Focus on the Family Applauds Decision to Replace Colorado Right to Life
Group looks forward to relationship with new affiliate
June 14, 2007
Colorado Springs, Colo. – Focus on the Family Senior Director of Issue Analysis Carrie Gordon Earll released the following statement in response to the decision by National Right to Life to replace Colorado Right to Life as its Colorado affiliate:
“Focus on the Family appreciates this swift action by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC). As the nation’s largest pro-life organization with affiliates in all fifty states, NRLC continues to be highly effective and respected in the national pro-life movement. It’s reassuring to know that a group of such prominence is willing to make a tough decision when its charter is challenged by a rogue and divisive group, such as Colorado Right to Life (CORTL).
“In a misguided and misleading media campaign, CORTL, along with a handful of other groups, unjustly criticized Focus on the Family Founder and Chairman Dr. James Dobson based on a disagreement in strategy. Rather than use their money and energy to advance pro-life goals, CORTL chose instead to attack its allies in the cause. CORTL gave its parent organization no choice but to name a new state affiliate.
“We welcome Colorado Citizens for Life/Protecting Life Now — the new state affiliate — and look forward to a harmonious and successful relationship with this group.
“The strength of the pro-life movement is found in its unity on core principles, including taking every available step toward ending abortion in the United States. We’re please to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with NRLC and its new Colorado affiliate as partners with the same vision for achieving these goals.”
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For more information, contact Gary Schneeberger at (719) 548-5853 or press@family.org, or Nima Reza at (719) 548-4570 or culturalissues@family.org.