You Can Save Someone's Life Today!
You can save lives by helping to end abortion, which kills a baby every 23 seconds in America alone. Following are suggestions for legal, peaceful, effective activity. Do at least one of them today, and PLEASE COPY AND FREELY DISTRIBUTE THIS BROCHURE!
1) Pray daily for an end to abortion, for women tempted to have abortions, for doctors and nurses, for legislators, for clergy, for those who work in the pro-life movement, and for those who do not realize how wrong abortion is. Form pro-life prayer teams or prayer groups in homes or parishes. "Spiritually adopt" an unborn child, praying for him/her throughout a nine-month period. Perform acts of fasting and self-denial.
2) Read! Be more informed about abortion from such books as Abortion: Questions and Answers, by Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Willke (Available from Hayes publishing 513-681-7559.) Other books are available from Hayes or from Life Cycle Books (1-800-214-5849). Priests for Life has a resource guide to other books, pamphlets, audio and video tapes (1-888-PFL-3448 ext 237).
3) Send letters or articles to newspapers , to your elected officials , and other persons, institutions, and publications regarding respect for life . Have a group of people willing to sign letters that others write. For samples, ask for "Letters to the Editor" from Life Dynamics.
4) Speak up with courage and charity in defense of pre-born babies.
5) Encourage your priest, minister, or rabbi, to speak out against abortion. Priests for Life has resources.
6) Book announced Masses for the intention of an end to abortion, and write such intentions on the prayer intention cards that various organizations may mail to you.
7) Find out your doctor's position on abortion . If he/she does abortions, express your disapproval and switch to a pro-life doctor. If a hospital near you does abortions, express your disapproval and use another hospital. Provide your doctor with pro-life literature.
8) Find out who the local abortionists are . Some of them do it "on the side". Let them know your opposition to abortion. Pray for them by name.
9) Take part in local projects and pro-life activities. For information, contact your parish or local pro-life group. Join in pro-life Scripture or rosary services or prayer groups.
10) Leave pro-life literature wherever you can: in public places, at restaurants, as inserts in the mail you send, on cars, etc. Give literature to friends. Send it also in prepaid business reply envelopes that come in the mail. Include it in cards you send for Christmas, birthdays, and other occasions.
11) Help to counsel women who are tempted to have abortions. (Inquire at the numbers above or your local Crisis Pregnancy Center .)
12) Support a local Crisis Pregnancy Center with donations of baby/ maternity clothes and other needed items. Help to collect such items. If there is not a center near you, help to start one. Help existing centers to obtain sonogram machines and to upgrade to medical clinic status.
13) Get on the mailing list of pro-life organizations. Donate to them. Volunteer for them. A catalog of organizations is available from International Life Services.
14) Add the words "born and pre-born" at the end of the Pledge of Allegiance.
15) Find out whether candidates running for public office support abortion, and tell others. Help with voter registration and distribution of voter guides. Become involved, as citizens, in political campaigns. Vote in such a way that will advance the protection of life.
16) Spread the word that forgiveness, healing, counseling, and support groups are available for women and men who have been wounded by abortion . Call the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing .
17) Spread the word about the harmful effects of abortion.
18) Use paid advertising, in the Yellow pages and elsewhere, to spread pro-life information.
19) Encourage mothers who have been harmed by abortion to bring suits against the abortion industry. Find information about malpractice suits in newspapers or court records and send it to Priests for Life.
20) Donate pro-life books to your local libraries, schools, colleges, and Churches. Request such books at your libraries and bookstores.
21) Get pro-life programs onto local cable TV stations .
22) Promote adoption.
23) Publicize pro-life events that groups are holding.
24) Keep informed of national legislative efforts .
25) Publicize the names of women who have died from legal abortion so people learn that "legal" does not mean "safe."
26) Fly the flag at half-mast in respect for the babies killed by abortion.
27) Promote pro-life music.
28) Conduct fundraising efforts for pro-life groups: car-washes, bake-sales, raffles, dinners, penny drives, etc.!
29) Participate in the "Prodigal Project" by giving abortionists and their staff a special flier made by former abortionists! Dialog with abortion supporters.
30) Run a pro-life booth at fairs, rallies, conventions.
31) Establish a memorial stone to the preborn in a local cemetery or on Church grounds.
32) Do pro-life work on a full-time basis. Training is available on how to raise your own support. Inquire for more details.
33) Do not use the terms, "going to be a mother (or father)", "expecting a child" or "a child on the way" when speaking of pregnancy. The child is already there in the womb!
34) Use pro-life greeting cards.
35) Attend annual pro-life conventions. Sponsor a student to attend such conferences. Recommend speakers to other groups and invite them to your community organizations.
36) Get to know reporters and producers in the media. Inform them. Call in to radio and TV talk shows, and ask questions of the pro-life speakers so as to give them more chance to talk.
37) Learn and spread the stories of former abortion providers and of abortion survivors!
38) Do scholarly study and research.
39) View an actual abortion and challenge others to do so. Use graphic images of abortion on posters and other material. Ask for the Harder Truth video. Visit www.priestsforlife.org/images.
40) LEARN (Life Education and Resource Network) promotes pro-life involvement among the Black community . Write to PO Box 9400 , Fayettville , NC 28311 or visit www.learninc.org.
41) Hispanics for Life promotes pro-life involvement among the Hispanic community. Write to PO Box 9086 , Torrance , CA 90508 or call 310-549-4182.
42) Learn about RU-486 and the dangers of this chemical abortion procedure. For information, call Life Issues Institute (Ohio) at 513-729-3600, www.lifeissues.org .
43) Women who want to enter religious life may consider the Sisters of Life, 198 Hollywood Ave. , Bronx , NY 10465, (718) 863-2264, www.sistersoflife.org, or the Servants of the Gospel of Life (Archdiocese of Indianapolis).
44) In graduation ceremonies, include a remembrance of those who would have been graduating but were aborted.
45) Use the Internet to spread the message. Put a pro-life signature on your emails. Send pro-life messages to your email lists. Visit and learn from pro-life websites. Start a pro-life website.
46) For more ideas, see the books, Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion (available through the Pro-Life Action League, 6160 N. Cicero Ave., Suite 600, Chicago, IL 60646, 773-777-2900, www.prolifeaction.org).
47) If you have other ideas, don't keep them to yourself! And if you feel you can't do them, pass them along to those who can!
