Regarding Pro-Life Organizations

Good Counsel Homes - Christopher Bell and author/psychologist Fr. Benedict Groeschel began the first Good Counsel home in New Jersey to give women in a crisis pregnancy a place where they can have the baby instead of getting an abortion. Providing alternatives to abortion is crucial, especially given how long in coming political solutions have been.

Feminists for Life - Whether you call yourself a feminist or not, this organization presents the life issue as it ought to be presented - in positive terms. Pro-lifers are not against something but for something, and Feminists for Life gets the message out. FFL is unique in pointing out how the early feminists were almost universally against abortion, how they understood it quite accurately as harmful to women and indicative of warped priorities. This organization employs clever advertising on college campuses which educate young people about the past and about how abortion is a male-dominated society's best friend. (Caveating that abortion is nobody's 'friend', given that it indiscriminately kills male and female.)

National Right to Life - the standard-bearer political organization works in the trenches in D.C. and NRLC is interested in the "art of the possible". Wanda Franz, president of National Right to Life, said last year that, "Many of us in the trenches have suffered the arrogant criticism of 'principle' pro-lifers who dismiss our legislative efforts because 'they don't outlaw abortion.'" There are also right-to-life organizations in every state. A respected pastor in our town contributes only to the state organization.

Human Life International - This organization obviously takes a worldwide rather than national perspective. I'm not too familiar with it other than it is headed by Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, STL who confronted FOX host Sean Hannity concerning the use of artificial contraceptives.

The Center for Bio-ethical Reform is famous and controversial for their large trucks panelled with billboard images of aborted children. Visual images are more likely to move people: "CBR operates on the principle that abortion represents an evil so inexpressible that words fail us when attempting to describe its horror. Until abortion is seen, it will never be understood."

American Life League (ALL) - With her "take no prisoners" approach, Judy Brown (who has a Q&A column on EWTN's website) fearlessly engages the culture. ALL names names and, unlike organizations like National Right to Life they don't have to maintain relationships in D.C. and so they can do things like shame politicians by publishing ads of pictures of Catholic politicians who support abortion.