Respect Life Ministry
RESPECT LIFE WEB SITES
● How does an abortion leave a woman with more cancer-vulnerable cells in her breasts than she had before she became pregnant? This site offers two versions of the biological rationale for the abortion-breast cancer link: a Brief Summary and the longer Detailed Explanation.
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• Considering adoption? Adoption alternatives.
● American Life League exists to serve God by helping to build a society that respects and protects individual innocent human beings from inception to natural death — without compromise, without exception, without apology. This site offers comprehensive information on all issues respecting human life and its sanctity.
4. CALIFORNIA CATHOLIC CONFERENCE
• A state Catholic Conference is a Church institution that represents the bishops (and their dioceses) and allows for the coordination of the concerns of the Church in state public policymaking. The California Catholic Conference staff communicates the California bishops' public policy priorities to the members of the legislative and administration branches of state governments and works cooperatively with other religious and secular agencies.
5. CALIFORNIA PRO-LIFE COUNCIL
• The state affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee since 1971. CPLC is a non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian grassroots organization dedicated to the cessation of the perceived need for abortion, euthanasia and infanticide. We believe this goal will be accomplished on two fronts: (1) working within the law to change the law and (2) changing public opinion through education.
6. CAPITOL RESOURCE INSTITUTE (CRI)
• CRI is California's leading pro-family grassroots advocacy group. Based in Sacramento, just across the street from our state Capitol, CRI’s mission is to advocate, protect, and defend family-friendly policies in the California state legislature and at local government levels.
• Catholic Answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving Christ by bringing the fullness of Catholic truth to the world. We help good Catholics become better Catholics, bring former Catholics “home,” and lead non-Catholics into the fullness of the faith. We explain Catholic truth, equip the faithful to live fully the sacramental life, and assist them in spreading the Good News.
8. CATHOLIC FAMILY AND HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE
• Trinity Communications is a non-profit corporation devoted to advancing the Catholic Faith through publishing and educational services. The site contains a Document Library with 5272 documents and articles including over 300 on Life Issues, and Site Reviews with 744 actively maintained reviews to rate and review other Catholic sites according to their Resources, Usability and Fidelity.
9. CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS
• The Catholic League is the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization. Founded in 1973 by the late Father Virgil C. Blum, S.J., the Catholic League defends the right of Catholics – lay and clergy alike – to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination.
Motivated by the letter and the spirit of the First Amendment, the Catholic League works to safeguard both the religious freedom rights and the free speech rights of Catholics whenever and wherever they are threatened.
10. CATHOLICS UNITED FOR THE FAITH
• Faith Facts provide concise, complete, and easy-to-read answers to specific questions about the Catholic faith. They explain what the Church teaches on important issues of faith, morals, and discipline. Faith Facts also explain the reasons behind these teachings--reasons that are found in Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the documents of the Magisterium. If you have a question about what the Church really teaches, chances are there's a Faith Fact that can give you the answer you're looking for.
11. CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA
• Sanctity of life reading resources.
12. EAGLE FORUM
• Leading the pro-family movement since 1972, founded by Phyllis Schalfley.
● This site provides useful information for those who are willing to embrace the dying—individuals and/or parish communities. Included on the site is an overview of Catholic moral theology on death and dying, current medical and hospital practices, the state of the law regarding end-of-life issues, comments on the current political situation, and information on parish nurses, parish health ministry, hospice care and other parish-based services.
• If you believe in the strength of women and the potential of every human life, if you refuse to choose between women and children, if you believe no woman should be forced to choose between pursuing her education and career plans and sacrificing her child, if you reject violence and exploitation, join us in challenging the status quo. Women deserve better choices.
● Site’s mission is to proclaim God's plan for life through Humanae Vitae conferences and providing information for clergy and laity so as to rejuvenate the Church with the rich beauty of God’s plan for life, love, marriage and the family.
• His Nesting Place is a maternity home located in a warm cozy complex of buildings in Long Beach, CA and has become one of the largest extended pregnancy care facilities in the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. His Nesting Place has the capacity to accommodate up to 40 women and children. Since 1983 His Nesting Place has housed over 4,000 women and children. It is one of the only homes of its kind that will accept a woman who already has children.
17. HOLY FAMILY SERVICES/ ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE
• Holy Family Services is a state-licensed, accredited, non-profit, non-denominational adoption agency serving Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties.
● There is hope after an abortion. It’s normal to grieve a pregnancy loss, including the loss of a child by abortion. It can form a hole in one’s heart, a hole so deep that sometimes it feels that nothing can fill the emptiness. This site offers hope and help to those suffering post-abortion trauma.
19. INTERNATIONAL TASK FORCE ON EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE
● This site addresses the issues of euthanasia, assisted suicide, advance directives, assisted suicide proposals, "right-to-die" cases, euthanasia practices in the Netherlands, disability rights, pain control and much, much more. The site provides important information on Advance Directives, the Protective Medical Decisions document with Durable Power of Attorney (and how to order one), and Pain Control.
20. LIFE SITE
● LifeSite is a web portal dedicated to issues of culture, life, and family. It was launched in September 1997. LifeSite news and information is widely used by other services and by leaders and grassroots people across North America and internationally.
21. LOVE MATTERS
• Dating, sex, love, and you – how to survive and find true love. Site mission is to educate, inspire and encourage youth to save sex for marriage and choose life rather than abortion.
22. MEGAN’S LAW
• Accesses National Registry of Sex offenders listed and located by state and neighborhood via zip code.
23. NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS CENTER (NCBC)
● NCBC, established in 1972, 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. The results of this research are available though this website and our various educational and publishing activities, workshops and seminars.
24. NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING (COUPLE-TO-COUPLE LEAGUE)
• Welcome to the best site for information on the Sympto-Thermal Method of Natural Family Planning! On this site discover a natural way to postpone or achieve pregnancy. The art of Natural Family Planning is based on an awareness of a woman’s fertility. It’s medically safe, 99% effective, very low cost, often has a positive effect on the couple’s marriage, and is morally acceptable.
25. NATIONAL OFFICE OF POST-ABORTION RECONCILIATION AND HEALING (PROJECT RACHEL NATIONAL OFFICE)
• This site gives contacts in the Southwest, including the Los Angeles Archdiocese for Project Rachel. Project Rachel is an outreach of the Catholic Church, but it is open to anyone who is struggling after an abortion loss. It is able to help women and men; parents, grandparents, siblings, friends and others whose lives have been impacted by an abortion loss. (See also Project Rachel, listing No. 21, for more information.)
• The ultimate goal of the National Righjt to Life Committee is to restore legal protection to innocent human life. The primary interest of NRLC and its members has been the abortion controversy; however, it is also concerned with related matters of medical ethics, which relate to the right to life issues of euthanasia and infanticide.
27. ONE MORE SOUL
• One More Soul is a non-profit site dedicated to spreading the about the blessings of children and the harm of abortion. The site carries a large variety of resources, including books, tapes, and videos. Discover Natural Family Planning; sterilization reversal; contraception side effects.
28. OPERATION OUTCRY
• Dedicated to spreading the truth that abortion hurts women and the message of hope and healing for those hurting from abortion.
29. POPULATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
• Founded in 1989, Population Research Institute is a non-profit research and educational organization dedicated to objectively presenting the truth about population-related issues.
• Precious Life Shelter is an emergency, transitional and single parent efficiency program providing a safe, environment for the expectant woman having no place to live. The woman may be facing an immediate financial, physical, or emotional crisis that threatens her with a loss of housing, food, and/or necessities for daily living. Precious Life Shelter offers a three phase program for the pregnant woman, 18 years or older, that has decided to have her child and needs a place to stay. It offers a drug / alcohol free program, with random screening. It is not a drug / alcohol rehab facility. The program will help her realize that both her life and that of her baby are precious. Located in Los Alamitos, CA, convenient to hospitals, doctors, churches, shopping centers, bus lines, and the 405 and 605 Freeways.
31. PRIESTS FOR LIFE
• Priests for Life is an officially approved association of Catholic Clergy who give special emphasis to the pro-life teachings of the Church. It offers ongoing assistance to the clergy in addressing pro-life topics, especially abortion and euthanasia, and training and resources to the entire pro-life movement.
32. PROJECT RACHEL
• For over 16 years, women and men have been coming to Project Rachel, the post-abortion ministry of the Catholic Church, for help in healing their emotional and spiritual wounds. The priests and counselors in the Project Rachel network understand the pain and loss that follow abortion. They have led thousands of grieving women and men from despair to hope and peace.
33. SCHOLL INSTITUTE OF BIOETHICS
• The Scholl Institute is a nonprofit, Judeo-Christian organization that addresses bioethical issues including euthanasia, the withholding or withdrawing of food and water from non-dying patients, brain death, organ transplantation, genetic engineering, and rights of disabled or mentally ill persons.
• The Second Look Project presents basic facts regarding abortion. While abortion has been legal in the United States for three decades, polls continue to show that many people do not have very basic information about abortion, such as when during pregnancy it is legal, or why it is generally performed. The Second Look Project offers information to help people make informed decisions based on fact rather than emotion.
35. SERVANTS OF THE HEART OF THE FATHER
• The purpose of Servants of the Heart of the Father is calling people to fast and pray for an end of abortion in all its forms and to stop the attack on the vulnerable members of our world.
• Embryos preserved in frozen storage offer great hope for life and for families facing fertility challenges. When a family has been successful in having a child through in vitro fertilization, embryos are often cryo-preserved, resulting in the question of what to do with them. These frozen embryos can be the hope of a child for an infertile couple. Embryo adoption shares this wonderful hope with others.
37. ST. ANNE’S MATERNITY HOME, LOS ANGELES
• Guided by our spiritual values and beliefs, St. Anne’s provides residential care and community-based services to at-risk young adults, pregnant and parenting adolescents and their children. We extend our services to others by providing related educational programs.
• Stem cell research promises great good and is a worthy scientific priority as long as we pursue it ethically. Obtaining stem cells from people without seriously harming people in the process can be ethical. However, obtaining stem cells from human embryos cannot be ethical because it necessarily involves destroying those embryos.
● The 'Theology of the Body' is Pope John Paul II's integrated vision of the human person - body, soul, and spirit. As he explains, the physical human body has a specific meaning and is capable of revealing answers regarding fundamental questions about us and our lives.
40. UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS (USCCB)
● The Life Issues section of the USCCB site gives in depth doctrinally authoritative information on all Life Issues.
41. YOUR CATHOLIC VOICE FOUNDATION
• Your Catholic Voice Foundation affirms the primacy of the family as the first cell of society, the first church, first government, first school, first hospital, first economy, and the first mediating institution of society.
