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Cardinal O'Connor Conference On Life
The Cardinal O'Connor Conference on Life, also known simply as the O'Connor Conference (OCC), is the largest student-run Anti-abortion movements, pro-life conference in the United States. The conference was founded by Georgetown University undergraduate students in 2000 and subsequently named in honor of the late Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Archbishop of New York, John O'Connor (cardinal), Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor, who earned a PhD from Georgetown University and was an outspoken critic of abortion. The Conference is run entirely by Georgetown students each year on the day after the annual March for Life (Washington, D.C.), March for Life in Washington, D.C. in late January. Organizers describe the conference as based on Catholic social teaching, Catholic teaching and say the event "strives to promote intellectually rigorous discourse on the sanctity of human life as well as build a culture of life both within and beyond the Georgetown community." Conference speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pro-life
Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality. Many anti-abortion movements began as countermovements in response to the legalization of elective abortions. Europe In Europe, abortion law varies by country, and has been legalized through parliamentary acts in some countries, and constitutionally banned or heavily restricted in others. In Western Europe this has had the effect at once of both more closely regulating the use of abortion, and at the same time mediating and reducing the impact anti-abortion campaigns have had on the law. France The first specifically anti-abortion organization in France, Laissez-les-vivre-SOS futures mères, was created in 1971 during the debate that was to lead to the Veil Law in 1975. Its main spokesman was the geneticist Jérôme Lejeune. Since 2005, the French anti-abortion movement has organized an annual March for Life. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
