America-- Thousands of students will make their views known by wearing pro-life clothing to class on the second annual "National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day" on Tuesday 27th April.

It gives America's pro-life youth the chance to publicly express unwavering support for the sanctity of all human life from fertilisation to natural death.

Rock for Life, a division of the American Life League, called the effort "a simple act of solidarity and courage," and it warned that the civil rights of students "will be vigorously defended."

"This event will save the lives of preborn children, and spare their mothers the terrible assault on body, mind, and soul that every abortion inevitably brings," said Jason Scott Jones, director of ALL's Rock for Life.

He called the second annual Pro-Life T-shirt Day "a day of healing" for a generation that has lost one third of its members to the genocide of abortion.

The students will have the legal backing of the Thomas More Law Centre, a national public interest firm that has pledged to defend their free-speech rights. The Law Centre has advised public school officials not to force students to remove their pro-life T-shirts.

Each year, the Thomas More Law Centre receives numerous calls from students across the country whose rights have been violated by public school officials.

This past February, a student at a Newport News, Va., high school was asked to remove a sweatshirt reading, "Abortion is Homicide." The assistant principal said the T-shirt violated a school ban on profane or obscene language.

The Law Centre sent a letter to the school demanding that the student be permitted to wear his pro-life sweatshirt, and it threatened a federal lawsuit if necessary. Within two days, attorneys for the school agreed that the student had a constitutional right to wear his pro-life sweatshirt.

The Law Centre has defended students in similar cases in Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Texas, New Hampshire, New York, and Maine.

"Abortion advocates are losing their grip on the American public, and are turning increasingly to public schools to indoctrinate our children into accepting abortion, Richard Thompson, chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Centre said.

"Pro-life students from across the country are standing up for the rights of the unborn, and are bringing this message to their schools. We are proud to defend these courageous pro-life students," he added.