Pro-Life Students on Over 3,000 Campuses to Go Silent

By Audrey Barrick
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, Oct. 19 2009

Students in more than 3,000 schools will stick on the familiar red tape over their mouths on Tuesday to stand up for the thousands who are silenced every day by abortion.

The Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity is in its sixth year and is a powerful testament to the widespread pro-life attitude among teens and young adults.

"It's our way of speaking for those who can't," Brittany Shepherd, 15, of Challenger High School in Hickory, N.C., told the Hickory Daily Record. "It's to show our respect to those who didn't get to live."

Adorned with red arm bands and duct tape that say "Life," thousands of students from public schools and homeschools will distribute fliers explaining why they are silent and to educate their peers and others about the more than 50 million babies that have been aborted since the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. the rest