usually understood to occur in a ♀ who has not completed her core education–secondary school, has few or no marketable skills, is ," and "gestation GESTATION, med. jur. The time during which a female, who has conceived, carries the embryo or foetus in her uterus. By the common consent of mankind, the term of gestation is considered to be ten lunar months, or forty weeks, equal to nine calendar months and a week. " are common requests which lead a searcher to standupgirl.com. However, the most common reason for arriving at standupgirl.com is when an Internet explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. searches for a site on "abortion." (Yahoo and Google (Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com) The largest search engine on the Web, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University students. In 1996, they developed their "BackRub" search engine, named after its unique page ranking method (explained below). have the listing buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. ; look for the link titled "abortion stories.") ORTLEF is advertising the site in school newspapers, at county fairs, by handing out business cards, and on billboards. The advertising has proved successful, as visitors in Oregon come to the site 10 times more often than the population in the state would warrant on a statistical basis. The site is also viewed internationally. Recently, however, the site has been advertised on GoTo.com. This advertising has made Standupgirl.com one of the top pro-life sites on the Internet. Over 11,000 viewers visited the site for an average stay of eight minutes during the first week in October. Over 75,000 visitors came to the site in two months' time. This is achieving a goal that all pro-lifers share in--reaching out to women in an unexpected pregnancy and to all those studying "choice" with the truth about the unborn child developing in the womb womb n. See uterus. womb uterus. . The best part of it all is that it can all be achieved in the privacy of the viewer's home, short-circuiting the false rhetoric of pro-abortion counselors or literature. Pro-lifers across America can participate in helping others come to this site to see and hear the truth about unborn babies. Oregon Right to Life Educational Foundation will send standupgirl.com business cards to anyone who requests them free of charge. These cards are excellent handouts at schools, fairs, pregnancy support centers, and events. Go online to standupgirl.com and make a tax-deductible contribution through the secure online donation page. Every dollar buys advertising which brings 10 more viewers to the site for almost 10 minutes each. Viewers can also add standupgirl.com to their web site, a surprisingly effective way to draw people to the site for free. ORTLEF is excited about this opportunity to help in the goal to change hearts and save unborn children's lives. This site's goal is to be one of the factors in the coming transformation of America from a land in the shadow of the culture of death to a land of life.>EN |
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