Human Life International

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Father Shenan J. Boquet during the Parisian March for Life in 2017.

Human Life International (HLI) is a Roman Catholic, U.S.-based anti-abortion organization. [1] [2] [3] It is one of the largest anti-abortion organizations in the United States. [2] It describes itself as "the largest international pro-life organization in the world", saying that it has affiliates and associates in over 80 nations worldwide and has sent representatives to approximately 160. [4] [5] The group is led by clergy. [6] It has been based in Front Royal, Virginia since 1996. [7] [8]

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Human Life International was established in 1981 in Gaithersburg, Maryland by Paul Marx, [9] [8] [10] as a continuation of the Human Life Center founded by Marx at Saint John's University, Minnesota in 1972. [5] Its mission is to train and organize anti-abortion movement leaders — priests, crisis pregnancy centers, civic leaders, radio and television programmers, and family counselors. HLI bases its activism on Catholic anti-abortion beliefs, which propose that life begins at conception. [11] The group also advocates against contraceptives. [5] [12] [13] It has supported the criminalization of homosexuality in Uganda. [14]

In the mid-1990s, Jennifer Gonnerman described HLI's anti-abortion campaign as more influential than that of the Operation Save America. [15] In 1997, Human Life International supported the founding of the Center for Family and Human Rights. [16] [17] The group is affiliated with the Population Research Institute. [17] From 2000 to 2014, the group used $7.9 million for anti-abortion causes. [2]

Shenan J. Boquet became president of HLI in November 2011. [5]

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  2. 1 2 3 Warren, Rossalyn (12 March 2019). "How US organizations support anti-abortion laws in Mexico and elsewhere". CNN . Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  3. ↑ "US groups pour millions into anti-abortion campaign in Latin America and Caribbean". The Guardian . 26 October 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2021. ...Human Life International (HLI), a Catholic not-for-profit group from Virginia...
  4. ↑ "Our Mission". Human Life International.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "A Short History of Human Life International". Human Life International.
  6. ↑ Diamond, Anna (23 January 2017). "Trump Strikes at Abortion With a Revived Foreign-Aid Rule". The Atlantic . Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  7. ↑ Levintova, Hannah (2020). "The Trump Official Who Failed to Reunify Dozens of Separated Children Is Getting a New Role". Mother Jones . Retrieved 27 November 2021.
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  14. ↑ Cauterucci, Christina (27 July 2017). "A U.S. Nonprofit Is Funding the Fight to Imprison Women for Abortions in El Salvador". Slate . Retrieved 26 November 2021. ...Human Life International, which also supported Uganda's far-reaching criminalization of gay people...
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