The Power of Pro-Life Perspective.(the pro-life movement seeks to educate the public through radio)

The best-known outlets are National Right to Life News and the NRLC web page, www.nrlc.org. But there is another key resource that plays a very helpful role in communicating the pro-life message to right to life activists around the nation.

It's called Pro-Life Perspective (PLP) and can be heard on hundreds of radio stations. PLP is part and parcel of the mission of NRLC's Media Relations Department, which is to keep the grassroots pro-life movement and the larger public aware of all that National Right to Life is doing to protect unborn babies and the medically dependent.

Hosted by NRLC President Wanda Franz, Ph.D., and co-hosted by Olivia Gans, director of American Victims of Abortion, PLP first hit the airwaves in January 1985. Eighteen years later, more than 4,800 editions of PLP have been aired.

PLP is heard across the nation, primarily, but not exclusively, on Christian radio. Its format - - a daily five-minute program - - is geared to the busy pro-lifer's schedule.

NRLC President Wanda Franz, Ph.D., said, "I love doing Pro-Life Perspective because it allows us to address the personal issues and events which really demonstrate our pro-life commitment through the lives of real people." Dr. Franz told NRL News, "I know that I'm speaking to an audience with pro-life convictions who share our concerns. Our audience needs to have the valuable information which only National Right to Life can provide to be more effectively pro-life."

Pro-Life Perspective topics run the gamut. In addressing abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, cloning, international events, and the latest on Capital Hill, PLP often deals with important news stories either not covered elsewhere or in which the media have ignored the pro-life perspective. Occasionally, Dr. Franz shares personal ...