The Opportunity of a Lifetime: National Right to Life Academy to Offer College-Level Course Work to Pro-Life Students.

It's like college, only all of the courses are on the life issues! NRLC is extremely pleased to announce the formation of the "National Right to Life Academy," a six-week summer program sponsored by the National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund to train pro-life college students. Beginning in the summer of 2007, the Academy will provide college-level courses, complete with a reading list and loads of hands-on training, to a select group of rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors in Washington, D.C.

Unlike an internship, the NRL Academy will focus solely on educating students. Participants will not do office work or have other duties outside of attending classes, studying, and engaging in supervised practice of mock lobbying, speaking, and press interviews on the life issues.

"For too long opportunities for in-depth study of the issues, history, and tactics of the pro-life movement have been limited," said the program's academic director, Burke Balch, J.D., who will also do a significant amount of teaching at the academy. "This program is designed to equip college students today to lead the pro-life movement of tomorrow." Mr. Balch directs NRLC's Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics.

A number of prominent pro-life leaders will lecture at the Academy during the six-week program. This will be in addition to the regular courses, which will include such classes as "Clash of Ethics," "Lifesaving Medical Treatment, Food, and Fluids: Ethics and Law," and "History of Abortion, Euthanasia and the Pro-Death and Pro-Life Movements," to name a few.

Academy students will be given plentiful opportunities to practice debate techniques, lobbying, media interviews, and other "hands-on" methods of communicating and defending the pro-life message in a variety of settings, with expert ...