Chris Slattery, age 54, is a native of NYC, and he pursued a dream to support pregnant women and girls in need with real alternatives to abortion and launched Expectant Mother Care-EMC FrontLine Pregnancy Centers in mid-town Manhattan in 1985.
EMC, now in its 25th year, was NYC’s first crisis pregnancy center and is the largest network of pregnancy help centers in NYC, the tri-state area, in fact in the NorthEast US.
Chris pioneered the use of onsite ultrasound and pre-natal care in a crisis center in the mid 80s, and introduced 3D and 4D ultrasound in lifesaving work when the technology became available. He also pioneered using mobile ultrasounds with sidewalk counseling teams in major cities, at abortion clinics.
EMC has offered over 100,000 pregnant women in crisis – free pregnancy testing, on-site ultrasounds, pro-life counseling, onsite subsidized pre-natal care, STD testing, and on-site adoption arrangements, referrals for housing and legal aid, and material assistance. At least 34,000 girls and women counseled and served by EMC have chosen Life, instead of abortion.
Chris is married to Eileen Tierney, and they have four children, three girls and a boy. His oldest just graduated college, the second is in college, and two are in high school.
Chris supervises a paid staff of twelve full time and part-time Lifesavers, and on average about 8 part and full time interns.
EMC now has 12 fixed sites in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, and a mobile clinic which provides alternative to abortion aid and ultrasounds at abortion clinics, sending with them trained sidewalk counselors.
Chris launched the first Mobile Ultrasound Clinic, in a major US city, on the streets of the Bronx, and Jackson Heights, Queens. EMC launched “Operation FrontLine” in late February 2007, and has drawn national, and local media attention to this innovation, such as a November ’07 profile on the CBN-700 Club, and EMC has been featured on ABC Nightline.
EMC has led the only New York City 40 days for Life campaigns and is carried out its 4th 40 Days campaign in the Fall 2009. Many new activists joined EMC in prayer at their regular abortion clinic sites for prayer, counseling and vigil. Over 250 babies have been saved during these EMC campaigns, the most of all campaigns in the US. Chris was the confirmation sponsor for Dr. Bernard Nathanson, and was awarded the Champion for Life award by John Cardinal O’Connor.
Specialties:
Chris is a well rounded pro-life activist and has experience with most aspects of the pro-life movement including Operation Rescue, sidewalk counseling, Face the Truth tours, 40 Days for Life, Life Chains, political campaigning, demonstartions and counter-demonstrations, pro-life legal defense, litigation against abortionists, undercover work, prayer vigils, and the March for Life.
Chris constantly networks with pro-life/pro-family leaders and speaks at conferences to share his methods of life-saving. Chris organizes unique fundraisers from a cross country Seattle to Brooklyn “Bike for Life” in 1996 (3700 miles), & 3 swims around Manhattan (28.5 miles).
Chris has made a major commitment to training America’s future frontline pro-life lifesavers with a unique NYC internship program, particularly for college students, through their “American Center for Pro-Life Action,” out of a two family house in the Bronx, near the famous Bronx Zoo, and major subway stations. Already over 150 American and international students have lived and worked out of their new Bronx Life House.
Chris grants hundreds of media interviews to the press each year on the “life” issues.
