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The Ultimate Pro-Life
Resource List
http://www.prolifeinfo.org
Ultimate, founded in April 1995, has become
the most comprehensive listing of right to
life information on the Internet. With over
520,000 visitors, Ultimate is a leading
Internet source for pro-life information.
The Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List includes
pages devoted to news, pro-life
organizations, abortion alternatives,
euthanasia and assisted suicide, as well as
educational fact sheets on every aspect of
the right to life.
You Can Save Someone’s Life
Today!
You can save lives by
helping to end abortion, which kills a baby
every 23 seconds in America. Following are
suggestions for legal, peaceful, effective
activity. Do at least one of them today, and
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-56 ways you
can help our cause!
1)
Pray daily for an end to abortion,
for women tempted to have abortions, for doctors and
nurses, for legislators, for clergy, for those who
work in the pro-life movement, and for those who do
not realize how wrong abortion is. Form pro-life
prayer teams or prayer groups in homes or parishes.
"Spiritually adopt" an unborn child, praying for
him/her throughout a nine-month period. Perform acts
of fasting and self-denial.
2) Read! Be more informed
about abortion from such books as Why Can't We
Love Them Both?, by Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Willke
(Available from Hayes publishing 513-681-7559.)
Other books are available from Hayes or from Life
Cycle Books (1-800-214-5849). Priests for Life has a
resource guide to other books, pamphlets, audio
and video tapes (1-888-PFL-3448).
3) Wear pink and blue ribbons
as a sign of support for pre-born boys and girls.
Put the ribbons on cars, trees, etc.
4) Wear the "Precious Feet"
pin which shows the baby’s feet at 10 weeks after
conception. (Available from
Heritage
House 1-800-858-3040.) You can also wear the
pro-life red rose. (Available from NRLC Rose
Account, 51 Candice Circle., Springfield, MA 01107).
5) Use pro-life pins, decals,
envelopes, bumper stickers, T-shirts, posters, etc.
(Order from
Victory Won, 1-800-767-7258,
www.victorywon.com or
Heritage
House 1-800-858-3040,
www.heritagehouse76.com). Place posters and
literature on public bulletin boards in supermarkets
and other facilities.
6) Take part in First Amendment
activities such as Life Chains (National Life Chain
(CA), 530-671-5500), prayer vigils (Helpers of God’s
Precious Infants (NY), 718-779-0698), literature
distribution, pickets, and sidewalk counseling.
Attend the Annual January
22 March for Life in Washington DC
(202-Life-377). Place pro-life yard signs on your
property.
7) Use checks which carry a
pro-life message. Contact
Life Checks,
PO Box 1, Joppa, MD 21085-0001. (800-874-5910, or
fax 410-676-0049)
8) Send letters or articles to
newspapers, to your
elected officials, and other persons,
institutions, and publications regarding respect for
life. Have a group of people willing to sign
letters that others write. For samples, ask for
"Letters to the Editor" from
Life Dynamics at
1-800-800-Life.
9) Speak up with courage
and charity in defense of pre-born babies.
10) Encourage your priest,
minister, or rabbi, to speak out against abortion.
Priests for Life has
resources
(1-888-PFL-3448, ext. 237).
11) Book announced Masses
for the intention of an end to abortion, and write
such intentions on the prayer intention cards that
various organizations may mail to you.
12) Find out your doctor’s
position on abortion. If he/she does abortions,
express your disapproval and switch to a pro-life
doctor. If a hospital near you does abortions,
express your disapproval and use another hospital.
Provide your doctor with pro-life literature.
13) Find out who the local
abortionists are. Some of them do it "on the
side". Let them know your opposition to abortion.
Pray for them by name.
14) Take part in local projects
and pro-life activities. For information,
contact your parish or local pro-life group. Join in
pro-life
Scripture or
rosary services or
prayer groups.
15) Leave pro-life literature
wherever you can: in public places, at
restaurants, as inserts in the mail you send, on
cars, etc. Give literature to friends. Send it also
in prepaid business reply envelopes that come in the
mail. Include it in cards you send for Christmas,
birthdays, and other occasions.
16) Help to counsel women who
are tempted to have abortions. (Inquire at the
numbers above or your
local
Crisis Pregnancy Center.)
17) Support a local Crisis
Pregnancy Center with donations of baby/
maternity clothes and other needed items. Help to
collect such items. If there is not a center near
you, help to start one. Help existing centers to
obtain sonogram machines and to upgrade to medical
clinic status.
18) Get on the mailing list of
pro-life organizations. Donate to them.
Volunteer for them. A catalog of organizations is
available from International Life Services (CA),
213-382-2156.
19) Add
the words "born and pre-born" at the end of the
Pledge of Allegiance.
20) Find out whether candidates
running for public office support abortion, and tell
others. Send pro-abortion politicians the US
Bishops' document
"Living the Gospel of Life."
Help with voter registration and
distribution of voter guides. Become involved, as
citizens, in political campaigns. Vote in such a way
that will advance the protection of life.
21) Spread the word that
forgiveness, healing, counseling, and support groups
are available for women and men who have been
wounded by abortion. Call the National
Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing
at 1-800-5-WE-CARE. Send testimonies of
post-abortion healing to Priests for Life.
22) Spread the word about the
harmful effects of abortion. Subscribe to the
Post-Abortion Review, PO Box 7348, Springfield, IL
62791.
23) Use paid advertising, in the
Yellow pages and elsewhere, to spread pro-life
information.
24) Encourage mothers who have
been harmed by abortion to bring suits against the
abortion industry. For advice, call
1-800-800-Life (Life Dynamics Incorporated), or
1-800-U-CAN-SUE (Legal Action for Women). Find
information about malpractice suits in newspapers or
court records and send it to Priests for Life.
25) Call legislators and
discuss the
Contract With American Women, a set of
compelling steps to protect women from the lack of
regulation of the abortion industry. Call Life
Dynamics (Texas) 1-800-800-Life for
information.
26) Donate
pro-life books to your local libraries, schools,
colleges, and Churches. Request such books at your
libraries and bookstores.
27) Get pro-life programs onto
local cable TV stations, by producing your own or
contacting Life Matters
Productions, PO Box 565, Lincoln Park, MI 48146.
28) Promote adoption. For
information, call the National Council For
Adoption in Washington, DC (202-328-1200) or the
Catholic Counseling Services at 1-800-BABY-DUE.
29) Publicize
pro-life events that groups are holding.
30) Keep informed of national
legislative efforts by calling the National Right
to Life legislative hotline in Washington DC at
202-393-LIFE. Visit
www.nrlc.org.
31)
Visit and
write to legislators and elected officials to
discuss abortion and how they can help to stop it.
Good legal information is available from
Americans United for Life,
310 South Peoria St., Suite 300, Chicago, IL.
60607-3534.
32) Obtain the Pro-Life Shopper’s
Guide as a way of knowing which companies assist the
abortion industry (available from
St. Antoninus Institute, 4110 Fessenden St. NW,
Washington, DC 20016).
33) Publicize the
names of women who have died from legal abortion
so people learn that "legal" does not mean "safe." A
partial list is available from Priests for Life
(1-888-PFL-3448).
34) Fly the flag at half-mast in
respect for the babies killed by abortion.
35)
Promote pro-life music. (Contact us for sources.)
36) Conduct fundraising efforts
for pro-life groups: car-washes, bake-sales,
raffles, dinners, penny drives, etc.!
37) Participate in the "Prodigal
Project" by giving abortionists and their staff a
special flier made by former abortionists! Dialog
with abortion supporters. Contact Priests for Life
for more info.
38) Run a pro-life booth at fairs,
rallies, conventions.
39) Establish a memorial stone
to the preborn in a local cemetery or on Church
grounds.
40) Do pro-life work on a
full-time basis. Training is available on how to
raise your own support. Inquire at Priests for Life,
888-PFL-3448.
41) Do not use the terms, "going
to be a mother (or father)", "expecting a child" or
"a child on the way" when speaking of pregnancy.
The child is already there in the womb!
42) Use pro-life greeting cards.
Call Life Expressions
1-800-736-LIFE.
43) Attend annual pro-life
conventions, such as
March for Life (202-Life-377),
Human Life International (540-635-7884), or
National Right to
Life (202-626-8800). Sponsor a student to attend
such conferences. Recommend speakers to other groups
and invite them to your community organizations.
44) Get to know reporters and
producers in the media. Inform them. Call in to
radio and TV talk shows, and ask questions of the
pro-life speakers so as to give them more chance to
talk.
45) Learn and spread the
stories of former abortion providers and of
abortion survivors! For information:
Pro-Life
Action League (Chicago)
at 773-777-2900 or Priests for Life at
1-888-PFL-3448.
46) Gather friends in your home
and show pro-life videos, such as "Life Talk" from
Life Dynamics (1-800-800-Life), the "Be Not
Afraid" Holy Hours provided by the Apostolate for
Family Consecration (Ohio) 740-765-4301, or
videos from Priests for Life (888-PFL-3448).
Show these videos to your children's friends.
47) Do scholarly study and
research. Contact the
Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values
and Social Change, 419 7th St. NW, Suite 500,
Washington, DC 20004.
48) View an actual abortion and
challenge others to do so. Use graphic images of
abortion on posters and other material. Ask for
the Harder Truth video at 562-777-9117. Visit
www.abortionNo.org.
49) LEARN (Life Education
and Resource Network) promotes pro-life
involvement among the Black community.
Write to PO Box 6357, Virginia Beach, VA 23456 or
visit
www.learninc.org.
50) Hispanics for Life
promotes pro-life involvement among the Hispanic
community. Write to PO Box 9086, Torrance, CA 90508
or call 310-320-9640.
51) Learn about RU-486 and the
dangers of this chemical abortion procedure. For
information, call Life
Issues Institute (Ohio) at 513-729-3600,
www.lifeissues.org.
52) Women who want to enter
religious life may consider the Sisters of Life,
198 Hollywood Ave., Bronx, NY 10465, (718)
863-2264,
www.sistersoflife.org,
or the Servants of the Gospel of Life (Archdiocese
of Indianapolis).
53) In graduation ceremonies,
include a remembrance of those who would have been
graduating but were aborted.
54) Use the Internet to spread the
message. Put a pro-life signature on your emails.
Send pro-life messages to your email lists. Visit
and learn from pro-life websites. Start a pro-life
website.
55) Download a free Christian
prolife message sticker from Michigan Christians for
Life at
http://infoteam.com/nonprofit/mcfl/free.htm
56) For more ideas, see the books,
Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion (available through
the Pro-Life Action League, 6160 N. Cicero Ave.,
Suite 600, Chicago, IL 60646, 773-777-2900,
www.prolifeaction.org), or 52 Simple Things
You Can Do To Be Pro-Life, by Anne Pierson and Carol
Risser (order from Life Cycle Books,
1-800-214-5849).
57) If you have other ideas, don't
keep them to yourself! And if you feel you can't do
them, pass them along to those who can!
Priests
for Life
Priests for Life is an approved,
national Catholic pro-life organization. It's goal
is to equip priests, and
deacons,
and everyone in the Church to take a more vocal and
active role in the pro-life movement. Priests for
Life publishes a regular newsletter and offers a
wide range of
educational materials. A free bi-weekly
column is available at
subscribe@priestsforlife.org.
Father Frank A.
Pavone
Father Frank A. Pavone was
ordained as a priest of the Archdiocese of New York
by John Cardinal O’Connor in 1988. In September of
1993, with the Cardinal's permission, he became
National Director of Priests for Life. He has spoken
in all 50 states and five continents, helping
priests and others fight abortion. He produces TV
and radio programs for EWTN, Vatican Radio, and
numerous other outlets. His writings on pro-life
topics are published worldwide. Mother Teresa asked
him to speak in India on life issues, and he was
invited to address the pro-life caucus of the United
States House of Representatives. In 1997, the
Vatican appointed him to the Pontifical Council for
the Family, which coordinates the pro-life
activities of the Catholic Church. In 2001 he
received the Proudly Pro-life Award from the
National Right to
Life Committee
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