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Great! Marches for Life around the Country!

As we prepare for Washington- either by traveling or in solidarity. We will post whatever we can about all these Marches.

Standing Strong for the Unborn: Pro-Life Marches Around the Country Major U.S. cities will host events this month.

The March for Life in Washington (MarchforLife.org) is the biggest and oldest of the marches, dating back to 1974. It was begun by the late Catholic convert Nellie Gray. The march will be held Jan. 18, with a noon rally on the National Mall, followed by a 1pm march up Constitution Avenue to the U.S. Supreme Court Building. Featured speakers include Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood employee who has since become pro-life and converted to Catholicism, and political pundit Ben Shapiro, who is an Orthodox Jew.

There will be a variety of companion events before and after the march. At 3pm on Jan. 18, for example, there will be “Silent No More” testimonies on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court: Those adversely affected by abortion will share their experiences. The day before the march there will be a March for Life Conference and Expo at the Renaissance Washington D.C. Downtown Hotel, with featured speaker David Daleiden. Daleiden made the national news for his undercover videos of Planned Parenthood staff.

March organizers expect a turnout of 100,000 marchers or more. Katrina Gallic, a spokeswoman for the march, noted this year’s theme is “Unique From Day One: Pro-Life Is Pro Science” “because we want to emphasize that science indicates that life begins at conception.” She added that she expects Shapiro, who will host a live podcast at the National Mall 10-11am on march day, will emphasize the importance of considering science in the pro-life debate.

Gallic also noted that she expected prominent political figures to play a role on march day, saying that the march will be making official announcements of who they are in the days leading up to the event.

San Francisco

The Walk for Life West Coast (WalkforLifeWC.com) is the March for Life’s San Francisco counterpart. The 15th-annual walk will be held Jan. 26, drawing 50,000 pro-lifers. Its founders include Catholic Eva Muntean, who said, “We’re expecting a strong turnout this year, especially considering the contentious political environment in which we live. We also expect a few more protesters, but every year the San Francisco Police Department does a great job keeping everyone safe.”

Speakers include Patricia Sandoval, also a former Planned Parenthood employee who became pro-life; Baptist preacher Walter Hoye; and Father Shenan Boquet, president of Human Life International. The walk will begin with a 12:30pm rally at the San Francisco Civic Center, followed by a 1:30pm walk up Market Street. There are a variety of companion events before and after the West Coast walk.

Companion events include Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral at 9:30am on Saturday, celebrated by San Francisco Archbishop Salvadore Cordileone. Star of the Sea parish in San Francisco, led by Father Joseph Illo, will have a contingent of 60 or 70 parishioners walking and will host a “Wok for Life” Asian cuisine dinner, followed by an all-night “Adoration for Life” event. Star of the Sea is also helping to facilitate the participation of high-school students in the walk, allowing 200 young people from out of the area to sleep in the parish hall overnight.

Denver

The Celebrate Life Rally and March in downtown Denver (RespectLifeDenver.org) is a newer march presented by the Archdiocese of Denver’s Respect Life Office; the fifth-annual event will be held on the steps of the Denver State Capitol Jan. 12.  A rally begins at 1pm and will be emceed by David Bereit, a Catholic convert and co-founder and former CEO of 40 Days for Life. Featured speakers include Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila, who has long made the pro-life cause a focus of his ministry.

The march begins at 2pm, with participants circling a nearby park and returning to the capitol steps. At the conclusion of the march, the St. John Vianney Seminary choir will sing a medley of patriotic songs.

The march is growing steadily in size, and last year, it drew 5,000 participants. Its founder is Lynn Grandon, program director of the archdiocesan Respect Life Office. “We’ve grown a lot from our first march, and we’re drawing people from a variety of our Catholic communities,” Grandon said. “In addition to our Anglo Catholics, we have a large number of people who come from our Hispanic community and from our Vietnamese population, as well.”

A special guest speaker this year, she continued, will be Elias Moo, the new superintendent of schools for the archdiocese, to address the Hispanic community in Spanish.

Also featured this year will be a local family, the McGarritys, who have four children of their own and who have adopted four children with Down syndrome. As Grandon noted, “It’s a beautiful example of living out the pro-life message.”

Chicago

Another major pro-life march will be the March for Life Chicago (MarchforLife-Chicago.org), which will be held Jan. 13, from 2 to 4pm at Federal Plaza. Featured speakers include Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life in Washington, and Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation. About 6,000 pro-lifers are expected to attend.

Related events include a “Youth Rally for Life” at 8am at Holy Name Cathedral and an 11am “Archdiocesan Mass for Life” celebrated by Cardinal Blase Cupich, both on the day of the March for Life Chicago.

The Chicago march shares the same “Unique From Day One” theme as this year’s Washington  march. Dawn Fitzpatrick, of the board of directors of the Chicago march, explained, “Being pro-life is not in opposition to science. It’s quite the opposite, in fact. Medical and technological advancements continue to reaffirm the science behind the pro-life cause — that life begins at fertilization, or Day One, when egg meets sperm and a new, unique human embryo is created.”

46 Reasons for Hope as we approach the anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Thanks to Manhattan Right to Life for sending this around on their facebook page.

And it's from National Right to Life - National Right to Life News - 46 Reasons ...

We've listed the first 15 below the picture; hit the link for the complete list.

As we come upon the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling which legalized abortion, here are 46 reasons for hope for the decision’s ultimate demise:

1. Statistics show the number of abortions in the U.S. are on the decline.
2. Polls show the Millennial Generation is more pro-life than young people of generations past.
3. The iGeneration, those born after the Millennials, are also largely pro-life.
4. President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order barring taxpayer funding of organizations that perform and promote abortions overseas.
5. The White House supports no federal funding for abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
6. Vice-President Mike Pence has been outspoken in his defense of innocent human life.
7. The Trump Administration is a pro-life administration.
8. The President has vowed to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will not legislate from the bench, hastening the day when Roe v. Wade will be overturned. There have been two new justices: Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh
9. The annual March for Life continues to attract huge crowds, largely made up of young people.
10. Pregnancy resource centers are reaching out to pregnant women every day with compassion, love, and support.
11. The number of pregnancy resource centers in the U.S. far outnumber abortion facilities.
12. Abortion centers are closing all across the country.
13. The U.S. Senate is dominated by strong defenders of life, as are many state legislatures throughout the nation.
14. 4D ultrasound technology is showing babies smiling in their mothers’ wombs.
15. Women who regret their abortions and who want to help other women avoid similar heartache have found their voice in organizations such as the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.

 

Hudson Valley bus for March for life, next Friday, January 18th

Other buses of course are going. If you are in the Ossining area, there is a bus leaving at 6AM from St. Augustine's RC Church.

Email us if you are interested in taking this bus. It should be back by 10-10:30PM.

 

The Latest from SFLA (Students for Life of America)

The President of SFLA, Kristan Hawkins, is an incredibly hard-working woman, and the organization is very effective at reaching the prime market for abortionists. Below we have posted Kristan's end of year email. 

And here is SFLA's very fine website - their embedded blog is very up to date. Students for Life of America

Here's Kristan's message -

I know firsthand just how hard it is, in the busy-ness of the Christmas holiday, to keep up with all of your e-mails. But I do hope you were able to see the 2018 Program Audit and video our team put together for you this past week.

As I look ahead to 2019, I can’t help but reflect on what an incredible year 2018 was for Students for Life and our pro-life movement.

When you look at what we were able to do and then look at our budget, its very evident that there is something supernatural going on. I believe, truly, that the Holy Spirit has been working through us and it’s my prayer that He continues to do so in the new year.

But this morning as I was doing my annual office organization (it was embarrassing how messy it got in the midst of my fall travels) and thinking about this past year, I knew I had to write you for I’ve neglected to share so many stories with you from my fall speaking tour.

This fall I visited ten campuses to speak. At each one I met such courageous young, pro-life leaders that it blew me away. I wish you could have been there with me to meet these leaders that you are allowing us to raise up.

And while I have so much hope for our mission to abolish abortion after meeting our Students for Life leaders, I have to tell you that our campuses desperately need prayer as there are so many who are lost.

At my first tour stop at the University of Oklahoma, protestors came and thought when they unrolled their posters that they would deter me from speaking the truth. When they realized that their sneers and boos weren’t working, they left. Only a few protesters stayed for the Q&A session.

At The College of New Jersey, they tried the same. At the University of Colorado Medical School in Denver, pro-abortion students tried to bully the administration into disinviting me to the campus. Before I spoke, a member of the school administration had to get up to say that I was in fact welcome and remind the medical students that they had to be courteous during my presentation. There, they chose to put up their protest signs in the hallways outside of the lecture room and just wear their Planned Parenthood t-shirts during my speech. But what really bothered me was the questions they threw at me during the Q&A. The fact that these students are medical students at one of the best medical schools in the country, just one or two years away from treating patients, and don’t know when life begins or even admit that the child in the womb is alive scares the life out of me. These are our future doctors! And then at Southern Methodist University and Gonzaga University, there were the girls who listened quietly to my entire presentation and then stood up to challenge and then mock me during the Q&A sessions. I remember one young woman from SMU actually arguing in-front of a room of people that poor people would be better off aborted. I let her rant until another student stood up to say that he was born into a poor family, attended SMU on scholarship, and unequivocally say that no, he would not have been better off dead. At Gonzaga University, the young woman who I let rant the most refused to believe science that the embryo, fetus, baby in the womb is in fact a member of human species. When I tried to ask her questions she kept accusing me of “gaslighting” her. While it’s a trendy millennial term, I don’t think she fully got the definition of it... I have so many stories I could share with you from my fall tour. But I’ll stop here and just say Thank You. Thank you for allowing me to go to campuses to speak to truth, even to those who are too afraid to hear it. Thank you for allowing Students for Life to embolden pro-life young leaders on campuses across the nation who refuse to cave into pressure when they host a “controversial” speaker like me. We have so much more work to do in 2019, so many more hearts and minds to change. Please keep our mission and the students we reach in your daily prayers. And if you haven’t yet done so, please consider making a generous tax-deductible gift today. With our $137,600 End of Year Matching Grant, every dollar I can raise by midnight tomorrow will be automatically doubled! For Life, Kristan Hawkins President, Students for Life Renew your support for Students for Life for 2019 >>> Donate Now <<<

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Record number of abortions in the United Kingdom

Great Britain. The culture of death. Hit the link for the complete article.

Marie Stopes international is Planned Parenthood in the United Kingdom.

At all 70 MSI facilities, government inspectors found evidence of a policy that saw staff use high-pressure sales tactics; for example, calling women who had decided against having an abortion to offer them new appointments. The report also stated that those who might persuade an unsure pregnant woman to think again about having an abortion — for example, parents, boyfriends or friends — were “seen as an inconvenience” by MSI staff and that “their presence was strongly discouraged.” Reacting to the latest abortion figures, Clare McCarthy, representative for Right to Life UK, said: “This increase in abortions comes as these private abortion clinics have been accused by the Care Quality Commission of paying staff bonuses for persuading women to undergo abortions, a policy in place at all 70 Marie Stopes clinics across the U.K.” McCarthy added that vulnerable women should not be seen as a “revenue opportunity,” even if the reality is that abortion in the U.K. is a multimillion-dollar industry.

Lord Alton told the Register that the current U.K. government’s priorities had to change: “It’s time for the government to end its relationship with the abortion industry and divert the millions it is giving to these big private abortion providers to providing real practical and emotional support to women facing an unplanned pregnancy.”

Feast of Holy Innocents - Dec 28th - Mass, Adoration & Procession

At the beautiful Church of the Holy Innocents, 128 W. 37th St., NY, NY 10018

 

Christmas Greetings from Hudson Valley Coalition for life

The Savior is born!

 

Red Rose Rescue at Trenton, NJ Planned Parenthood

No blockage of the abortion chamber. Four arrested, names below in the excerpt. More if you hit the link.

New Jersey’s capital city became the latest battleground in the culture war over abortion this weekend as Trenton Police arrested four pro-life activists who protested inside a local Planned Parenthood clinic.

Planned Parenthood says the protesters conducted a campaign of “intimidation and harassment aimed at patients seeking health care,” but the pro-life activists say they operated with love in an effort to save “unborn children scheduled to be killed by abortionists.”

Welcome to the City of Trenton, a historic municipality that features a Planned Parenthood health center on the 400 block of East State Street. Pro-life diehards entered the facility about 9 a.m. Saturday to conduct a “Red Rose Rescue” — an unapologetic action intended to dissuade pregnant women from seeking abortions.

Once inside, the pro-lifers distributed red roses to patients who were scheduled for abortions, according to Monica Miller, director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society. A card was attached to each flower imprinted with pro-life literature — “A new life, however tiny, brings the promise of unrepeatable joy” — and phone numbers of local-area pregnancy help centers.

In addition to distributing roses, the pro-lifers talked to Planned Parenthood patients with “words of encouragement,” according to the protesters. Planned Parenthood, which delivers reproductive health care, sex education and information to millions of people worldwide, quickly called 9-1-1 to evict the protesters.

“When police arrived on the scene, pro-lifers attempted to continue conversation with women or sat on the floor praying quietly or singing hymns until they were placed under arrest,” according to a news release issued by Citizens for a Pro-Life Society.

Multiple protesters inside the building refused to leave despite being asked numerous times to vacate the premises about 9:20 a.m. Saturday. Trenton Police removed and arrested a total of four defendants, charging them each with trespassing, according to Lt. Peter Szpakowski.

Police did not immediately release information on the identities of the defendants, but the pro-life group identified the four Red Rose Rescuers as Fidelis Moscinski, Patricia Woodworth, Will Goodman and Matthew Connolly. The group says it engaged in “civil disobedience.”

 

NY Times op ed asking "would human extinction be a tragedy"

Would it bother anyone if the NY Times went extinct?

The symbol is for the "Voluntary Human Extinction Movement"- evidently there is such a group. 

A rejoinder to the much commented-on NY Times op ed which you can find here. The op ed author, Todd May, is "a professor of philosophy at Clemson University." Sad, very sad.

From the Wall Street Journal columnist James Freeman-

Before condemning any more Donald Trump tweets, take a look at what his critics in ... Manhattan are publishing.

This week the Times runs an op-ed with the headline: “Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?” Strolling along the frontiers of radical environmentalism, author Todd May ponders whether we should all kill ourselves but appears to prefer extinction by attrition:

One might ask here whether... it would... be a good thing for those of us who are currently here to end our lives in order to prevent further animal suffering. Although I do not have a final answer to this question, we should recognize that the case of future humans is very different from the case of currently existing humans. To demand of currently existing humans that they should end their lives would introduce significant suffering among those who have much to lose by dying. In contrast, preventing future humans from existing does not introduce such suffering, since those human beings will not exist and therefore not have lives to sacrifice. The two situations, then, are not analogous.

Kudos to Mr. May for discovering that the death of 7.7 billion people might involve some measure of suffering. Such keen insights may ultimately leave readers more amused than shocked, especially when they get to the bottom of the story and learn that he is no less than a “philosophical adviser” to a television program starring Ted Danson. It remains unclear from the Times op-ed whether the author is in charge of all philosophical advice for the NBC comedy “The Good Place” or merely one of a number of people ready to offer such assistance on set.

 

 

Democratic Party National Chairman complains that people are influenced by their religion

These comments are being picked up by lots of groups. Here's one - DNC CHAIR SAYS CHRISTIANS ARE STUPID

Tom Perez. Chairman of the DNC. A graduate of Canisius High School, an all boys Jesuit school in Buffalo.  What a great mind. He's speaking to Demand Justice a left wing advocacy group. Note comment on Roe v. Wade