|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|||||||
|
Student I
am a college student who is currently in nursing school.
I graduated with my 2 year nursing degree on May 10,
2002! Now I am doing one more year of nursing to get my
bachelor's degree. After that I will work in critical
care (ICU, etc.) for a few years before going on to get
my certified registered nurse anesthetist degree (dealing
with anesthesiology). However, I have been an active
Pro-Life student since I attended middle school. I was
very fortunate to attend schools where the majority of
the students and teachers were Pro-Life. Like most other
Pro-Life students, I have been able to bring the Pro-Life
message to many people: students and teachers alike.
Often, though, I wished I could find some good ideas for
things I could do (mostly for projects, papers, and
suchlike) to reach others. Here is my little list of
ideas for such things. Some of the things on the list I
have tried, others I have heard of, and others I only
think will be effective. If you have any ideas you would
like to share with the rest of the Pro-Life students,
e-mail it to ProlifeStudents@yahoo.com, please! Different
things work with different students and situations, so
the more ideas we can come up with, the better! 1. Check out the quick list of things to do to Stop Abortion and read about the experiences of other students with fighting abortion. 2. Need to write a persuasive/controversial issue paper? What better topic to choose than abortion! Although one teacher I had wanted "original" topics only, many teachers encourage students to explore current issues (including life issues such as abortion, assisted suicide, cloning, fetal research, and the death penalty). Once my class had to participate in a debate assignment, and one of the debate topics was abortion. All of the students on the Pro-Life side wore the precious feet pin, and at that time I thought they were just cute little feet. The part of their debate that I remember most came at the very end. The girl talking pointed out that one baby is aborted every twenty seconds, so by the time she finished saying her little bit, at least (however many) babies had been killed. This may be an effective technique to use in oral presentations. Find all the information you need by looking on this website and checking out other Pro-Life websites. See number 6 for more elaborate topics on abortion and other life topics that you may use. 3. Does your school have a prayer group or Christian club? If so, this may be the perfect place to start your Pro-Life efforts. Chances are good that you're not the only one in the club who wants to help stop abortion. At the high school I used to attend, a group of Christian students gathered before or after school on some days of the week to pray over the school and its students and to pray about important issues such as abortion. 4. One school was able to spread the message about abortion through the precious feet pin. I believe that if everyone in the Christian club or everyone who is interested would buy 2 pins: one for themselves and one for a friend or someone else not involved, they could effectively reach more people in the school. You can buy these pins at some Christian stores, your church store, or at www.heritagehouse76.com. They offer cheaper prices for larger purchases, so one student could volunteer to buy the pins, and the other students could pay their money back. This would also save on shipping and handling fees. Wear the pin every day and encourage your friends to do the same. If someone asks where you got it and shows interest in wearing it, why not buy them one? The silver kind are about a dollar at your local store, and gold plated ones are about three to four dollars. 5. Have a Pro-Life meeting before or after school. See if you can get permission to place posters around the school or even have it put on the daily announcements. Some things you may want to put on your posters are a picture of an unborn baby with "Did you know I dream more than you? Come learn the truth about abortion!" Then put the time and place, along with a welcoming message such as "Everyone is welcome! Refreshments will be served." I found a picture of a 15 week old unborn baby sucking his thumb at here. Print out the picture in color and paste it onto your poster. At the meeting, you can talk about the various kinds of abortion, the risks associated with abortion, the development of babies, the difference between the truth and what pro-abortion groups claim (example: this is a picture of an unborn baby at 15 weeks, but most abortion clinics claim that unborn babies of this age are not babies but "clumps of cells."). If someone else is helping you organize the meeting, arrange for different people to bring different types of snacks and drinks. You may have a few extra precious feet pins to either give out to the people who come, or you can sell them for how much you paid for them. After this initial meeting, you can have meetings to organize Pro-Life activities such as fundraisers for the local crisis pregnancy center, a precious feet pin sale, putting up Pro-Life posters around the school, a protest at an abortion clinic (how appropriate for those of us whose generation is being exterminated by abortion to be there to protest!) or another activity. To get a higher attendance rate, make little business card sized pieces of paper to hand out to people in your classes as invitations. E-mail me if you have any questions or suggestions. 6. Topics for projects and papers: the various types of abortions and what each one does to the unborn baby, the profitable abortion industry and how much certain fetal body parts are worth, cloning, fetal research, Christianity and abortion/the taking of human life, Post Abortion Stress Disorder (a form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD), breast cancer and abortion (to learn more, read this mini-article in the health section about the link between abortion and breast cancer), infertility following abortion, adoption, people who survived abortions, people who in today's disgusting standards "should" have been aborted (due to parental situations such as poverty) but who lived to make a huge difference in our world, euthanasia (physician assisted suicide), the overpopulation lie - just think of all the occupations that are experiencing a shortage - nursing, teaching, computer-related careers (you can get a good base of information on this topic at www.abortiontv.com/overpopulationlie.htm) and include the irony that the same people who claim that the world is "overpopulated" and that abortion is a "good thing to keep the population down," they believe that cloning human beings is alright. What logical person would suggest killing through abortion the people God makes, and then cloning our own? AND using the population argument to defend the alleged choice of abortion. Some countries such as England are now allowing the cloning of human babies to provide childless couples with children. There are many different aspects of abortion. Just think of one you believe to be appropriate for the assignment. |
Ideas