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"The pro-abortionists have a death grip on the light switch... How can truth ever penetrate the intentional blackout by the media?"

I am glad you asked. There are of course more ways for people to learn about this than from Dan Blather.

Their are tens of millions of people who call themselves Christian, go to church and send their kids to Christian school and/or Bible/Relegion study.

Now HOW have so many of these people, over the 30 years since Roe v Wade remained so ignorant?

It is in no real way the media's fault. It is how these people have been educated--or not educated.

If you are still with me on this, below is something I wrote related to this very topic:

Even Patricia Ireland Used to be Pro-Life
And why so many Christians vote pro-abortion

May 10, 2003

By Kevin M. Jeanfreau, Founder
Christian Patriots For Life
http://www.CpForLife.org

Patricia Ireland and her entire side used to be pro-life. Each and every one of them was—when they were young. If you had asked little Miss. Ireland while in the first grade what is inside a pregnant woman’s “tummy,” she would have said a baby. If you had asked if it would be O.K. to hurt that baby in any way, she would have said no. Try it with a thousand first graders; their answers will all be basically the same. The fact is, we are all naturally pro-life.

Throughout these last three decades while children have been growing up, they are fed a prodigious diet of anti life, anti family rhetoric, seasoned with subtle “choice” sentiment. Over time, this propaganda slowly becomes “palatable”. Roughly 50+ % of them (us) change from their natural pro-life selves into pro-abortion adults. Sadly, during these same decades, children who have gone through Christian education from kindergarten through 12th grade have not been taught the truth about the sanctity of life, and so statistically are almost as likely to become pro-abortion as those who receive government education. Voting records of Christians show that our Christian schools have not taught the truth about the unborn in any meaningful way as an option to the lies we all have been exposed to. When our shepherds express their “sadness and frustration” over their flocks repeated votes for pro-abortion politicians, it must be respectfully pointed out to these shepherds that they never had these former students of their Christian schools educated on WHY they are supposed to vote pro-life. THEY WERE NEVER TAUGHT THE TRUTH, and so they swallowed the lies. Quite frankly we should not expect these ex-pro-life people to make voting pro-life a priority—we let them down.

With comprehensive Pro-Life education in Christian schools, from K-12 (and beyond), we can greatly reduce that 50 percent of the “Patricia Ireland's” who become pro-abortion. One document that offered so much opportunity, and still is truly authoritative on this subject is entitled Respect Life Curriculum Guidelines. It was published in 1977 by the Department of Education, United States Catholic Conference. Here are some brief quotes:

"The pastoral plan for pro-life activities, issued by the U.S. bishops in November, 1975, urged the development of educational tools to bring the Church’s teaching of the value of life and on the life-centered issues in an effective way, through our educational apostolate, to the whole Church." (Page one)

"These Guidelines...are a response to the challenges and crisis of our time. The education envisioned by these guidelines seeks long-term improvements. The assumption here is (1) that positive respect life attitudes can be inculcated through educational processes, and (2) that these attitudes and values, reflected in the many issues of daily life, will have practical impact on people's lives and environment." (Page four)

This 109 page book has guidelines for "Pre-school through High School" It went further still into curriculum guidelines for "Adult Learners, Parents and Families, Adults in Leadership Positions in the Church ...and Community." (Page three) It is my opinion that this book never received anything near the attention required to achieve its intended purpose. It is available on-line at: http://www.nccbuscc.org/prolife/publicat/respectl.htm (scroll to the very bottom, Item #7715).

It is reasonable to expect that if Christian school students were to receive thorough and proper sanctity of life education from K-12 (with testing); we could reduce that number mentioned above from 50% to perhaps 25 percent. If we could have kept half of the millions who vote for pro-abortion candidates, it is quite likely that by now the numbers of politicians required to pass a human life amendment would have already been elected. Exactly one-half of voters in the 2000 presidential election were age 18-44. This entire group was in school after Roe v. Wade, and those who received Christian education could also have received a pro-life education. In this regard, our pro-life movement has in effect put the cart in front of the horse. The laws won't change until years after the culture does—and to a significant majority.

This is something that should have started long ago. Moreover, no organization would have any power to stop it (except for pro-aborts from within). The same is true today. Protestant and Catholic leaders who control schools, Bible study, CCD etc. need only the will to make this happen. Each day it doesn't happen is another day of victory for the pro-abortion forces, because ignorance of the masses is the only sure hope they have for survival.

One should also consider that regardless of what the law says about abortion, education would greatly reduce the number of abortions, because women who go through Christian education have a significant percentage of abortions. The industry of death would diminish in power if the demand for abortion were cut significantly.

The solution to ending the culture of death does not realistically lie with changing or “reversing” the minds of pro-abortion adults; it lies with preserving the 99+ % of children that are already pro-life on their first day of school. We examine this simple reality in The Missing Key of The Pro-Life Movement, available at http://www.CpForLife.org.

To the leaders of the pro-life movement and more directly, to those in charge of Christian education systems: With regard to comprehensive pro-life education for your students, I implore you to start today, because there are millions of “Patricia Ireland’s” in your schools—right now.