Yale conference seeks to foster culture of life

NEW HAVEN – For most college students, the end of September means the end of course-shopping and the threat of looming deadlines and midterms. But for a small group of students at Yale University, the library is the last thing on their minds. Instead, they are preparing to host nearly two-hundred students at a conference this week on the global pro-life movement.

Now in its third year, Vita et Veritas, run by Choose Life at Yale (CLAY) has grown from a regional conference to one with national reach, attracting attendees from as far as the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and Baylor University in Waco Texas. With its name drawing inspiration from the mottos of both Yale and Harvard, the conference's mission, in the words of its current co-director, Evy Behling (Yale'17) is to "evoke a sense of the intellectual perspectives" that undergird the pro-life cause, while catering to a collegiate audience.