Pro-Lifers Using the Internet To Reach the Hearts and Minds Of the Next Generation.

Anyone over the age of 35 is painfully aware of how technologically savvy the younger generation tends to be. Those of you with children will surely identify. There is something truly humbling about begging a 12-year-old to help you set up your new e-mail account or download and install a program on your computer.

Today's young people live in a techno-world. They interact with friends via MySpace, Facebook, and through countless text messages. Forget the old Encyclopedia Britannica for school reports. Kids today have unlimited information available at their fingertips via numerous online search engines.

This is sometimes difficult and even impossible for many pro-life veterans of a slightly "more mature" nature to understand or comprehend. But the lessons that follows from that aren't.

We need to meet kidsteens, tweens, and college studentswhere they live. Increasingly, they live online. Thus, if we want to continue winning in the battle for life, we must also be online.

Fortunately, many online resources for the right-to-lifer already exist. Most, if not all, of NRLC's state affiliates have web sites that provide information on abortion and euthanasia. Several, such as Oregon, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Minnesota even have specific information on their sites for teens and college students.

Teen-targeted pro-life sites such as http://www.standupgirl.com/ offer facts and advice on the life issues in language teens understand, and offer positive, life-affirming alternatives to abortion.

Texas Right to Life features YouTube clips of popular pro-life movies on its web site. This allows people to view trailers for pro-life movies such as Bella, Juno, and Horton Hears a Whoall films that affirm the value and dignity of every human life.