American Life League

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American Life League, Inc.
Location
Area served
United States
ProductsLiterature
Key people
Judith "Judie" A. Brown,
President
Revenue
$5,022,739 (2012)
Expenses$4,991,338 (2012)
WebsiteAll.org
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Abortion
and the Catholic Church
Official opposition
Philosophy and theology
History
Activism
Dissidence
See also
embryonic stem cell research, and euthanasia. Its current president is co-founder Judie Brown and its headquarters is in Stafford, Virginia.[citation needed
]

Projects and resources

Projects that American Life League has sponsored include:

  • Celebrate Life Magazine[1] is a bi-monthly 32-page magazine on topics including abortion, contraception, euthanasia, infertility and cloning.
  • Marian Blue Wave[2] is a call to Catholics across America to pray a weekly Rosary with the specific intentions of ending all surgical, pill, contraceptive and IVF abortion and shutting down every Planned Parenthood facility in the United States.
  • Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic Church in which ALL sought to persuade Catholics about its views on abortion, as well as name
    abortion rights. In 2004, ALL published a full-page advertisement in USA Today urging Catholic priests and bishops to deny Communion to Catholic legislators who support abortion rights.[3]
    The League's slogan in this matter was "You can't be Catholic and pro-abortion."
  • The Pill Kills[4] discouraged people from using contraceptive medication, making claims about its effects on a woman's body as well as the effect that contraceptives have on fish once they enter the water supply. The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals said that ALL's claims regarding fish are "not supported by science".[5]

History

American Life League was founded on April 1, 1979

direct mail specialist Richard Viguerie.[8]

Street tactics

In 1994 ALL filed suit to challenge the

United States Supreme Court refused to hear the case.[3]

Disney boycotts

In March 1995, the American Life League boycotted the then-owners of

Roman Catholic priest deals with a variety of issues including his own homosexuality. Subsequently, ALL charged that Disney had concealed subliminal sexual messages in the animated films The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, and Aladdin. Disney denied all the claims.[11] Snopes states the ALL claims about both Aladdin[12] and The Little Mermaid[13] are false. Their claim about The Lion King is listed by the site as "legend", indicating that the claim is "essentially unprovable".[14]

Spending

In 2005, ALL was on Charity Navigator's list of highest paid CEOs, with one-third of its income spent on fundraising and administrative expenses and $699,857 (almost 9% of its income) paid out to its CEOs.[15] As of 2019, the non-profit charity evaluator Charity Navigator awards ALL 2 out of 4 stars, a ranking indicating they believe the charity "needs improvement".[16]

See also

Notes

  1. About.com. Archived from the original
    on February 23, 2007. Retrieved April 29, 2007.
  2. ^ "Michigan Planned Parenthood Closure is Focus of National Prayer". Dexter, MI Patch. May 4, 2022. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  3. ^
    People For the American Way. 2006. Archived from the original
    on October 11, 2006. Retrieved October 17, 2006.
  4. ^ "The Pill Kills". Archived from the original on February 27, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  5. ^ Little, Becky (July 31, 2017). "How One Bad Science Headline Can Echo Across the Internet". Smithsonian. Archived from the original on April 11, 2019.
  6. ^ "Founded". Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
  7. ^ http://www.clmagazine.org/article/index/id/MTM1NDE Archived May 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine A saintly influence: Pope John Paul II's impact on American Life League—and me. Judie Brown. Celebrate Life Magazine.
  8. ^ a b "Right Wing Watch - American Life League". People for the American Way. Wayback Machine. April 2006. Archived from the original on October 11, 2006. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
  9. ^ Smith, Peter (May 6, 2013). "Catholics Bid Farewell to Pro-Life Lion Howard Phillips". National Catholic Register. Archived from the original on May 2, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
  10. ^ American Life League v. ACLU appeal at Findlaw
  11. ^ Smith, Leef (September 1, 1995). "Disney's Loin King? Group Sees Dirt in the Dust". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
  12. ^ "Take Off Your Clothes!". Snopes. August 19, 2007. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
  13. ^ "The Aroused Minister". Snopes. August 20, 2007. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
  14. ^ "Sex in The Lion King". Snopes. August 19, 2007. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
  15. ^ "2007 CEO Compensation Study". Charity Navigator. 2007. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. ^ "American Life League". Charity Navigator. Archived from the original on July 4, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2014.

External links

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