- Pro-Life
Pro-Life (born Marvin Thomas Richardson) is a pro-life activist and politician. He is an organic strawberry farmer from Letha, Idaho, near Emmett.
- John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, decorated war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated by George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. On February 28, 2007, during a guest appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman", …
- Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is a 10th-term Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a member of the Republican Party, a physician, and a candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He has represented Texas's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997 and represented Texas's 22nd district in 1976 and from 1979 to 1985. He earned the nickname "Dr.
- Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12 1947, better known as Mitt Romney), was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Elected in 2002, Romney served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term ended January 4, 2007. Romney has started his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, having formally announced his candidacy on February 13, 2007. He made his announcement at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
- Mike Huckabee
Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee (born August 24, 1955) is the former governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas, having served from 1996 to 2007, who is a candidate in the United States presidential election, 2008. He was only the third Republican governor of the state since Reconstruction. He officially announced his candidacy for the United States presidential election, 2008 on January 28, 2007.
- Fred Thompson
Frederick Dalton "Fred" Thompson (born August 19 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and character actor. He represented Tennessee as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1994 thru 2003. Thompson resides in McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence. As an actor, Thompson has performed in film and on television.
- Sam Brownback
Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12 1956) is the senior United States senator from the U.S. state of Kansas. On January 20 2007, he announced his intention to seek the Republican Party's nomination for President in the 2008 Presidential election.
- Frank Pavone
Father Frank A. Pavone is an American Roman Catholic priest, and pro-life activist. He was appointed as director of the Priests for Life organization in 1993. He has appeared on many media programs such as "Larry King Live", "Good Morning America", and "The O'Reilly Factor". Pavone provided much commentary during the Terri Schiavo controversy.
- Thomas Tancredo
I am a US House Representative for the state of CO. I am a Republican. My religion is Christian. I am Married. I received my BA from University of Northern Colorado. I live in Littleton. I was born in North Denver, CO. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "6099 South Quebec St., Ste. 200, Centennial, CO 80111".
- Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff contributes regularly to Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal . Among other publications in which his work has appeared are The New York Times , The New Republic , Commonwealth , The Atlantic , and The New Yorker , where he was a staff writer for more than 25 years.
- Star Parker
Star Parker (b. 1956) is an American author. Parker is also an advocate and spokesperson for conservative causes. Parker, an African American woman, spent her formative years as an unemployed mother receiving welfare; she had a criminal record and has disclosed that she had four abortions. Parker converted to Christianity and subsequently became a spokeswoman for conservative Christian political issues.
- George Tiller
George Tiller (b. 1941) is a physician in Wichita, Kansas in the United States. He is the medical director of an abortion clinic in Wichita, Women's Health Care Services, which specializes in the provision of late-term procedures. Tiller studied at the University of Kansas School of Medicine from 1963 to 1967. Shortly thereafter, he held a medical internship with United States Navy, and served as flight surgeon in Oakland, California in 1969 and 1970.
- Bernard Nathanson
Bernard Nathanson (born 31 July 1926 in New York) is a medical doctor and pro-life activist from New York. Nathanson graduated in 1949 from McGill University Facility of Medicine in Montreal. He has been licensed to practice in New York state since 1952. He became board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology in 1960. Both his grandfather and sister committed suicide when he was a child. As a younger man, he had been strongly pro-choice, …
- Randall Terry
Randall A. Terry is an American political and conservative religious activist and musician. He founded the pro-life organization Operation Rescue in 1987 and led the group for its first 10 years. He has been arrested over 40 times for his anti-abortion activities. In 2003, he founded the Society for Truth and Justice and he conducted a program called Operation Witness. Terry was the spokesman for the Schindler family in the Terri Schiavo case.
- George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush.
- Alveda King
Alveda C. King-Tookes is currently a Senior Fellow at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. She is a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives and the founder of King for America. King has an M.A. in business management from Central Michigan University. She received her Doctorate from Saint Anselm College. King is a prominent pro-life speaker and often speaks on college campuses about pro-life issues.
- Troy Newman
Troy Newman is an American pro-life activist. Born in 1966, in Anchorage, Alaska, Newman was adopted as an infant and raised in the Southern California area. He is the president of Operation Rescue, known before 2002 as Operation Rescue West, which is currently based in Wichita, Kansas. Newman became the head of this organization after Jeff White's Operation Rescue California closed due to legal judgements incurred by White.
- Peter Kreeft
Peter Kreeft is a Catholic apologist, professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College, and author of over 45 books including "Fundamentals of the Faith", "Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven", and "Back to Virtue". His ideas draw heavily from religious and philosophical tradition, especially Thomas Aquinas, Socrates, G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis. Kreeft is especially known for his writings on Socratic logic, the sea, …
- Mark Crutcher
Mark Crutcher is an American pro-life activist and author living in Texas. He is the founder and president of Life Dynamics Inc. (LDI). Crutcher was involved in marketing, particularly in the automotive field, before turning to pro-life activism in 1987. His first work was the Life Activist Seminar, a workshop for grassroots pro-life activists to teach them to work effectively. He has conducted approximately 140 of these seminars in 31 U.S. states and in Canada, …
- Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, a nonprofit ministry devoted to promoting an eternal viewpoint and drawing attention to people in special need of advocacy and help. Christianbook.com recently spoke with Randy about heaven and about his writing.
- Tom Monaghan
Thomas S. "Tom" Monaghan (born March 25, 1937 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an entrepreneur and Catholic philanthropist who founded Domino's Pizza in 1960. Monaghan sold Domino's in 1998 and has subsequently dedicated his time and considerable fortune to Catholic philanthropy and political causes. A champion of the pro-life cause, Monaghan has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on philanthropy and activism, which has garnered both appreciation and criticism.
- Leslee Unruh
Leslee Unruh is an American pro-life activist and advocate of abstinence-only sex education. Unruh is known for spearheading the "Women's Health and Human Life Protection Act", a state law which aimed to ban abortion in South Dakota in 2006, but was ultimately repealed. In 1984, she founded the Alpha Center, a crisis pregnancy center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and in 1997, she founded The Abstinence Clearinghouse, a group which promotes abstinence-only education.
- Gianna Jessen
Gianna Jessen (born April 6, 1977 in Los Angeles, California) is a Christian recording artist and pro-life activist. When Gianna's biological mother was seven and a half months pregnant, she sought a instillation abortion -- a now-rare procedure normally not performed after six months of pregnancy. Consequently, Gianna Jessen was born alive and premature, with severe damage that resulted in physical atrophy and cerebral palsy.
- Frederica Mathewes-Green
Frederica Mathewes-Green is an Eastern Orthodox author and speaker on the subjects of religion and abortion. Her books include: * "Facing East," which recounts her experience as a convert to Orthodoxy. * "The Corner of East and Now", a sequel to "Facing East". * "First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journey Through the Canon of St. Andrew", a devotional book for the Orthodox season of Great Lent.
- Robert P. George
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties and philosophy of law. He also serves as the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He was educated at Swarthmore College (BA), Harvard Law School (JD), Harvard Divinity School (MTS), and New College, Oxford (DPhil). At Oxford he studied under John Finnis and Joseph Raz.
- Joseph Scheidler
Joseph Scheidler (born 7 September, 1927) is a noted American pro-life activist, National Director of the Pro-Life Action League, former Benedictine monk, and named defendant in the NOW v. Scheidler litigation, a 19-year saga which was ultimately resolved in Scheidler's favor by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006. Scheidler lives in Chicago with his wife Ann, and has seven children and seventeen grandchildren, many of whom are involved in his organization.
- Thomas J. Euteneuer
Father Thomas J. Euteneuer became president of Human Life International in December of 2000. Human Life International is the world’s largest pro-life organization with affiliate offices and associates in seventy-five countries around the world. In five years of service to this unique mission Fr. Euteneuer has traveled more than 500,000 miles as a pro-life missionary and visited more than forty countries. Fr. Euteneuer was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1962, …
- Joel Brind
Dr. Joel Brind is a pro-life born again Christian and a leading scientific advocate of the abortion-breast cancer hypothesis. He is a professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College and critiques ABC studies. Brind was an invitee to the National Cancer Institute's conference on the ABC issue where he filed the minority dissenting comment. Brind has been mischaracterized by some pro-choice advocates and publications.
- David Reardon
Dr. David C Reardon,director of The Elliot Institute, is a biomedical ethicist specializing in research and education related to the effects of abortion on women. Reardon has published numerous peer reviewed studies regarding emotional and physical complications associated with induced abortion. These studies have shown statistical associations between a history of abortion and elevated risks of death, psychiatric hospitalization, suicide, substance abuse, depression, …
- Peter Roskam
Peter James Roskam (born September 13 1961 in Hinsdale, Illinois), is a freshman Republican member of the United States House of Representatives as of 2007, succeeding 16-term Republican Henry Hyde in representing. In the 2006 November election, he was elected to Congress, defeating Democratic candidate and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth. Roskam was a personal injury lawyer and a former member of the Illinois General Assembly, …
- Hadley Arkes
Hadley P. Arkes is a conservative political scientist and the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions at Amherst College. A frequent writer and speaker, Arkes has also helped craft legislation such as the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, signed into law by President Bush on August 5, 2002. Though he is Jewish, his arguments against abortion rely heavily on Catholic philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas.
- Bart Stupak
Bartholomew Thomas "Bart" Stupak (born February 29, 1952), American politician, has been a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing (map). The district was redrawn in 2002 making it more Democrat leaning. Stupak was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from Gladstone High School, in Gladstone, Michigan in 1970. He earned his Associate's degree from Northwestern Michigan College, a community college in Traverse City in 1972.
- Bob Dornan
Robert Kenneth "Bob" Dornan (born April 3, 1933) is a Republican and former member of the United States House of Representatives from California and a vocal pro-life advocate. A boisterous former actor and television talk show host, Dornan had a flair for the dramatic that drew him supporters and detractors well beyond his congressional districts.
- Neal Horsley
Otis O'Neal Horsley (born 1944) is an American political figure of the far right. He is the author of christiangallery.com, a website devoted to his advocacy of militant pro-life, secessionist, and anti-gay views.
- Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano Andrew P. Napolitano joined FOX News Channel in May 1998, and currently serves as a senior judicial analyst. He appears daily on The Big Story with John Gibson , co-hosts FOX and Friends once a week and is a regular on The OOeilly Factor. Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court Judge in the history of the State of New Jersey.
- Francis J. Beckwith
Francis J. Beckwith (1960-) is an American Christian philosopher. He has a graduate degree in law, and is well-known in Evangelical Protestant Christianity as a scholar, debater, and lecturer. Beckwith is known for his advocacy in the areas of social ethics, legal philosophy, philosophy of religion, intelligent design and the Christian countercult movement.
- Carl A. Anderson
Carl A. Anderson (February 27, 1951) is the thirteenth and current Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus. Before becoming Supreme Knight in 2000 he served as Assistant Supreme Secretary and Supreme Secretary. Prior to that, he served for 10 years as the Order's vice president for public policy. In 1998, Pope John Paul II appointed Anderson to the Pontifical Academy for Life and in 2002 to the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
- Robert P. Casey
Robert Patrick Casey, Sr., better known as Bob Casey, Sr. or simply Bob Casey, was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served Pennsylvania in several capacities, most notably as its 42nd Governor from 1987 to 1995. He is best known for leading the pro-life wing of the Democratic party, and for taking the lead in fighting Planned Parenthood v. Casey, …
- Greg Koukl
Greg Koukl is the founder and president of Stand to Reason (www.str.org) . Greg started out thinking he was too smart to become a Christian and ended up giving his life for the defense of the Christian faith. A central theme of Greg's speaking and writing is that Christianity can compete in the marketplace of ideas when it's properly understood and properly articulated.
- Scott Swan
Scott Swan is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles, CA. Best known for his work on seasons one and two of "Masters of Horror", Swan has been working with his writing partner Drew McWeeny for 20 years, since the two met in high school. Their recent films John Carpenter’s "Cigarette Burns" and "Pro-Life", both produced as part of the "Masters" series for Showtime, represent their first produced film work, but the two have been working professionally since 1994, …