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In this issueFALL 2017 

VOLUME 39, NUMBER 3 

Cover images: iStockPhoto.com 

Departments 

2 Just between you and me 

3 Our readers respond 

4 Pro-life basics 

The alarming Planned Parenthood-Afaxys 

connection 

9 Viewpoint 

Roe v. Wade’s many flaws 

will be its demise 

13 Pro-life book review 

The Pro-Life Apologetics Manual 

14 Culture of Life Studies Program 

23 ALL insider 

25 Culture of Life Studies Program 

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Features 

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“Abortion Victim Photos” and why the pro-life movement needs them: 

An interview with veteran pro-lifer, Dr. Monica Miller 

By Lori Hadacek Chaplin 

The what, when, where, and how of using abortion victim photos effectively 

Securing the future: A grandfather’s quest to build a pro-life tomorrow 

By Laura Kizior 

What one grandfather is doing to reach younger generations with the message of life 

A pro-life Giant: Wellington Mara 

By Donald DeMarco, PhD 

Tribute to an amazing pro-life leader with an enduring legacy 

God’s Little Ones: Catherine Jacob’s powerful doll ministry 

By Diane Stark 

A unique talent becomes an amazing pro-life vocation 

FALL 2017 | Celebrate Life Magazine 1

JUST BETWEEN YOU & ME 

FALL 2017 

VOLUME 39, NUMBER 3 

“Whosoever shall 

not receive the 

kingdom of God 

as a child, shall 

not enter into it.” 

—Luke 18:17 

CHRIST SPOKE THESE words to 

His disciples, reminding them 

that the world does not look at 

Him Who is Truth through the 

eyes of a child but rather in a 

jaded way that is influenced by 

hatred of His saving power. 

He was referring to the 

Pharisees of His day who publicly 

claimed to obey the laws of their 

tradition but in their hearts harbored 

attitudes of disdain toward 

all that Christ taught among 

them. This was so then, and it is 

so now in our own time. 

And this is one reason why we 

are called to love our enemies 

and pray for them. It is why we 

are servants of a loving Father 

Who expects us to imitate Christ 

and never count the cost. 

As we defend the vulnerable from the many tools of death 

among the enemies of life, we trust in God’s providence, for we know 

that alone we can do nothing, but in Him all things are possible. 

So, when we read, for example, of the horrific propaganda that is 

being taught to our children in the school systems of America, we do 

not curse the darkness. We shed light on the truths of properly educating 

our children through our ALL Culture of Life Studies Program. 

When we hear members of the media praise the deadly ways of 

Planned Parenthood and decry those among us who strive to end 

their taxpayer funding, we do not scream as they do. Rather, we 

employ the tools of our ALL Stop Planned Parenthood arsenal and 

spread the truth as far and wide as we can, with your help. 

Why? Because we have heeded the profound simplicity of 

Christ’s words. We know that if we do not receive His truth and 

spread it with childlike love for our fellow human beings, we will fail. 

We are His feet and His Hands; in Him is the glory and the healing 

of this ailing land. Praise Him always. 

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letters OUR READERS RESPOND 

We are making progress 

I always read your magazine and enjoy it very much! We are 

making progress and I hope and pray all abortion will stop! 

Robert W. Wolf | Minnesota 

Reading Roe v. Wade & Doe v. Bolton 

together is crucial 

In the opening line of your page 6 article, “Forgiven & set free,” 

there’s a reference to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision handed 

down by the Supreme Court. It, along with its twin decision, 

Doe v. Bolton, were a death sentence of millions of our preborn 

citizens! Doe v. Bolton removes the limits of Roe v. Wade 

and extends the reach of abortion to millions more of our preborn 

citizens. The court said Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton 

should be read together! If you read the May issue of the New 

Oxford Review, on page 6, you’ll find my letter, “The Pro-Life 

Movement’s Major Blunder,” you’ll see that to ignore the existence 

and the educational power of the Roe v. Wade’s companion 

decision, Doe v. Bolton, is to help the abortion industry! 

Charles N. Marrelli | California 

Forgiven and set free (Summer 2017) 

Such a beautiful story. Regardless of one’s belief on this topic, 

he or she should read this story. 

Mary Warden | Facebook 

Correction 

“I have just finished the Summer 2017 issue and got quite a bit 

out of it. Thank you for that. I do, however, have one concern…. 

I was puzzled by the unedited use of ‘clinic’ in several 

places in the summer CLM. ‘Planned Parenthood clinic’ 

appears on p. 6, and ‘abortion clinic’ on p. 23.” 

Bob Plotz | Michigan 

Thank you, Mr. Plotz, for pointing out this editorial oversight. 

You are correct that we should not use terms lending credibility 

to the lie that abortion mills are legitimate healthcare facilities. 

Indeed, killing a child through abortion is never an 

authentic or necessary medical intervention. For a list of 

terms—including “health clinic/abortion clinic”—which need 

to be dropped from pro-life vocabulary, ALL has prepared the 

following list at bit.ly/ALL-PL-VOCAB. 

Check out our Editor’s Blog every Friday for 

insightful commentary on pro-life topics and 

news—CLMagazine.org/Editors-Blog! 

EDITOR’S NOTE 

Healing from miscarriage can 

be quite hard. Healing from 

abortion—once recognized for 

the horror that it is—can be 

extremely difficult. One 

talented woman has 

combined prenatal science 

with art to help mothers with 

such healing, as well as open 

hearts and minds by providing 

people with lifelike baby 

models that allow them to 

hold the truth of a preborn 

child’s humanity in their 

palms. God’s Little Ones 

provides tangible, realistic 

models of preborn children 

at different stages of 

development to offer healing 

for grieving mothers as well 

as palpable instruction on 

the reality and beauty of 

preborn human beings. 

Definitely check out Diane 

Stark’s article, “God’s Little 

Ones,” on p. 26! 

We’d love to 

hear from you! 

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pro-life basics BY JUDIE BROWN 

© iStockphoto.com/meltonmedia 

Is it true that Planned 

Parenthood is operating a 

for-profit business that sells 

the birth control pill? 

YES, INDEED IT IS. The company’s name is 

AFAXYS, which means “affordable access.” 

Recently we reported on this. 

The company was cofounded by a group 

of individuals that includes many current 

and former Planned Parenthood executives. 

Its primary founder and CEO, Ronda Dean, 

was vice president at Planned Parenthood 

Federation of America. Its board of directors 

includes current CEOs of at least three 

Planned Parenthood affiliates. 

At least some Planned Parenthood affiliates 

have provided start-up funds to Afaxys 

and have received company stock in return. 

Afaxys markets its own contraceptive 

products at a profit. In addition, it enters 

agreements with other pharmaceutical companies 

to establish contracts with members 

of the public health facilities. Since Afaxys is 

not a nonprofit, there is a profit motive 

behind its operations. 

Obviously, Planned Parenthood knows 

that we are after it and that its federal taxpayer 

funding could be cut, as has already 

occurred in several states. And since 

Planned Parenthood’s primary motive is 

money—not protecting women—it needed to 

have this lucrative business on the side. 

Planned Parenthood’s insatiable thirst 

for dollars is greater than its thirst for 

power and dead babies. 

We say this because as many of our 

readers know, most popular forms of birth 

control chemicals do kill preborn children 

during their first seven to eight days of life. 

These abortions are called chemical abortions, 

but for Planned Parenthood that is not 

a concern and the organization is certainly 

not spreading the truth about this. 

To be armed with facts like this is to 

understand exactly why we have fought 

Planned Parenthood everywhere for more 

than 30 years. We will not stop and we 

thank you for standing with us. 

Judie Brown is president and cofounder 

of American Life League and a three-time 

appointee to the Pontifical Academy for 

Life. You can submit questions to Judie 

at ALL.org. 

Share this article online from 

our website CLMagazine.org. 

* Go to bit.ly/ALL-AFAXYS to watch our video on the Planned 

Parenthood-Afaxys connection; to read our full Preliminary Report 

to Congress on this connection, go to bit.ly/ALL-AFAXYS-PRC. 

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“Abortion Victim Photos” 

and why the pro-life 

movement needs them 

An interview with veteran 

pro-lifer, Dr. Monica Miller 

By Lori Hadacek Chaplin 

© iStockphoto.com/4x6 

Dr. Monica Miller, author of 

Abandoned: The Untold Story of the 

Abortion Wars (Saint Benedict Press; 

2012), has seen firsthand that showing 

abortion-minded women photos 

of abortion victims awakens souls 

and saves lives. She recalls the day 

that she had two saves. Dr. Miller was 

counseling a woman at the Michigan 

Avenue Medical Center in Chicago— 

showing her photos of aborted 

babies—when another woman 

scheduled for an abortion came up 

behind her. “She peeked over my 

shoulder, and I heard a voice say, ‘Oh 

my G**, I cannot do that to my 

baby!’” The woman fled the abortion 

clinic, and so did the woman that Dr. 

Miller was counseling. 

“I have been present at the awakening 

of souls. There is a distinctive 

look that comes across the face of 

someone, who upon seeing abortion 

victim photos (AVPs) for the first 

time, realizes the hideous truth about 

abortion,” Dr. Miller says. 

Considering a growing trend in 

the pro-life movement to shun 

AVPs, Celebrate Life Magazine 

talked with Dr. Miller about why it's 

crucial for pro-lifers to refrain from 

calling pictures of aborted infants 

“graphic images” and instead call 

them “abortion victim photos,” why 

it’s crucial for the pro-life movement 

to use AVPs, where AVPs are best 

used, and more. 

You coined the term “abortion 

victim photos.” Why is it crucial 

that we use this kind of wording 

instead of “graphic images” 

when referring to pictures of 

aborted babies? 

The term “graphic images” is grossly 

insufficient; the picture of a preborn 

baby killed by abortion is not 

simply a “graphic image.” Such lan- 

guage doesn’t indicate the subject of 

the photo, and it’s the subject of the 

photo—namely a victim of injustice—that’s 

important. The graphic 

nature of the image is secondary. 

Indeed, many photos of babies killed 

by abortion are not graphic, though 

they will be disturbing or unsettling. 

We must call these images “abortion 

victim photos,” as such terminology 

is exact, truthful, and immediately 

draws the needed attention to the 

injustice and tragedy of abortion. 

Not only is AVPs a truthful reference, 

but it also declares the truth 

about abortion itself—that abortion 

is unjust and there are victims. 

Which kind of AVPs are 

most effective and why? 

There are too many AVPs in which 

the abortion victim is drowned in 

blood matter and unrecognizable as 

human. The most effective AVPs are 


those in which the humanity of the 

preborn child is immediately recognizable—the 

figure of the preborn 

child is not obscured or overwhelmed 

by the blood and guts. 

Why do you think the pro-life 

movement has shied away 

from using AVPs? 

Not everyone in the movement has 

“shied away” from the use of AVPs, 

but there is a strong wing of the 

movement that opposes their use. I 

think those who oppose AVPs have 

a misguided preoccupation with the 

public image of the pro-life movement 

and falsely believe that the display 

of the images makes the movement 

look extremist, confrontational, 

and insensitive. 

It is impossible for the movement 

to succeed without exposing 

the actual injustice! The entire 

goal of the abortion industry and 

its political, social allies is to treat 

the preborn as if they do not exist. 

Also, there’s a concern that the 

images make women who have 

had abortions feel bad. The legitimate 

need to be sensitive to the 

feelings of post-abortive women 

cannot restrict the need to expose 

the horror and injustice 

of abortion. The preborn 

are the group 

directly oppressed by 

legalized abortion. 

Where should 

AVPs be used? 

During sidewalk counseling 

and in literature 

given to women entering 

clinics. However, 

this isn’t a good setting 

for large posters because 

sidewalk counseling 

isn’t a protest of abortion. 

In this setting, posters of AVPs 

may hinder the one-on-one needed 

conversation outside of clinics. If 

there’s no real opportunity for those 

intimate one-on-one conversations, 

then AVP posters should be used in 

tandem with signs that give phone 

numbers of pregnancy help centers 

and other encouraging words. 

They also should be utilized in 

public thoroughfares (e.g., Face the 

Truth Tours), by Pregnancy Help 

Center counselors, on college campuses, 

and outside of high schools, 

and in educational seminars. 

Where should AVPs 

never be used? 

The images shouldn't deliberately be 

posted outside of grammar schools, 

day care centers, playgrounds— 

environments specifically designed 

for the congregating of children. 

Photos: Pro-Life Action League, used with permission 

Face the Truth Tour 2017 

Yes, in public displays children 

may happen to see them. Under 

normal circumstances, we would 

not want children to see these pic- 

tures, but the fact is that we are not 

in a normal circumstance. Legalized 

abortion has cast us into an emergency 

in which consciences must be 

aroused and the preborn respected 

and saved. 

Children will react to the AVPs 

the way their parents react to them. 

If the parents fly into a rage, the 

children are responding to that. All 

parents need to say to their kids is 

this: “These are babies that got hurt, 

and these people don't want us to 

forget about them.” 

By not showing the reality of 

abortion through AVPs, aren’t 

pro-lifers helping Planned 

Parenthood keep the secret? 

It’s an absolute fact the one 

thing that the abortion 

industry hates the most is 

the abortion victim images. 

I have been in debates with 

abortion advocates. As soon 

as I pull out the photos, the 

abortionists are thrown off 

balance; whatever arguments 

they have look silly, 

superficial, and vapid. They 

fear the pictures because 

they know just how compelling 

they are. The most 

valuable aspect of the Center for 

Medical Progress videos is not 

what the abortion providers say 

about abortion, rather it’s the 

video of the freshly-killed preborn 

babies in the back room where 

technicians are rummaging 

through the body parts of the 

babies. It is a glimpse of hell, and 

the abortion industry will never be 

able to run from such images! 

Visit bit.ly/DMM-AVPs to 

read Dr. Miller's full treatise on 

use of AVPs. 

Lori Hadacek Chaplin writes from Idaho. She is 

a senior writer for Catholic Digest. 




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viewpoint BY RAYMOND J. ADAMEK, PHD 

Roe v. Wade’s days are numbered 

The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution 

says in part: “No State shall . . . deprive any person of 

life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; 

nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the 

equal protection of the laws.” In the 1973 Roe v. 

Wade abortion decision, Justice Harry A. Blackmun, 

joined by six of eight other Supreme Court Justices, 

concluded that “the word ‘person’ as used in the 

Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the 

unborn.” At the same time, Blackmun conceded that 

if Texas’s assertion that “the fetus is a ‘person’ within 

the language and meaning of the Fourteenth 

Amendment” is established, . . . “the appellant’s 

[pro-choice] case, of course, collapses.” 

In a recent (May 2017) article in the Harvard 

Journal of Law and Public Policy entitled “Protecting 

Prenatal Persons: Does the Fourteenth Amendment 

Prohibit Abortion?,” Joshua J. Craddock establishes 

the fact that the fetus is a person and has been so 

considered in law for a long time. In a scholarly work 

with 198 footnotes, in which he refers to nineteen 

prior critiques of Roe v. Wade and more than 30 

related court cases spanning over 200 years, 

Craddock causes the pro-abortion case to collapse 

with a resounding thud. 

Craddock suggests that when Blackmun said, 

“We need not resolve the difficult question of when 

life begins,” he dismissed what should have been the 

primary focus of the case (What is the nature of the 

preborn individual whose alleged rights to protection 

we should or need not recognize?). Outlining his 

strategy for determining whether the Fourteenth 

Amendment was meant to include the preborn as 

persons, Craddock proceeds to determine 1) the 

meaning of the words used when the Fourteenth 

Amendment was ratified in 1868, 2) what the common-law 

precedent regarding the preborn and abortion 

was prior to that time, 3) what inferences might 

be drawn from state practice regarding these matters, 

and 4) what the anticipated legal application of the 

Amendment was after its adoption. Some examples of 

the results of applying this analytical strategy follow. 


The meaning of the words when 

the Amendment was ratified 

Craddock notes the word “person” in general dictionaries 

of the time was used interchangeably with 

“human being.” Thus, Alexander M. Burrill’s 1851 

dictionary defined “person” as “[a] human being, 

considered as the subject of rights, as distinguished 

from a thing.” Webster’s 1864 dictionary defined 

“person” as relating “especially [to] a living human 

being; a man, woman, or child; an individual of the 

human race.” Moreover, no dictionary of the era 

referred to birth as the event which signals the onset 

of personhood. 

The writings of the 18th century English legal 

scholar, William Blackstone, also indicated that in a 

legal sense, “person” included all human beings. He 

We should work for the 

repeal of Roe v. Wade, 

and for more support for 

mothers with unexpected 

or problem pregnancies. 

wrote that “natural persons [i.e., human beings] are 

such as the God of nature formed us.” He also stated 

that “life is . . . a right inherent by nature in every 

individual; and it begins in contemplation of law as 

soon as an infant is able to stir in the mother’s 

womb.” Naturally, Blackstone did not have our current 

scientific understanding, as we now know that a 

preborn child is a person from his biological beginning 

as a single cell, with his own DNA, before 

even implanting in his mother’s womb; 

however, Blackstone was correct 

that “person” legally includes all 

human beings, which includes 

the preborn. 

Common law precedent 

and state practice 

Quoting other legal scholars who 

have investigated these questions, 

Craddock states: “By the time of the 

Fourteenth Amendment’s adoption . . . 

nearly every state had criminal legislation proscribing 

abortion” (John D. Gorby); and “there can be no 

doubt whatsoever that the word ‘person’ referred to 

the fetus” (James S. Witherspoon). 

Hence, in 1868, “the states widely recognized 

children in utero as persons. Twenty-three states [of 

37] and six territories referred to the fetus as a ‘child’ 

in their statutes proscribing abortion. At least twenty-eight 

jurisdictions labeled abortion as an ‘offense 

against the person’ or an equivalent criminal classification.” 

Contemporary science demonstrates that 

the preborn person begins prior to implantation in 

utero, but this does not change the original intent of 

state laws. 

Moreover, in dealing with abortion laws, several 

states “left clear documentary evidence about their 

legislative purposes, which shed light on how lawmakers 

viewed the relationship between” the statutes 

and the Amendment, both being understood as protecting 

fetal life. 

Refuting Roe’s Erroneous Arguments 

Given the above historical record, how did the Roe 

Court deny the conclusion that the preborn are “persons” 

protected by the Fourteenth Amendment? 

Craddock’s main points are that: 

Roe relied in part on the subsequently debunked 

1 historical analysis of Cyril Means and others who 

maintained that early English Common Law and 

early American law freely permitted abortion, and 

that the main reason the states began passing antiabortion 

laws was to protect women from dangerous 

abortion procedures. 

The Roe Court argued that exceptions in state law 

2 permitting abortion when the mother’s life was in 

danger indicated that the preborn were not persons. 

But other legal scholars indicate that such rare 

exceptions do not negate the personhood 

status of the preborn. Of note, there 

is not one known case of a 

direct abortion that was 

necessary to save the 

mother. Rather, such 

exceptions to antiabortion 

laws are 

related to the idea of 

“legal necessity,” 

which speaks to 

the notion of the 

mother’s self-defense. 


The 1973 United States 

Supreme Court 

3 

Similarly, Roe argued that variations in state 

punishments for abortion also demonstrated 

that the states did not believe in the personhood of 

the preborn. But Craddock notes that factoring in a 

woman’s degree of culpability, considering women 

the co-victims of abortion, as well as other considerations, 

account for this variation, and do not negate 

the personhood of the preborn. 

Roe pointed to a lack of consensus about when 

4 life begins, and assumed this bolstered a conclusion 

that the preborn should not be considered persons. 

However, this simply indicates that the Court 

failed to consider the scientific evidence duly on this 

point, which Craddock states “had been available for 

over a century at the time of Roe.” Moreover, agreeing 

with Francis J. Beckwith’s analysis, Craddock 

concludes, “the Court’s only legally sound response 

would have been to ‘err on the side of life, and therefore 

to legally prohibit all abortions.’ . . . authorizing 

the killing of an organism ‘without knowing whether 

that being is a human being with a full right to life’ 

would constitute willful judicial recklessness.” 

In denying personhood to the preborn, the Roe 

5 Court ignored several of the Supreme Court’s 

earlier decisions. Thus, in Levy v. Louisiana (1968) 

involving illegitimate children, it stated, “equal protection 

extends to all who ‘are humans, live, and have 

their being.’” In MacArthur v. Scott (1885), it held 

that “the child in utero is entitled to secure inheritance 

and property rights.” As noted, scientific 

advancements have made it clear that the preborn 

begins prior to implantation in the womb, but this 

does not change the intent of this ruling. 

Paradoxically, in the Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) 

contraception case, the Court stated: “Once human 

life has commenced, the constitutional protections 

found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments 

impose upon the state the duty of safeguarding it.” 

Conclusion 

Craddock’s conclusion 

may be stated in the 

proposition he posed 

early in his article: “The 

Fourteenth Amendment’s 

use of the word 

‘person’ guarantees due 

process and equal protection to all members of the 

human species. . . . Therefore, the Fourteenth 

Amendment protects the unborn.” 

As he noted early in his article, this conclusion 

precludes a “state’s rights” approach to the legality 

of abortion. Hence, even the analyses of Roe’s two 

dissenters, Justices William Rehnquist and Byron 

White, as well as the later analyses of Justice 

Antonin Scalia, are constitutionally unsound, since 

they would allow individual states to formulate 

their own abortion laws, some of which would 

allow abortion, and would therefore violate the 

Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantees. 

How soon might we expect Roe v. Wade to be 

overturned, then? If I were not a realist, I would 

say, “As soon as the nine Justices of the Supreme 

Court read Craddock’s article.” Being a realist (but 

not a lawyer), however, I would think that a majority 

ruling could overturn Roe, even with the 

Court’s present composition, which now includes 

Justice Neil Gorusch. 

We should work for the repeal of Roe v. Wade, 

and for more support for mothers with unexpected 

or problem pregnancies. To dampen the unrest that 

may result when Roe is overturned, inform others 

(particularly those who support legal abortion) of 

the above facts, and familiarize them with Joshua J. 

Craddock’s work, which is available online. (For 

my earlier critique of Roe, entitled, “Roe v. Wade: A 

Bad Decision Yields Terrible Consequences,” go to 

RTLofNEO.com, click on Issues, Abortion, and 

scroll down). 

Raymond J. Adamek, PhD, is a retired professor of sociology from 

Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and has published some 25 

articles on life issues in professional journals and other outlets. He 

has been active in the pro-life movement since 1972. 

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pro-life book review BY SHANNON CONNELL 

The Pro-Life Apologetics Manual 

INCREASINGLY, IN MODERN times, it seems that truth is either being twisted 

or arguments are being constructed against truth by those who prefer convenience 

and need to rationalize their convenient lifestyles. Those who seek convenience 

over truth have created arguments that can fool even the most educated 

individuals. This is certainly the case with arguments in favor of abortion. Long 

before Roe v. Wade, many pro-abortion arguments have been compiled to ease 

the consciences of those who choose a convenient life over an upright one. Since 

Roe v. Wade, these pro-abortion arguments have only increased. Thus, even for 

the most intelligent Catholics and pro-life advocates, navigating through these 

deceitful arguments can become tricky without having some help in deconstructing 

them. 

Angelo Stagnaro breaks down every pro-abortion myth imaginable. He 

deconstructs the faulty reasoning and points out many inherent contradictions. 

The Pro-Life Apologetics Manual cuts straight to the chase as Stagnaro distinguishes 

between the facts concerning abortion from the lies pushed on society 

by pro-aborts based on logic, philosophy, theology, history, and science. 

For example, Stagnaro uses simple reasoning to deal with “Myth 54: I have 

nothing against babies. What do you have against women having the right to 

choose?” He points out the inherent contradiction as follows: “It is a wonder 

that people cannot see the obvious inherent contradiction in their 

words. Then the argument is deconstructed, we find the following structure: 

‘I love babies and I want the right to kill them’” (p.113). 

Stagnaro does not stop there, however. He offers arguments and 

alternatives to other contemporary threats to life, such as contraception 

and genetic screening. 

The Pro-Life Apologetics Manual appeals to a broad range of pro-lifers 

with easy-to-understand arguments that lead to hard-hitting truths. 

It serves as both a reference on which the most educated pro-lifers can 

fall back as well as a starting point for new pro-lifers to learn everything 

from the basics to the subtleties. It is an essential resource for all pro-lifers 

and will fill in many gaps when defending the pro-life cause. 

Catholics can rely on the points Stagnaro puts forward throughout 

the book with confidence, since his book has received a Nihil Obstat and 

an Imprimatur from the Catholic Archdiocese of New York; in other 

words, the book does not contradict Catholic teaching on faith (doctrine) 

or morals (morality). 

Finally, a single book that pro-lifers can use to defeat many pro-abort lies 

with ease. Stagnaro has provided the community not only with a good read, but 

with a pro-life resource that can be continually referenced in times of confusion 

or when searching for the proper rebuttal to a pro-abort lie. Let’s hope that 

some from the so-called “pro-choice” movement read this manual and finally 

realize the many errors that plague their untenable position! 

By Angelo 

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Shannon Connell is a physician assistant in New Jersey. Her training in medicine has made her all the more 

passionate about the dignity of the preborn person. She is passionate about her faith, pro-life topics, and 

helping others holistically in recognition that the human person is both body and spirit. 


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under. Partnering with the Institute for Excellence 

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opportunity to students across the country. “This 

contest is a great way to teach the next generation 

to speak out about their pro-life beliefs and hone 

their writing skills,” said Cathy Daub, director of 

the Culture of Life Studies Program. 

The Institute for Excellence in Writing is a writing 

program that trains students to be “confident and 

competent communicators and thinkers.” Andrew 

Pudewa, founder and director of the Institute for 

Excellence in Writing, believes that 

a pro-life essay contest is a perfect way for 

students to practice the pro-life reasoning they 

have learned in the classroom: “What we most 

need today are young people who both know 

the truth and are learning to speak it effectively 

to a world that desperately needs it.” 

With this essay contest, CLSP and the Institute 

for Excellence in Writing hope to encourage 

and empower the next generation of pro-lifers 

to speak out against the injustices of the culture 

of death. Winning entries will be published in 

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Age 12 

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In the Gospel 

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to me” (Matthew 24:40). Who are the 

“least of these”? What does it mean 

to stand up for them? How can you 

stand up for the “least of these” 

around you? 

Write 500–800 words (3–5 paragraphs) 

responding to the essay prompt. Have 

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Age 13 to 18 

Saint John 

Paul II wrote: 

“The new 

evangelization 

calls for 

followers of 

Christ who 

are unconditionally pro-life, who will 

proclaim, celebrate, and serve the 

Gospel of life in every situation.” 

What does it mean to be unconditionally 

pro-life? How can you 

“proclaim, celebrate, and serve 

the Gospel of life” in your life 

as a student? 

Write 800–1200 words (5–7 

paragraphs) responding to the essay 

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DEADLINE: December 2, 2017. 

Contest Rules and Submission Guidelines 

1. Submissions must be the original, previously 

unpublished work of the student. 

2. Plagiarism is not acceptable. 

3. Only one entry per contestant. 

4. Only essays that respond to the essay prompt 

will be considered. 

5. All essays must be submitted by a parent, legal 

guardian, or teacher. 

6. All outside sources used must be cited according 

to MLA style (Visit Owl.English.Purdue.edu/owl 

for more information about how to use MLA 

citations in the body of the essay as well as on 

a Works Cited page). 

7. Essay title should be centered on top of the 

first page. 

8. All text needs to be double spaced. 

9. All text must be Times New Roman, 12 pt. font. 

10. Do NOT include the contestant’s name 

anywhere on the submission itself. Use the 

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11. All submissions become the sole property of 

American Life League, Inc. ALL reserves the 

right to edit submissions for publication. 

12. Electronic submissions must use the form on 

ProlifeEssay.com only. 

13. DEADLINE: December 2, 2017, at 11:59 pm 

Pacific Time. Contestants will be notified of the 

results during the month of December. 

“What we most need today are 

young people who both know 

the truth and are learning to 

speak it effectively to a world 

that desperately needs it.” 

Andrew Pudewa, founder and director 

Institute for Excellence in Writing 

“This contest is a great way 

to teach the next generation 

to speak out about their 

pro-life beliefs and hone their 

writing skills.” 

Cathy Daub, director 

Culture of Life Studies Program 


Securing 

the future 

A grandfather’s 

quest to build a 

pro-life tomorrow 

By Laura Kizior 

Like many pro-lifers, Bill Gourley 

became involved in the pro-life 

movement shortly after the Roe v. 

Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions in 

1973. As a father of two young children 

at the time, Gourley was 

appalled at the idea of abortion— 

that mothers and fathers could legally 

kill their own children. He knew 

he couldn’t sit by and do nothing. 

Gourley’s quest to join the pro-life 

movement led him from participating 

in pro-life political activism to 

giving local talks about abortion and 

working at his parish as the co-chair 

of the Respect Life Committee. 

In his position, Gourley does his 

part to make sure that his parish and 

his community understand the 

value of every person’s life. Inspired 

by great pro-life saints, like Saint 

John Paul II, Gourley doesn’t just 

want to end abortion in his community; 

he wants to build a culture of 

life. He firmly believes that our 

homes, neighborhoods, and parishes 

are the real foundation where the 

culture of life begins: “I firmly 

believe that we can never rely on our 

courts and legislators to set the 

boundaries for what is right and 

moral in our society,” he says. Like 

many pro-lifers, Gourley recognizes 

that older strategies for ending abortion, 

such as political activism, are 

not enough to turn the tide and 

ensure protection for future generations. 

These older strategies have 

omitted a crucial piece, namely, education 

in terms of pro-life formation. 

The missing piece 

We have made great strides in 

Catholic education. Today, the 

United States is home to several 

great, solidly-Catholic universities. 

There are almost 2 million students 

in Catholic schools, and over 3 million 

students enrolled in religious 

education programs. Additionally, 

there are thousands of students 

being raised in a homeschool environment. 

Although many of these 

students learn about their faith 

through their coursework, few students 

leave Catholic school with a 

firm understanding of the pro-life 

message, let alone the tools they 

need to express their pro-life beliefs 

confidently and courageously. 

As American Life League discovered 

at the 2017 March for Life in 

Washington, DC, 8 out of 10 pro-life 

students attending the March for 

Life Expo had no idea that Margaret 

Sanger founded Planned Parenthood 

or that her racist and eugenic ideas 

are still fueling the organization. 

Today, even pro-life students are 

caught in the snares of the culture of 

death due to their lack of knowledge 

regarding even the most basic prolife 

principles and arguments. 

Pro-life formation is key to 

building a culture of life because it 

lays an intellectual, moral, and logical 

foundation for pro-life beliefs. 

While still young, children should be 

taught about the beauty of a developing 

baby in his mother’s womb so 

that they can carry that knowledge 

with them their entire lives. If someone 

ever tells them, “It’s just a blob of 

tissue,” the students can confidently 


espond, “No, he’s a baby; he’s just 

not done growing yet.” They can 

respond with confidence since they 

have been given the tools to understand 

that we are all made in the 

image and likeness of God—no matter 

what stage of life. 

Pro-life formation that starts as 

young as preschool is what will end 

the culture of death once and for all. 

It’s the missing piece in the pro-life 

movement that will ensure that the 

hard work of so many dedicated 

activists is not lost by the next generation. 

In Bill Gourley’s words, we 

can’t wait until students reach high 

school and college before introducing 

them to the culture of life: “If we 

don’t want to lose our children to 

the progressive, anti-life culture of 

our day, we need to start when they 

are young by building a strong 

faith-based, pro-life foundation in 

our homes and Catholic/Christian 

schools.” Pro-life formation cannot 

wait until a child reaches high 

school. It has to start when he is 

young so that, as his mind matures, 

he receives proper formation and 

develops ordered thinking. 

This is why American Life 

League created the Culture of Life 

Studies Program—to help teachers 

and parents teach the pro-life basics 

to students of all ages. Every child 

should have the opportunity to learn 

that human beings are valuable, not 

by their own merits or appearance, 

but because they are made in the 

image and likeness of God. 

CLSP brings the truth to students 

in classrooms across the 

country because we believe that we 

cannot only end abortion through 

pro-life formation, but we can also 

build a culture of life that sees every 

human being as valuable. Pro-life 

formation is not only changing 

students’ hearts and minds—it’s 

empowering them to be pro-life 

without apology. 

A man with a mission 

Gourley believes pro-life formation 

is so important that he is dedicating 

his time and energy to spreading the 

gospel of life in his local Catholic 

schools. Last year, as he was searching 

for a pro-life program to use with 

the youth at his parish, Gourley discovered 

CLSP. “I felt like I had just 

stumbled on something amazing 

that I didn’t know existed,” he 

recalls. He immediately took action. 

At the next Respect Life Committee 

meeting, Gourley excitedly shared 

his discovery with his colleagues and 

soon the parish elementary school 

adopted CLSP into their curriculum. 

But Gourley didn’t stop there. 

“I wasn’t satisfied just reaching the 

youth in our local parish when we 

have Catholic elementary and high 

schools across the diocese that are 

unaware of CLSP and not benefitting 

from any formal diocese-wide 

pro-life educational initiatives,” he 

said. “I am working to change that.” 

Gourley is now one of several 

CLSP Ambassadors for Life. The 

Ambassadors for Life are people, 

mostly lifelong pro-lifers, who vol- 

We need your help to bring CLSP 

to your local school or diocese! 

Join the CLSP Ambassadors for Life initiative and be 

a positive influence in your community. Contact CLSP 

Outreach Coordinator, Mary Flores, at mflores@all.org. 

Sharing CLSP with others is something to get excited about! 

New Ambassador for Life, Mary Lou Junker, writes: 

“I reacted like a ‘child on Christmas Morning’ when I 

received the package from [CLSP] today! For three years, 

I’ve been working on getting together a program of 

appropriate info to educate our youth on Respect Life 

topics. It’s been very time consuming. Then, when I ran 

across [CLSP] . . . it gave me such hope. I don't need to do 

this on my own! THANK YOU!” 


unteer to make a difference in their 

own communities by helping CLSP 

become part of their parish or diocesan 

curriculum. They are using their 

time, talents, and local connections 

to make sure that the past 40 years 

don’t go to waste. “It is about the 

future of our nation and the salvation 

of our immortal souls. Do we want to 

be known as a nation that kills its 

own offspring or euthanizes its disabled 

or infirmed in the name of 

convenience? And we call ourselves 

the leader of the free world! If we 

stand by and allow this to happen, we 

are complicit in the evil that follows. 

We simply need to ask ourselves: 

‘What would Christ do in the face of 

such evil?’ We already know the 

answer . . . which gives us no choice 

but to follow Him.” says Gourley. 

With the help of dedicated 

Ambassadors like Bill Gourley, CLSP 

materials are being taught in over 50 

schools across the country. We are 

currently working with Ambassadors 

in three dioceses to ensure that teach- 

ers have access to these valuable 

resources. CLSP has enjoyed great 

success in these past three years. 

However, dozens of dioceses across 

the United States still lack a firm 

action plan for teaching pro-life values 

to Catholic school students in 

every grade level. We need people 

like Bill Gourley who will help to pass 

the torch to the next generation. 

Believe in your mission 

Pro-life formation is what is inspiring 

our young people to be more pro-life 

than before. Educating the next generation 

is our mission; it is your mission. 

Will you respond? 

“First believe in your mission 

and in your ability to make it happen,” 

Gourley recommends. “There 

are legions of people out there who 

are hoping someone just like you 

will come along to help them teach 

their children and grandchildren 

that life is beautiful at every stage 

and only God gives it and only He 

can take it away.” 

Next, Gourley recommends 

exploring CLSP for yourself: “It is 

simply the best K–12-focused, classroom-ready 

educational materials 

available anywhere,” he says. “Take 

it to local faith-based educators. Be 

persistent, but be patient. Introducing 

new lessons into established curricula—regardless 

of its quality— 

takes time. Pray. God will inspire 

you and give you the strength to 

pursue His work.” 

Would you like to bring CLSP to 

your local school or diocese? 

Through CLSP Ambassadors for Life 

initiative, you can be a positive influence 

in your community. Contact 

CLSP Outreach Coordinator, Mary 

Flores, at mflores@all.org. 

Laura Kizior works in American Life League’s 

Culture of Life Studies Program as a content 

developer. Her work has appeared on Verily.com, 

CatholicMom.com, LifeSiteNews.com, and 

TeachersSavingChildren.org, and in the Pro-Life 

Healthcare Alliance newsletter. 



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A pro-life 

GIANT 

Wellington Mara 

By Donald DeMarco, PhD 

Photo by Howard Earl Simmons/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images 

An unexpected gift arrived in the mail some time ago—a copy 

of Judie Brown’s autobiography, courtesy of Wellington Mara, 

co-owner of the New York Football Giants. It was on the basis 

of my friendship with Mrs. Brown and the fact that I was seen 

as “a co-worker in her mission to protect God’s preborn 

children” that I became the beneficiary of his generosity. But I 

was also the beneficiary of his humility-inducing magnanimity. 

He was truly a giant of a man. 

Wellington Timothy Mara was born 

in Rochester, New York, on August 

14, 1916, the youngest son of Tim 

Mara, who founded the New York 

Giants football team in 1925. That 

was the year Wellington entered the 

National Football League, though in 

the inglorious role of a ball boy. He 

became the co-owner of the Giants 

from 1959 until his death on 

October 25, 2005. During his tenure 

at the helm, he became one of the 

most influential and iconic figures 

in the history of the National 

Football League. He was enshrined 

in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 

1997 and elected to the New Jersey 

Hall of Fame in 2012. 

Mara was highly respected by his 

players. When Lawrence Taylor 

(better known to football fans as LT) 

was inducted into the Pro Football 

Hall of Fame, he thanked Mara for 

supporting him during the worst 

times of his drug addiction, stating 

that “He probably cared more about 

me as a person than he really should 

have.” Taylor credited his owner for 

helping him to turn his life around 

and live a clean lifestyle. 

Mara’s pro-life work 

Wellington Mara’s pro-life work is 

well known and he has urged businesses 

and professional organizations 

to use their “time, their talents, 

and their treasure” to promote 

respect for life. At the time of his 

passing, he was survived by his wife 

Ann (1929–2015), 11 children, and 

42 grandchildren. It has been 

reported that his team honored him 

after his death by trouncing the 

Giant’s biggest and oldest rival, the 

Washington Redskins, 36–0 on 

October 30, 2005, at Giants 

Stadium. When his name was mentioned, 

the crowd of 80,000 gave 

him a standing ovation. 

On April 21, 1999, the National 

Right to Life Educational Trust 

Fund hosted its 6th Proudly Pro- 

Life Awards dinner. The guest of 

honor that night was Wellington 

Mara. The occasion raised over $1 

million to further the pro-life cause. 

Mara was reluctant at first to receive 

the award, but finally consented in 

the name of Life Athletes, a group 

he founded. Other winners of the 

award include Mother Teresa, Pope 

John Paul II, Knights of Columbus 

Supreme Knight Virgil Dechant, 

Rep. Chris Smith, and Mrs. Arthur 


DeMoss. “God blessed me with a 

long life,” Mara said at the dinner. 

“During that lifetime I have formed 

a clear perception of the absolute 

sanctity of life and the unshakable 

conviction that, of all God’s gifts, it 

is the most precious—and is becoming 

the most tenuous,” he told the 

700 people in attendance. “We live 

in an age,” he went on to say, “when 

Bowl XXI, defeating the Denver 

Broncos in 1987, Mara called six 

players on the winning team to put 

together a video called “Champions 

for Life.” American Life League 

worked in concert with Mara to 

produce “Champions for Life,” a 

video which sparked the creation of 

Life Athletes. Included in the message 

the athletes delivered is the 

monies of the event. “We are rightly 

concerned,” he told the gathering, 

“about the thousands of innocent 

men, women, and children in villages 

far, far away with names we 

cannot pronounce. But here at 

home, the same government that is 

outraged at what’s going on in 

Kosovo is using every trick, every 

lie, every device possible to allow 

the current ongoing killing of 

almost 1.4 million totally innocent 

American children every year in 

places with names we know very 

well, like Los Angeles and Dallas 

and New York and Miami.” 

Stein, who played the boring 

high school teacher in the 1986 

comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, is 

anything but boring when it comes 

to the defense of innocent life. “For 

me, the number one issue is right to 

life,” he said. “The thing about 

Hollywood people is they think of 

themselves as workers and proletarians 

and the warriors of the revolution, 

but they’re also snobs. They’re 

incredible snobs.” 

Wellington Mara (center) with a priest-friend, George Martin (left), and Mark Bavaro 

(right) of the New York Giants. 

mankind, in its arrogance, seeks to 

abrogate to itself the right to limit or 

deny life to the afflicted and the 

unborn. That is the challenge of our 

generation. The challenge and the 

shame.” He looked to Life Athletes 

to provide critically needed role 

models for America’s youth. 

Chris Godfrey, the executive 

director of Life Athletes, and owner 

of a Super Bowl ring, thanked Mara 

for being a man of exceptional 

integrity. “But more importantly,” 

he said, “I’d like to thank him for 

asking me to walk alongside of him 

to build a culture of life, which, in 

the bigger picture, is far more 

important than winning a Super 

Bowl.” After the Giants won Super 


importance of chastity. Masculinity 

does not imply promiscuity. (You 

can watch “Champions for Life” 

online at bit.ly/ALL-CFL). 

Ben Stein, movie actor, law professor, 

television personality, presidential 

speech writer, and pro-life 

advocate served as master of cere- 

Mara’s legacy 

Monsignor George Rutler, a close 

friend of Mara, reminded the world 

of the importance of Mara’s legacy. 

Whether he attended the funeral of 

Rutler’s mother or a birthday party 

for the Monsignor, Mara was always 

“The archetypal Catholic gentleman 

distinguishing himself in his prolife 

work, very practically engaging 

football stars in his “Athletes for 

In addition to working with American Life League to 

make “Champions for Life,” Wellington Mara served 

on ALL’s Financial Advisory Board from 1985 to 1991. 

ALL pays tribute to this pro-life Giant in a video called 

“American Life League Drafts NFL Legend,” which can 

be seen at bit.ly/ALL-WMTribute.

Judie Brown presented American Life 

League’s Champion of Life Award to 

Wellington Mara on August 23, 1989. 

Life’ which helped the 

moral formation of young 

boys in our morally desolate 

culture.” 

Wellington Mara 

understood the permanent 

relevance of Church teaching 

in a world that is constantly 

yielding to passing 

fads. “The Church has 

never changed its teaching 

on the sanctity of human 

life,” he once said. “It didn’t 

make up a rule for the convenience 

of a particular 

time like a rule at a country 

club as the Governor would 

have us believe.” 

Wellington Mara succumbed to 

lymphoma at the age of 89. He is 

buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery 

in Hawthorne, New York. The 

Seattle Times had this to say about 

his passing: “On a crisp autumn 

afternoon, perfect for the game he 

loved, New York Giants owner 

Wellington Mara was revered Friday 

as a peerless father, friend and football 

man at a service packed with 

luminaries.” We may believe there 

were angels among the luminaries. 

Donald DeMarco, PhD, is a Senior Fellow of 

Human Life International; professor emeritus at 

St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario; an 

adjunct professor at Holy Apostles College & 

Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut; and a regular 

columnist for the St. Austin Review. Some of his 

recent writings may be found at Human Life 

International’s Truth and Charity Forum. 



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Are there pro-life lessons in English 

literature? You bet! 

By Laura Kizior, curriculum developer for ALL’s Culture of Life Studies Program 

WHEN WE TALK about 

Dream of the Rood, we often 

see customers turn away, 

dreading the thought of 

teaching Medieval English 

literature. This past summer, 

one homeschool co-op teacher 

approached our conference 

table with trepidation, thinking 

that none of our materials 

would fit into her high school 

English class this fall. 

I showed her Dream of the Rood, explaining that the students first 

learn about the Medieval understanding of heroes and then apply 

what they’ve learned to modern-day pro-life heroes. When the teacher 

realized that we organized the lesson, she became very excited. She 

later wrote to us to express how excited she was to start teaching this 

fall. 

Part of the fun we have at conferences is watching the growing 

excitement of teachers when they discover how they can teach the 

culture of life in every class and at every grade level. 

Joy from unexpected places 

By an ALL staff member 

WORKING AT American Life League is a constant struggle to 

protect the lives of every human being, from creation to death. 

We are encouraged when we see the victories brought about by 

our work: hundreds of abortion facilities closed for good; mothers 

who tell us they chose life for their preborn child after viewing our 

Baby Steps DVD; and the list goes on and on. 

Yet, every day, the culture of death devises another way to kill 

God’s children. Some days, the demands on our funds are overwhelming 

and we wonder how we will get the resources to go on. 

We had such a day recently. 

Then, after our morning prayer, we began opening the mail. It 

was Tuesday, the worst day of the week for donations. Among the 

short stack of envelopes, there was one from a lawyer. We opened it 

and there was an estate check for $33,000! We will save more lives 

today! You cannot imagine how uplifting it is to know our supporters 

remember us—even from beyond the grave. Praise God! 

A God-given 

moment 

By Jim Sedlak, ALL’s executive 

director and founder of STOPP 

A FEW YEARS ago, two 

people from our STOPP 

effort were at a hotel 

where an annual Planned 

Parenthood convention 

was to begin the next 

day. That night, they 

found a crew in a 

ballroom building a stage 

for PP’s use. Much of the 

stage was finished and 

there were already PP 

logos and signs in place. 

Our people walked on the 

stage and began taking 

pictures of themselves 

behind the podium. 

Even now, those 

pictures remind us that 

Planned Parenthood is 

not invincible. After all, 

they couldn’t even keep 

us off their stage. One 

day, we’ll stand 

on a similar 

stage and 

announce 

the demise 

of that oncedominant 

organization. 

God will 

not lose. 


ALL INSIDER 

Shipping an order… to Australia! 

By Mary Kizior, curriculum developer for ALL’s Culture of Life Studies Program 

HERE AT THE Culture of Life Studies Program, we 

get excited about sharing our resources with people 

all over the world. As our program continues to gain 

popularity in the United States, we are also 

experiencing an increase in 

international orders. Each 

member of the CLSP team wears 

many hats and shipping these 

orders has become nothing less 

than an adventure! 

When someone from another 

country places an order for one of 

our unit studies, it sets off a chain 

reaction that sends the CLSP team 

into a bustle of activity. American 

Life League is very much a family-oriented 

organization—the families of staff members are 

often called upon to volunteer in the shipping 

department when there are dozens of new orders to 

fill. Assisted by a crew of passionately pro-life teens 

working at the ALL offices in Virginia or at “The 

Warehouse” in Missouri (our director’s basement), 

the CLSP team fulfills every order. Our shipping 

department carefully prepares every package. 

Each unit study, coloring book, and printed 

lesson is carefully wrapped in protective tissue 

paper and lovingly placed into its designated 

shipping container. As a final 

touch, we include a colorful 

CLSP catalog and seal the 

package with durable and 

trustworthy packaging tape. The 

parcels are then loaded into the 

back of our shipping truck (also 

known as the family minivan) 

and are safely transported to the 

post office, where the packages 

are stamped and whisked off to 

exotic and faraway destinations like Guam, Ireland, 

Malta, and Australia. 

Shipping our products to far-off places reminds 

us that pro-life education works to change hearts 

and minds. It also inspires us. It urges us to keep on 

working to create the most comprehensive culture 

of life education program in the world for students 

in kindergarten through 12th grade. 

AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE’S 

Associate Program 

As a member of American Life League’s Associate 

Program, your group will have access to 

• Exclusive information and outreach materials to help 

you battle the culture of death; 

• ALL speakers and a staff to help you with research, 

media consultation, and assistance on a wide range 

of pro-life, pro-family topics; 

• A periodic newsletter to keep you informed and 

connected with your pro-life peers; 

• Total independence while gaining national recognition 

as an ALL Associate. 

For information on joining ALL’s Associate Program, 

e-mail Bridget Carroll at bcarroll@all.org, or visit 

ALL.org/associates. 

Has Celebrate Life Magazine 

or any of American Life 

League’s other great 

resources impacted your 

life or helped you impact 

someone else’s life? 

We’d love to share your story! 

E-mail us at clmag@all.org 

or mail CLM, PO Box 1350, 

Stafford, VA 22555. 


CULTURE OF LIFE STUDIES PROGRAM 

Why build a culture of life 

throu gh education? 

by Mary Kizior 

The pro-life movement has grown immensely over 

the past few years. The March for Life has more 

participants every year, pregnancy resource centers 

save babies from abortion and support moms in 

need, and student pro-life groups are booming. 

These are all necessary and powerful ways to 

witness to the gospel of life, but there is one area on 

which we sometimes don't put enough focus— 

educating the next generation. If we want to spread 

the truth that every human being’s life is a gift 

from God, we need to teach this truth to our children 

in our homes and in our schools. Saint John 

Paul II highlighted the importance of education in 

building a culture of life in Evangelium Vitae: 

Closely connected with the formation 

of conscience is the 

work of education, which helps 

individuals to be ever more 

human, leads them ever more 

fully to the truth, instills in them 

growing respect for life, and 

trains them in right interpersonal 

relationships. 

Transforming our culture from 

a culture of death into a culture of 

life will not happen overnight. 

Though each generation of college students is 

becoming more pro-life, children and young people 

still need an education founded in the gospel 

of life to stand up for their beliefs. 

We must educate the next generation, not 

only on the truth of pro-life issues, but on how to 

live and act in a pro-life manner. Education is key 

to transforming hearts and minds because education 

is indispensable in the formation of our 

young people's moral consciences. 

The culture of life is a way of life that upholds 

and respects the dignity and sacredness of every 

human being from the first moment of creation 

until death. A culture of life celebrates the Godgiven 

gift of life in preborn children, the elderly, 

the sick, and disabled persons by treating every 

human being with dignity and respect and thanking 

God for that gift of life. 

Teachers play an integral role in promoting 

this way of life. Saint John Paul II further teaches 

in Evangelium Vitae that 

. . . to be truly a people at the service of life 

we must propose these truths constantly 

and courageously from the very first proclamation 

of the Gospel, and thereafter in catechesis, 

in the various forms of preaching, 

in personal dialogue and in all 

educational activity. Teachers, 

catechists and theologians have 

the task of emphasizing the 

anthropological reasons upon 

which respect for every human 

life is based. 

Our young people are constantly 

bombarded with lies about 

the human person. Teachers and 

parents have the unique opportunity 

to combat these lies by 

imparting the culture of life to our young people, 

but their job isn’t easy. Parents and teachers need 

help, support, and resources to spread the gospel 

of life in every grade level and academic discipline. 

American Life League’s Culture of Life 

Studies Program supports parents and teachers 

with supplemental pro-life education materials 

for grades K–12. Learn more about CLSP at 

CultureOfLifeStudies.com. 

© iStockphoto.com/track5 

Mary Kizior is a content developer for American Life League’s 

Culture of Life Studies Program. She writes regularly for the CLSP 

blog: CultureOfLifeStudies.com/blog. 


God’s Little Ones 

Catherine Jacob’s powerful doll ministry 

By Diane Stark 

“Catherine, I’m sorry, but you’ve miscarried 

again,” Catherine Jacobs’s 

doctor told her in 1994. “We need to 

do a dilation and curettage.” 

Just three months before, 

Catherine had suffered a miscarriage, 

and now her doctor was giving 

her that heart-breaking news for the 

second time. 

“The Holy Spirit spoke to me 

and told me not to allow the D&C,” 

Catherine said. “Instead, I had an 

ultrasound, which showed that I was 

carrying twins, but that I had placenta 

previa.” 

The doctor advised Catherine to 

abort one of the twins to give the 

other a better chance of survival. 

Catherine refused and was sent 

home on bed rest. 

Combining art with 

fetal development 

For many years, Catherine had 

worked as an elementary school art 

teacher, but now, she was unable to 

work because of the pregnancy complications. 

“My daughters were two 

and four at that time, and I wanted 

to show them what the babies in 

my tummy looked like, so I began to 

research fetal development,” Catherine 

said. “Then I sculpted life-sized 

models of my tiny babies.” 


Catherine also sculpted a model 

of the baby she had miscarried. “It 

helped me to heal by honoring that 

life,” she said. 

The pregnancy progressed until 

Catherine’s water broke at 31 weeks’ 

gestation. Doctors kept her in the 

hospital on bed rest to try to give her 

twins more time to develop. “At the 

hospital, I was very fearful that my 

twins were coming too early and 

wouldn’t survive,” Catherine said. 

“A kind nurse wheeled me into the 

NICU and showed me a baby who 

had been born at 24 weeks’ gestation. 

That baby had weighed just one 

pound at birth, and now, he was getting 

ready to go home. That’s when I 

knew my babies would be all right.” 

Catherine’s twin boys were 

born healthy one week later. But 

even after she took her miracle 

babies home, she couldn’t stop 

thinking about that baby at the hospital. 

“It broke my heart to realize 

that at that time, that precious baby 

could have been aborted legally in 

New York, no questions asked,” 

Catherine said. 

For the past few years, Catherine 

had volunteered as a counselor 

for her local pregnancy resouce center. 

“I made a set of models of babies 

at each gestational week, and I 

showed them to the clients I worked 

with,” she said. “It helped them to 

realize that they were carrying a 

baby, not just a mass of cells. They 

had a real impact.” 

Catherine began taking her 

dolls to her county fair for their 

right-to-life display. “My dolls have 

been displayed there every year 

for the past 23 years,” she said. 

“Thousands of parents have held 

the babies and grieved for little ones 

they’ve lost through miscarriage or 

abortion. I know for sure that they 

helped save at least one life.” 

Saving lives, educating, 

and healing 

Ten years ago, a grandmother 

named Sharon brought her pregnant 

granddaughter to the fair. 

They stopped to look at Catherine’s 

dolls and talk to the volunteer. That 

day, after holding a model of a baby, 

that young girl decided to carry her 

baby. Last summer, Catherine had 

the honor of meeting that young 

girl’s son. “I handed him a balloon, 

and suddenly, God told me who he 

was,” she said. “I’m so thankful that 

I got to meet him.” 

Catherine’s models have been on 

display at the fund-raising banquet 

for her local pregnancy resource center, 

and they have even been commissioned 

to prove personhood in a 

court of law. “I don’t know the 

details of the cases, but several times, 

I’ve created a model to represent an 

actual baby in a court case,” she said. 

An Inuit tribe in Canada 

ordered 1,800 of Catherine’s dolls 

for an educational program to teach 

pregnant women about fetal development 

and the dangers of drinking 

alcohol while pregnant. A doctor 

took several of her dolls to Africa to 

teach mothers of premature babies 

about kangaroo care. A film crew 

from South Korea made a movie 

about Catherine’s dolls, hoping to 

prevent abortions in their country. 

From contest to ministry 

Catherine sculpted a life-sized doll 

of that baby and entered it into an 

international doll contest in 

Ontario, Canada. “I won a firstplace 

ribbon,” she said, “and after 

the contest, when I picked up the 

doll, there was a note pinned to it.” 

The note was from a grandmother, 

requesting that Catherine make two 

dolls for her, to symbolize her twin 

grandbabies who had recently 

passed away. “She wanted to hold 

the dolls and rock them. She 

thought it would help her grieve,” 

Catherine said. “Her note made me 

realize what God wanted me to do.” 

Catherine’s unique ministry, 

which she calls “God’s Little Ones,” 

had begun. 

Catherine gives a moving explanation for putting clothes on her preborn models: 

“It makes them human and proves that they represent real babies; you can’t put 

clothes on a mass of cells.” 


Ten years ago, Catherine had a display at the National 

Perinatal Bereavement Conference in Las Vegas. “Parents were 

able to hold the dolls and heal,” she said. “There was a nurse there 

who used to help doctors perform abortions. Seeing my display 

changed her heart.” 

Catherine sees the importance of putting clothes on her dolls. 

“It makes them human and proves that they represent real babies,” 

she said. “You can’t put clothes on a mass of cells, but you can on 

a baby.” 

Catherine’s attention to detail in her portrait 

models is heartbreakingly beautiful. 

The concept of kangaroo care was 

developed in the 1970s by two 

Colombian pediatricians seeking a 

solution to shortages of incubators 

and hospital staff. The low-cost, 

low-tech technique turned out to 

be surprisingly effective at boosting 

the survival rate of babies born 

before the 37th week of pregnancy. 

For more information on 

Catherine's doll ministry, see 

GodsLittleOnes.com and 

MiracleBabyDolls.com. 

God works all things 

for the good 

But not everyone likes what Catherine is doing. Jane Magazine ran 

a spoof ad using photos from Catherine’s website. “That’s okay 

because God used it for good,” she said. “A woman who’d had an 

abortion saw the ad and contacted me, requesting that I make her 

a memorial doll to help her grieve her loss.” 

Over the last 23 years, Catherine has made more than 5,000 

dolls at various gestational ages. They have been used as dolls to 

help parents heal from miscarriage and abortion, as models to educate 

in prenatal and pro-life settings, and they even saved a life. 

Catherine’s greatest desire is to get her models into the public 

schools. “I created them to teach my own daughters what their 

baby brothers looked like in the womb, and now, I want all children 

to see the miracle of life,” she said. 

Diane Stark is a wife, mother of five, and freelance writer. Her work has been published 

in more than 40 Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and she has won three Church Press 

Awards. Diane writes about the important things in her life: her family and her faith. 

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