Priests for Life

Priests for Life (PFL) is a Roman Catholic pro-life organization based in New York. It functions as a network to promote and coordinate pro-life activism with the primary strategic goal of ending abortion and euthanasia and to spread the Gospel of Life according to the encyclical of the same name written by Pope John Paul II.

History
It was founded by Frs. Lee Kaylor and Francis P. Filice, priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. On April 30, 1991 Archbishop John Quinn of San Francisco officially approved it as a Private Association of the Faithful. The organization is listed in the Official Catholic Directory. In 2003, it was granted NGO Status by the United Nations.

Status
While primary membership is for Catholic bishops, priests and deacons, there is also a lay auxiliary membership. It has about 40 full-time paid employees. Its staff includes Father Frank Pavone and Reverend Paul Schenck. Priests for Life exists primarily in order to show the clergy how to fight what the organization perceives to be a culture of death.

Graphic images
The Priests for Life organization provides an extensive collection of photos of live fetuses as well as aborted fetuses, via the internet. Its photos have also appeared in print. According to Pavone: "There is no single thing that I have seen more powerful to change people on abortion than simply showing them the pictures....When people see what abortion does to a baby, they are stung to the heart and their consciences are awakened."