As regards the meaning of our pelican logo, we chose the pelican as the symbol of our organization because of the historical, religious, and philosophical meaning it has had since ancient times. According to ancient mythology, the pelican was a bird which used to feed her young from the blood that issued forth from the wounds which she inflicted on her own breast. Historically this was a symbol of selfless and self-sacrificing love, especially the love which exists between mother and child. The Catholic Church, in the earliest centuries, very widely used this image as a symbol of Jesus Christ, who was wounded on the Cross so that the faithful could possess eternal life by means of the shedding of His Precious Blood. Since our message is that activists, mothers, lawyers, scholars, and physicians must sacrifice what is their own in order that the unborn may live, we thought the pelican was the perfect symbol for the Justice Foundation.
Justice always means sacrifice and selflessness.