List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
ShareAPPENDIX D —LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
American Life League
Introduction.
Although it may seem a minor point to many readers and researchers, there is nothing more aggravating for a reader or researcher than encountering an unexplained acronym or abbreviation that is critical to understanding a written passage.
Many authors simply assume that their readers are expert in their own particular field, and so they often do not bother to clutter up their text with explanations. Communist and homosexual newspapers, medical writers, and certain conservative and Neoliberal policy digests are especially prone to using unfamiliar abbreviations.
A list of abbreviations occasionally comes in handy for those coordinating or participating in pro-life work. Pro-lifers routinely use words in place of names, i.e., FOCA, NARAL, NOW, CPC, and RCAR. These initials may not have any meaning to the new activist.
Additionally, if a veteran pro-lifer sees a flyer about an abortion debate at BPOE Lodge #1138 of Elkpole, Indiana, what does he look for in the phone book? If one of the speakers at this event has a string of initials behind his name such as DD, STD, and CSsR, how does a person address him?
A Thousand Acronyms Upon Your House!
The remainder of this appendix consists of explanations of more than one thousand acronyms and abbreviations that the reader may encounter when reading about and researching the life issues. Some of these initials are obviously outdated and will of use only to those people poring over documents that are half a century old, but others are very timely, and more initials are being invented every week.
Many of the abbreviations listed below include a notation that identifies the entity as either pro-life or anti-life, as follows.
IDENTIFICATION OF LISTED ENTITIES
Pro-Life Entities
Organizations or entities opposing abortion[1]
Organizations or entities opposing euthanasia[2]
Organizations or entities opposing pornography[3]
Anti-Life Entities
Humanist or atheist organization or entity[4]
Pro-abortion or international population control organization, entity, or publication[5]
Pro-euthanasia organization or entity[6]
Homosexual or pro-homosexual organization, entity, or publication[7]
Pro-pornography organization or entity[8]
Communist/Socialist/Marxist organization, entity, or publication[9]
Radical environmental or animal-rights organization or entity[10]
Other Entities
'Mainstream' environmental or animal-rights organization or entity[11]
'Peace and justice' organization or entity[12]
[A medium text size on your computer's 'view' setting is recommended, otherwise, the table may be discombobulated.]
A&A Amniocentesis and abortion
AA American Atheists (4)
AAA Americans Against Abortion (1)
AAA American Adoption Agency
AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
AACP American Academy of Child Psychiatry (5)
AAD Alliance Against Defamation (7)
AAFP American Academy of Family Physicians (5)
AAHA American Academy of Health Administration (5)
AAHS Americans Against Human Suffering (6)
AAI Alternatives to Abortion International (1)
AAL American Abolitionist League (1)
AAMCH American Association of Maternal & Child Health (5)
AAME American Academy of Medical Ethics
AAMFT American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
AANFP American Academy of Natural Family Planning (1)
AANP American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
AANS American Academy of Neurological Surgeons
AAP American Academy of Pediatrics (5)
AAR American Academy of Religion
AARP American Association of Retired Persons
AAS American Association of Suicidology
AAS Abortion Abolition Society (1)
AASECT American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (5)
AASK Aid to Adoption of Special Kids
AATB American Association of Tissue Banks (5)
AAUN American Association of the United Nations
AAUW American Association of University Women (5)
ABA American Booksellers' Association
ABA American Bar Association (5)
ABC American Baby Code
ABC American Broadcasting Company
AB American Birth Control League (later Planned Parenthood)
ABEDA Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa
ABM Anti-ballistic missile
ABMS American Board of Medical Specialties
ABOG American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Abp Archbishop
ABS American Bible Society
ACA Americans for a Constitutional Amendment
ACA Americans for Constitutional Action
ACA Arms Control Association
ACC Arab Cooperation Council
ACCL American Citizens Concerned for Life (1)
ACCT Agence de Cooperation Culturelle et Technique (Agency for Cultural and
Technical Cooperation)
ACE Alliance for Chastity Education (1)
ACE American Council on Education
ACF Americans for Constitutional Freedom
ACGME Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
ACHR American Convention on Human Rights
ACL American Collegians for Life (1)
ACLA American Catholic Lawyers Association
ACLU American Civil Liberties Union (5,6,7,8)
ACNM American College of Nurse-Midwives
ACOG American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (5)
ACOOG American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists
ACOP American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians
ACP American College of Physicians
ACP African, Caribbean, and Pacific Countries
ACS Americans for Common Sense
ACS American College of Surgeons
ACT-UP AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (7)
ACTH Adrenocorticotropic hormone
ACW Action for World Community
AD Anno Domini
ADA Americans for Democratic Action (5)
ADA Adenosine deaminase
ADL Anti-Defamation League [of B'nai B'rith] (5)
ADRDAA Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association
AE Artificial embryonation
AE American Education Association
AEA Adoption Exchange Program
AEC Atomic Energy Commission
AED Academy for Educational Development (5)
AEI American Enterprise Institute
AELC Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches
AEU American Ethical Union (4)
AFA American Family Association (formerly National Federation for Decency)
(1,3)
AFAM Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
AFC Apostolate for Family Consecration (1)
AfDB African Development Bank
AFDC American Family Defense Coalition (1)
AFDC Aid for Families with Dependent Children
AFE Americans for the Environment (11)
AFESD Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
AFGE American Federation of Government Employees
AFJ Alliance for Justice
AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
AFL Adolescent Family Life
AFLM Advocates for Life Ministries (1)
AFMCH American Foundation for Maternal and Child Health
AFP [Maternal] alpha-feto protein
AFS American Fertility Society (5)
AFSC American Friends Service Committee (5)
AFSCME American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
AFT American Federation of Teachers (5)
AG Attorney general
AG Andean Group
AGA Alliance of Gay Artists (7,8)
AGA American Gay Atheists (4,7)
AGA American Genetic Association
AGI Alan Guttmacher Institute (5)
AGP Association of Gay Psychologists (7)
AGPA American Group Psychotherapy Association
AGS American Geriatrics Society
AGS American Gynecological Society
AHA American Hospital Association (5)
AHA American Humane Association
AHA American Historical Association
AHA American Humanist Association (4,5,6,7,8)
AHEA American Home Economics Association (5)
AI Amnesty International
AI Artificial insemination
AI Artificial intelligence
AIAA Americans for International Aid and Adoption
AID Artificial insemination (by donor)
AID [United States] Agency for International Development (5)
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIFR American Institute of Family Relations
AIH Artificial insemination (by husband)
AIHCA American Indian Health Care Association
AIM Accuracy in Media (3)
AIM American Indian Movement
AIPOP American Institute of Public Opinion Poll
AIR-PLUS American Information Route Toward a Pro-Life United States (1)
AISA Adoption Information Service Agency
AIUM American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
AJC American Jewish Congress (5)
AJOG American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
AKA Also known as
AL Arab League
ALA American Library Association (8)
ALADI Asociacion Latinoamericana de Integracion; (Latin American
Integration Association (LAIA))
ALC American Lutheran Church
ALD Adrenoleukodystrophy
ALEC American Legislative Exchange Council
ALERT American Life Education and Research Trust (1)
ALF Animal Liberation Front (10)
ALG American Lawyer's Guild (5)
ALI American Law Institute
ALI American Liberties Institute
ALL American Life League (1)
ALL American Life Lobby (1)
ALMA Adoptee's Liberty Movement Association
ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
ALSE Advocates for Gay and Lesbian State Employees (7)
AMA American Medical Association (5)
AMEN AIDS in Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods Study
AMEND Moms Experiencing Neonatal Death
AMF Arab Monetary Fund
AMFAR American Foundation for AIDS Research
AMOS Assumptions are the mother of all screwups
AMU Arab Maghreb Union
AMWA American Medical Women's Association
ANA American Nurses Association (5)
ANC African National Congress (9)
ANM Auxiliary nurse-midwife
ANZUS Australia-New Zealand-United States Security Treaty
AOA American Orthopsychiatric Association
AOG Assembly of God
AOH Ancient Order of Hibernians
AORN American Association of Registered Nurses
AP Associated Press
APA American Psychoanalytic Association
APA American Psychiatric Association (5)
APA American Pharmaceutical Association
APA American Psychological Association (5,7)
APC American Parents Committee
APCW Adolescent Pregnancy Childwatch Project
APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
APHA American Public Health Association (5)
APHA American Protestant Hospital Association
APL Adopted People for Life (1)
APLIC Association for Population/Family Planning and Information Centers (5)
APO Army Post Office
APPP Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians (5)
APS Artificial placentation system
APSH Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps
APTN American Public Television Network
APWU American Postal Workers Union (5)
ARAC Animal Rights Activists for Choice (5,10)
ARAL Association to Repeal Abortion Laws (5)
ARC American Red Cross
ARC AIDS-Related Complex
ARF Animal Rights Front (10)
ARHO Association of Reproductive Health Officials (5)
ARHP Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (5)
ARL Americans for Religious Liberty
ARM Abortion Rights Mobilization (5)
ARMS Abortion-Related Ministries (1)
ARP Association for Retarded Persons
ARSC Abortion Survivors Rescue Committee (1)
ARV AIDS-related virus
ASA Association for the Study of Abortion (5)
ASA American Sociological Association
ASAHP Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions
ASAP As soon as possible
ASAT Anti-satellite weapons
ASC American Security Council
ASCAP American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
AsDB Asian Development Bank
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASF American Suicide Foundation
ASHA American Social Health Association
ASHG American Society of Human Genetics
ASHS Association of Secular Humanist Societies (4)
ASLM American Society of Law and Medicine (5)
ASM American Society of Mammologists
ASMA American Student Medical Association
ASPEN American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (6)
ASRC Abortion Survivors Rescue Committee
AT&T Atlantic Telephone and Telegraph
ATCC American Type [Cell] Culture Collection
ATL Association of Trial Lawyers
ATP Adenosine triphosphate
AU Angstrom unit
AUL Americans United for Life (1)
AUSCS Americans United for Separation of Church and State (4)
AVA American Victims of Abortion (1)
AVC American Veterans Committee
AVDA American Venereal Disease Association
AVDP Avoirdupois
AVES Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society
AVS Association for Voluntary Sterilization (5)
AWMA American Women's Medical Association (5)
AWOL Absent without leave
AZT Azidothymidine
BA Bachelor of Arts
BACAOR Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue (5,7)
BAD Banque Africaine de Developpement [African Development Bank
(AfDB)]
BADEA Banque Arabe de Developpement Economique en Afrique (Arab Bank
for Economic Development in Africa (ABEDA))
BATF Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
BB/BSA Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America
BBA Balanced Budget Amendment
BBB Better Business Bureau
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BBT Basal body temperature
BCFA Birth Control Federation of America (5)
BCIE Banco Centroamericano de Integracion Economico (Central American
Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE))
BCR Benefit-cost ratio
BCS Bethany Christian Services (1)
BD Bachelor of Divinity
BDEAC Banque de Developpment des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale (Central
African States Development Bank (BDEAC))
BIDS Birth Defects Information System
BEU Benelux Economic Union
BGCS Boyhood Gender Conformity Scale
BID Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (Inter-American Development Bank
(IADB))
BIP Basic infertile pattern
BIRTH Born Individuals Rescuing the Helpless (1)
BIS Bank for International Settlements
BM Basal metabolism
BMA British Medical Association
BOAD Banque Ouest-Africaine de Developpement (West African Development
Bank (WADB))
BOHICA Bend over here it comes again!
BOM Billings Ovulation Method
BORN Bi-State Operation Rescue Network (1)
BPOE Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
BS Bachelor of Science
BSA Boy Scouts of America
BSCS Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
BSEC Black Sea Economic Cooperation Zone
BVM Blessed Virgin Mother
BWMT Black and White Men Together (7)
BWS Better World Society (5,10)
C Commonwealth
C-PLAN Communist Party Legislative Action Network (9)
C [Degrees] Celsius
C-Span Congressional Coverage Cable Network
CAC Christian Action Council (1)
CACM Central American Common Market
CAEU Council of Arab Economic Unity
CAH Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
CAHEA Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation
CALC Clergy & Laity Concerned (12)
CALM Custody Action for Lesbian Mothers (5,7)
CAMPUS Coalition of American Pro-Life University Students (1)
CAN Cult Awareness Network
CAP Children Awaiting Parents
CAP Committee for American Principles
CAPD Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
CARAL California Abortion Rights Action League (5)
CARAL Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (5)
CARD Committee Against Registration and the Draft (12)
CARE Co-operative for American Remittances to Everywhere
CARE Counseling for Abortion-Related Experiences (1)
CARICOM Caribbean Community and Common Market
CARR Coalition Against the Radical Right (4)
CASE Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (1)
CBA Christian Booksellers Association
CBC Congressional Black Caucus
CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBE Center for Biomedical Ethics
CBPP Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
CBS Columbia Broadcasting System
CBSS Council of the Baltic Sea States
CBTV Coalition for Better Television (3)
CCA Christian Community Association
CCAR Central Conference of American Rabbis
CCBA Coalition of Concerned Black Americans
CCC Customs Cooperation Council
CCCB Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
CCD Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
CCEL Christian Civic Education League
CCF Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (of Canada)
CCL Conference for 'Catholic' Lesbians (7)
CCL Couple to Couple League (1)
CCPA Catholics for Christian Political Action (1)
CCR Center for Constitutional Rights (5)
CCR Citizens for Congressional Reform
CCREF Conservative Caucus Research and Education Fund
CCS Clergy Consultation Service (5)
CD Congressional district
CDA Catholic Daughters of America
CDB Caribbean Development Bank
CDC Centers for Disease Control
CDF Children's Defense Fund (5)
CDI Center for Defense Information
CDL Citizens for Decency Through Law (3)
CDRR Committee for the Defense of Reproductive Rights (5)
CE [International Society of] Christian Endeavor
CE Council of Europe
CEAO Communaute Economique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (West African
Economic Community (CEAO))
CED Committee for Economic Development
CEDPA Centre for Development and Population Activities (5)
CEEAC Communaute Economique des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale (Economic
Community of Central African States (CEEAC))
CEI Central European Initiative
CEIP Carnegie Endowment for National Peace (12)
CEMA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA, COMECON)
CEO Chief executive officer
CEP Council on Economic Priorities
CEP Council on Environmental Quality (11)
CEPGL Communaute Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs (Economic
Community of the Great Lakes Countries)
CERES Center for Research in Education and Sexuality
CERN Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (European Organization
for Nuclear Research (CERN))
CETA Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
CFA Committee for Future America
CFC Chlorofluourocarbons
CFC Combined Federal Campaign
CFD Concern for Dying (6)
CFFC 'Catholics' for a Free Choice (5)
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CG Contadora Group
CGD Chronic granulomatous disease
CHA Catholic Health Association
CHA Christian Holiness Association
CHAMPUS Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services
CHAMPVA Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Veterans Administration
CHAP Child Health Assurance Program
CHAUS Catholic Health Association of the United States
CHCE Center for Health Care Ethics
CHD Campaign for Human Development
CHEER Center for Homosexual Education, Evaluation and Research (7)
CHILD Christians Helping in Life's Defense (1)
CHOICE Concern for Health Options, Information, Care and Education (5)
CHSA Consumer Health Service of America
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CICRED Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in
Demography (5)
CID Criminal Investigation Department ("Scotland Yard")
CIDA Canadian International Development Agency
CIF Conservation International Foundation
CIN Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia
CIOMS Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences
CIS Center for Inter-American Security
CISPES Committee in Solidarity With the People of El Salvador (12)
CISS Chromosomal in-situ suppression hybridization
CIV Cultures, ideas and values [course]
CJ Chief Justice
CJR Citizens for Judicial Restraint
CLC Campaign Life Coalition (1)
CLC Clergy and Laity Concerned (12)
Clear-TV Christian Leaders for Responsible Television (3)
CLF Conservation Law Foundation
CLRCR Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (1)
CLS Critical Legal Studies
CLS Christian Legal Society (1)
CLW Council for a Livable World
CM Calendar method ("rhythm")
CM Congregation for the Mission
CM-BBT Cervical Mucus-Basal Body Temperature
CMA Catholics for a Moral America (1,3)
CMAC Catholic Marriage Advisory Council
CMEA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CEMA, COMECON)
CMF Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation
CMA Canadian Medical Association
CN-M Certified nurse-midwife
CNF Conservation Network Foundation
CNN Cable News Network
CNS Central nervous system
CNS Committee for National Security
CO Conscientious objector
CODEL Coordination in Development
COMECON Coordinating Committee on Export Controls (CEMA, CMEA)
Con-Con Constitutional Convention
CONRAD Contraceptive Research and Development Program, Eastern Virginia
Medical School (5)
CONUS Continental United States
COPE Committee on Political Education
COR Coalition on Revival
CORE Congress of Racial Equality
COYOTE Cast Off Your Old Tired Ethics
CP Colombo Plan
CP Congregation of the Passion
CP Communist Party (9)
CPA Certified public accountant
CPA Center for Policy Alternatives
CPB Corporation for Public Broadcasting
CPC Crisis Pregnancy Center (1)
CPE Council on Population and Environment
CPF Committee to Protect the Family
CPFH Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University (5)
CPG Catholic Physicians Guild (1)
CPG Catholic Pharmaceutical Guild (1)
CPGAF Committee on Population Growth and the American Family
CPM Cesarian Prevention Movement
CPS Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys
CPS Current Population Surveys
CPUSA Communist Party of the United States of America (9)
CR Calendar rhythm
CRA Center for Reproductive Alternatives
CRASH Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (5)
CRASH Committee Against Racism, Sexism, and Heterosexism (5,7)
CREOG Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology
CRF Constitutional Rights Foundation
CRLP Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (5)
CRTI Center for the Rights of the Terminally Ill
CRW Council of Religious Women
CS Christian Science (practitioner)
CSC Civil Service Commission
CSC Congregatio Sanctae Crucis (Congregation of the Holy Cross)
CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
CSCPA Committee for Social Change and Political Action
CSE Classroom sex education system
CSER Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (4)
CSFC Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress
CSII Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion
CSOW Commission on the Status of Women
CSP Center for Security Policy
CSSP Center for Studies of Suicide Prevention
CSsR Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris (Congregation of the Most Holy
Redeemer)
CT Certified teacher
CTFA Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association
CTS Catholic Truth Society
CTSA Catholic Theological Society of America
CTW Children's Television Network
CU Consumer's Union
CUA Catholic University of America
CUDESH Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism (4)
CUF Catholics United for the Faith (1)
CUL Catholics United for Life (1)
CULT Catholics United Against Liberation Theology
CURE Citizens United for Responsible Education
CURE Citizens United Resisting Euthanasia (2)
CUSA Cavitron ultrasonic surgical aspirator
CUT Church Universal and Triumphant
CVS Chorionic Villi Sampling
CW Conventional wisdom
CWA Concerned Women for America (1,2,3)
CWLA Child Welfare League of America
CWRR 'Catholic' Women for Reproductive Rights (5)
CWU Church Women United
CYO Catholic Youth Organization
D.A. District attorney
D&C Dilatation and curettage
D&E Dilatation and evacuation
DACOWITS Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services
DAD Dads Against Discrimination
DAP Dial-a-porn
DAR Daughters of the American Revolution
DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education
DARE Dykes Against Racism Everywhere (5,7)
DAV Disabled American Veterans
DBP Defense Budget Project
DC Developed country
DC District of Columbia
DC Doctor of Chiropractic
DCL Doctor of Canon Law
DD Doctor of Divinity
DDC Dewey Decimal Classification
DEIS Draft environmental impact statement
DES Diethylstilbestrol
DFA Development Fund for Africa
DG Dei Gratia (by the grace of God)
DHEW Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
DHHS Department of Health and Human Services
DHS Demographic and Health Surveys
DHS Demographic and Health Surveys (5)
DHT Dihydrotestosterone
DINK Double-income, no kids
DLC Democratic Leadership Council
DM Deutsche Mark
DMPA Depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera)
DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNC Democratic National Committee (5,7)
DNR Do not resuscitate
DoD Department of Defense
DOM Deo optimo maximo (to God, the best and greatest)
DORIS Defending Our Rights in the Streets (7)
DPA Durable power of attorney
DRG Diagnosis-related group
DSI Development Services International of Canada (5)
DSM Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
DSOC Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (9)
DSP Daughters of St. Paul (1)
DSS Delayed Shock Syndrome
DV Douay Version
DV Deo volente (God willing)
e.g. Exempli gratia (for example)
EAB Ethics advisory board
EADB East African Development Bank
EAF Environmental Action Foundation (11)
EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EC European Community
EC Evangelicals Concerned (7)
ECA Economic Commission for Africa
ECAFE Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP))
ECE Economic Commission for Europe
ECG Electrocardiogram
ECLA Economic Commission for Latin America (Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC))
ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
ECMO Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
ECO Economic Cooperation Organization
ECOSOC Economic and Social Council
ECOSOC [United Nations] Economic and Social Council
ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
ECWA Economic Commission for Western Asia (see Economic and Social
Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA))
EDF Environmental Defense Fund (11)
EDT Eastern daylight time
EE Engaged Encounter
EE2 Ethinyl estradiol
EEC European Economic Community
EEC Euthanasia Educational Council (6)
EEG Electroencephalogram
EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EFM Electronic fetal monitoring
EFTA European Free Trade Association
EGF Epidermal growth factor
EI Eosinophilic index
EIB European Investment Bank
EIB Excellence in Broadcasting [Network]
EIFT Embryo intrafallopian transfer
EIS Environmental impact statement
EKG Electrocardiogram
ELCA Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
ELI Environmental Law Institute (11)
ELISA Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
EMILY Early Money is Like Yeast (5)
EMP Electromagnetic pulse
ENTA Norethindrone acetate
EO Executive Order
EPA Environmental Protection Agency (11)
EPC Environmental Policy Center (11)
EPH Edema/proteinuria/hypertension
EPK&C Early prenatal karyotype farenand cell scan
EPS Early Pregnancy Services (5)
ERC Ethical Research Committee
ERIS Exoatmospheric Reentry Intercept System
ESA European Space Agency
ESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
ESCWA Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
ESF Economic support funds
ESMP Enhanced survival of multifetal pregnancy
EST [Werner] Erhardt Sensitivity Training Seminars
EST Eastern standard time
et seq Et sequens (and the following one)
ET Embryo transfer
ETA Estimated time of arrival
ETO Estimated time of ovulation
EWTN Eternal Word Television Network (1)
F [Degrees] Fahrenheit
FA Fundamentalists Anonymous (4)
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FAA Foreign Assistance Act
FACE Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances [Act]
FACES National Association for the Craniofacially Handicapped
FACOG Fellow, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
FACP Fellow of the American College of Physicians
FACS Flourescence-activated cell sorter
FACS Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
FAM Fertility awareness method
FAO Food and Agricultural Organization (of the United Nations)
FARM Farm Animal Reform Movement (10)
FAS Fetal alcohol syndrome
FAS Federation of American Scientists
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCA Fellowship of Christian Athletes (1)
FCAA Florence Crittenden Association of America (5)
FCC Freedom of Choice Coalition (5)
FCC Federal Council of Churches (now the National Council of Churches, or
NCC) (5)
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FCF Free Congress Foundation (1)
FCI Family Care International, Inc. (5)
FDA [United States] Food and Drug Administration
FEBS Federation of European Biochemical Societies
FEC Federal Elections Commission
FEHB Federal Employee's Health Benefits
FEMALE Formerly Employed Mothers at Loose Ends
FEW Federally Employed Women
FFLA Feminists for Life of America (1)
FFM Fund for a Feminist Majority (5)
FFP Friends of Family Planning (5)
FHA Federal Housing Administration
FHA Future Homemakers of America
FHI Family Health International (5)
FIAMC International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations
FINRRAGE Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic
Engineering
FISH Fluorescent in-situ hybridization
FLE Family Life Education
FLS Front Line States
FOA Field operating activity
FOCA Freedom of Choice Act
FOE Friends of the Earth (10)
FOE Fraternal Order of Eagles
FOI Freedom of Information [Act]
FOLKS Friends of Little Kids (pedophile group) (7)
FOR Fellowship of Reconciliation
FPA Family planning associates
FPA Family Protection Act
FPIA Family Planning International Assistance Program (5)
FPWA Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (5)
FRC Family Research Council (1)
FRCP Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London
FRCS Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, London
FRG Federal Republic of Germany (the former West Germany)
FRI Family Research Institute (1)
FSA Family Service Association
FSA Free Speech Advocates (1)
FSH Follicle-stimulating hormone
FSP Fallopian tube sperm perfusion
FTA-Abs Fluorescent treponemal antibody-absorption
FUAA Fathers United Against Abortion
FUBAR Fouled up beyond all recognition
FWHC Feminist Women's Health Center (5)
FY Fiscal year
FYI For your information
FZ Franc Zone
G-77 Group of 77
G Grand ($1,000)
G7 Group of Seven
GALA Gay and Lesbian Alliance (7)
GALA Gay Atheists League of America (4,7)
GALAS Great American Lesbian Art Show (7)
GAMDA Group Against Media Dishonesty on Abortion (1)
GAO General Accounting Office
GAP Gay Awareness Program (7)
GAS Gay Alliance of Students (7)
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GAU Gay Academic Union (7)
GB Gigabyte
GBS Gay bowel syndrome
GCC Gulf Cooperation Council
GCC Gay Community Center (7)
GDABM Global Defense Against Ballistic Missiles
GDP Genome Data Base
GDR German Democratic Republic (the former East Germany)
GEA Gay Educators Association (7)
GEEP Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist and exogenous estradiol and
progesterone
GFC Gay Father's Coalition (7)
GFWC General Federation of Women's Clubs
GHOST Grand Homosexual Organization to Stop Televangelists (7)
GI Government issue
GI Girls Incorporated
GIFT Gamete intra-fallopian transfer
GLAAD Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (7)
GLAD Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day(s) (7)
GLF Gay Liberation Front (7)
GLSA Gay Law Students Association (7)
GM-CSF Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
GMA Gay Militant Atheists (4,7)
GMC General Medical Council
GNP Gross national product
GnRH Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone
GnRHa Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonist
GnRHa Gonadotrophin-releasing-hormone analogue
GOA Government Accounting Office
GOBs Good old boys
GOMER Get out of my emergency room (a hopeless trauma case)
GOP Grand Old Party (Republican) (1)
GORK God only really knows
GP General practitioner
GPA Grade-point average
GPHW Gay Public Health Workers (7)
GPO [United States] Government Printing Office
GRID Gay-Related Immune Deficiency
GRINCH Gay Retaliation for Inexcusable Negligence and Criminal Homophobia (7)
GRNC Gay Rights National Lobby (7)
GSA Genetics Society of America
GSA Girl Scouts of America
GSA General Services Administration
GSA Gay Students Association (7)
GTA Gay Theatre Alliance (7)
GTA Gay Teachers Association (7)
GTC Global Tomorrow Coalition, Inc. (5)
GTC Gay Teachers Coalition (7)
GTW Multiglycosides of Tripterygium wilfordii
GUM Great unwashed masses
H.B. House Bill
H.J.R. House Joint Resolution
HATTS Hemagglutination treponemal test for syphilis
HC House of Commons
HC Holy Communion
HCFA Health Care Financing Administration
HCG Human chorionic gonadotrophin
HCS Human chorionic somatomammotropin
HD Huntington's disease
HDDA Humane and Dignified Death Act (6)
HDL High-density lipoprotein (cholesterol)
HEW [United States Department of] Health, Education and Welfare
HGP Human Genome Project
HHH Hyperornithinaemia, Hyperammonaemia, and Homocitrullinuria Syndrome
HHS [United States Department of] Health and Human Services
HIRE Hooking is Respectable Employment
HIT Herd of independent thinkers [syndrome]
HIV Human immunodeficiency virus
HIV-Ag Human immunodeficiency virus antigen
HL House of Lords
HLA Human Life Amendment (1)
HLB Human Life Bill (1)
HLC Human Life Center (1)
HLF Human Life Foundation (1)
HLI Human Life International (1)
HLS Human Life Statute (1)
HLSC Human Life Statute Coalition (1)
HM His or Her Majesty
HMG Human menopausal gonadotrophin
HMO Health maintenance organization
HOPE Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere
HOPING Helping in Normal Grieving
HOW Happiness of Womanhood
HQ Headquarters
HRH His or Her Royal Highness
HRT Hormone replacement therapy
HSA Health Systems Agencies (1)
HSG Hysterosalpingogram
HSLDA Home School Legal Defense Association
HTLV Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus
HUGO Human Genome Organization
HV Humanae Vitae (1,2)
HZA Hemizona assay
IADB Inter-American Development Bank
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IAETF International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force
IASR International Academy of Sex Research
IAWS Intercollegiate Association of Women Students (5)
IBEC International Bank for Economic Cooperation
IBM International Business Machine
IBRC Infant Bioethical Review Committee
IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
ICAM-1 Intercellular adhesion molecule-1
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
ICASC International Contraception, Abortion, and Sterilization Campaign (5)
ICBM Intercontinental ballistic missile
ICC International Chamber of Commerce
ICC Interstate Commerce Commission
ICCC International Concerns Committee for Children
ICCR Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
ICD Intracervical device
ICEA International Childbirth Education Association
ICEM Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (see International
Organization for Migration (IOM))
ICFTU International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
ICGI International Conference on Gender Identity
ICJ International Court of Justice
ICJ International Court of Justice
ICM Intergovernmental Committee for Migration (International Organization for
Migration (IOM))
ICOMP International Council on Management of Population Programmes (5)
ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross
ICS Institute for Creation Spirituality
ICU Intensive care unit
IDA International Development Association
IDB Islamic Development Bank
IDDS Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies (12)
IEA International Energy Agency
IEC Institutional ethics committee
IEP Inhibin-enriched preparation
IERA Inclusive Equal Rights Amendment (combined Human Life Amendment
and Equal Rights Amendment)
IF Intellectual Freedom
IFA International Fertility Association
IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFC International Finance Corporation
IFCA International Federation of Catholic Alumnae
IFFLP International Federation for Family Life Promotion (5)
IFFS International Federation of Fertility Societies
IFGR International Foundation for Genetic Research (The Michael Fund)
IFN Interferon
IFRP International Fertility Research Program
IGA International Gay Association (7)
IGAB Interagency Group for Action on Breastfeeding
IGADD Inter-Governmental Authority on Drought and Development
IGF Insulin-like growth factor
IHM [Servants of the] Immaculate Heart of Mary
IHS Indian Health Service
IIB International Investment Bank
IIE Institute of International Education
IIED International Institute for Environment and Development (5)
iiFAR Incurably Ill for Animal Research
IISHR International Institution for the Study of Human Reproduction (5)
ILGWU International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
ILO International Labor Organization
ILO0 International Labor Organization (5)
ILS International Life Services (1)
IMAP [International Planned Parenthood Federation] Medical Advisory Board
(5)
IMCO Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization (International
Maritime Organization (IMO))
IME Institute of Medical Ethics
IMF International Monetary Fund
IMO International Maritime Organization
IMP Imprimatur (let it be printed)
IMPACT Innovative Materials for Population Action (5)
InCAR International Committee Against Racism
INFACT Infant Formula Coalition
INMARSAT International Maritime Satellite Organization
INPLAN Integrated Population and Development Planning (5)
INRI Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews)
INS Immigration and Naturalization Service
INSERM Institut National de la Sant:e et de la Recherche Medicale
INTELSAT International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
INTERPOL International Criminal Police Organization
INTRAH [Program for] International Training in Health, University of North
Carolina (5)
IOC International Olympic Committee
IOM International Organization for Migration
IOOF International Order of Odd Fellows
IPA International Phonetic Alphabet
IPAS International Projects Assistance Services (5)
IPPF International Planned Parenthood Federation (1,2)
IPS Institute for Policy Studies
IR International Review (formerly InternationalReview of Natural
Family Planning) (1)
IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
IRC Interchange Resource Network
IRCAR International Reference Center for Abortion Research (5)
IRD Institute for Resource Development, Westinghouse (5)
IRLF International Right to Life Foundation (1)
IRNFP International Review of Natural Family Planning (now International
Review) (1)
IRS Internal Revenue Service
IRTLF International Right to Life Federation (IRTLF)
ISIS Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality (1)
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISTI International Science and Technology Institute, Inc. (5)
ITEST Institute for Theological Encounter With Science and Technology
ITOP Induced termination of pregnancy
ITU International Telecommunication Union
IUB Intrauterine occlusion body
IUCD Intra-uterine contraceptive device
IUD Intra-uterine device
IUI Intra-uterine insemination
IUP Intrauterine pregnancy
IUSSP International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (5)
IV Intravenous
IVD Intravas device
IVF-DS IVF-donor sperm
IVF-SET IVF-surrogate embryo transfer
IVF-DO IVF-donor ova
IVF-DE IVF-donor embryo
IVF In-vitro fertilization
IVH Intraventricular hemorrhage
IVIG Intravenous immunoglobulin
IWHC International Women's Health Coalition (5)
IWO Institute for World Order
IWW Industrial Workers of the World (5)
IWY International Women's Year (5)
IYC International Year of the Child
IYD International Year of the Disabled
JACGUAR Johns and Call Girls United Against Repression
JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association
JBS John Birch Society (1)
JCAH Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals
JCB Bachelor of Canon Law
JCHA Joint Committee of Hospital Associations
JCL Licentiate in Canon Law
JD Juris Doctor (Doctor of Law)
JDL Jewish Defense League
JHPIEGO Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and
Obstetrics (5)
JLC Juvenile Law Center
JLIC Jewish Life Issues Committee
JOICFP Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning,
Inc. (5)
JP Justice of the Peace
JPSA Joint Program for the Study of Abortion
JS&A John Short & Associates, Inc. (5)
JSD Doctor of Juristic Science
JSI John Snow, Inc. (5)
JW Jehovah's Witness
K of P Knights of Pythias
K of C Knights of Columbus (1)
kB Kilobyte
KI Karyopyknotic index
KIA Killed in action
KISS Keep it simple, stupid
KJV King James Version
KKK Ku Klux Klan
KROW Keep Rockefeller out of Washington
KS Kaposi's Sarcoma
KTF Keep the Faith (Publishers) (1)
L/GHTS Lesbian and Gay Humanists (4,7)
L.A. Latin America
LAAL Life After [sexual] Assault League (1)
LABIA Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action (7)
LAES Latin American Economic System
LAIA Latin American Integration Association
LAPAC Life Amendment Political Action Committee (1)
LAPD Los Angeles Police Department
LARFPC Los Angeles Regional Family Planning Council (5)
LAS League of Arab States (Arab League (AL))
LAV Lymphadenopathy Virus
LAW Legal Action for Women (1)
LC-WS Lutheran Church-Wisconsin Synod
LC-MS Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (1)
LC Library of Congress
LCD Lowest common denominator
LCL League of Catholic Laymen (1)
LD50 Lethal Dose 50%
LDC Less-developed country
LDL Low-density lipoprotein (cholesterol)
LDS Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (1)
LEAD League for Economic Assistance and Development
LH Luteinizing hormone
LIFE Life Issues in Formal Education (1)
LII Life Issues Institute (1)
LLB Bachelor of Law
LLD Doctor of Law
LLDC Least developed country
LLLI La Leche League International
LLM Master of Law
LNG Levonorgestrel
LNMP Last normal menstrual period
LOOM Loyal Order of Moose
LORCS League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
LRF Luteinizing releasing factor
LSC Legal Services Corporation (5)
LSMT Life-sustaining medical treatment
LTL Laparoscopic tubal ligation
LTOT Low tube ovum transfer
LWV League of Women Voters (5)
MA Master of Arts
MACS Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
MAD Mutual assured destruction
MAIDS Murine [mouse] Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
MAMA Mothers Against Minor's Abortions (1)
MAP More Agricultural Production, Inc.
MAR Mixed antiglobulin reaction
MB Megabyte
MBA Master of Business Administration
MBS Mutual Broadcasting System
MC Member of Congress
MCAD Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
MCC Metropolitan Community Church (5,6,7)
MCCL Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (1)
MCH [Department of] Maternal and Child Health (5)
MCHR Medical Committee for Human Rights
MD Medical doctor
MDA Muscular dystrophy association
ME Menstrual extraction
ME Medical examiner
ME Marriage Encounter
MEP Multiple exposure photography
MERCOSUR Mercado Comun del Cono Sur (Southern Cone Common Market)
MeSH Medical subject headings
MFS Mobilization for Survival (12)
MG Myasthenia Gravis
MHD Magnetohydrodynamics
MIA Missing in action
MIC Maternal and Infant Care
MICU Medical intensive care unit
MIM Morality in Media (1,3)
MINURSO United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
MIRV Multiple independently-targeted reentry vehicles
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MM Maryknoll Missioners
MM Moral Majority (1)
MoD March of Dimes (5)
MOM Mothers Organized for Morality (1,3)
MP Member of Parliament
MPA Medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera)
MPA Master of Public Administration
MPH Master of Public Health
MPS Mucopolysaccharidoses
MS Master of Science
MS Multiple sclerosis
Msgr Monsignor
MSH Management Sciences for Health (5)
MSI Marie Stopes International (5)
MSSVD Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases
MSW Master of Social Work
MTCR Missile Technology Control Regime
MWA Modern Woodmen of America
MX Missile, experimental
MYOB Mind your own business
NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAAF National Association for Abortion Facilities (5)
NAAO National Association of Artist's Organizations (8)
NAAPC National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children (1)
NAB National Association of Broadcasters
NAC Network Action Committee
NACAC North American Council on Adoptable Children
NACC North Atlantic Cooperation Council
NACHO North American Conference of Homophile Organizations (7)
NACHRI National Association of Children's Hospitals and Associated Institutions
NAE National Association of Evangelicals
NAF National Abortion Federation (5)
NAGAP National Association of Gay Alcoholism Professionals (7)
NAJSN National American Jewish Students Network
NAM Nonaligned Movement
NAM New American Movement
NAM "New age" movement
NAMBLA North American Man-Boy Love Association (7)
NANN National Association of Neonatal Nurses
NAOP National Association for Optional Parenthood (5)
NAPARE National Association for Perinatal Addiction, Research, and Education
NAPN National Association of Pro-Life Nurses (1)
NAPSAC National Association of Parents and Professionals for Safe Alternatives in
Childbirth
NAPWA National Association of People with AIDS
NARAL National Abortion Rights Action League [formerly the National
Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), now the
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
(NARRAL)](5)
NARHC National Association of Reproductive Health Centers (5)
NARRAL National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (formerly the
National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and the National
Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL)) (5)
NARW National Assembly of Religious Women
NAS National Audobon Society (11)
NAS National Association of Scholars
NASSP National Association of Secondary School Principals
NASW National Association of Social Workers
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAWL National Association of Women Lawyers (5)
NAZI Nationalen Socialisten (National Socialist Workers Party, or Nazis) (9)
NBAU No business as usual (Communist slogan)
NBC National Broadcasting Company
NBFO National Black Feminists Organization (5)
NBPTS National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
NBWHP National Black Women's Health Project (5)
NC Nordic Council
NCA National Committee for Adoption
NCA National Chastity Association (1)
NCAC National Coalition Against Censorship (8)
NCADP National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
NCADV National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
NCAN National Coalition of American Nuns (5)
NCAP National Community AIDS Partnership (7)
NCC National Council of Churches (5,7)
NCC National Catholic Coalition
NCCB National Council of Catholic Bishops
NCCC National Coalition of Clergy and Laity
NCCC National Council of Catholic Charities
NCCJ National Conference of Christians and Jews
NCCL National Committee of Catholic Laymen (1)
NCCW National Council of Catholic Women
NCCY National Committee for Children and Youth
NCDC National Catholic Development Conference
NCE New Catholic Edition
NCEA National Catholic Education Association
NCFA National Committee for Adoption
NCFPI National Clearinghouse for Family Planning Information
NCFR National Council on Family Relations
NCGLC National Coalition of Gay and Lesbian Counselors (7)
NCGO National Coalition of Gay Organizations (7)
NCGSTDS National Coalition of Gay Sexually-Transmitted Disease Services (7)
NCHA National Council on Higher Education
NCHLA National Committee for a Human Life Amendment (1)
NCHS National Center for Health Statistics
NCI National Cancer Institute
NCJW National Council of Jewish Women
NCLR National Center for Lesbian Rights (7)
NCNW National Council of Negro Women
NCOG National Council of Obstetrics and Gynecology
NCPAC National Conservative Political Action Committee
NCSW National Conference on Social Welfare
NCTE National Council of Teachers of English
NCWUS National Council of Women of the United States
NDA New drug application (for the Food and Drug Administration)
NDA Natural Death Act
NEA Nuclear Energy Agency
NEA National Endowment for the Arts (8)
NEA National Education Association (5,7,9)
NEC National Ecumenical Coalition
NECLU National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (5,6,7,8)
NEET Nafarelin European Endometriosis Trial Group
NEH National Endowment for the Humanities
NEJM New England Journal of Medicine
NEN Norethindrone acetate
NEP New Economic Policy
NERPRC New England Regional Primate Research Center
NET Norethindrone
NET-EN Norethisterone enanthate
NEW Network of Empowered Women
NFD National Federation for Decency (now the American Family Association)
(1,3)
NFL National Football League
NFL National Federation for Life (1)
NFP Natural family planning
NFPC National Federation of Priests' Councils (dissident group)
NFPFA Natural Family Planning Federation of America (1)
NFPRHA National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (5)
NFS National Fertility Study
NGF National Genetics Foundation
NGHC National Gay Health Coalition (7)
NGHEF National Gay Health Education Foundation, Inc. (7)
NGLTF National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (7)
NGO Non-governmental organization
NGU Non-gonococcal urethritis
NHANES National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
NHI National Health Insurance (Britain)
NHLA National Hispanic Lawyers Association
NHO National Hospice Organization
NHS National Health Service
NIAAA National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
NIB Nordic Investment Bank
NIC Newly industrializing country
NICA National Interfaith Coalition on Aging
NICHD National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICM National Institute for Campus Ministries
NICU Neonatal intensive care unit
NIDA National Institute on Drug Abuse
NIE Newly industrializing economy
NIE National Institute for Education
NIEO New International Economic Order
NIH National Institute of Health
NIMBY Not in my back yard
NIMH National Institute of Mental Health
NINA No Irish need apply
NIRS Nuclear Information Resource Service
NLF National Liberation Front
NLFO National Lesbian Feminist Organization (5,7)
NLG National Lawyer's Guild (5,7,8)
NLSY National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
NMA National Medical Association
NMR Nuclear magnetic resonance [spectroscopy]
NN Nicaraguan Network (12)
NOAPP National Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting
NOEL National Organization of Episcopalians for Life (1)
NOLGS National Organization of Lesbian and Gay Scientists (7)
NOLSW National Organization of Legal Social Workers
NON National Organization of Non-Parents (5)
NOPARH National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing (1)
NOPE National Optimum Population Effort
NORC National Opinion Research Center
NORCL National Organization for the Repeal of Cocaine Laws
NORD National Organization for Rare Disorders
NORML National Organization for the Repeal of Marijuana Laws
NPC National People's Congress (9)
NPFC National Pro-Family Coalition (1)
NPG Negative Population Growth (5)
NPLD National Pro-Life Democrats (1)
NPR National Public Radio
NRC National Research Council
NRCA Natural Resources Council of America (11)
NRDA Natural Resources Defense Association (11)
NRDC National Resource Defense Council (11)
NRFF National Research Foundation for Fertility
NRHP National Reproductive Health Project (5)
NRHRC National Rehabilitation Hospital Research Center
NRL-PAC National Right to Life Political Action Committee (1)
NRLC National Right to Life Committee (1)
NSC National Security Council
NSCE National Center for Science Education
NSF National Science Foundation
NSFG National Survey of Family Growth
NSG Nuclear Suppliers Group
NSGC National Society of Genetic Counselors
NSM National Survey of Men
NSNA National Student Nurses Association
NSTA National Science Teachers Association
NSW New South Wales
NT New Testament
NTD Neural tube defect
NTL National Teens for Life (1)
NUL National Urban League (5)
NWA Niggers With Attitude (rap group)
NWCL National Women's Coalition for Life (1)
NWF National Wildlife Federation (11)
NWHN National Women's Health Network (5)
NWLC National Women's Law Center (5)
NWM New Ways Ministry
NWPC National Women's Political Caucus (5)
NWRA National Welfare Rights Association
NWSC National Women's Studies Conference (5)
NYA National Youth Administration
NYPLC National Youth Pro-Life Coalition (1)
OAPEC Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
OAPP Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs [United States Department of
Health and Human Services]
OAS Organization of American States
OAS Organization of American States
OAU Organization of African Unity
OC Order of Cistercians
OC Oral contraceptive
OCA Orthodox Church of America
OCarm Order of Carmelites
OCart Order of Carthusians
OCC Order of Calced Carmelites
OCD Order of Discalced Carmelites
OCI Ovum capture inhibitor
OCSO Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance
ODC Order of Discalced Carmelites
OEA Office of Environmental Affairs (11)
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OECS Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
OEEC Organization for European Economic Cooperation
OEO Office of Economic Opportunity
OERI Office of Educational Research and Improvement
OES Order of the Eastern Star
OFM Order of Friars Minor
OGC Office of General Council
OI Osteogenesis imperfecta
OIC Organization of the Islamic Conference
OM Ovulation method
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OMI Oblates of Mary Immaculate
ONUSAL United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador
oob off our backs [Magazine] (5,7)
Op cit Opere citato (in the work cited)
OP Order of Preachers (Dominicans)
OP Optimum Population, Inc.
OPA Organ Procurement Agency
OPANAL Organismo para la Proscripcion de las Armas Nucleares en la
America Latina y el Caribe (Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean)
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEN Organization to Promote Equality Now
OPM Office of Personnel Management
OPR Office of Population Research, Princeton University (5)
OR Operation Rescue (1)
OSA Order of St. Augustine
OSB Order of St. Benedict (Benedictines)
OSF Order of St. Francis
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSM Order of the Servants of Mary
OSU Order of St. Ursula
OSV Our Sunday Visitor [Magazine]
OT Old Testament
OT Ovum transfer
OT Occupational therapy
OTA Office of Technology Assessment
OTC Over the counter
OTGH Old-Time Gospel Hour
OURS Organization for United Response
P-FLAG Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (7)
P.C. Politically correct
P.R. Public relations
P-IUD Progestagen-releasing intrauterine devices
PA Power of attorney
PA Physicians assistant
PA Public address
PA Prothonotary apostolic
PA Parents Anonymous
PAA Population Association [or Assistance] of America (5)
PAC Political action committee
PAC Population Action Council (5)
PACE Post-Abortion Counseling and Education (1)
PAF Platelet-activating factor
PAHO Pan American Health Organization (5)
PAPOC Parents Alliance to Protect Our Children (1)
PAPP-A Pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A
PAS Post-abortion syndrome
PATH Post-Abortion Trauma Healing (1)
PATH Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (5)
PAU Pan American Union
PAW People for the American Way (4,8)
PBS Public Broadcasting System
PC Personal computer
PC Population Communication (5)
PCA Permanent Court of Arbitration
PCA Presbyterian Church in America
PCC Population Crisis [or Control] Committee (5)
PCI Pax Christi International
PCI Population Communications International (5)
PCO Polycystic ovary syndrome
PCS Population Communication Services, Johns Hopkins University (5)
PCUC People Concerned for the Unborn Child (Pennsylvania) (1)
PCUSA Presbyterian Church of the USA
PD Peak day
PDA Population Development Association (5)
PDA Pregnancy Disability Act
PDQ Pretty damn quick
PDR Physicians Desk Reference
PDW People's Daily World Magazine (9)
PEACE People Expressing a Concern for Everyone
PECAM Platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule
PEI Prince Edward Island
PEN [International Association of] Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and
Novelists (8)
PEP Promoting Enduring Peace (12)
PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (10)
PFL Prayer and Fasting League (1)
PG Prostaglandin
Ph.D. Philosophiae doctor (Doctor of Philosophy)
PHA Public Housing Administration
PHS [United States] Public Health Service
PHWFL Public Health Workers for Life (1)
PI Pearl Index
PI Population Institute (5)
PI Private investigator ("private eye")
PID Pelvic inflammatory disease
PIE Paedophiliac International Exchange (7)
PIH Pyridoxal isonicotinoyl hydrazone
PIP Population Information Program, Johns Hopkins University (5)
PIRG Public Interest Research Group
PK Psychokinesis
PKU Phenylketonuria
PLAL Pro-Life Action Network (1)
PLAL Pro-Life Action League (1)
PLAN Plan Loving Adoption Now (1)
PLAN Protect Life in All Nations (1)
PLEA Pro-Life Educational Association (1)
PLO Palestinian Liberation Organization
PMS Pre-menstrual syndrome
PNAP Prolife Nonviolent Action Project (1)
PND Prenatal diagnosis
PO Post office
POC 'Products of conception'
POC Prisoners of conscience
POM Public opinion message
POPTECH Population Technical Assistance Project (5)
POSSLQ Person of the opposite sex sharing living quarters
POV Point of View [television program]
PP/WP Planned Parenthood/World Population (5)
PP Planned Parenthood (5)
PP5 Placental protein 5
PPAF Planned Parenthood Action Fund (5)
PPD Purified protein derivative
PPD Post-partum depression
PPFA Planned Parenthood Federation of America (5)
PPFC Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada (5)
PPIH Population Planning and International Health (5)
PPL Presbyterians Pro-Life (1)
PPNG Penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhea
PPP Planned Parenthood Physicians (5)
PPPPPPP Proper prior planning prevents putrid poor performance
PRB Population Reference Bureau (5)
PRC People's Republic of China
PRC Population Resource Center (5)
PRL Prolactin
PRM Physicians for Moral Responsibility (1)
PRO Public relations officer
PRO Population Renewal Office
PRO Parents' Rights Organization
ProPAC Progressive Political Action Committee
PROST Pronuclear stage tubal transfer
PS Pro-Lifers for Survival (1,12)
PS Postscriptum
PSA Public service announcement
PSHA Public Service Health Act
PSI Population Services International (5)
PSI Population Services Institute (5)
PSR Physicians for Social Responsibility
PSS Peace Science Society
PST Pacific Standard Time
PSYOPS Psychological operations
PTA Parent-Teacher Association (5,7,8)
PTSD Post-traumatic stress disorder
PUSH People United to Save Humanity (12)
PVS Persistent vegetative state
PWA Person (people) with AIDS
QALY Quality adjusted life years
QED Quod erat demonstrandum (proof of question)
QFB Queers fight back (7)
QN Queer Nation (7)
QOL Quality of life
QUEST Queers Undertaking Exquisite and Symbolic Transformation (7)
R [Degrees] Rankin
R&D Research and development
R2N2 Reproductive Rights National Network (5)
RAPID Resources for the Awareness of Population Impacts on Development (5)
RATS Radical [AIDS] Activist Truth Squad (7)
RC Roman Catholic
RCA Reformed Church of America
RCAR 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights (4,5)
RCP Revolutionary Communist Party [of the U.S.] (9)
RCP Royal College of Physicians (England)
RCS Royal College of Surgeons
RD Rural delivery
RFC Religious Formation Conference
RFD Rural free delivery
RFRA Religious Freedom Restoration Act
RG Rio Group
RGC Repository for Germinal Choice
RH Rhesus [positive or negative]
RHLA Respect Human Life Act
RICO Racketeering-Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act
RIP Requiescat in pace (rest in peace)
RM Reichsmark (currency used in Nazi Germany)
RN Registered nurse
RNA Ribonucleic acid
RNC Republican National Committee (1)
ROC Republic of China (Taiwan)
ROK Republic of Korea (South Korea)
ROTC Reserve Officers Training Corps
RRC Reproductive Rights Coalition (5)
RRN Reproductive Rights Network (5)
RSCJ Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
RSV Revised standard version
RTI Research Triangle Institute (5)
RTL Right to Life (1)
RTLC Right to Life Crusade (1)
RU Roussel-Uclaf (5)
RVN Republic of Viet Nam
RW Revolutionary Worker Magazine (9)
RW Renaissance Women
S-T Sympto-thermal (method)
S&M Sado-masochism
SA Sexaholics Anonymous
SA Salvation Army
SA Spontaneous abortion (miscarriage)
SAA Sexual Addicts Anonymous
SAA Society for Applied Anthropology
SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
SAC State Advisory Committee
SACU Southern African Customs Union
SADC Southern African Development Community
SAIDS Simian (monkey) Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SAM Society for Adolescent Medicine (5)
SAMA Student American Medical Association
SAR Sexual attitude restructuring
SART Society for Assisted Reproductive Technologies
SAS Sisters Against Sexism (5,7)
SAT Scholastic Aptitude Test
SB Senate Bill
SBC School-based clinic
SC Sisters of Charity
SCAW Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (11)
ScD Doctor of Science
SCI-COP Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (4)
SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCUM Society for Cutting Up Men
SD Standard deviation
SD Senile dementia
SD (3) Strategic Defense Development and Deployment
SDAT Senile Dementia, Alzheimer's Type
SDC Social Development Center (5)
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative
SDS Students for a Democratic Society (9)
SEAL Sea, Air, Land (Navy)
SELA Sistema Economico Latinoamericana (Latin American Economic
System (LAES))
SEM Scanning electron microscope
SFRY Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
SG Surgeon General
SIDS Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
SIECUS Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (5,7)
SIFT Sperm Intrafallopian Transfer
SIG Special Interest Group
SIGMA Sisters in Gay Ministry Associated (7)
SIM Simian Immunodeficiency Virus
SJ Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
SJD Doctor of Juridical Science
SJR Senate Joint Resolution
SKAT Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test
SLAA Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
SLAPP Strategic lawsuit against public participation
SLBM Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles
SM Society of Mary
SMP Social Marketing Project
SMSA Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
SNAFU Situation normal (all fouled up)
SNCC Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
SOMARC Social Marketing for Change (5)
SOP Standard operating procedure
SOR Shield of Roses (1)
SOS Secular Organization for Sobriety Societies (4)
SOUL Save Our Unwanted Life (1)
SP1 Pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein
SPA-TP Staphylococcal protein A-IgG
SPARTECA South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement
SPC South Pacific Commission
SPCA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (11)
SPF South Pacific Forum
SPHA Solid-phase hemadsorption assay
SPI Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (7)
SPR Society for Psychical Research
SPUC Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (1)
SQUASH Super Queers United Against Savage Heterosexuals (7)
SRA Science Research Associates
SRA State's Rights Amendment
SRD Society for the Right to Die (6)
SRP Short rib-polydactyly syndrome
SS Schutzstaffel (elite Nazi Unit)
SS Saints
SSA Social Security Administration
SSA Social Security Act
SSSS Society for the Scientific Study of Sex
START Strategic arms reduction treaty
STB Sacrae theologiae baccalaureus (Bachelor of Sacred Theology)
STD Sexually-transmitted disease
STD Sacrae theologiae doctor (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
STL Sacrae theologiae licentiatae (Licentiate of Sacred Theology)
STM Sacrae theologiae masterieus (Master of Sacred Theology)
STM Sympto-thermal method
STOP Save the Oppressed People
STOPP Stop Planned Parenthood (1)
STP Standard temperature and pressure
SUZI Sub-zonal insemination
SV Soror Vitae (Sisters of Life) (1)
SWAT Special Weapons and Tactics
SWS Sociologists for Women in Society
SYL Spartacus Youth League (9)
T.O.P. [Dominican] Third Order of Penance
TA Transabdominal
TALL Teen American Life League (1)
TANSTAAFL There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
TARAL Texas Abortion Rights Action League (5)
TARS Thrombocytopenia with absent radii syndrome
TAT Tray agglutination test
TBA To be aborted
TBA To be announced
TC Transcervical
TEF The Environmental Fund (11)
TEGWAR The exciting game without any rules
TFR Total fertility rate
TFRI Transnational Family Research Institute (5)
ThD Doctor of Theology
TIET Transvaginal intratubal embryo transfer
TIPPS Technical Information Population for the Private Sector (5)
TLB The Living Bank
TLC Tender loving care
TLC Teen Line Connection
TLN The Lavender Network Magazine (7)
TM Transcendental meditation
TOT Tubal ovum transfer (or tubo-ovarian transplantation)
TOTS Tubal ovum transfer of sperm
TP Treponema pallidum
TRO Temporary restraining order
TRUTH Teens Rescuing Unborn Tiny Humans (1)
TSC Teachers Saving Children (1)
TSD Tay-Sachs Disease
TTAPS Toon, Turco, Ackerman, Pollack, and Sagan
TTET Transvaginal-transmyometrial embryo transfer
TV-TEST Transvaginal tubal embryo stage transfer
TVC Traditional Values Coalition
UAE United Arab Emirates
UAW United Auto, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implements Workers of America
UCC United Church of Christ (5,7)
UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCS Union of Concerned Scientists
UDDA Uniform Determination of Death Act
UDEAC Union Douaniere et Economique de l'Afrique Centrale (Central
African Customs and Economic Union (UDEAC))
UER User effectiveness rate
UFL University Faculty for Life (1)
UFMCC Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (4,5,6,7)
UMC United Methodist Church (5)
UN United Nations
UNAVEM United Nations Angola Verification Mission
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNDIESA United Nations Department of International Economic and Social Affairs
(5)
UNDOF United Nations Disengagement Observer Force
UNDP United Nations Development Program
UNDP United Nations Development Program (5)
UNEP United Nations Environment Program
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
UNFAO United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization
UNFICYP United Nations Force in Cyprus
UNFPA United Nations Fund for Population Activities (5)
UNHCR United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees
UNICEF United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (5)
UNIDO United Nations International Development Organization
UNIFEM United Nations Development Fund for Women (5)
UNIFIL United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
UNIKOM United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission
UNMOGIP United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan
UNOMOZ United Nations Operation in Mozambique
UNOS United Network for Organ Sharing
UNOSOM United Nations Operation in Somalia
UNPROFOR United Nations ProtectionForce
UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East
UNTAC United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
UNTSO United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
UPA Unwed Parents Anonymous
UPC United Pro-Life Council (1)
UPI United Press International
UPS Uterine progesterone system
UPU Universal Postal Union
UPUSA United Presbyterians USA
URC University Research Corporation (5)
USAF United States Air Force
USAID United States Agency for International Development (5)
USCC United States Catholic Conference (1)
USCL United States Coalition for Life (1)
USCRC United States Civil Rights Commission
USCSC United States Civil Service Commission
USGPO United States Government Printing Office
USIA United States Information Agency
USMC United States Marine Corps
USPS United States Postal Service
USSR/EE USSR/Eastern Europe
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
UTI Urinary tract infection
UUA Unitarian Universalist Association (4,5,6,7,8)
UWA United Way of America
VA Veterans Administration
VBAC Vaginal birth after Cesarian [section]
VD Venereal disease
VFC Voters for Choice (5)
VFW Veterans of Foreign Wars
VHEMT Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (5,6)
VIP Voter identification project
VIP Voluntary interruption of pregnancy
VITI Vaginal intratubal insemination
VOA Voice of America
VOC Victims of Choice (1)
VOGUE Valiant Out Gays United in Energy (7)
VP Vice President
VSC Voluntary surgical contraception
VVF Vesico-vaginal fistula
WAA Women's Action Alliance (5)
WADB West African Development Bank
WAP Whale Adoption Project (10)
WAP Women Against Pornography (3)
WARN Women of All Red Nations (5)
WASP We Are Sexual Perverts (trash rock group)
WASP We are Satan's people (graffiti)
WATS Wide Area Telephone System
WCC World Council of Churches (5,7)
WCCL Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for Life (1)
WCF Women's Campaign Fund
WCL World Confederation of Labor
WEAL Women's Equity Action League (5)
WEBA Women Exploited By Abortion (1)
WENCH Women with Enough Nerve to Create Havoc (5)
WETSU We eat this sh_t up
WEU Western European Union
WFAVS World Federation of Associations for Voluntary Sterilization (5)
WFC World Food Council
WFF Women for Faith and Family (1,2,3)
WFP World Food Program
WFP Witness for Peace (12)
WFS World Fertility Survey
WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions
WHAM Women's Health Action Mobilization (5)
WHCA White House Conference on Aging
WHCCY White House Conference on Children and Youth
WHCF White House Conference on Families
WHCH White House Conference on Hunger
WHO World Health Organization
WHO World Health Organization (5)
WIC Women's International Conference
WIC Women, Infants and Children Program
WICCA Women in Constant Creative Action
WILPF Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (5,12)
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization
WISC Washington Interreligious Staff Council
WITCH Witches' International Conspiracy from Hell (among many others)
WLDF Women's Legal Defense Fund (5)
WLF Washington Legal Foundation
WLNC Women's Leadership Network Conference (5)
WMA World Medical Association
WMA Women's Medical Association (5)
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WNAAC Women's National Abortion Action Coalition (5)
WNDC Women's National Democratic Club (5)
WOC Women's Ordination Conference
WOMB Women Opposed to Massacre and Brutality (1)
WOOMB World Organization of the Ovulation Method Billings (1)
WP Warsaw Pact
WPC World Population Council (5)
WPS World Population Society (5)
WRA Women of reproductive age
WRAP White Ribbon Campaign Against Pornography (3)
WRI World Resources Institute (5,11)
WSP Women Strike for Peace
WTO World Tourism Organization
WVSC Water vacuum suction curettage
WWF World Wildlife Fund (5,11)
WWI Worldwatch Institute (5,11)
Xn Christian
YAF Young Americans for Freedom (1)
YAF Young America Foundation (1)
YCL Young Communist League (9)
YMCA Young Men's Christian Association
YWCA Young Women's 'Christian' Association (5,7)
ZACE Zoapatle aqueous crude extract
ZC Zangger Committee
ZDV Zidovudine
ZIFT Zygote intra-fallopian transfer
ZOG Zionist Occupation Government
ZPG Zero Population Growth (5)
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