The organization "Catholics" for a Free Choice (CFFC) is an anti-life/family mostly feminist group, based in Washington, D.C. but with expanding tentacles in Latin America. To say that CFFC is not Catholic is an understatement. CFFC is not simply a pseudocatholic organization. It is ferociously anti-Catholic, seeking to undermine the very foundations of Catholic moral principles: the right to life, especially of unborn babies, and the dignity of the transmission of human life. Indeed, CFFC promotes abortion and contraception under the euphemisms of "reproductive health care" and "family planning".

CFFC has extended its diabolical influence to Latin America. They base their operations in Uruguay and hold outreaches in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil - the latter being their most recent installation.

It is important to note at once that CFFC networks very effectively with other anti-life/family feminist groups, such as the US-based International Women's Health Coalition, Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (with headquarters in Holland) and Isis International, the leading and most influential anti-life/family feminist organization in Latin America. Isis International has its main offices in Santiago, Chile.

CFFC's Latin American branches, "Católicas" por el Derecho a Decidir (CDD), like their ungodly "mother" organization, have lots of money, with which they publish and disseminate several publications, the most important of which is the magazine Conciencia, the Spanish counterpart of US CFFC's Conscience, which they offer free to anyone who is interested in their work in Latin America.

It is through this publication that CDD seeks to corrupt and win over friends to their cause in Latin America. Conciencia is also a link between CDD and the other anti-life/family feminist groups. Thus, for example, Amparo Claro, a leader of Isis International and member of the NGO Planning Committee for Cairo, collaborates very closely with CFFC Executive Director Frances Kissling and has written articles for Conciencia. Kissling travels extensively throughout Latin America promoting CFFC's deadly agenda of baby killing through abortion and abortifacient contraception. She is well received by much of the press wherever she goes and gets extensive coverage.

Conciencia also prints the Spanish translation of articles of old pro-abortion "Catholic theologians" and collaborators of CFFC, such as Daniel McGuire and Rosemary Ruether. These CFFC leaders, besides Kissling herself and all the other CFFC members, teach the dangerous nonsense that a Catholic can believe in conscience that abortion is not a sin and still be a Catholic in good standing. In fact, the purpose of Conscience and Conciencia is to promote their heresy all over the US and Latin America.

Another way in which CFFC does this is through their booklets brochures and color comic books. In Mexico, for example, they circulate one such comic book, in which they blaspheme and make the false claim that any pregnant woman has the right to decide whether to continue carrying her unborn child to term or to abort him or her. In that same comic book they claim that since the Pope has not condemned abortion as a mortal sin ex-cathedra, that matter is then left to the individual Catholic's conscience to decide the morality of this procedure.

CFFC ran a whole issue of Conscience on "A New Rite: Conservative Catholic Organizations and Their Allies. Who's Right?", in which they included 5 pages on HLI, one of which was an article called "I Was an "Anti-Life" Spy", in which the author boasted of her undetected intrusion in an "Inner Circle" meeting at HLI's Irvine Conference last April.

One of the reasons we at HLI-Miami planned our First Conference for Life and Family in Chile, is because we are very concerned about the propaganda against life and family that all these feminist organizations, especially Isis International and CDD, are spreading in Latin America. They, like IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation) and others, are using the "Safe Motherhood" strategy to legalize abortion in all Hispanic countries. Basically it consists of the same fallacy pro-aborts used to legalize abortion in the US 20 years ago: produce phony statistics about "thousands" of women dying from illegal abortions, then tell the public you need to legalize abortion in order to make it "safe and rare". CFFC, Isis International, et. al., are trying very hard to influence legislators so that they will do away with laws that protect unborn babies in most Latin American countries.

People in these countries are beginning to realize the danger groups such as CFFC are posing to their society. A couple of months ago, CFFC member, Dr. Christine Gudorf gave a lecture at the National University in Mexico City, about "Feminist Sexual Ethics". Dr. Gudorf holds the "Catholic" Chair of Theology at Florida International University (FIU).