A New School Year, A New Opportunity.(Brief Article)

With the new school year now fully in gear, it's time for teachers, home schoolers, parents, and students to begin thinking of ways to communicate the pro-life message in the classroom. For students looking for ideas for science papers, ethical debates, politics, and government - - the list goes on and on - - there are plenty of current developments in the news that relate to abortion.

One great place to start is NRLC's award-winning web page - - www.nrlc.org.

For government and current events classes: if you decided to take a break this summer and didn't keep up, be sure to check our information on two legislative "hot topics."

The first is the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" (UVVA), which would make a preborn child a separate victim if he or she were harmed by a criminal committing a federal crime. There is quite a bit of information on NRLC's grassroots campaign to pass the UVVA in the Senate.

The second is the ongoing debate over embryonic stem cell research. Our web page contains a wealth of information on President Bush's August 9 decision which prevented federal funding for research that would require the destruction of human embryos, thoughtful articles on the topic, and so forth. All this in addition to a link to the "Do No Harm" web page that promotes life-affirming alternatives.

Note that these are just two of the legislative items with which pro-lifers are contending.

For ethics or religion classes: The stem cell debate provides excellent grist for the mill. Should the tax-payer be required to fund research that requires that human embryos be destroyed as the Spector-Harkin bill would do? ...