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Additional
Resources Exhaustive
List of Pro-life Sites provided by Priests for Life
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San Diego Groups:
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Association for Life (AFL)
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A
consortium of over 30 pro-life organizations in San Diego County. Contact Kent
Peters at the OSM 858-490-8323, for information on the AFL and
how your organization can participate.
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California People of Faith Working
Against the Death Penalty
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San Diego Chapter - Contact Kent
Peters at the OSM for membership information, 858-490-8323.
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Catholic
Charities
349 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92101-3197
Phone #: (619) 231-2828,
Fax #: (619) 234-2272
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A
community service ministry of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego.
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Life Options
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A program of the Catholic Diocese of
San Diego which enlists parishes to support their local pregnancy-care
center, and enlists the centers to assist parishes educate in the areas of
respect life and relationships. Contact Joseph
Horejs at the OSM for more information, 858-490-8323.
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Life
Perspectives
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Located
in San Diego County, a nonsectarian, educational
organization which exists to restore legal protection and respect for all
innocent human beings so that abortion, infanticide and euthanasia are
neither legal nor desired. Life
Perspectives is committed to promoting choices that will enhance the
physical, emotional, and psychological health of women and their children as
well as promoting humane and dignified options for elderly and infirm people
in the community.
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Rachel’s
Hope in San Diego
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Post Abortion Healing and Reconciliation for Catholic Women (and
Catholic friendly)
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Women’s
Resource Guide
of San Diego County
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A
user-friendly referral guide for women seeking community resources for basic
needs in areas such as pregnancy, housing, health care, domestic violence,
employment, etc.
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California
Groups:
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Embracing Our Dying
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The Catholic response to the political and social
efforts to promote the acceptance and eventual legalization of "assisted
suicide" in California.
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National Groups:
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Catholics Against Capital Punishment
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A national advocacy organization working for the abolition
of the death penalty in the U.S.
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Human Life International
4
Family Life
Front
Royal, Virginia
22630
(540) 635-7884
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The mission
of HLI is to promote and defend the sanctity of life and family around the
world according to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church through prayer,
service and education.
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International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force
(IAETF)
P.O. Box 760
Steubenville, OH
43952
740-282-3810
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An international leader in the accelerating debate over
assisted suicide and euthanasia. The IAETF concentrates solely on the issues
surrounding assisted suicide and euthanasia and addresses these issues from a
public policy perspective.
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National
Committee for a Human Life Amendment (NCHLA)
733 15th St. NW, Suite 926
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 393-0703
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NCHLA works closely with
the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities at the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops and serves Church organizations at the national, state and diocesan
level. NCHLA assists state Catholic conferences, dioceses and Catholic lay
groups. Its objectives include educating, organizing and developing pro-life
legislative networks. NCHLA produces educational and program materials,
communicates in a timely manner with leaders about legislative priorities,
and presents Legislative Seminars to leaders throughout the year.
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National
Right to Life Committee (NRLC)
419 7th St. NW,
Suite 500
Washington, DC, 20004
(202) 626-8800
email at NRLC@nrlc.org
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The
NRLC was founded in 1973 in response to a United States Supreme Court
decision released on January 22 of that year, legalizing the practice of
human abortion in all 50 states, throughout the entire nine months of
pregnancy. The goal of the NRLC is to
restore legal protection to innocent human life. The primary interest of the
National Right to Life Committee and its members has been the abortion
controversy; however, it is also concerned with related matters of medical
ethics pertaining to the right to life issues of euthanasia and
infanticide.
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Priests
for Life
with exhaustive list of pro-life
sites
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A
movement of priests and lay leaders seeking to help the Church use its full
strength against attacks on human life. Priests for Life embraces the consistent
ethic of life as it is explained in the Bishops' Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities: A
Reaffirmation (1985).
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Project Rachel National
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Founded
in 1990, the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing,
Inc. networks researchers and psychotherapeutic professionals working in the
field within the U.S. and abroad, consults on the formation of post-abortion
supp ort
services within secular and religious settings including Project Rachel,
provides training for care providers, maintains a national "800"
referral line for those seeking assistance in reconciling an abortion
experience, publishes the International Post-Abortion Support Services
Directory, produces and vends audio, video, and printed materials, maintains
an annotated book list, tracks support group models, and sponsors the Healing
Vision conference at Marquette University.
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Secretariat
for Pro-Life Activities
National Catholic Conference of Bishops
3211 4th Street,
N.E.
Washington, DC 20017-1194
(202) 541-3070
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Find out what
the U.S.
Catholic bishops
are saying about
life issues
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