Anglicans for Life
| Founded | 1966 (as Episcopalians for Life) |
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| Founder | Joseph M. Harte |
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Key people
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Georgette Forney, Vicky Hedelius |
| Affiliations | Anglican Church in North America |
| Website | anglicanforlife.org |
Anglicans for Life (AFL) is a pro-life ministry of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) and internationally associated with some members of the Anglican Communion. AFL educates and provides pastoral resources on the right to life position on the issues of abortion, assisted suicide, elderly care, cloning and embryonic stem cell research. AFL also educates and provides pastoral resources on abstinence and adoption. The organization has volunteer Life Leaders in more than 100 parishes in the United States, Canada, Kenya and Uganda. AFL also has the support of the American Anglican Council and of several "life-affirming churches" of the Episcopal Church of the United States. Anglicans for Life Canada is affiliated to the Anglican Network in Canada, a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, being officially launched at 7 May 2014 in a seminar held at St. Peter and St. Paul Anglican Church, in Ottawa. The current president is Georgette Forney. The first director is Vicky Hedelius.
The Episcopal Church was historically anti-abortion. In 1958, it still held that "Abortion and infanticide are to be condemned." In 1966 Joseph M. Harte, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona founded Episcopalians for Life. In 1967, the 62nd General Convention of the Episcopal Church started to support a new abortion law that would allow it in the cases of physical or mental health of the mother, rape, incest and fetal deformity. In 1973 the United States Supreme Court ruled to make abortion legal (Roe vs. Wade). Pro-life Episcopalians nationwide formed chapters in dioceses across the country as this new law came into effect.
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