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American Life League, Inc. (ALL) is an American Catholic activist organization which opposes abortion, all forms of contraception, embryonic stem cell research, and euthanasia. Its current president is co-founder Judie Brown and its headquarters is in Stafford, Virginia .
American Life League was founded on April 1, 1979 [5] [6] by Brown, her husband Paul, and eight other anti-abortion Americans after a schism with the National Right to Life Committee allowing for legal abortion in the case of rape, incest, and health of the mother. Brown reportedly stated in 1981 that the NRLC had been "trying to destroy my ...
Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians (PLAGAL), an interest group opposed to legalized elective abortion and supportive of alternatives to abortion, which is inclusive of all LGBT people as well as straight allies. Pro-Life Action League, a Chicago-based activist group founded in 1980 currently led by Eric Scheidler. [28]
In 1995, American Life League attempted to challenge the FACE Act in The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in a case called American Life League, Inc. v. Reno, but lost when the court upheld the FACE Act. [24] Following passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, several states passed analogous laws.
In 1978, NRLC found itself $100,000 in debt after Jefferson's presidency. Rather than acknowledge her record, she left the organization to form the Right to Life Crusade. [7] On April 1, 1979, the American Life League (ALL) was founded [13] [14] by Judie Brown, former public relations director of NRLC, and 9 others after a schism within the NRLC.
Howard Jay Phillips (February 3, 1941 – April 20, 2013) was an American politician and activist. A political conservative, Phillips was a United States presidential candidate who served as the chairman of The Conservative Caucus, a conservative public policy advocacy group which he founded in 1974.
Many socially conservative organizations are involved in the anti-abortion movement. Some groups focus solely on promoting the anti-abortion cause, such as American Life League, the Susan B. Anthony List, National Right to Life Committee, Americans United for Life, and Live Action, among many others.
The American Life League publishes "The Sidewalk Counselor's Guidebook" on its website. [ 3 ] The "Chicago Method" is an approach to sidewalk counseling that involves giving those about to enter an abortion facility copies of lawsuits filed against the facility or its physicians .