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'''Human Life International''' is an [[USA|American]] based [[Roman Catholic]] activist [[pro-life]] organization. Founded in 1981 by the late Fr. Paul Marx, HLI is located in [[Front Royal, VA|Front Royal, Virginia]], and is currently headed by [[Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer]]. With 99 satellite offices in 80 countries, Human Life International describes itself as "the largest international, pro-life, pro-family, pro-woman organization in the world."<ref>[http://www.hli.org/index.php/about/mission About Human Life International]</ref> |
'''Human Life International''' is an [[USA|American]] based [[Roman Catholic]] activist [[pro-life]] organization. Founded in 1981 by the late [[Paul Marx (priest)|Fr. Paul Marx]], HLI is located in [[Front Royal, VA|Front Royal, Virginia]], and is currently headed by [[Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer]]. With 99 satellite offices in 80 countries, Human Life International describes itself as "the largest international, pro-life, pro-family, pro-woman organization in the world."<ref>[http://www.hli.org/index.php/about/mission About Human Life International]</ref> |
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Although it is a [[Roman Catholic]] organization and its founder received the endorsement of [[Pope John Paul II]],<ref> [http://www.hli.org/print/sr's/april_06.html HLI Special Report - April, 2006]</ref> it has been known to collaborate with fundamentalist Protestant organisations. |
Although it is a [[Roman Catholic]] organization and its founder received the endorsement of [[Pope John Paul II]],<ref> [http://www.hli.org/print/sr's/april_06.html HLI Special Report - April, 2006]</ref> it has been known to collaborate with fundamentalist Protestant organisations. |
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Revision as of 08:35, 31 March 2010
Human Life International is an American based Roman Catholic activist pro-life organization. Founded in 1981 by the late Fr. Paul Marx, HLI is located in Front Royal, Virginia, and is currently headed by Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer. With 99 satellite offices in 80 countries, Human Life International describes itself as "the largest international, pro-life, pro-family, pro-woman organization in the world."[1]
Although it is a Roman Catholic organization and its founder received the endorsement of Pope John Paul II,[2] it has been known to collaborate with fundamentalist Protestant organisations.
Key Staff
From 2001 to 2007, Jason Jones served as HLI's Public Relations Director.
Stephen Phelan currently serves as communications director for HLI[3]
Controversy
HLI founder Father Paul Marx (1920-2010) was condemned by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League in 1998, after disclosures that he had continually referred to "Jewish domination" of the pro-choice movement, as well as commenting that most French pro-choice activists were "Jewish", at the same time as making derogatory remarks about a "female Jewish liar" at a Bucharest World Population Conference. These comments were made in 1977. In 1987, he made similar derogatory remarks about the Nazi Holocaust, making inflammatory comparisons between the Nazi genocide of Jews and trivialising it compared to legal abortion, which he described as a 'greater holocaust.' Marx never apologised for these remarks [4]
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