Human Life International

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Father Shenan J. Boquet during the Parisian March for Life in 2017. Paris - Marche pour la Vie 2017 - 2.jpg
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. [11] HLI bases its activism on Catholic anti-abortion beliefs, which propose that life begins at conception. [12] The group also advocates against contraceptives. [5] [13] [14] It has supported the criminalization of homosexuality in Uganda. [15]

In the mid-1990s, Jennifer Gonnerman described HLI's anti-abortion campaign as more influential than that of the Operation Save America. [16] In 1997, Human Life International supported the founding of the Center for Family and Human Rights. [17] [18] The group is affiliated with the Population Research Institute. [18] 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]

In 2017, The Guardian reported that several US crisis pregnancy center (CPC) and anti-abortion groups including Human Life International (HLI), have been providing money and assistance to networks of CPC's in Latin America, as well as lobbying against the liberalization of abortion laws throughout the region. [3] HLI started their network of CPC's in the region in the 1980's, with the total number of locations having increased to approximately 130 CPC's across 20 countries by 2015. [3]

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  1. ↑ Ferris-Rotman, Amie (20 September 2018). "Putin the Pro-Choice Champion". Coda Story. Coda Media . Retrieved 26 November 2021. ...Human Life International, a U.S.-based anti-abortion group.
  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. 1 2 3 Albaladejo, Angelika (2017-10-26). "US groups pour millions into anti-abortion campaign in Latin America and Caribbean". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2024-05-20. ...Human Life International (HLI), a Catholic not-for-profit group from Virginia, ... The bulk of the US funding is being used to develop a network of "crisis pregnancy centres", which critics claim are designed to persuade women not to have terminations. The number of centres more than doubled between 2012 and 2015, to 130. HLI brought the crisis pregnancy centre model to Latin America in the 1980s and is one of the most active supporters of the anti-abortion movement in the region.
  4. ↑ "Our Mission". Human Life International. 21 October 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "A Short History of Human Life International". Human Life International. 13 July 2022.
  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.
  8. 1 2 Murphy, Caryle (8 April 2000). "Family Values Feud". The Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  9. ↑ Lemaitre, Julieta; Sieder, Rachel (June 2017). "The Moderating Influence of International Courts on Social Movements". Health and Human Rights . 19 (1): 149–160. ISSN   1079-0969. PMC   5473045 . PMID   28630548.
  10. ↑ Miller, Patricia (2014-05-20). "Playing Politics". Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church. University of California Press. p. 209. doi:10.1525/9780520958272-011. ISBN   978-0-520-95827-2. S2CID   226767853.
  11. ↑ Slattery, Kathryn (2010). Building a "World Coalition for Life": abortion, population control and transnational pro-life networks, 1960-1990 (PhD thesis). UNSW Sydney.
  12. ↑ "Our Mission - Human Life International". 14 July 2021.
  13. ↑ Abbasi, Kamran (2001-07-21). "Oral contraceptives" . The BMJ . 323 (7305): 172. doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7305.172/a. ISSN   0959-8138. S2CID   71880529.
  14. ↑ Ryan, Carol (7 May 2013). "Anniversary of family planning case brings a sense of déjà vu". The Irish Times . Retrieved 26 November 2021. ...Human Life International which is the only pro-life group in Ireland that explicitly opposes contraception...
  15. ↑ 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...
  16. ↑ Gonnerman, Jennifer (31 October 1996). "The Anti-Abortion Stealth Campaign: Human Life International makes Operation Rescue look like child's play". On The Issues . 5 (4). ProQuest   221139431.
  17. ↑ Tétreault, Mary Ann; Denemark, Robert Allen (2004). Gods, Guns, and Globalization: Religious Radicalism and International Political Economy. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 74. ISBN   978-1-58826-253-0.
  18. 1 2 Buss, Doris (2003). Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right in International Politics. University of Minnesota Press. pp. xxviii, 63. ISBN   978-0-8166-4208-3.
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