It Is I Who Have Chosen You : Autobiography of Judie Brown

by Judie Brown

This is the autobiography of the founder of "The American Life League".

Genres: Biography

173 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

Judie Brown is president and co-founder of American Life League, the nation’s largest grassroots pro-life educational organization. ALL started in 1979 and has grown from a kitchen table operation to a full-fledged professional organization with more than sixty full time employees and outreach throughout the nation.

Judie has served three five-year terms (1996-2011) as a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life in Rome. Daily Catholic cited her as one of the top 100 Catholics of the 20th century. She has distinguished herself as an unapologetic pro-life leader who has also written 12 books, including the most recent Saving Those Damned Catholics: A Defense of Catholic Teaching (2007) and The Broken Path: How Catholic Bishops Got Lost in the Weeds of American Politics (2011).

Judie has been instrumental, through American Life League, in getting many pro-life organizations started including Human Life International, Priests for Life and Pro Life Action League. ALL has a 29 year history of helping organizations grow as Judie advances the cause of personhood for every innocent human being from their creation. Her main focus has been and continues to be respect for the dignity of the human person.

Judie speaks around the nation, writes daily commentary, Straight Talk on Life that is posted on the American Life League web site (www.all.org) and is syndicated. Judie writes on contraception, abortion, Catholic dissent, Catholic Bishops, euthanasia, in vitro fertilization, biotechnology, and pro-life activism. Judie has written numerous editorial pieces for magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post and USA Today.

Judie has appeared on 20/20, 60 Minutes, Mother Angelica Live, The O’Reilly Factor, Good Morning America, Today, Oprah, and Larry King Live, as well as hundreds of other television and radio talk shows. Her comments regularly appear in major print media nationwide.

Judie is married to Paul A. Brown, and they have three children and 11 grandchildren. She and her husband have been involved in the pro-life movement since 1969.

Reviews

[Amber · Rating 2 out of 5]

This rating doesn't reflect the quality of the material itself, as Brown seems to have led a blessed life, but rather the importance of this particular biography to the pro-life movement. Brown's story of being raised a privileged white woman, and her only real personal brush with the possibility of abortion being her daughter's unplanned pregnancy (for which they had plenty of resources, and the support of the family to keep the child) and confusion about birth control is not the most moving and doesn't contribute much to the pro-life movement. Her attitude of abortion being an option because of an inherent selfishness, rather than a fear and an evil that women chose when they are often given no other real option, does not help her cause. A quaint story, but not one that is necessary or even helpful in considering one's stance on the pro-life movement.