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GE visualizes the child in the womb

Here is a great link to a total exploration of the child in the womb. Watch the video, then click on the mini images to get you the cutting-edge technology window into the earliest beginnings of human life.

Images of health before birth

"Test of Fire"; the video & how it came about

This video was posted on youtube in March and has been seen by almost two million (and counting). Below the video is a link to the story of it's creation.

Yesterday, the people who created the video posted this.

Catholics Called to Witness - The Story of the Test of Fire

PRI: "Demographics as the Grim Reaper"

From Population Research Institute -

More and more countries are hearing the death knell of low birth rates.

A quick look around Asia and Europe; for example Japan -

The bare facts are shocking enough: Japan’s fertility rate, at 1.1 children per woman, has never been lower, and it is still falling from year to year. Japan already has the oldest population in the world and, with virtually no immigration, there appears to be no way out of the looming democide. The elderly will die, and there will be fewer people and far fewer workers in the Home Islands in the years to come. The solution is obvious, but the Japanese people have to want more children for there to be more children.

 

 

Abortion survivor: "How will you answer?"

The Susan B. Anthony List promotes the election of pro-life women. The ad is running in Missouri, and as they raise money will be expanded. In the meantime, do YOUR best and send it around!

Kimberly Hahn, speaking out on Susan B Anthony tour - "Abortion is not healthcare."

Kimberly Hahn is the wife of educator, author, and speaker Scott Hahn. Here she is speaking in Ohio, on the SBA "Women Speak Out" bus tour.

 

Congressman Chris Smith on Nellie Gray: "Inspirational right-to-life warrior"

Human rights activist marched to protect innocent

In the passing of Nellie Gray, the founder and president of the March for Life, the nation has lost a great human rights champion who dedicated the latter half of her 88 years to defending the most basic human right: the right to life.

For nearly 40 years, Nellie sought to rally and unify defenders of life. She never wavered from this goal, even this year calling upon “all grass-roots pro-lifers and government officials to unite because any abortion is untenable.”

Nellie first learned of abortion while reading a novel that described an abortion in which the baby was partially delivered and his skull crushed. That vivid picture of the brutality of abortion stayed fresh in her mind, so it is not surprising that she, like so many of us, was devastated when in 1973 the Supreme Court legalized abortion right up until the moment of birth. Years later, she wrote in a letter, “By abortion, a pregnant mother is hurt and a preborn is a torn-apart corpse.”

Nellie’s life was characterized by service to her country. She served as a corporal in the Women's Army Corps in World War II and earned an undergraduate business degree, a master’s degree in economics and a law degree. She worked as a civil servant in the Departments of State and Labor for 28 years. It was her patriotism and an abiding sense of duty that drove her to retire from the federal government early so that she could help lead the effort to restore legal protections to the preborn.

Hit tht link for the rest ....

Dr. Candace de Russy WEDR's 2012 Mott-Stanton-Anthony Recipient!

The Westchester Committee for Women's Equality Day Reformed offered another thought-provoking gathering on Friday, August 10, 2012 at the Westchester County Board of Legislators Michaelian Building in White Plains, New York. Co-chairpersons Regina Riely and Judith Anderson led participants at the hour-long commemoration of 92 years of women's suffrage, the Ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution on August 26, 1920.

It has been eleven years that this "Reformed" event has taken place and much has been accomplished. The WEDR Committee speaks of its greateast achievement as not the $10,000 award that Ms. Riely received when she brought suit against the County for viewpoint discrimination concerning this event, but that a new group of remarkable women of personal and professional distinction can now finally be recognized in Westchester County. These women were previously ineligible for Women's Equality Day honors simply because they were pro-life. Think of it. On the anniversary of women's voting rights, the original official Westchester County Women's Equality Day event openly stated their rejection of any woman in Westchester who disagreed in conscience with "reproductive rights", aka abortion. This on the anniversary of women's voting rights! We are glad some aspects of history are truly ancient.

At noon on the 8th floor, the appreciative audience welcomed this year's Honoree, Dr. Candace de Russy, and Keynote Speaker Susan Moga. The ceremony was dedicated to the beloved memory of the late Pastor Rev. Geneva Patterson of Peekskill, a former 2008WEDR Honoree, who passed away in January at the young age of 59 years.

Prior to the ceremony, Dr. de Russy and her husband Cortes, the WEDR Committee and several of their guests were welcomed to the 9th floor by Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett, Chief of Staff George Oros and several pivotal County staffers. Mr. Plunkett, acting in the absence of County Executive Rob Astorino who was traveling, presented Dr. de Russy with a County Proclamation in her honor. A generous amount of time was given to the group to discuss the day's upcoming celebration and share thoughts on a number of matters of concern to these Westchester's citizens who defend life in the womb.

The program included words of encouragement and praise for the event by members of the County Board of Legislators: the Hon. Sheila Marcotte, Hon. Gordon A. Burrows, and the Hon. Michael Smith. The Hon. Mr. John Testa was on vacation and could not attend this year's ceremony.

Informational literature at these events are made available by The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, The Westchester-Putnam Center for Life, Life Options Pregnancy Care Center in Yonkers, Lumina: Post Abortion Healing, Feminists for Life of America and New York, The Children First Foundation, and various other Westchester Right to Life groups and individuals.

Below is (1) an introduction of keynote speaker Sue Moga, by co-chair of Women's Equality Day Reformed, Judy Anderson and (2) Sue's fine nine minute talk. Lastly (3) introduction by co-chair Regina Riely of Dr. DeRussy, and her call to action.

 

 

 

40 Days for Life in White Plains this September!

Here's a heads up for all you local pro-lifers! Preparations are being made for our own 40 Days for Life prayer witness in Westchester County at the Planned Parenthood clinic at the White Plains Center.

Plan to participate by praying - even for just one hour - at the White Plains Center at 175 Tarrytown Road in the Town of Greenburgh.

The witness will begin on Wednesday, September 26th and there will be a kickoff rally the weekend before.

Watch this HVCL LifeNet website for more details as we get closer to the dates.

The website www.40daysforlife.com/white plains will be activated soon for your convenience!

Fr. Frank Pavone's USA Today op ed comparing Helen Gurley Brown and Nellie Gray

An important column and only 11 paragraphs. As Fr. writes, they encapuslate two divergent world views.

Who will be remembered in 100 years?

Two women whose worldviews couldn't have been more divergent died just days apart, each leaving a dramatically different imprint on American society. Both sought to protect women's rights but were on opposite sides of a cultural battle that has shaped the past half-century. In the Civil War, the two sides were symbolized by "The Blue" and "The Gray." The sides in today's "civil war" could be symbolized by "The Brown" and "The Gray."

Helen Gurley Brown, writer of Sex and The Single Girl and for 32 years
the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, was in the vanguard of a movement
that insisted women would only achieve equality through "reproductive rights."
What that meant was that women should be free to sleep with whomever they
desired with the inevitable consequence of aborting unplanned children conceived
along the way.

Nellie Gray, a lawyer who walked away from a successful
career to found the March for Life, had a starkly different view of
women's rights. To Gray, human rights could not be broken down to their
component parts. Everyone enjoyed the same right to life bestowed by the creator
and guaranteed by the Constitution. Abortion both broke her heart and steeled
her resolve.

Both stood for human rights

The difference between "The Brown" and "The Gray," was not,
however, what many would say it was, namely, that "The Brown" stands for the
women and "The Gray" stands for the babies. The real difference is that "The
Brown" thinks you can separate the two and "The Gray" says you can't. Both
claimed they were serving women.

Brown, and the movement she represented, believed that
women are served by more access to "services" such as abortion, which frees them
from the burden of carrying and raising a child.

Gray, and the movement she represented, believed that you
can stand both for women and for the children in their wombs, and that their
destinies are intertwined: Loving and serving either means loving and serving
both.

Hit the link for the complete op ed.

 

From "The Public Discourse" website: "Honoring an Early Pro-life Democrat"

We found this book review very worthwhile.

Ellen McCormack’s 1976 presidential campaign offers today’s pro-lifers a valuable example of incrementalist strategy.

Ellen McCormack was one of the most well-known pro-life activists of the 1970s. She was a wife, a mother, a homemaker, and a two-time presidential candidate. Although her name might be unfamiliar to young pro-lifers, many pro-lifers of an older generation fondly recall her 1976 campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. This campaign is nicely chronicled in Jane Gilroy’s new book A Shared Vision. Gilroy gives some well-deserved attention to the accomplishments of a pro-life pioneer. She also details a presidential campaign that, despite taking place 36 years ago, still contains important lessons for today’s pro-life activists.

Gilroy paints the early history of the pro-life movement in New York, where Ellen McCormack was born and raised. New York became a hotbed of pro-life activism in the late 1960s, when feminist groups including NOW and NARAL launched an organized effort to liberalize the state’s abortion laws. This motivated many well-intentioned, but politically inexperienced people to join the pro-life cause. A Shared Vision chronicles how these new pro-life activists lost their innocence very quickly.

Hit the link for the complete review/essay. Go here Ellen McCormack, Anti-Abortion Presidential Candidate, Dies at 84 for a NY Times article when Mrs. McCormack died in March, 2011.

Nellie Gray, founder of the March for Life

Miss Gray - her death is bad for us, but good for heaven.

One of the leading lights of the pro-life movement in the United States has gone out. Nellie Gray, the charismatic octogenarian founder of the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., the largest annual pro-life event in the country, passed away over the weekend, and was discovered in her apartment earlier today.

Gray, who was once described by Cardinal Sean O’Malley as the “Joan of Arc” of the pro-life movement, was an ubiquitous figure at the pro-life march every year, her slight frame standing at the podium at stage centre, introducing the many luminaries who addressed the crowd of several hundred thousand during the rally before the march.

Gray founded the march in 1974, and guided its development into a massive annual movement that has inspired copycat events not only in cities across the U.S., but around the world, striking fear into the heart of pro-abortion activists in the process. In 2010, outgoing NARAL President Nancy Keenan recalled her dismay at stumbling on the March for Life after coming out of Union Station. “I just thought, my gosh, they are so young,” Keenan said. “There are so many of them, and they are so young.”

“Every year since 1974, Nellie Gray has mobilized a diverse and energetic army for life,” said Father Pavone, who credited his experience attending the march as a teenager with confirming his decision to become a priest and devote his life to the pro-life cause. “Her own commitment to the cause never wavered. She was a tireless warrior for the unborn and her motto was ‘no exceptions.’ “

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“Today marks a bittersweet moment for the pro-life movement,” said Students for Life of America President, Kristan Hawkins, upon hearing of Nellie’s passing. “A great warrior for the preborn, Nellie Grey, has left this earth and entered her eternal reward. Pro-life students from across the nation will be forever grateful for the leadership that Nellie Grey has provided to our movement, for founding the March for Life, and setting an example of passion and perseverance that inspires us all to dedicate our lives to finishing what she started, abolishing abortion in our lifetime.”

Janet Morana, executive director of Priests for Life and co-founder of Silent No More, said, “We are so grateful that Nellie Gray shared our vision of Silent No More, and recognized that the women who have had abortions speak with unquestioned authority about the ways they have been harmed by this choice.”

Every year since its founding in 2003, Nellie invited the women of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign to stand on the rally stage holding signs that said, “I Regret My Abortion,” and she arranged for a larger group of post-abortive men and women from Silent No More to be in the vanguard of the March.

We will post more infromation.

A Catholic League PR - "Catholic VP vs. Catholic VP"

Stating the obvious -

CATHOLIC VP v. CATHOLIC VP

August 13, 2012 by admin  
Filed under Latest News Releases

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the two Catholic vice presidential candidates:

In many respects, the Catholic community today is divided into pro-life and social justice camps. That is unfortunate, and while this division can be overstated, it remains true that most Catholic activists sit in either one camp or the other; cross-over Catholics are a rare breed.

Paul Ryan represents the pro-life wing, and Joe Biden represents the social justice wing. Indeed, both exemplify the differences, and not just on the issue of abortion. For example, Ryan’s idea of freedom of choice commits him to supporting school vouchers; Biden’s notion of choice commits him to abortion rights. Ryan is opposed to reinventing the institution of marriage; Biden wants to expand marriage to include two people of the same sex.

The Catholic Church opposes abortion and gay marriage. On both of these issues, Biden disagrees with the Church. Biden’s defenders, e.g., Catholics who identify with social justice concerns, argue that Ryan’s budgetary prescriptions make him the dissident Catholic; his ideas are said to hurt the poor. This assumes, however, that there is a clear Catholic teaching on what constitutes the best means to conquer poverty. There isn’t. For instance, fidelity to the Church’s preferential option for the poor can be realized by making a serious case to raise taxes, or to lower them. In effect, both Biden and Ryan can plausibly maintain that he is a champion of the poor. But only one, Ryan, can be identified as the champion of the unborn.

Not all policy issues are equal. Abortion is regarded by the Catholic Church as “intrinsically evil.” Moreover, the bishops’ conference has explicitly endorsed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. This puts Biden at a decisive disadvantage in making the case that he better represents Catholic teachings.

WEDR on WVOX Good Morning, Westchester! - Wednesday, August 8, 7:15 a.m.

Prepare to celebrate 92 years of women's voting rights and listen on radio or internet to Bob Marrone's Good Morning, Westchester! WVOX 1460 AM New Rochelle radio broadcast on Wednesday morning, August 8, at 7:15 a.m., for a discussion between Bob and WEDR co-chairperson Judy Anderson about  this year's Women's Equality Day Reformed.

The 11th annual ceremony commemorates the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920. The WEDR ceremony takes place on Friday, August 10 at 12 Noon, 8th Floor, Michaelian Building, 148 Martine Avenue (at Court Street) in White Plains, New York. The day's theme is Women's Leadership Voices: Helping or Hurting Women?

The 2012 Honoree and recipient of the Mott-Stanton-Anthony Award is Dr. Candace de Russy, well-known scholar and prolific writer on education and cultural issues. Keynote speaker is Susan Moga, Manager of the Westchester Department of Parks, Recreation & Conservation Farm at Muscoot.

For more information call Judith Anderson 914-329-5163 or Regina Riely 914-319-7491