# Juli Loesch

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**Juli Loesch** (born 1951), also known as Julianne Wiley, Julie Loesch Wiley, and Juli Loesch Wiley, is an [American](/source/Americans) [anti-abortion](/source/Anti-abortion) activist,[1] [Catholic](/source/Catholic) [feminist](/source/Anti-abortion_feminism),[2] and former media coordinator for [Operation Rescue](/source/History_of_Operation_Rescue) in [Atlanta, Georgia](/source/Atlanta,_Georgia).[3]

Born in [Erie, Pennsylvania](/source/Erie,_Pennsylvania), Loesch attended Antioch College, where, as an anti-war advocate, she pursued an education in non-violent social change. Within 3 months, she was in [Delano, California](/source/Delano,_California), working for [Cesar Chavez](/source/Cesar_Chavez) of the [United Farm Workers](/source/United_Farm_Workers) (UFW). She helped organize grape and lettuce boycotts in [Detroit](/source/Detroit) and [Cleveland](/source/Cleveland) in support of Chavez's strikes in California. In 1972, Loesch became one of the founding members of the Pax (Peace) Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, joining Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB, in forming a Catholic feminist peace community. This group, comprising Benedictine Sisters and lay associates, was essentially organized according to the [Catholic Worker](/source/Catholic_Worker) model, combining activism with the [Works of Mercy](/source/Works_of_Mercy) (soup kitchen, homeless shelter work, etc.). The Pax Center, together with other Catholic antiwar activist groups, soon morphed into Pax Christi USA, the American affiliate of [Pax Christi](/source/Pax_Christi), an international Catholic peace movement.

In the late 1970s, Loesch became an activist associated with the "Mobilization for Survival", a coalition that opposed [nuclear weapons](/source/Nuclear_weapons). She became convinced that [abortion](/source/Abortion) and the [nuclear arms race](/source/Nuclear_arms_race) were moral equivalents, and advocated partnership between the peace and [anti-abortion](/source/Anti-abortion) movements. In 1979, she founded the "bridge" organization Prolifers for Survival, which operated until 1987. She has written extensively on these and related subjects. The larger [Consistent Life Ethic](/source/Consistent_Life_Ethic) movement grew partly out of her writing and activism. Her articles or essays have appeared in the *[New Oxford Review](/source/New_Oxford_Review)*, the *[National Catholic Reporter](/source/National_Catholic_Reporter)*, the *[National Catholic Register](/source/National_Catholic_Register)*, *Consistent Life*, *[Commonweal](/source/Commonweal_(magazine))*, *[Sojourners](/source/Sojourners)*, *Caelum et Terra*, and *[Touchstone](/source/Touchstone_(magazine))*. [citation needed] Loesch is married to Donald Wiley, with whom she has two sons, and is a contributing editor for *Voices*, a publication of Women for Faith and Family. [4]

## References

1. Miller, Maurice (February 17, 1987). ["Pro-lifers to picket for pope"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Hd8lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=efMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1122,4319357&dq=juli+loesch&hl=en). *[Miami News](/source/Miami_News)*. p. 3A. Retrieved August 21, 2011.

1. ["Many anti-abortion activists before Roe were liberals who were inspired by 20th-century Catholic social teaching"](https://religionnews.com/2022/07/01/before-roe-anti-abortion-activism-included-liberals-inspired-by-catholic-social-teaching/). July 2022.

1. ["Hundreds arrested in abortion clinic sit-in"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ci0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D70EAAAAIBAJ&pg=1607,867794&dq=juli+loesch&hl=en). *[Rock Hill Herald](/source/Rock_Hill_Herald)*. July 6, 1988. p. 6A. Retrieved August 21, 2011.

1. ["Voices Board Members and Staff of Women for Faith and Family"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140524023205/http://www.wf-f.org/Voices-BoardStaff.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.wf-f.org/Voices-BoardStaff.html) on 2014-05-24. Retrieved 2014-05-23.

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