What is NCLN?
- National Campus Life Network is the only national organization that exists to educate, network and support post-secondary pro-life students across Canada. We work to maximize the promotion and effectiveness of the pro-life message on campus, while minimizing the excess work for busy students.
- Nowhere is there a greater urgency for the pro-life message than on the university campus. The university is the place where the ideas and values of our society take root. An active pro-life presence is needed to promote ideas and values that embrace the objective truth that all human life is worthy of protection.
How do we do it?
- NCLN works to promote the formation of new pro-life educational campus clubs and assists already-formed clubs through:
Education: Face-to-face campus visits that include pro-life apologetics An annual national symposium
Networking An annual national symposium with student leaders from across the country
Support How-to guides for running a club Continual contact between Directors and students
Why is campus life advocacy important?
- Today's students are tomorrow's leaders:
- Popular campus philosophy does not affirm the inherent dignity of the human person.
- The university environment significantly impacts one's view on abortion. In an Angus Reid Poll that was conducted in June 2008, support for abortion in any circumstance jumps from a minority, 33% of high school graduates, to a majority, 66% of university graduates.
- This age demographic is most impacted:
- 64% of all abortions are performed on university aged women (18-29 years) according to Statistics Canada.
- Students often feel that they must choose between school or parenting.
We advocate: a world where everyone has a true right to life, even if they are "defective" or "unwanted." Where everyone is valued for who they are, not for what they can do. When did we begin? - In January of 1997, the National Campus Life Network was formed by a group of 40 post-secondary students who organized and attended the first annual National Symposium in Toronto. The goal was to equip pro-life students across the country for campus life advocacy, and network them with each other and the broader pro-life movement.
- Today the National Campus Life Network consists of nearly 40 campuses across Canada. NCLN plays an important role in mentoring new leaders into the pro-life movement.
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