From TheUnChoice.com -- an evidence-based Elliot Institute campaign to raise awareness about unwanted abortions, post-abortion issues and maternal deaths, plus help, hope and healing. ... The UnChoice. Unwanted. Unsafe. Unfair. 

"Every Tuesday a scheduled bus picked up students and took them to the Planned Parenthood clinic. School counselors arranged the visits. It was all so organized.

"The nurse said this was not the time to be asking questions." 

 

Parents and Students Deserve to Hear This ... Before it's Too Late!

Back-to-school resources and opportunities. Educate parents, students, educators and leaders ... from high school to college.

 

School days represent great opportunities to reach  students and their parents -- especially those who are unaware that young people and teens who become pregnant may be coerced into abortion behind closed doors. You can help warn them, while educating others about abortion's exploitation and the risks posed to the rights and lives of both the unborn and women of all ages ... especially vulnerable teens and college students.
 

Coercion Happens Fast. Prepare Parents and School and Student Leaders in Advance.

Educate the educators. Educate the students. Educate the parents and the community, too! Coercion can escalate quickly and often works in concert with pressure to abort coming from a teen's home, school, clinic authorities, those in the helping professions, or even at shopping mall storefronts that refer to profit-driven abortion businesses.
 

The stakes are high. In addition to coercion, teens are at risk of post-abortion harm and heartbreak. This can range from permanent physical injury and infertility, to "adult-sized" emotional pain that can include clinical depression, trauma or even suicide. 
 

Not surprisingly, research indicates that anyone who is rushed, bullied or forced into an unwanted abortion faces an even higher risk of post-abortion issues. There is also a higher risk of death from all causes among women who have abortions -- a tragic reality that has blindsided families who were kept in the dark.
 

What You Can Do

School days are also an opportunity to share proactive, positive resources and news about the need for better laws and to offer authentic help, hope and healing before or after abortion, including help for those being coerced. (Learn more on our Help & Healing page or see proactive Legislative Initiatives like those in South Dakota and Nebraska.)
 

Enlightening Resources and Community-Service Project Ideas

Shake Up School: Speeches, Essays and Other Assignments
Use our evidence-based, user-friendly, objective, and respectfully presented pro-woman/pro-life education and outreach resources throughout the school year. (See Teens, Forced Abortion, Suicide and Help/Healing pages and other resources for ideas.) This information can be used in lesson plans or for classroom assignments such as speeches and essays. This evidence can also be incorporated into various curricula, such as health, science, history, social studies, religion, civic or government classes.

Challenge Educators to Incorporate New Facts in Lesson Plans
Use our evidence-based, user-friendly, objective, and respectfully presented pro-woman/pro-life education and outreach resources throughout the school year in lesson plans or classroom assignments such as speeches and essays. This evidence can also be incorporated into various curricula, such as health, science, history, social studies, religion, civic or government classes.
 

You can also use our cards and postcards as handouts or classified or display ads in school publications, yearbooks and newsletters. Ask educators to address these issues on their blogs and in social media like Twitter, Facebook, and others.

Donate Books to School and Other Libraries
This may be one of the most valuable things you can do to counter missing or inaccurate information about abortion's abuse, exploitation and risk to the dignity, rights and lives of the unborn and women, plus so many others. Donate books to school, church and civic libraries. Giving this gift at special times, such as Christmas, Mother's Day or Memorial Day, etc., makes a great civic outreach project for individuals or groups, too. Save lives and shed light on the truth now and for years to come! 

Inform School Nurses, School Counselors, Principals, Etc.
Share new and exciting ideas for safer, healthier students and life-changing volunteer opportunities. For schools that have community-service hour requirements or intern programs, etc., there are many opportunities to incorporate this new evidence and these resources into existing or new programs. (See the Unsafe page, Unsafe/Maternal Deaths page, Help & Healing, Center Against Forced Abortions, etc. Whether it's a youth group project, an individual or community endeavor, or an official, school-sponsored community-service requirement, there are many needs and opportunities.

Wear it, Share it or Drive it Home!
From rallies to everyday wear, from bumper stickers for your car to buttons for your lapel, from business-card-sized messages to postcard-sized crib notes, shake up "pro-choice" Americans with evidence that most abortions are unwanted or coerced, and the experience and its aftermath are literally and figuratively killing women, too. (See Forced Abortion in America and Maternal Death Rates.)

Make the message "to go!" Start the conversation among friends, family and leaders. Check The UnChoice Shop  for ideas, or use our cards and postcards as handouts. or ads suitable for classified or display ads in school publications, yearbooks, newsletters, blogs, social media like Twitter, Facebook, and more.
 

The UnChoice Campaign is an evidence-based, pro-woman/pro-life education and outreach project of the Elliot Institute. The Elliot Institute's peer-reviewed academic research and other expertise and information is used in important legal, judicial, legislative, medical, social services and other policy-making arenas to document abortion's exploitation, injury and heartbreak to the rights and lives of both the unborn and mothers.

Our information and materials are also helpful in deterring  abortions and saving lives of unborn children and mothers, while also encouraging various audiences and leaders to rethink their assumptions about abortion. 
 

Due to the urgency and potential of this message, we invite you to use our downloadable resources (including many of those above) free of charge. However, if you are able to make a donation, however small, it will support and speed this work.
 

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