Our Foundations pro-life curriculum moves decade-by-decade through the post-Christian transformation of America and places abortion and other pro-life issues within this larger spiritual context. The courses included in our pro-life curriculum will help you build the historical, philosophical, and biblical foundation needed to compassionately engage the culture and defend human life, from its earliest biological beginning to natural death.
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Session 1: Difficult Truth©, the first course in the Foundations pro-life curriculum, provides baseline knowledge about abortion and the issues that surround it. This course can be used as a stand-alone course, but is also included in the Foundations pro-life curriculum package.
What you’ll discover in Session 1:
- The six principles at the foundation of the Christian pro-life movement
- The Christian response to abortion
- The birth control-abortion connection
- Abortion procedures in each trimester (medical illustrations are used)
- Abortion survivors
- Disposal of fetal remains
- Commodification of fetal remains and the fetal parts trade
- Post-birth abortion/infanticide practices
- Messages of deception in the abortion industry
- A compassionate view
- Hope and healing
Session Details:
Session 1 is divided into three online modules. Each module includes approximately 20 minutes of content and a 10-15 minute quiz and discussion/reflection activity. Total Session 1 time is approximately 2 hours, with activities.
Session 2: Infiltration©, the second course in the Foundations pro-life curriculum, marks the beginning of a decade-by-decade journey to uncover the roots of the culture of death and the post-Christian transformation of America. Session 2 covers the 1900s – 1920s.
What you’ll discover in Session 2:
- The spiritual roots of the battle between life and death
- Three major underlying philosophies of the culture of death
- How these philosophies were brought to America, by whom, and why
- The specific blueprint used to transform America by breaking down the family
- Progressivism in education, government, and science
- Progressivism in the media, women’s rights movement, and the Church
- The history, planting, and growth of the eugenics movement
- The co-opting of the women’s rights movement
- Modernism in the Catholic church
- The Social Gospel in the Protestant church
- The social, cultural, legislative, and judicial strategies of the culture of death during the Progressive Era
Session Details:
This course is divided into three online modules. Each module includes approximately 20 minutes of content and a 10-15 minute quiz and discussion/reflection activity. Total Session 2 time is approximately 2 hours, with activities.
Session 3: Pioneer©, the third course in the Foundations pro-life curriculum, continues our decade-by-decade journey to uncover the roots of the culture of death and the post-Christian transformation of America. Session 3 covers the 1930s – 1940s.
What you’ll discover in Session 3:
- The life experiences, mentors, key influencers, and philosophies that impacted Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, in her early work in the 1910s and 20s
- A four-part framework in which to understand Sanger’s life and work: Radical feminism, sexual liberation, eugenics, and racism
- An understanding of Sanger’s work in the context of American culture in the 30s and 40s
- How the roots of Planned Parenthood manifest today
- Birth control as a eugenic solution in the Black community, a debate in the Black church, and an exploitation of poverty and injustice
- The advancement of Progressivism in America in the 30s and 40s, in government, education, science, the media, the women’s rights movement, and the Church
- The social, cultural, legislative, and judicial strategies of the culture of death during this time period
Session Details:
This course is divided into three online modules, available in our courseroom. Each module includes approximately 25 minutes of content and a 10-15 minute quiz and discussion/reflection activity. Total Session 3 time is approximately 2 hours, with activities.
Session 4: Manifestation©, the fourth course in the Foundations pro-life curriculum, continues our decade-by-decade journey to uncover the roots of the culture of death and the post-Christian transformation of America. Session 4 covers the 1950s – 1960s.
What you’ll discover in Session 4:
- The new face of the eugenics movement in the 1950s: population control
- Family planning as population control propaganda
- How secularization, situation ethics, moral relativism, and social revolutions transformed America in the 1960s
- The Black community’s efforts to expose birth control and abortion as “Black genocide,” the division that resulted, and the deliberate strategies used to silence them
- The Hegelian dialectic as a corruption of truth and a means to force change
- How the philosophies of the culture of death progressed and the strides that were made legally, politically, and culturally
- How the birth control pill impacted relationships, family, and God’s design for marriage and gender
- The Protestant and Catholic church’s responses to birth control legalization
- The second wave of feminism, its radicalization, and the Biblical perspective
- The reframing of abortion from a moral issue to one of mercy, health care, privacy, and women’s equality
- How the Church participated in the legalization of abortion
Session Details:
This course is divided into four online modules. Each module includes approximately 20-30 minutes of content and a 15-20 minute assessment and discussion/reflection activity. Total Session 4 time is approximately 3 hours, with activities.
Session 5: Deterioration©, the fifth course in the Foundations pro-life curriculum, continues our decade-by-decade journey to uncover the roots of the culture of death and the post-Christian transformation of America. Session 5 covers the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.
What you’ll discover in Session 5:
- The birth of bioethics in modern medical research and practice and its profound impact on healthcare
- Eugenics in radical environmentalism, the reproductive rights agenda, and rapidly advancing biotechnologies
- How the courts and the presidency were used to advance abortion legalization, infanticide practices, and medical neglect of the disabled
- The foundational principles of the modern pro-life movement and the split that occurred
- The silencing of the Black community’s efforts to expose birth control and abortion as “Black genocide”
- The continued destruction of the Black family by the birth control and abortion industries, through government policy and radical feminist influence
- Third-wave feminism; its intersectional ideology, strategies for change, and academic and political influence
- The Moral Majority and its impact on Christianity in America
- The pro-life rescue movement from the Catholic and evangelical perspectives and how the movement was silenced
- The moral and spiritual crossroads America faced at the dawn of the new millennium
Session Details:
This course is divided into four online modules. Each module includes approximately 45 minutes of content and a built-in 15-20 minute quiz and discussion/reflection activity. Total Session 5 time is approximately 4 hours, with activities.
Session 6: Awakening©, the sixth and final course in the Foundations pro-life curriculum, concludes our decade-by-decade journey to uncover the roots of the culture of death and the post-Christian transformation of America. Session 6 covers the 2000s and 2010s.
What you’ll discover in Session 6:
- The advancement of eugenics in biotechnologies, human genetics, nationalized healthcare, and radical environmentalism
- Transhumanism, emerging technologies, and future applications of eugenics
- How the courts and the presidency were used to advance the culture of death and undermine the right to life during this time period
- The rapid and visible expansion of the Black pro-life movement at the local and national levels
- Fourth-wave feminism, identity politics, and the new global sexual revolution
- Abortion advocates’ new PR strategies and how to counter them, including the bodily autonomy argument, abortion as a moral good, and denial of post-abortion trauma
- The Occupy and Tea Party movements, nationalism, and persecution of Christians in America
- The rise of the 21st-century personhood movement and calls to return to the biblical path to pro-life victory in politics and culture
- The Church’s response to life issues during this time period and the battle for life and death in a historical and spiritual context
- How the Church must respond to restore a culture of life amidst the current moral crisis in America
Session Details:
This course is divided into four online modules. Each module includes 30-40 minutes of content and a built-in 15-20 minute assessment and discussion/reflection activity. Total Session 6 time is approximately 4 hours, with activities.
How it works
Each session is divided into three or four online modules, available in our courseroom, and takes approximately 2-4 hours to complete. Each module includes quiz and discussion/reflection activities already built in. Total time to complete our pro-life curriculum is approximately 10 hours (without activities). You will have access to the courses for 6 months and can take them as many times as you’d like.
Your purchase also grants you access to the Educe® Knowledge Base—our online library that includes all of the research used to develop our pro-life curriculum, supplemental materials like video and audio clips and downloadable articles, and recommended resources for your continued study.
GROUPS, CHURCHES, and ORGANIZATIONS: Group enrollments are not done through our website. Please contact us for more information and check out a sample of our Group Leader’s Guide . We work with you to recommend a schedule that fits your needs, from a comfortably paced 12-week class to a more intense weekend seminar.