List of anti-abortion organizations in the United States

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

National religious organizations

Anglican

• Anglicans for Life (AFL), a anti-abortion ministry of the Anglican Church in North America

Roman Catholic

• American Life League (ALL), a grassroots organization which has adopted a no-exceptions, no-compromise position against abortion and all forms of contraception, embryonic stem cell research and euthanasia
• American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), an organization of Catholic laymen that promotes traditionalist values, including opposition to abortion, assisted suicide, LGBT rights (including same-sex marriage), socialism, and communism
• Catholic Answers, a lay apostolate of Catholic apologetics and evangelization
• Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, a research institute and think tank that seeks to monitor and affect the policy debate at the United Nations and other international institutions
• CatholicVote.org, a nonprofit political advocacy group that acknowledges the authority of the Church's Magisterium, but is technically independent of the Church
• EWTN, a Catholic television network
• Knights of Columbus (K of C), the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, whose advocacy typically deals with Catholic family and anti-abortion issues. The Order has adopted resolutions advocating a culture of life.
• Priests for Life (PFL), a group of Catholic priests working to end abortion and euthanasia
• Sisters of Life (S.V.), a contemplative and active Catholic religious institute under the Augustinian rule, devoted to the promotion of anti-abortion causes[1]
• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)

Fundamentalist/Evangelical

• American Family Association (AFA), a nonprofit organization that opposes abortion, pornography, and same-sex marriage.[2]
• Care Net, an operator of crisis pregnancy centers in the United States.
• Operation Save America (formerly Operation Rescue National), which opposes abortion and its legality, as well as homosexual marriage.

Interdenominational or ecumenical Christian

• 40 Days for Life, an anti-abortion activist group, named for the pattern of several biblical events lasting 40 days.[3]
• 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.[4][5][6][7]
• 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.[8]
• 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.[9]
• Christian Coalition of America (CCA), an interdenominational Christian advocacy group.
• 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.
• 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."
• Justice House of Prayer (JHOP), a neocharismatic organization which focuses on prayer for issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and humanism,[10] and also regularly practices fasting.[11]
• Life Chain, one of the largest anti-abortion social movement organization in America.[12]
• Missionaries to the Preborn, an advocacy group founded by Rev. Matthew Trewhella in 1990 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[13]
• Moral Majority, a now defunct Christian right organization formed in the 1970s.
• 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 anti-abortion denominations and organizations in the United States.
• 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."
• Pro-Life Action League, a Chicago-based activist group founded in 1980 currently led by Eric Scheidler.[14]
• Silent No More, an organization for people who regret that they or their partners had abortions.
• Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, a group which uses graphic imagery of aborted fetuses in protest against abortion.[15]
• The Lord's Ranch, an outreach ministry for the poor located in Vado, New Mexico whose part of their ministry includes anti-abortion 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.[16][17]
• 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."
• United Families International (UFI), a nonprofit organization that works on an international scale to influence public policy toward "maintaining and strengthening the family."
• 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."

Others

• Army of God, a terrorist organization that has engaged in the use of violence to oppose abortion.[18]
• Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas-based church that pickets around the country and expresses hate speech towards various groups of people.

United Methodist

• Taskforce of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality, an organization committed in reversing the United States Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, "by first providing theological leadership within the church, which will set an example that political, legal and cultural forces will follow."

National secular organizations

Physicians' associations

• American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), a small group of conservative doctors
• Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a politically conservative non-profit association aimed to "fight socialized medicine and to fight the government takeover of medicine."[19]

Political organizations

• American Solidarity Party (ASP), supports a consistent life ethic, opposing abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and capital punishment.
• Americans United for Life (AUL), an anti-abortion 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.
• 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."
• Constitution Party, a conservative political party opposing abortion, suicide, and euthanasia.
• Democrats for Life of America (DFLA), a tax-exempt political advocacy nonprofit organization that seeks to elect anti-abortion Democrats and to encourage the Democratic Party to espouse a consistent life ethic view.[20]
• 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 anti-abortion views on the basis of feminism.
• 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".[21]
• 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.
• National Right to Life Committee, the oldest and largest national anti-abortion organization in the US,[22][23] which works through legislation and education to work against induced abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and assisted suicide.
• Prohibition Party, a political party that supports prohibition and a consistent life ethic.
• 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.
• Republican National Coalition for Life (RNCL), an organization formed to maintain the commitment of the Republican Party to anti-abortion principles.
• Republican Party
• 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 anti-abortion student leaders and giving them the training, skills, and resources to effectively spread their message.
• 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 anti-abortion politicians, primarily women, through its SBA List Candidate Fund political action committee.[24]
• Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based conservative anti-abortion law firm.[25][26][27][28]
• VoteYesForLife.com, a campaign whose executive director is anti-abortion activist Leslee Unruh, a post-abortive woman.
• Young America's Foundation (YAF), a conservative youth organization.

Other organizations

• Alpha Center, a nonprofit agency also founded by Leslee Unruh (also its CEO) whose stated goal is to provide positive alternatives with practical support to women and men involved in an unplanned pregnancy.
• 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.[29]
• Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, an organization generally promulgating right to life views which uses graphic images of aborted fetuses.
• Choose Life, Inc., an advocacy group based in Ocala, Florida that created the concept behind the "Choose Life" specialty license plate that promotes an anti-abortion message: to choose adoption over abortion.
• Elliot Institute, an advocacy group founded by electrical engineer and anti-abortion activist David Reardon, which studies "the effects of eugenics, abortion, population control, and sexual attitudes and practices on individuals and society at large."
• Life Dynamics Inc., an organization whose stated motto is, "Pro-Life: without compromise, without exception, without apology".
• Live Action, a nonprofit organization that is best known for its undercover video sting operations on Planned Parenthood clinics,[30][31][32][33] which was co-founded by anti-abortion activist Lila Rose.[34]
• March for Life, an annual event held in Washington D.C. on or around the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, organized by the March for Life Education and Defense Fund
• 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.[35][36]
• The Nurturing Network, an international charitable organization dedicated to relieving the many forms of abuse, neglect and exploitation that exist in a global world.
• 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."
• Secular Pro-Life (SPL), an all-volunteer organization which works both to end elective abortion and to incorporate non-religious people into the U.S anti-abortion movement.
• 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.[37]

State and local organizations

Arizona

• Center for Arizona Policy (CAP), an Arizona-based nonprofit conservative lobbying group.

California

• SaveCalifornia.com, a nonprofit organization founded as part of Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), 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.
• Colorado Family Action, a lobbying organization founded in 2007 that opposes same-sex marriage and adoption, birth control access, and abortion.

Connecticut

• Family Institute of Connecticut, an interdenominational, conservative[38] 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.

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

• Illinois Family Institute (IFI), a Christian nonprofit organization opposed to abortion, separation of church and state, "activist judges", the "marriage penalty", civil unions, same-sex marriage, gambling and drug legalization based in Illinois.[39]

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".

Missouri

• Missouri Family Policy Council, conservative Christian lobbying organization that seeks to regulate strip clubs, abortion, and same-sex marriage.

Nebraska

• Nebraska Family Alliance, a Lincoln, Nebraska lobbying group that advocates for traditional gender roles and conservative Christian views on public policy.

New York

• New York State Right to Life Party, founded in 1970 whose goal is to oppose the legalization of abortion in New York.

Ohio

• Citizens for Community Values, an obscenity censorship group founded in 1983 that has expanded to other matters of conservative Christian sexual morality in public policy.

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

• Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL), a nonprofit organization advocating an end to abortion in Virginia and is the oldest anti-abortion organization in the US.[40][41]
• Family Foundation of Virginia, a lobbying organization focused originally on opposition to sex education that has expanded to opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage, and the Equal Rights Amendment.

See also

• List of abortion-rights organizations in the United States

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