Respect Life

The Respect Life Ministry is dedicated to promoting an awareness for the respect of all life from the moment of conception until natural death. We do not hold regular in-person meetings but instead communicate to our ministry members through Flocknote as well as some occasional emails and texts. We inform our members of numerous Pro-Life events around our community and in the Valley, while also educating them about life affirming options and current Pro-Life news.

WHAT WE DO:

• We help support local crisis pregnancy centers through bi-annual parish cradle drives, as well as support our own Mothers Lifeline ministry in tandem with the Walking with Moms in Need initiative in our diocese.
• We participate in the 40 Days for Life peaceful prayer campaigns every Fall and Spring outside of the Planned Parenthood Tempe location.
• We promote the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children each September.
• We promote Respect Life month every October.
• We gather to sing Christmas Carols (“Peace in the Womb”) in front of the Tempe Planned Parenthood in December each year.
• We have hosted Pro-Life speakers, movies/documentaries, and lead a Stations of the Cross during Lent. 
• We collaborate with our Knights of Columbus to host a charter bus for the March for Life Rally in downtown Phoenix, as well as help promote their Pro-Life initiatives like the Baby Bottle Drive, the 5th Sunday Pro-Life Rosary and their annual ultrasound machine fundraiser.

For more information or to get involved, please email [email protected].

 To find free pregnancy services, go to www.help4her.com

40 Days for Life

https://40daysforlife.com/tempe
ALL life is precious! After Roe was overturned, the decisions on abortion went back to the states.  Currently abortion is legal in Arizona with restrictions. In-clinic abortions are legal up to 14 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy as well as medication abortions up to 11 weeks. The power of prayer is still necessary to change hearts and minds to make abortion unthinkable. We peacefully pray outside a local Planned Parenthood during both a Fall and Spring campaign lasting 40 days each. For more information or to get involved visit [email protected] as well as 40daysforlife.com/tempe.   

Arizona Life Coalition

http://www.chooselifeaz.org
Arizona Life Coalition (ALC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian, 501 (c) 3 organization that fosters cooperation and partnerships to expand and strengthen the pro-life movement across the state.  Everything we do aims to align and connect different types of pro-life groups, diverse people, and various faith traditions. By creating opportunities to work together on the common mission of defending innocent life, ALC is helping to change our culture and inspire pro-life choices.

Aid To Women Center - Tempe, AZ

www.aidtowomencenter.org

Aid to Women Center is a pro-life, Catholic based pregnancy resource center. We offer resources and compassionate care for those facing unplanned pregnancy, or pregnancy under “less than desirable” circumstances. Our goal is to educate, support, and encourage women and families about healthy options for pregnancy, such as parenting and adoption, while providing education on abortion risks.

Our complete scope of services includes pregnancy testing, limited ultrasound, comprehensive prenatal care, basic women’s health services,post abortion support, peer counseling, resources and referrals. We offer an Earn While You Learn Program for all pregnant clients to participate in earning needed diapers, baby clothes, other baby items and furniture. AWC also provides STI testing, treatment, and education for men and women.
 

1st Way Pregnancy Center

www.1stway.org

1st Way is a life-affirming, faith-based non-profit corporation that operates on private donations and funding. Our mission is to provide support and assistance to women and girls that are unexpectedly pregnant. We are also committed to supporting these women beyond their pregnancy through education and material support. We provide this assistance free-of-charge to anyone who is in need, regardless of personal history or religious beliefs. We hold ourselves to the highest professional standards of compassionate care and maintain a safe, confidential environment.

Pro-Life Action League
http://www.prolifeaction.org

The Pro-Life Action League was founded by Joseph M. Scheidler in 1980 to recruit and equip local pro-life leaders to save babies from abortion in their own communities.  The Pro-Life Action League has expanded its national leadership role to include coordinating large nationwide events like the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, launched in 2013, as well as the annual “Peace in the Womb” Christmas caroling event, which reminds an abortion-bound mother that the salvation of the world came through an unplanned pregnancy.

Maggie's Place

www.maggiesplace.org
Maggie’s Place is a community that provides houses of hospitality for expectant women who wish to achieve their goals in a dignified atmosphere. Following Catholic social teaching, we recognize that we are responsible to and for one another. We challenge each other to strive toward personal growth, to welcome the gift of every person that enters our door, and to promote positive social change.

Rachel's Vineyard Ministries

www.rachelsvineyard.org

Rachel’s Vineyard weekends for healing after abortion are offered throughout the year in locations across the United States and Canada, with additional sites around the world. We also offer a 15-week support group model for Rachel’s Vineyard. Rachel’s Vineyard is a ministry of Priests for Life.

(SOL)

www.sistersoflife.org 
The Sisters of Life are a contemplative/active Roman Catholic community of women religious, who profess the three traditional vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and a fourth vow to protect and enhance the sacredness of human life. We were founded by Cardinal John O’Connor in New York in 1991, and received formal approbation as a religious institute in 2004, under Cardinal Edward Egan. We currently serve in the [Arch] dioceses of New York, Albany, Bridgeport, Philadelphia, Denver, Phoenix, Washington, D.C., and Toronto, Canada. Our missions include serving women who are vulnerable to abortion, giving them the support and resources to be able to choose life for themselves and their children; hosting weekend retreats; evangelization; outreach to college students; and helping women who have suffered after abortion to encounter the mercy and healing of Jesus Christ.

 

Live Action

www.liveaction.org 
Live Action was started in 2003, by one 15-year-old girl, Lila Rose, in her family’s living room – with the goal to expose what abortion does to the preborn child.  Lila started undercover investigations in 2006, while at UCLA.  She was 18 at the time.

In 2008, Live Action was legally formed as a non-partisan, non-profit organization. Later that year, with a few of her friends, Lila created and produced the first nationally televised undercover investigation of the abortion industry.

Live Action exists today to shift public opinion on the killing of preborn children and defend the rights of these most vulnerable among us. Through compelling educational media, human interest storytelling, and investigative reporting, we reveal the humanity of the preborn and expose the abortion industry’s exploitation of women for profit.