Year-Round Education Program on Fetal Development Is as Easy as Looking at Your Calendar.

Just as babies take 40 weeks to develop and grow before they face the outside world, for many people it takes a long period of repeated exposure to the images of unborn children in the womb to face and embrace the humanity of children before birth. Fortunately, children often see the world more clearly and instantly recognize unborn children as very small babies. Reinforcing this perception is critical because as they mature, these children will encounter people and situations that push the opposite viewpoint.

Several pro-life groups have found creative ways to adapt the basic idea to the behaviors of their audience. Practically speaking, each of the ideas below requires little effort and spreads the work of the chapter over the entire year, making for much smaller demands on your time, funds, and energy. Use this summer to approach churches and schools about ways you can educate their members throughout the year.

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. 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.

In the same vein you can use 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 could highlight the development of a baby during that stage of gestation.

Since gestation is nine months, the final months of the calendar can showcase 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.

Perhaps a school or church would be interested in offering a calendar personalized to their schedule for parishioners or students' families. The ease and affordability of using online programs to develop calendars make it easy to print specialized calendars. One example could be a school that lists their vacation dates, holidays, and other important information while also including fetal development facts.

Families would order these, or the school might order in bulk to hand out. Either way, you can use the image side of the calendar to display beautiful ...