National Educational
Trust Fund Materials:
Accurate, Up to Date, Accessible
-- Part Two
of Two
You
can rely on information from National Right to Life.
One of the complaints voiced
in the press articles discussed in Part One is that the
information passed out by pro-lifers is often outdated and
inaccurate. The NRL Educational Trust Fund has long had a
commitment to providing the most accurate, up-to-date, and
accessible information possible.
The Trust Fund is serious
about accuracy. While we do not claim that we’ve never made a
spelling mistake or a grammatical error, we make every effort to
make sure the claims we make are backed by the most reliable
scientific and journalistic sources. Before reprinting, we go
back and try to check original sources, making sure we quote
accurately. We check medical terminology and run our material by
medical or appropriate academic experts.
The Trust Fund seeks to keep
our materials up to date. National Right to Life invests
considerable time and expense in keeping track of the latest
studies and news from the world’s top medical journals,
scientific conferences, and Internet information sources and
makes efforts to incorporate the latest and most relevant
scientific data into our publications.
Rigorous efforts are made to
track ongoing scientific debates and to assess and address new
challenges. The Trust Fund has no problem citing facts or data
that has long been established (such as the beating of the
unborn child’s heart at three weeks), but still checks to insure
that new information does not supersede old.
While the language of
scientific and medical journals can get very technical, the
Trust Fund seeks to ensure that its materials are accessible
and easy to understand. The most relevant data is distilled
from lengthy studies, medical terms are checked and translated
into common English, and efforts are made to concisely and
coherently present core issues. To help make them most useful,
materials are designed in easy to distribute, easy to carry
formats.
More and more, materials
from the Trust Fund are available for free download from the
National Right to Life website, www.nrlc.org. This not only
enables immediate access and wider possible distribution, but
allows the Trust Fund to perform nearly instant updates when new
information comes out.
The National Right to Life
Educational Trust Fund is the reason no pro-lifer ever need rely
on outdated or inaccurate information.
Part One
