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5 Ave Maria L. Rev. 469 (2007)
How Law Students and Attorneys Can Help the Pro-Life Movement

handle is hein.journals/avemar5 and id is 473 raw text is: HOW LAW STUDENTS AND ATTORNEYS CAN HELP THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT Fr. Frank Pavone, ME. V.W I. THE PRIORITY OF THE TASK At their annual meeting in November of 1989, the United States Catholic Bishops unanimously adopted a Resolution on Abortion, which stated in part: At this particular time, abortion has become the fundamental human rights issue for all men and women of good will.' That statement remains true today and has been echoed in numerous subsequent statements from the bishops over the years. No act of violence claims more victims.2 Moreover, no social policy more radically undermines our legal system, turning on its head the very purpose of law. In their 1998 document Living the Gospel of Life, the bishops made this striking statement: When American political life becomes an experiment on people rather than for and by them, it will no longer be worth conducting. We are arguably moving closer to that day.' Pope John Paul II spoke in similarly strong language about the implications of the failure of the state to protect the right to life in his encyclical The Gospel of Life, which is a seminal document for the pro-life movement: t National Director, Priests for Life. In 2005, Fr. Pavone established the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life (M.E.V.), a new community within the Catholic Church that accepts and trains its own seminarians to be ordained for the full-time, pro-life work of Priests for Life. 1. U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Resolution on Abortion, in 19 ORIGINS 395, 395 (1989). 2. Approximately 1,287,000 unborn children were killed by abortion in the United States in 2003. LAWRENCE B. FINER & STANLEY K. HENSHAW, GU-rrMACHER INST., ESTIMATES OF U.S. ABORTION INCIDENCE, 2001-2003, at 2 (2006), http: / /www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/ 08/03/abincidence.pdf. By comparison, there were 17,732 homicides, 31,484 suicides, and 109,277 deaths by accident in the United States in the same year. Donna L. Hoyert et al., Deaths: Final Data for2003, NAT'L VITAL STATS. REPS., April 19, 2006, at 1, 5 tbl.C. 3. U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics 9. 4 (1998).

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