Founded | 1966 | (as Episcopalians for Life)
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Founder | Joseph M. Harte |
Location | |
Key people | Georgette Forney, Vicky Hedelius |
Affiliations | Anglican Church in North America, Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans |
Website | anglicanforlife.org |
Formerly called | Episcopalians for Life |
Anglicans for Life (AFL) is the anti-abortion ministry of the Anglican Church in North America and internationally associated with some member churches of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. AFL educates and provides pastoral resources on the right to life position on the issues of abortion, assisted suicide, elderly care, cloning and embryonic stem cell research. AFL also educates and provides pastoral resources on abstinence and adoption. The organization has volunteer Life Leaders in more than 100 parishes in the United States, Canada, Kenya and Uganda. AFL also has the support of the American Anglican Council. Anglicans for Life Canada is affiliated with the Anglican Network in Canada, a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, being officially launched at 7 May 2014 in a seminar held at St. Peter and St. Paul's Anglican Church in Ottawa. The current president is Georgette Forney. The first director is Vicky Hedelius.[1]