The Silent No More Awareness Campaign is a United States-based anti-abortion campaign of two larger organizations,
Priests for Life
Priests for Life (PFL) is an anti-abortion organization based in Titusville, Florida. PFL functions as a network to promote and coordinate anti-abortion activism, especially among Roman Catholic priests and laymen, with the primary strategic goal ...
and
Anglicans for Life
Anglicans for Life (AFL) is the anti-abortion ministry of the Anglican Church in North America and internationally associated with some members of the Anglican Communion, specifically of GAFCON. AFL educates and provides pastoral resources on the ...
. It was co-founded in 2003 by Janet Morana, Executive Director of Priests for Life, and Georgette Forney, President of Anglicans for Life.
Positions
The Silent No More Awareness Campaign has promoted a disproved
claim of
abortion–breast cancer hypothesis
The abortion–breast cancer hypothesis posits that having an induced abortion can increase the risk of getting breast cancer. This hypothesis is at odds with mainstream scientific opinion and is rejected by major medical professional organizatio ...
, which posits a connection between
abortion
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of pre ...
and
breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a r ...
.
Silent No More has joined with other groups in protesting any modifications to the
.
Public notability
Alveda King
Alveda Celeste King (born January 22, 1951) is an American activist, author, and former state representative for the 28th District in the Georgia House of Representatives.
She is a niece of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and daughte ...
, niece of
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...
, frequently speaks on behalf of Silent No More. She has had two abortions. She has stated that, "I work in the civil rights movement of our century -- the right of every one of every race to live.
..Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie."
[King, Alveda "The Abortionist's Eye is on Us," http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/20/the-abortionists-eye-is-on-us/ 2009-07-20 Retrieved 2009-08-20]
References
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External links
Campaign Website
Anti-abortion organizations in the United States
Organizations established in 2003
2003 establishments in the United States