List of anti-abortion organizations in the United States

This article is a list of pro-life organizations in the United States. Individual organizations on this list may either be primarily oriented towards pro-life activism, or have adopted pro-life positions while not actively campaigning.

National religious organizations

Catholic

Fundamentalist/Evangelical

Interdenominational or ecumenical Christian

  • 40 Days for Life, a pro-life activist group, named for the pattern of several biblical events lasting 40 days.[8]
  • Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF, formerly Alliance Defense Fund), a conservative nonprofit organization with the stated goal of "defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation."
  • American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), a politically conservative social activism organization founded to protect constitutional and human rights worldwide, and which generally pursues constitutional issues and conservative Christian ideals in courts of law.[9][10][11][12]
  • American Vision, a nonprofit organization which operates as a Christian ministry and calls for "equipping and empowering Christians to restore America’s biblical foundation."
  • Arlington Group, a coalition which unites the leaders of prominent Christian conservative organizations in the United States.[13]
  • Bound4life, a grassroots nonprofit organization whose major goal is to train and multiply the number of Christians that pray regularly for the ending of abortion.[14][15]
  • Faith and Freedom Coalition, an ecumenical nonprofit organization which opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, and supports limited government, lower taxes, education reform, free markets, a strong national defense, and Israel.[16]
  • Focus on the Family (FOTF or FotF), whose stated mission is "nurturing and defending the God-ordained institution of the family and promoting biblical truths worldwide."[17]
  • Justice House of Prayer (JHOP), a neocharismatic organization which focuses on prayer for issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and humanism,[18] and also regularly practices fasting.[19]
  • Life Chain, one of the largest pro-life social movement organization in America.[20]
  • Missionaries to the Preborn, an advocacy group founded by Rev. Matthew Trewhella in 1990 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[21]
  • Missionaries to the Unborn, a now-defunct pro-life organization.
  • National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, founded in 1993 which aims in "developing a network of life-affirming ministries in every community across the nation in order to achieve an abortion-free America."
  • National Pro-Life Religious Council (NPRC), a coalition representing numerous Christian pro-life denominations and organizations in the United States.[22]
  • Operation Rescue (Kansas) (formerly Operation Rescue West or California Operation Rescue), engages in activities that it describes as "on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to restore legal personhood to the pre-born and stop abortion in obedience to biblical mandates."[23]
  • Pro-Life Action League, a Chicago-based activist group founded in 1980 currently led by Eric Scheidler.[24]
  • Silent No More, an organization for people who regret that they or their partners had abortions.[25]
  • Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, a group which uses graphic imagery of aborted fetuses in protest against abortion.[26]
  • The Lord's Ranch, an outreach ministry for the poor located in Vado, New Mexico whose part of their ministry includes pro-life work.
  • TheCall, which practices prayer and fasting in protest against issues such as same-sex marriage and legal access to elective abortion.
  • Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a conservative, nonprofit, public interest law firm promoting what it describes as Judeo-Christian heritage and moral values in defense against same-sex marriage and abortion.[27][28]
  • Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), a conservative organization preserving what they describe as "Bible-based traditional values", which include: "Defending human life from its earliest moments to natural death."[29]
  • United Families International (UFI), a nonprofit organization that works on an international scale to influence public policy toward "maintaining and strengthening the family."[30]
  • Vision America, a politically conservative organization which describes itself as formed to "inform, encourage and mobilize pastors and their congregations to be proactive in restoring Judeo-Christian values to the moral and civic framework in their communities, states, and our nation."[31]

Extremist

  • Army of God, a terrorist organization that has engaged in the use of violence to oppose abortion.[32]

United Methodist

National secular organizations

Physicians' associations

Political organizations

  • Americans United for Life (AUL), a pro-life public interest law firm and advocacy group which calls for protection of human life at all stages of life, from conception to death, and is involved in the related issues of health and biotechnology.[36]
  • Concerned Women for America, a politically conservative Christian women's activist group whose stated mission, "is to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens — first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society — thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation."[37]
  • Democrats for Life of America (DFLA), a tax-exempt political advocacy nonprofit organization that seeks to elect pro-life Democrats and to encourage the Democratic Party to espouse a consistent life ethic view.[38]
  • Eagle Forum, a conservative interest group that uses grassroots techniques to promote conservative women's and family issues in public policy.
  • Feminists for Life, a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that promotes pro-life views on the basis of feminism.[39][40]
  • Libertarians for Life, a nonsectarian group expressing an opposition to abortion within the context of libertarianism and adheres to the belief that abortion is not a right, but "a wrong under justice".[41]
  • MassResistance, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based group that promotes socially conservative positions on issues relating to homosexuality, abortion, anti-bullying, gun control, the transgender community and same-sex marriage.[42]
  • National Right to Life Committee, the oldest and largest national pro-life organization in the US,[43][44] which works through legislation and education to work against induced abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and assisted suicide
  • Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians (PLAGAL), an interest group opposed to legalized elective abortion and supportive of alternatives to abortion, which despite its name is inclusive of all LGBT people as well as straight allies.[45]
  • Republican National Coalition for Life (RNCL), an organization formed to maintain the commitment of the Republican Party to pro-life principles.
  • Republican Party
  • Students for America, a now-defunct political action committee which was intended as a national organization.
  • Students for Life of America (SFLA) or simply Students for Life (SFL), a tax-exempt nonprofit organization that seeks to end abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide by educating students about these issues and identifying pro-life student leaders and giving them the training, skills, and resources to effectively spread their message.[46]
  • Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List), a social welfare, nonprofit organization that seeks to reduce and ultimately end abortion in the United States by supporting pro-life politicians, primarily women, through its SBA List Candidate Fund political action committee.[47][48][49]
  • Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based conservative pro-life law firm.[50][51][52][53]
  • VoteYesForLife.com, a campaign whose executive director is pro-life activist Leslee Unruh, a post-abortive woman.[54]

Other organizations

  • Alpha Center, a nonprofit agency also founded by Leslee Unruh (also its CEO)[55] whose stated goal is to provide positive alternatives with practical support to women and men involved in an unplanned pregnancy.[56]
  • American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA), a now-defunct advocacy group which made controversies surrounding their use of Wanted-style posters to target abortion providers.[57]
  • Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, an organization generally promulgating right to life views which, despite its strict non-violent approach, uses graphic images of aborted fetuses.[58]
  • Choose Life, Inc., an advocacy group based in Ocala, Florida that created the concept behind the "Choose Life" specialty license plate that promotes a pro-life message: to choose adoption over abortion.[59]
  • Elliot Institute, an advocacy group founded by electrical engineer and pro-life activist David Reardon, which studies "the effects of eugenics, abortion, population control, and sexual attitudes and practices on individuals and society at large."[60]
  • Life Dynamics Inc., an organization whose stated motto is, "Pro-Life: without compromise, without exception, without apology".[61]
  • Live Action, a nonprofit organization that is best known for its undercover video sting operations on Planned Parenthood clinics,[62][63][64][65] which was co-founded by pro-life activist Lila Rose.[66]
  • The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), an organization founded in 2013 by activist David Daleiden also known for its undercover video sting operation in a Planned Parenthood clinic with the accusation that the reproductive health service provider sells fetal body parts and tissues for profit.[67][68]
  • The Nurturing Network, an international charitable organization dedicated to relieving the many forms of abuse, neglect and exploitation that exist in a global world.[69]
  • Population Research Institute (PRI), a nonprofit organization whose stated goals are "to expose the myth of overpopulation" as well as "human rights abuses committed in population control programs, and to make the case that people are the world's greatest resource."[70]
  • Secular Pro-Life (SPL), an all-volunteer[71] organization which works both to end elective abortion and to incorporate non-religious people into the U.S pro-life movement.[72]
  • Stoneridge Group, a political campaign marketing firm based in Alpharetta, Georgia.
  • Women Exploited By Abortion (WEBA), an organization of women who regret having undergone induced abortion.[73]

State and local organizations

Arizona

California

  • SaveCalifornia.com, a nonprofit organization founded as part of Campaign for Children and Families (CCF),[74] which is active in influencing public policy on various social issues.

Colorado

  • Colorado Right to Life (CRTL), a Colorado-based advocacy group which believes all human beings not convicted of a capital crime have a right to life from the moment of fertilization until natural death.

Connecticut

  • Family Institute of Connecticut, an interdenominational,[75] conservative[76] tax-exempt nonprofit organization whose stated goal is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society and to promote Judeo-Christian ethical and moral values in the culture and government of Connecticut.[77]

Georgia

  • Georgia Right to Life (GRTL), a Georgia-based nonprofit advocacy group organized for activities in the areas of education, legislation, and political action to oppose legalized abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning and artificially produced genetic transformation.

Illinois

Minnesota

  • Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL), the oldest and largest right-to-life organization in Minnesota founded in 1968 to resist the legalization of abortion, as well as euthanasia, assisted suicide and embryonic stem cell research.
  • Minnesota Family Council (MFC), a Christian organization founded to work against the teaching in schools of tolerance for homosexuals and is also opposed to abortion, stating that: "human life is sacred from conception to natural death and must be protected by government".[81]

New York

Texas

  • Texas Alliance for Life, a nonprofit organization committed in "protecting the fundamental right to life of all innocent human beings," which opposes abortion (except to preserve the mother's life), infanticide, euthanasia, and all forms of assisted suicide.

Virginia

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