One common contention among pro-choice activists is that pro-lifers only care about unborn babies and not about adults or born children. While some pro-lifers focus on abortion because they see it as the greatest human rights injustice of our time, the killing of innocent babies, many of them are active and other causes. For example, here is one survey of members of Indiana Right to Life.
Out of 229 members of Indiana Right to Life:
81 distributed food and clothing
Nearly ¼ donated blood regularly
37 worked in support groups (drugs, alcohol, Suicide)
17 worked in programs for abused women
28 worked in hospitals, clinics, and hospices
116 worked in scouting, youth work, and meals on wheels
176 worked in schools, tutoring, aiding teachers
67 worked in voter registration
75 worked distributing maternity and infant clothing
47 have shared their home with foster children, elderly refugees, pregnant strangers, or the sick
Ruth Ann Hanley “Do Right to Lifers Care Only About the Unborn?” editorial, The Communicator (Indiana Right to Life newsletter) 5 no. 5 (June 1980) As quoted in James T. Burtchaell “Rachel Weeping: The Case Against Abortion” (San Francisco: Harper and Row 1982) 129
