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Pro-life awards to 6 activists

CWN - November 15, 2010

The Gerard Health Foundation has announced $600,000 in prizes to be distributed among the six recipients of this year’s Life Prizes, which recognize outstanding contributions to the pro-life cause. This year’s awards go to:

  1. Jeanne Head, the UN representative of the National Right to Life Educational Trust;
  2. the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, established to fight for the right to life of disabled and incapacitated persons;
  3. Douglas Johnson, the longtime legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee;
  4. Kristan Hawkins, the executive director of Students for Life of America;
  5. Rev. Alveda King, the pro-life speaker and niece of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and
  6. Marie Smith, the director of the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues, a non-partisan global outreach of Gospel of Life Ministries.

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