Links

Abortion Facts

• Do No Harm -The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics

Catholic Resources

• Archdiocese of St. Louis - Office of Youth Ministry - Archdiocese Office of Youth Ministry homepage
• Catholic Conference of Illinois - the agent through which the dioceses of Illinois may act cooperatively in matters of interdiocesan and state-wide interest
• Catholic Social Workers National Association - Promote the implementation of Catholic social teachings in social work practice
• CatholiCity - "The Catholic Church Simplified," from the Mary Foundation
• Missouri Catholic Conference - Public policy agency of the Catholic Church in Missouri. Tools and information to participate in the democratic process
• National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life - Answering John Paul II's call to witness for life, in the black community
• Priests for Life - Fr. Frank Pavone's national pro-life outreach and activism organization
• Sisters of Life - Religious community of women dedicated to promoting life through prayer and action
• US Conference of Catholic Bishops - Pro-life Activities Site

Chastity Information and Healthy Choices

• Center for Parent/Youth Understanding - Nonprofit organization committed to building strong families by serving to bridge the cultural-generational gap between parents and teenagers
• Concerned Women for America - US coalition of conservative women which promotes Biblical values and family traditions
• Courage - Help for those with a same sex attraction
• Family Research Council - “Defending Family, Faith, and Freedom”
• Focus on the Family – “Nurturing and Defending Families Worldwide”
• GravityTeen.com - Abstinence, sexuality, pregnancy, and related topics
• Life Teen - Leading Teens Closer to Christ 
• LoveMatters.com Chastity and Abstinence Links
• One More Soul - Pro-life Doctors, NFP, Abstinence
• Pure Intimacy - Information on harmful addictions, including pornography, and same sex attraction
• Stand Up Girl - Teen Pregnancies
• Talking To Teens About Chastity - Paul Masek, from the St. Louis REAP Team and Office of Youth Ministry, offers a link to an hour-long presentation given at the Religious Education Institute in St. Louis.
• The Edith Stein Foundation - Explores the connection between contraception and women's health

End of Life Issues

• Hospice Patient Alliance - Group preserving and promoting pro-life hospice care
• International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - euthanasia, assisted suicide, advance directives, disability rights, pain control and more.
• Nightingale Alliance - Opposing suicide and euthanasia
• Not Dead Yet – Disability rights
• The Terri Scheidler Schiavo Foundation - Helps persons with disabilities and the incapacitated who face orpotentially face life-threatening situations

Natural Family Planning and Contraception Information

• Napro Technology information about the new women's health science
• FertilityCare Services - Menstrual and fertility cycle information through the CREIGHTON MODEL FertilityCare™ System (CrMS)
• American Academy of FertilityCare Professionals – professional association founded in 1981 to foster, advance, and promote the Creighton Model FertilityCare System

• Couple to Couple League - Couples-based training in the sympto-thermal methodof NFP
• Fact Sheet - Studies Show Greater Access to Contraception Does NOT Reduce Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion
• Family of the Americas Foundation - NFP information in a variety of languages
• One More Soul - NFP resources, including searchable database of doctors and teachers
• Pope Paul VI Institute - Medical institute specializing in morally sound reproductive medicine and the Creighton model of NFP
• The GIFT Foundation - Promoting NFP and Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body

Post-Abortion Information and Counseling

• Project Rachel (St. Louis) - Provides help and resources for women touched by abortion
• Elliot Institute - Researching the impact and raising the awareness of abortion.
• Fatherhood Forever Foundation - Addressing the effects of abortion on men
• Feminists for Life - Nonsectarian, nonpartisan organization that seeks real solutions to the challenges women face including abortion, euthanasia, and abuse
• Hope After Abortion - Provides help and resources for women touched by abortion
• National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing - Support services for post-abortion counselors and organizations
• Operation Outcry - National 24-hour, toll-free Help Line to help women deal with their grief and to offer hope and healing
• Rachel's Vineyard - Provides help and resources for women touched by abortion
• Silent No More Awareness Campaign - The campaign seeks to expose and heal the secrecy and silence surrounding the emotional and physical pain of abortion.

Pregnancy Help and Hotlines

• Birthright - Offers services to pregnant women operates a 24-hour North American hotline, at 1-800-550-4900
• Alexandra's House - A perinatal hospice house and infant refuge in Kansas City, MO
• Bethany Christian Services - Helping women choose adoption, not abortion, when faced with a crisis pregnancy
• CPC World - A variety of services to assist Crisis Pregnancy Centers
• Elizabeth Ann Seton Program - Help for women with crisis pregnancies and their children, before andafter birth.
• Heartbeat International - Largest network of pro-life pregnancy resource centers in the world
• La Leche League International (Illinois) - organization dedicated to providing education and supportto women who want to breastfeed
• La Leche League International (Missouri) - organization dedicated to providing education and support to women who want to breastfeed
• Life Call - Resources for pregnant women and their babies
• Option Line - Help available 24/7 for pregnancy, abortion and related topics
• Pregnancy Centers Online - Listing of CPCs around the U.S. and English-speaking world, and other pro-life resources
• Rachel's Vineyard - Offering weekend retreats to help women cope with post-abortion problems
• Stand Up Girl - Becky faced a crisis pregnancy as a teen and now offers help to young women in this multimedia site
• Thrive St. Louis (formally PRC) - Healthy decisions about sex, pregnancy and relationships; has multiple resources for women at all stages of pregnancy, including free testing and ultrasounds.

Pro-Life Activism

• Defend Life - Vibrant Baltimore-based activist group run by the indefatigable Jack Ames
• Face the Truth America - Group based in Pittsburgh, linked to People Concerned for the Unborn Child
• Helpers of God's Precious Infants, Brooklyn - The original Helpers group, founded by Msgr. Philip J. Reilly
• Life and Liberties Ministries - Virginia activist group, does sidewalk counseling and runs Liberty Home for women
• Missionaries to the Preborn - Milwaukee-based group that pioneered the Face the Truth tour
• Operation Rescue West - National activist organization run by pro-life dynamo, Troy Newman
• People Concerned for the Unborn Child - Activist group based on Pittsburg, PA
• People for Life - Activist group based in Erie, PA

Pro-Life Information and Agencies

• AbortionCancer.com - Educates on the links associated with breast cancer and abortion
• AbortionFacts.com - Large collection of abortion information and statistics
• American Life League - Abortion, Contraception, and other related topics
• Americans United for Life - Defending life through litigation, legislation and education
• Case For Life offers intellectual arguments for opposition to abortion from many different standpoints, including philosophical and scientific.
• Center for Life Principles - Healing the culture by nurturing the princples that underlie the pro-life philosophy, founded by Robert Spitzer, S.J.
• Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer - Educates on the links associated with breast cancer and abortion
• Couple to Couple League - Natural Family Planning (NFP)
• Crusade for Life - Protecting Families from Abortion and Euthanasia
• Culture of Life Foundation and Institute - Funding and leadership to promote a culture of life
• Face the Truth - Information on Steve and Michael Peroutka's radio programs on important issues of the day
• Family Research Council - “Defending Family, Faith, and Freedom”
• Feminists for Life - Promoting authentic feminism that respects life and motherhood, honorary chair Patricia Heaton
• Focus on the Family - “Nurturing and Defending Families Worldwide”
• Human Life Alliance - Distributes advertising supplements, focusing on abortion, euthanasia and chastity, through mainstream media and college newspapers
• Human Life International - Promotes and defends the sanctity of life and family around the world according to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church through prayer, service and education.
• L.E.A.R.N., Inc. - (Life Education and Resource Network) African-American pro-life group
• Life Decisions International - Concentrates on exposing and opposing the agenda of Planned Parenthood
• Life Dynamics - Exposing abortionists' lies, Mark Crutcher's Life Talk cable program, abortion mill listings and many other pro-life resources
• Life Issues - News and commentary on the life issues
• Life News - Independent news agency specifically devoted to reporting news that affects the pro-life community
• March for Life - National headquarters for the annual March for Life on the Washington Mall
• Missouri Catholic Conference - Public policy agency of the Catholic Church in Missouri. Tools and information to participate in the democratic process
• Missouri Right to Life - Provides education, supports legislation and programs that endorse the sanctity of human life
• National Right to Life Committee - Aims to restore legal protection to innocent human life
• One More Soul - NFP, Teen Abstinence, Contraception information
• Overpopulation Myths - Non-profit research and educational organization dedicated to objectively presenting the truth about population-related issues
• Pharmacists For Life International - The 100% pro-life pharmacists group
• Precious Life - Fighting to keep abortion out of Northern Ireland and shut down abortion-referral organizations
• Priests for Life - Network to promote and coordinate pro-life activism with the primary strategic goal of ending abortion and euthanasia and to spread the Gospel of Life
• Pro-Life Action League - national pro-life educational and activist organization headquartered in Chicago
• Silent Scream - Information and pictures on abortion and fetal development
• STOPP International - Organization aiming to STOP Planned Parenthood efforts by shutting down PP programming in schools and in communities
• STOPP Planned Parenthood - ALL's campaign to confront Planned Parenthood's pro-abortion, anti-chastity efforts
• The Center for Bioethical Reform - Using graphic images to fight abortion
• The Grantham Collection - Grotesque online archive of former and current abortion instruments
• US Conference of
  Catholic Bishops Pro-life Activities Page - Works to teach respect for all human life from conception to natural death, and organize for its protection
• Vida Humana Internacional - HLI's Spanish language outreach, with comprehensive abortion information, crisis pregnancy resources and pro-life materials
• Vitae Caring Foundation – organization producing campaigns to educate and encourage a greater respect for live through a long term cultural change.

Pro-Life Products

• American Life League Store - Variety of Pro-Life materials including Rock for Life's "Abortion Is Mean" series
• Heritage House - A wide variety of pro-life materials, including fetal models and Precious Feet
• Life Cycle Books - Publisher of pro-life and premarital chastity books (U.S. and Canadian catalogs)
• Lion Heart Apparel - clothing outfitting Christian men in quality apparel encouraging men to identify with Christian role models throughout history
• Pro-Life Communications - Long distance plans that benefit pro-life causes
• Promise Checks - Spread the pro-life message - and support the League - with every transaction
• Refuge Clothing – Clothing line for men and women that models a life of self-respect and dignity
• Virtue Media - Producers of high-quality TV and radio spots designs to change hearts on abortion

Public Policy

• Constitution Party - Pro-life political group
• Democrats for Life of America, Inc. - Pro-life democrats
• Libertarians for Life – Libertarians against abortion
• Library of Congress - Legislative information and government resources
• Pelican Project - Medical malpractice attorneys specializing in helping women harmed by abortion
• The Personhood Amendment - "Paramount Right to Life Amendment" proposed group of Georgia legislators
• Thomas More Society - Pro-Life Law Center
• Vote Life America - Protesting pro-abortion politicians

Missouri 

Resources

• Missouri Catholic Conference - Public policy agency of the Catholic Church in Missouri. Tools and information to participate in the democratic process (Bill Tracker)
• Missouri House of Representatives - House and Senate Joint Bill Tracking
• Missouri Secretary of State’s Office – Absentee Voting Page - Absentee ballot applications and information
• Missouri Secretary of State’s Office – Elections Page - Voter registration information and where to register to Vote

Illinois 

Resources

• Catholic Citizens of Illinois – Encouraging Catholic values in Illinois
• Illinois Choose Life - Campaign for Choose Life license plates in Illinois
• llinois Citizens for Life - Education and lobbyist group
• Illinois Federation for Right to Life - Illinois chapter of the National Right to Life Committee
• llinois Right to Life Committee – education organization on life issues

Stem Cell and Cloning Research

• Do No Harm - The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics
• The Skin Gun - National Geographic video showing how one researchers has developed a
  "skin gun" which treats burn patients by spraying the patient's own
  adult stem cells on their burned skin.
• Natl. Catholic Bioethics Center - “Conducts research, consultation, publishing and education to promote human dignity in health care and the life sciences, and derives its message directly from the teachings of the Catholic Church”
• Natl. Committee for a Human Life Amendment - “educating citizens, developing pro-life legislative networks, and offering programs in support of pro-life legislation”
• Will Ambler Project - Ethical spinal cord research

Teens and Young Adults

• Abort73.com – Abortion information on "everything they don't want you to know"
• Abstinence & Marriage Partnership - Promote teen abstinence to strengthen later marriage
• American Collegians for Life - National coalition of college pro-life organizations.
• Chastity Call - Teen chastity
• Crossroads - Cross-country walk witnessing to life
• Generation Life - Movement of young people spreading the pro-life message
• Generations for Life - Pro-Life Action League’s outreach to this new pro-life generation.
• Gravity Teen - Abstinence, sexuality, pregnancy, and related topics
• Life Teen - Leading Teens Closer to Christ
• Lion Heart Apparel - clothing outfitting Christian men in quality apparel encouraging men to identify with Christian role models throughout history
• Love Matters - Dating, sex, love and you
• Refuge Clothing – Clothing line for men and women that models a life of self-respect and dignity
• Rock for Life - ALL'S youth outreach group, focuses on pro-life music concerts and education
• St. Louis Office of Youth Ministry - Archdiocese Office of Youth Ministry homepage
• Stand True Ministries - Clinic witness, Christian rock ministry and the best pro-life T-shirts available
• Stand Up Girl - Teen pregnancy
• Students for Life of America - Maintaining a pro-life presence on American college campuses
• Teen Breaks - Resource on issues Teens face today
• Teens for Life - Pro-life website just for Teens
• The Underground Project - way for the youth to become active in bringing the freedom of life to the unborn

Miscellaneous Pro-Life Links

• Campaign for Life - Creatively supporting pregnancy resource centers by selling luminary kits
• Children of the Rosary - Fighting abortion with prayer and presence at abortion facilities
• Former Women of Choice - Post-abortion help from women who have had abortions themselves
• Great Dad - Advice for fathers on parenting, pregnancy, adoption, child care.
• Internet Filtering software - Services for keeping children, families, and small businesses safe while using the Internet
• John Paul II Center - Responding with love to the dignity of human life from conception to natural death, based in Camas, WA
• K.I.D.S. - Keep Infants with Downs Syndrome KIDS - was formed to raise awareness about the tragically high 90% abortion rate of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down sydnrome. We wish also to proclaim the
  joys our special children bring to us. 
• LetterOfLuv.org - Working to end abortions by changing hearts through various means
• LifeNews.com - Pro-life news
• Monthly Call for Life - Monthly action items to help end abortion
• Overpopulation Myths - Non-profit research and educational organization dedicated to objectively presenting the truth about population-related issues.
• Precious Heartbeat - A biweekly pro-life podcast
• Pro-Life America - Publishers of Lovematters.com and pro-life/chastity outreach to teens
• Pro-Life Bumper Magnets - Bumper magnets
• Pro-Life Web Search - Powered by Google, with SafeSearch filter; earn money for pro-life organizations by surfing the web
• Protect Kids - Protecting children in cyberspace
• Reform America - Equipping Christian Americans to defend life, liberty, and justice in the public square
• Sacred Life - pro-life t-shirts and other materials
• Truth TV - Pro-life videos