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It's impossible to be more fanatical than the Westchester pro-abortion lobby

Thanks to Gerald Yeung sending us this link to the Weschester Coalition for Legal Abortion.

You cannot cross them. If you're a politician and you don't endorse third trimester abortions and abortions done by non-physicians, then they hate on you, even if you're otherwise pro-abortion.

"And Senator Jeff Klein will have launched his own personal war on women."

On a very positive note, Here is the story on the prolife lobby day this past Wednesday!

Three views of the prolife lobbying day in Albany on Wednesday.

Three views of the prolife lobbying day in Albany on Wednesday.

Thanks to Ed Mechmann of the NY Archdiocese, sending these articles to us. 700 people participated in the lobbying.

Kathryn Lopez of National Review Online (NRO) interviews Kathy Gallagher about the Albany day

This one about Democrat State Senator Ruben Diaz includes a brief video -

Here is Diaz being greeted by demonstrators

and the Lohud/Journal News coverage -

Activists push back on N.Y. abortion bill

“If the governor was serious about women’s issues, ... if the pro-abortion women’s organizations were serious about women’s issues, they would really just say: ‘Alright, there aren’t the votes to pass this thing. Let’s move on to the other issues,’” said Jason McGuire, executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a conservative group with Christian leadership based in Monroe County. “But they’re not. This is really all about abortion expansion, and we’re going to see that it’s blocked.”

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Jann Armantrout, a Catholic administrator with the Diocese of Rochester, joined the protesters. She said the state should not codify the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade without enacting other federal abortion regulations that have resulted from court battles since.

“We know lots more about fetal development, a lot more about the long-term and short-range effects of abortion on women and the corrosive effects of abortion on society at large,” she said.

Lisa Stiller, 63, of White Plains, said she opposes the bill language that would allow for late-term abortion when a woman’s health is in danger.

“Mother’s life and health has come to mean things like their mental health, so that definition has become so broad and so uncertain,” she said.

        Andrew Humphreys, 47, Hopewell Junction, Dutchess County, said New York should follow other         states’ lead and roll back abortion rights rather than strengthening them.

NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez on Andrew Cuomo's History Problem

Check out NRO's piece by Kathryn Jean Lopez with incisive quotes by Carol Crossed of The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum. Andrew Cuomo's History Problem

On June 5 Governor Cuomo unveiled his Women's Equality Act. To the surprise of no one, Andrew had dug in his heels and presented the powerful New York abortion lobby with the long-awaited 10-point bill they demanded. The controversial 10th point on abortion rights remained unaltered by the protests of conservative and pro-life voices. Can the same be said of Andrew's relationship with Cardinal Dolan and his status as a Catholic? Cardinal Dolan and the Bishops of New York State were "profoundly distressed" over the final wording, as well they should be. If passed this Act could effectively shut down Catholic institutions and hospitals that refuse to perform late-term abortions, and a Church that objects in conscience to other outrageous expansions of abortion's culture of death.

The "Catholic" Governor's push for expanding abortion in New York State is nothing if not reminescent of his father Mario's political coups and moral folly - then-Governor Mario Cuomo's infamous speech at Notre Dame in September, 1984 defined what it means to be a "pro-choice Catholic" Democrat. A Catholic "personally opposed" to abortion but obligated to actively promote - and now expand - abortion in New York State.

Cuomo the younger finally released his long-under-wraps women's agenda on abortion. After a protracted, very political delay, his Women's Equality Act's 10th point reiterated the Reproductive Health Act's bold expansion of abortion into the third trimester, among other gems lacking in common sense or sensitivity to the unborn and women. For example, did you know that women have come so far that  they can now undergo abortions without the presence of a medical doctor? Goody. It's the back alley in prime time, pretending to care about the health or life of women in crisis pregnancies. Parental rights? Don't ask.

This Act also opens the door to more late term abortions and the spectre of infanticide, ala Dr. Kermit Gosnell's "snipping" of the spinal cord of infants born alive during similar late term abortions. Make no mistake, #10 seeks to usher in a broader acceptance of infanticide. The abortion industry demands more profits and it will happily feast on the flesh of the full-term, innocent unborn to get them. America, if this is what is considered advancement for women, shudder. The equality of life that our Constitution so honorably promised is gone and the dignity of womanhood lost. The inmates are running the asylum.

Baltimore Raven center Matt Birk chooses NOT to meet with the President

Matt Birk is a Harvard graduate, six time Pro Bowl selection, has six children and his wife volunteers with a crisis pregnancy group.

And he made his reasoning public.

Retired Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk, who won a Super Bowl with the team last year, skipped the team’s visit to the White House due to President Obama’s support for Planned Parenthood.

“I have great respect for the office of the presidency but about five or six weeks ago, our president made a comment in a speech and he said, ‘God bless Planned Parenthood,’” Birk, a former Minnesota Viking, told a local Minnesota sports blog. “I’m very confused by [Obama's] statement,” he explained. “”For God to bless a place where they’re ending 330,000 lives a year? I just chose not to attend.”

This Saturday: Mass and Procession to Planned Parenthood in Yonkers

Saturday, June 8th. Mass at 10AM, procession and prayers outside Planned Parenthood - a few minutes walk - thereafter.

This is the first public pro-life event since Cuomo officially introduced his NY Abortion Expansion Plan

10 A.M.   HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS (bi-lingual)

                St. Mary's Church, 103 S. Broadway, Yonkers, NY  10701

                (parking in the back of the church)

                *After reception of Holy Communion leaders of pro-life

                organizations will be asked to kneel at the Altar to

                consecrate (or reconsecrate) their efforts to the Most

                Holy Trinity through the Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart

                of Mary.

 

10:45 A.M.  Procession to the Yonkers Planned Parenthood

                   at 20 S. Broadway.  The chaplet of Divine Mercy and

                   Our Lady's Rosary will be prayed and hymns sung.

                   (bi-lingual)

 

11:45 A.M.  Procession back to St. Mary's

 

RAIN OR SHINE!!! 

Testimony: IRS harassment of Coalition for Life of Iowa

What a disgrace. "Explain your prayers ... explain your signs ..." And they were targeted in 2009, before the supposed harassment of conservative groups began.

 

Rockland County protests the Cuomo abortion expansion bill, and State Senator Carlucci's support of it

This was held in Nanuet, on Friday, May 31. Over 50 people outside of State Senator - and abortion promoter - Carlucci's office. Great turnout, especially considering the heat and humidity!

 

Yesterday's anti-Cuomo-abortion-expansion Rally in White Plains

Excellent rally (thank you Gerald!) with almost 70 participants.

We were covered by both the Journal News and by White Plains Patch (the online local community). Journal News has text as well as short videos.

Here's the Journal News coverage which was OK, except for the the reporter under-reporting the number of people (she said about three dozen, we counted and it was close to 70). Please consider hitting the link below, and leaving a comment. 

Abortion opponents rally in White Plains over Cuomo's bill

“It is impossible to stand here today and say in New York, the abortion
capital of the country, that we need more abortions and, in this case,
late-term abortions,” said Judith Anderson, co-director of the Hudson
Valley Coalition for Life in Ossining, who helped organize the “Rally in
Opposition to the Governor’s Expansion of Abortion.”

And here's the Patch coverage - a very balanced short video. 

A coalition of pro-life groups from around the Hudson Valley are gathered at the White Plains Courthouse Wednesday evening in protest of several pieces of legislation that are being proposed.

A few pictures -

 

Tomorrow - Friday 31st - Rockland Rally in Nanuet against NY abortion expansion

4:30 to 5:30PM in Nanuet on Middletown Rd - easy to find.

Outside of proabortion State Senator Carlucci's office.

www.rocklandcatholic.com

Public Rally against Cuomo abortion expansion: Wednesday, May 29th

Here is our press release:

 

May 28, 2013

 

 

TO:     Westchester & Putnam County media – radio, television, newsprint, online          

 

RE:      May 29th Rally in Opposition to the Governor's Expansion of Abortion

 

CC:            N. Westchester & Putnam Center for Life, Right to Life Coalition of Lower Westchester, Westchester Right to Life Party, Catholic Coalition of Westchester, People for Life, Advocates of Life

 

 

On Wednesday, May 29^th at 5PM there will be a Rally outside the Westchester County Courthouse at 111 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in White Plains.

This will be public witness for a Real Women’s Agenda rather than the phony and dangerous agenda for women being pushed by the very well-funded and politically influential pro-abortion lobby. NY State does not need more late term abortions, or non-physicians performing abortions, among other dreadful ideas being promoted by the Governor and certain state politicians. When will this path to acceptance of infanticide shock us?

This pending expansion is also a threat to the religious freedom of institutions and people who have moral qualms with killing the unborn.

NY State does not need more abortions – the state abortion rate is much higher than the national rate; the NY City rate is twice as high as the national rate; and in some NY areas the African-American abortion rate is 60%. These numbers are already a scandal.

We need to work to reduce, not expand the number of abortions.

Spokespersons for the Hudson Valley Coalition for Life will be at the Rally. For more information, contact Judith Anderson at 914-329-5163.

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