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Anglicans For Life (AFL) is the only Life-Affirming ministry in the Anglican Communion. AFL educates and provides pastoral resources on the issues of abortion, assisted suicide, adoption, sexual risk avoidance, and bioethics. AFL is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that relies on the generosity of donors. All donations are tax-deductible.

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Relevant & Newsworthy

We’ve researched and found the most relevant and worthy articles to educate and equip you in affirming and protecting life. We encourage you to share these stories and updates on social media. Make sure you bookmark this page and come back weekly for updated news. To read past articles, click here.

Landmark Study: Assisted Death for Eating Disorders

The author reviews a study related to using assisted death for people suffering from eating disorders, but the findings provide a glimpse of mental health care providers who are failing to truly treat people with disorders, instead offering to kill them.

‘Devastating’ and ‘Tragic’: Study Finds Higher Rates of Suicide Attempts for Post-Abortive Women

Abortion has been compared to getting a tooth pulled, painful but not a big deal. This article highilghts a study that reminds us that Abortion is a very big deal – especially impacting the moral well-being of the woman to the point of suicide ideation.

We Must Do More to Promote Adoption as an Abortion Alternative

People often see the value of adoption over abortion but don’t recognize how difficult the adoption process can be. This article has great policy ideas to make adoption a greater option!

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Getting involved with AFL’s Life-Affirming ministry can be a multi-faceted approach. Some people wish to get-involved from an individualistic approach, while others want to be in the heat of advocacy and church planning. That’s why we’ve made it easy for you to navigate the various ways to get involved through our leadership opportunities, resources, events, and blog.

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“Jesus Christ called His disciples to be light in the world. Light pushes back darkness & shows the way. Anglicans For Life is just such a ministry. It stands for the unchanging standard of God’s gift of life from conception.”

Archbishop Ray Sutton

“We honor God as the creator of life. For this reason, I support AFL, whose mission is to equip & engage the Church in fulfilling Scripture’s mandate to care for the unborn, the elderly, & the vulnerable.”

Bishop John Guernsey

“I’m grateful for the ministry of Anglicans For Life. Their mission to inform the Church & engage the culture reminds those of us in the Anglican Communion, and all Christian people, of our duty to defend the Sanctity of Life.”

Archbishop Foley Beach

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Proposed UDDA Revisions Expand Law That Allows Euthanasia of Organ Donors

May 31, 2023 | AFL Publications, Bioethics

In August of 1968, an ad hoc committee of physicians at Harvard Medical School wrote a landmark paper that defined people in irreversible coma as dead. This utilitarian pronouncement was made to skirt the ethical and legal issues involved in procuring organs from people who were biologically alive (i.e., have a beating heart, respiration, blood circulation, and other signs of life). In 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) codified into law the Harvard committee’s recommendations.