Kortney Blythe Gordon and her pre-born child, Sophy, were killed in a head-on collision while traveling back from a Georgia SFL conference on Saturday night.
Kortney was an extremely passionate advocate for the rights of pre-born children. She worked tirelessly at Students for Life of America to spread the pro-life message to all college students across the country.
The pro-life movement lost a valuable asset and a woman who truly loved life!
Kortney was scheduled to speak at this year's Midwest Pro-Life Summit. SFLI will be dedicating this year's Summit in honor of Kortney and Sophy.
In fact, Kortney spoke at the Students for Life of Illinois Summit last year and I am moved as I remember talking with her. We talked about the end of abortion and she was so confident and excited to see the end of abortion in her lifetime.
She considered herself to be and truly was an abortion abolitionist.
I am still looking forward, with Kortney's same confidence, to the end of abortion in my lifetime. I'm sad that she was not able to see it because her life was cut short, but I'm confident that she will be helping our movement to abolish abortion from heaven.
Please join the SFLI team as we mourn the death of Kortney and Sophy. Please join us in prayer for their family, the SFLA staff and the others who were injured in the accident today and during this very difficult time.
Pray for Jon Scharfenberger
Kortney and Sophy were not the only ones in the car. There were some students and another SFLA staffer, Jon Scharfenberger.
There aren't many details about Jon, but we do know that he is in critical condition after the accident.
Contact: John-Paul Deddens
Source: Students for Life of Illinois
