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Women Helping Women - Theme for WEDR '07!

The Women's Equality Day Reformed ceremony will start promptly at 12 Noon in White Plains on Friday, August 10, 2007, Michaelian Building, 148 Martine Avenue (at Court Street). This will be another great celebration in anticipation of the anniversary of the Ratification of the 19th Amendment. Keynote speaker will be Nora Kelly of the Cord Blood Registry. 2007 Honoree is nurse-midwife Gabrielle Long Wright, CNM.

August 26, 1920 saw the granting of voting rights to women. Eighty-seven years later we see women still challenged by feminist history new and old, good and bad. How far have women come in 87 years and at what price? To which voices and to what messages are women listening? What consequences to the lives of women, what remedies to their plights or what new ones have the involvement of women brought into the culture?

The day's ceremony will focus on the important role of women and the obligation women have to learn about and speak the truth on all issues, most especially those that effect women directly. The early suffragettes are excellent examples of women who heard the call and spoke out first for the disenfranchised slave, and then for expanded rights for themselves and their children. Their personal fortitude and tenacious and spirited calls for equality in the voting booth became key to an expansion of the roles of women as citizens. Of singular importance has always been the role of women helping women.

Discover history and make history - join us for the 6th annual Women's Equality Day Reformed!

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks embryo stem cell research is "gift from God."

The nominally Catholic Pelosi is an embarrassment.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi Calls Embryonic Stem Cell Research "Gift From God"

"Science is a gift of God to all of us, and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure... And that is embryonic stem cell research," Pelosi said.

Her comments produced an immediate reaction from pro-life groups, including Tony Perkins the head of the Family Research Council

"Pelosi must not have learned from Rudy Giuliani's experience during the GOP debate when the building was struck by lightening as he sought to justify abortion," he said.

"Of course, it's complete nonsense to suggest that God wants us to destroy human embryos, since they are His own creation," Perkins added. "This is just the latest example of the Left's aggressive efforts to lure the unsuspecting into supporting immoral and unethical policies which are whitewashed with spiritual words and phrases."

Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony list said that pro-life female lawmakers did more to represent women during the bioethics votes last week than Pelosi.

"Thankfully, several pro-life women did stand up to vote no on spending your taxpayer dollars on research that destroys human life," she told LifeNews.com.

An interesting website by a pro-abortion activist

We are posting this, because it gives some insight into the thinking of the hard-core pro-abort. See the bio of the author of the book being touted. She's a Planned Parenthood Spokesperson and employee of abortionist Tiller in Wichita Kansas - the man who advertises worldwide that he performs third term abortions.

Fetus Fanatics

Pro-life Rally in Dublin exceeds expectations

Here's some good news from Ireland, where the total ban on abortion is under pressure!

Ireland's Rally for Life a Huge Success Family & Life

The Irish pro-life rally, called 'Celebrate Life', which set off from the General Post Office, on Dublin's main street, had heads spinning as the colour and the enthusiasm of the participants grabbed the attention of thousands of Dublin shoppers on a busy Saturday afternoon in Ireland's capital.

There was an almost carnival atmosphere as the marchers turned into Molesworth Street from Dawson Street. From the stage awaiting them outside the Dáil (Irish Parliament/Houses) a public address system played such music as stewards, coming ahead of the main body of the march danced and cheered.

The rally was headed up with a banner, held by a number of young women, calling on the Irish Government to keep their pre-election pro-life promise and not legislate for abortion or allow for embryo research.

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Speakers included members from various pro-life groups. Amnesty International, the European Union, the United Nations, the HSE and the media were among those under attack by some of the speakers. Niamh Uí Bhriain said there was "an orchestrated attack on our way of life here by the United Nations and the EU" through what she described as their attempts to foist abortion on the Irish people.

"Never as long as we live and breathe will we accept the killing of children in our country. This is our country," she said. "We will hold back the attempts to kill our children."

Advice from abortionist to pro-abortion group: Don't become an abortionist

Warren Hern of Boulder, Colorado invented partial birth abortion. At age 68, he's still at it, specializing in second and third term abortions.

Here's a May 22nd posting off a Canadian blog. Hit the link for the whole story and several interesting comments:

BIG BLUE WAVE: Abortionist: Don't bother becoming abortion provider

Medical Students for Choice had invited Dr. Warren Hern, a legend in the abortion rights movement, to give them encouragement. He offered none.

None of you will be an abortion provider, he told the students. You don't have it in you.

"Do something else. Fix broken legs," he often advises. "No reasonable person would do this."

Hern, 68, practices in Boulder, Colo., a liberal college town. Still, he's afraid to open his blinds at night for fear of a sniper hidden in the bushes. His clinic is protected by a fence and four layers of bulletproof glass.

Abortion is so stigmatized, Hern said, that his fellow physicians shun him. Even his patients often regard him with disgust: "They've absorbed so much antiabortion rhetoric, they feel a sense of revulsion that they have to come into my office and seek treatment."

Vigil for Life at Rockland County Salesian Marian Shrine; a fine day

The July fourth Vigil for Life sponsored by the Rockland County Helpers of God's Precious Infants, and the Salesians, is always a fine event, and this year was no different.

Here are some pictures and commentary -

The Salesians are aiming to build a new Chapel - the old one had to be demolished - so the Vigil was held in a large tent! The second picture is an artists rendition of the to-be-built Chapel

Fr. Nicholas Callaghan of St. Catherine's gave a wonderful homily, as he compared the "culture of death" of terrorism, which wants to be loud and seen by all, with the "culture of death" of abortion in our society, which tries to remain hidden.

This statue of St. John Bosco (Don Bosco) has an inscription at the bottom that says "Anyone in trouble, is my friend." Of course he is the founder of the Salesians - here's a nice bio about him CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. John Bosco (Don Bosco)

A little view of some of the grounds - the Stations of the Cross, and Padre Pio statue -

So, a great way to start the July 4th holiday. Thank you Helpers, see you next year!

Researchers, stem cells and follow the money

Here is an excellent article on the Acton Institute website.

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse makes the excellent point that much of the lobbying for embryo stem cell research is about money for scientists, and not about cures, or patients.

Commentary: Follow the Money: Stem Cells and Subsidies

Last week the scientific world was abuzz with the news that adult stem cells could be used to regenerate tissues and cure diseases. This week, the political world is abuzz with the news of President Bush’s veto of Congressional legislation and his own alternative Executive Order for Expanding Approved Stem Cell Lines in Ethically Responsible Ways. While the Usual Suspects are busy denouncing Bush for being anti-science, the media debate completely obscures the economic interests at stake. Big bio-tech companies stand to make money from government subsidy of embryonic stem cell research. By contrast, the use of stem cells from non-destructive sources have already produced cures, and will ultimately be cheaper to the health care consumer.

Scientists have successfully used stem cells found in the blood of umbilical cords to treat leukemia and other malignancies, thalassemia and other blood disorders, immuno-deficiencies and other conditions. In fact, stem cells from adults and umbilical cord blood have been used in the treatment of over 70 different diseases and medical conditions. Embryonic stem cell research is still in its, well, embryonic stages.

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And don’t forget, the political argument over stem cell research is an argument over government subsidy. The proponents of embryonic stem cell research insist they need taxpayer funding to bring these “miracle cures” to the market. A more cynical view is that a group of scientists and their business allies want government subsidies to defeat the competition from more effective, less expensive, umbilical cord blood.

By contrast, several privately funded umbilical cord blood banks are already up and running: the National Cord Blood Program and Cord Blood Registry. The Catholic hospitals of New Jersey have announced that they are willing to lead the effort to coordinate the donation, registration, and distribution process, with or without taxpayer funding.

That is why the use of umbilical cord blood is doubly more humane than the use of human embryos for obtaining stem cells. No embryos have to be created or destroyed in order to obtain the stem cells. And, since umbilical cord blood is more plentiful at lower cost, the ultimate cost to the patients will be lower.

This is the ultimate irony of the conflict over stem cells. Umbilical cord blood produces cells that are more practical than those obtained from embryo destruction. If we would allow the embryos to be born, we would have a ready supply of something more therapeutic and less costly. And, we get a free prize: a cute baby, as a by-product. A win-win situation all around.

Eileen Peterson op ed response to Planned Parenthood op ed

On June 7th there was a Planned Parenthood op ed as a response to a guest column by Theresa Bonopartis in the Journal news. Theresa was writing about post abortion issues for women - physical and mental.

The Planned Parenthood representative of course denied there were any negative post abortion issues for women.

Eileen Peterson representing Rachel's Ministry rebutted this absurdity in a Journal News op ed on June 28th. An excerpt is below, but hit the link for the whole excellent column.

Healing from a Woman's 'Worse Decisions' Printer-friendly article page

I write the story of our very first sufferer with her permission. Mary (not her real name) called the Rachel Ministry number (845-786-5871) wanting to know how this ministry works. Some time elapsed before she felt safe enough to share her story. Mary is a nurse and had two abortions. She was drinking heavily to numb her pain and had been trying to conceive a baby with her husband for quite some time but was unable to. She believed God was punishing her and would never again trust her with a baby. Slowly, she walked the journey and emerged free from the guilt and the self-destructive behavior. Mary told me years later that if I had not answered the phone on that day she first made the phone call, she was all set to overdose and end her pain.

Lovingly, I am writing to Jane that of all the pains a woman will suffer in her lifetime, none is as heartwrenching as an abortion(s). You can call it whatever you want, a woman's reproductive right, a woman's right to choose, but, no one can argue with the honest truth. What really happens is a baby is killed. The mother of that baby is wounded both in body and in spirit. This is true for the father, too.

A heart is beating, the baby only wants to live, and yet our society call abortion a "right" as if it were something good. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Did Planned Parenthood protect another rapist?

This is from the latest issue of STOPP (Stop Planned Parenthood)

      Newspapers reported on June 6 that 15-year-old Danielle Cramer, who had been missing for nearly a year, was found hidden underneath a stairwell in the West Hartford, Connecticut home of 41-year-old man. Shortly after she was found, it was disclosed in a court document that "she recently had an abortion at Planned Parenthood in West Hartford,” but would not disclose the father’s identity. However, she did also note to detectives that homeowner’s longtime girlfriend “would be really mad if she found out.”

      While no formal charges of sexual assault have been filed, these comments seem to imply the possibility that the 15-year-old runaway was the victim of statutory rape – or worse. “Abortion paperwork” was listed among the property seized in the investigation of this case.

      Sadly, this case, in which Planned Parenthood appears to have neglected its legal obligation to report suspected rape, is nothing new for Planned Parenthood of Connecticut. In fact, this is the second incident in the short span of two months. A Planned Parenthood clinic in Norwich also apparently neglected to report the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl who was impregnated three times by a 22-year-old man over the course of six months.

      Planned Parenthood is an organization that continues to promote abortion at all costs, even when it permits sexual predators to get away with rape. Last year Planned Parenthood reported receiving over $305 million in taxpayer funding nationwide, $4.5 million of that was given to PP in Connecticut alone.

      We must expose Planned Parenthood for the evil that it does. To find out more about how Planned Parenthood continues to protect rapists and child molesters, visit www.childpredators.com. It is also time to tell our government officials in no uncertain terms that Planned Parenthood is not an organization that deserves a single penny of our money. Please visit www.stopplannedparenthoodtaxfunding.com and add your name to the petition.