"Calendar Campaigns" Keep the Life Issues on Your Mind Year-Round.

Displaying the development of unborn babies month-to-month is a great way to educate your community to the sanctity of life year-round. Several pro-life groups have found creative ways to accomplish this by adapting the basic idea to the behaviors of their audience.

Louisiana Right to Life Federation, an NRLC affiliate, has printed and sold pro-life calendars for many years. Its calendars feature adorable pictures of children accompanied by life-affirming quotes. Since everyone will need a new calendar in less than two months, printing and selling pro-life calendars can be an informative and fun-loving way to promote the right to life and raise some money for your chapter.

Kandice Kramer, who works in National Right to Life's Development Department, used images of a baby's first months after conception, along with text describing each stage of human development from fertilization to birth, to create a 12-month calendar. Each month highlighted the development of a baby during that stage of gestation.

Since gestation is officially nine months, (although, in reality, it can be closer to ten as those of us who have been pregnant know), the final months of the calendar showcased cute baby pictures and information on life-affirming alternatives to abortion. Simply by displaying the calendar, its owners receive a daily reminder of the wonder of unborn life and a good education on fetal development.

On college campuses, students have been educating their peers on the humanity of the unborn by hanging large posters on bulletin boards with photographs of human development each month. Campuses have long been hostile places for pro-life advocacy, so the silent witness of beautiful posters depicting life before birth is an effective way to get a message across without being silenced by pro-abortion professors.

Using the nine-month school schedule, the end of the ...