Fr. Spitzer has had a long-standing commitment to the pro-life movement. At Georgetown University, he founded University Faculty for Life (five hundred faculty members across the United States representing forty disciplines who are dedicated to the dignity and protection of human life from conception to natural death). He has been a board member of Human Life of Washington since arriving in Seattle in 1990. While there (1990-1998), he campaigned against Initiative 119 in Washington (physician assisted suicide and lethal injection) and campaigned in California against a similar initiative. Since that time he has given talks in many states on active euthanasia and has written several articles on it.
Two major articles are:

"The Case Against Active Euthanasia," LIFE AND LEARNING IV: Proceedings of the Fourth University Faculty for Life Conference. Ed. by Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (Washington, DC: University Faculty for Life, 1999) pp. 80-97.

A new article entitled, "The Ethics of Active Euthanasia" will be published by the Wethersfield Institute (San Francisco: Ignatius Press) next year.

He co-founded the Center for Life Principles (in conjunction with Human Life of Washington) in 1996. He established the curriculum for that Center by writing a comprehensive philosophy of the pro-life movement entitled, Healing the Culture: A Commonsense Philosophy of Happiness, Freedom, and the Life Issues (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000). He also produced a six-hour set of videotapes and audiotapes for the same purpose entitled Life Principles. For more information, click on Books & Media.

In addition to the above book, Fr. Spitzer has published several articles on the life principles. Two major articles are:

"The Life Principles: A Model for Teaching the Philosophy of the Pro-Life Movement." LIFE AND LEARNING VIII: Proceedings of the 1998 University Faculty for Life Conference. Ed. by Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (Washington, DC: University Faculty for Life, 1999).

The Life Principles: A Precis available through the Center for Life Principles.