Pro-life baseball players under attack

Over 90 pro-life baseball players are backing an effort to create a Campus For Life where pro-lifers from around the world will be able to learn the truth about all of the life issues. Recently, some of these players participated in a press conference in Phoenix, Arizona to announce their efforts.

You can see a complete list of the players involved by going to http://www.all.org/battin1000/endorse.htm

The pro-aborts have come unglued at the thought that someone might teach the truth about abortion, cloning, embryonic stem cell research, etc. At the end of this e-mail, you will find excerpts from the venomous article that appeared in the Arizona Republic newspaper about this effort. As a result of this article, some of the endorsers of the Campus have been receiving angry calls and communications.

The purpose of this e-mail is to ask every member of the pro-life community to show their support for these men who are willing to publicly proclaim the fact that they are pro-life. You can show your support by sending an e-mail with your thoughts to battin1000@all.org or write to Battin' 1000, American Life League, P.O. Box 1350, Stafford, VA, 22555.

We will collect these e-mails and letters for the next three weeks and forward them to all the players involved. If you want to send a message to a specific player, just address your comments to that player and we will make sure he gets it.

We often wonder why more celebrities don't publicly proclaim their support for life. Now that these 90+ ballplayers have shown the courage to come out publicly for the babies, it is up to us to let them know how much we appreciate their efforts. Write or e-mail today.

Please circulate this e-mail to as many people as possible so we can generate hundreds of positive messages to these players.

Here are some excerpts from the Arizona Republic article (you can view the entire article by going to http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0222abortion-colangelo22.html

Baseball group launches anti-abortion effort (by Kelly Ettenborough and Michael Clancy - The Arizona Republic - Feb. 22, 2003)

· Arizona Diamondbacks CEO Jerry Colangelo has joined 90 other baseball executives and players in support of a national effort to raise $1 million for an organization that opposes abortion under any circumstance, including rape, incest and saving the life of the mother.

· In a press conference Friday at Bank One Ballpark, baseball players and the American Life League announced the Battin' 1000 campaign for preliminary work on a "Campus for Life" in Virginia, outside Washington. The campus, expected to be open in three years, would "provide an academic foundation for the pro-life movement" and train the next generation's leaders, said Jim Sedlak, vice president of the American Life League. The non-profit organization has a Catholic foundation.

· Marge Mead, legislative coordinator for the abortion-rights group AZ National Organization for Women, said the fund-raising efforts and publicity would be better used to help poor and abused children who already are here, some of whom live a few blocks from the ballpark. . . "Colangelo's players, on the other hand, will never experience pregnancy, including an unintended pregnancy. Yet they will try to use what little moral authority their ball-playing fame has purchased to fund-raise for an organization that seeks to dictate women's reproductive choices."