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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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More abortion victims - the Texas horror

Following the riveting Pennsylvania Gosnell trial and sentencing, we must wake up and understand that Gov. Cuomo's and others' push for passage of the Reproductive Health Act in his Women's Equality 10-point program means ushering in similar, and even greater numbers of late-term abortion horrors here in New York, already the abortion capitol of the nation.

Andrea Stewart-Cousins has been championing the RHA for some time with little in-depth reflection on its real consequences to women, as well as to children in the womb. Local media has provided a glossed-over view of her signature piece of legislation. We are told women will benefit. We think not, but you decide.

Watch the Life Dynamics interview below with warning. The three women worked for the newly exposed Texas abortionist Douglas Kerpen. Their interview is DISTURBING, even to those of us used to hearing and seeing these horrors. The three women who were directly involved with late term abortions as clinic employees. We caution you that it will make you uncomfortable. You may even cry.

 

Unless we come to terms with the realities of abortion on demand, we will continue to conveniently turn our heads from the truth as we choose to promote "laws" and Party agendas that are destroying  women and the unborn with callous disregard to both. Pray for all women touched by abortion, and add to the list these clinic employees who will also suffer post-traumatic stress as a result of their cooperative participation in infanticide.

Important Essay: "Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of Pro-Choice"

With Gosnell convicted of first degree murder in three of four cases and of 21 late term illegal abortions, we have an opportunity to educate many people who are in the "middle of the road" on this issue. At least one reporter covering the trial has reversed his pro-choice position, and Kirsten Powers (one of the first columnists to publicize the Gosnell trial) appears to have also.

This column from The Public Discourse is a good place for us to start. It takes about ten minutes to read; some excerpts below the link.

Kermit Gosnell has been the equivalent of the American slave-dealer—someone who has done work rendered absolutely necessary by the twisted laws of his regime, but who has nevertheless been ignored or regarded with unease, and even repulsion, by his fellow citizens.

Who but the abortionist is the slave-dealer today? On whom does the traffic in abortions entirely depend? Who else gives practical effect to the “right to choose” an abortion proclaimed in Roe v. Wade?

But our own social customs are not so different from what Lincoln saw in the antebellum South. We “shrink from the snaky contact” with the abortion provider, and even people who call themselves “pro-choice” avert their eyes from the grisly reality of what it means, in practice, to exercise the “right to choose.”

Barack Obama, on April 26, was the first sitting president of the United States to give a public address to a convention of the slave-dealers of our age. That morning he gave a twelve-minute speech to the annual conference of Planned Parenthood, an organization responsible for more abortions than any other provider in the country.

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There is a limit even to Obama’s audacity, though. The president mentioned the “right to choose” four times in his brief speech, but somehow this transitive verb never took an object. Choose what? He never uttered the word “abortion,” though it was plain that the entire speech was about the centrality of abortion to the president’s notion of women’s “health.” Is there any other constitutional right, real or invented, that does not go by its true name when its defenders speak of it?

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No, Gosnell is the “slave-dealer” par excellence because, even if he had run the cleanest, brightest, most professional clinic in the country, he was simply following out the remorseless logic of the abortion regime installed forty years ago by the Supreme Court.

Women came to him for the very latest of late-term abortions, and he made sure their children were dead. Whether he accomplished their deaths in utero or ex utero—before or after their births—didn’t really matter to Gosnell. And, as we have heard from Planned Parenthood officials, from then-Illinois state senator Barack Obama, and from “pro-choice” politicians like Senator Barbara Boxer, it doesn’t matter to them, either.

The remorseless logic. Hit the link above and read the entire essay.

 

 

Pope Francis takes part in Rome's March for Life

Good feature with pictures, and video below

Pope surprises, delights 40,000 Italian pro-lifers, joins March for Life

Since his election, the pope has gained a reputation for making spontaneous gestures that have sometimes taxed his security staff, beginning with taking the bus back to his temporary residence with the other cardinals the night of his election, instead of the car reserved for the pope.

In this case, however, the Vatican appeared to have prepared the event ahead of time. Monsignore Barreiro noted they had prepared crowd control barriers to guide the popemobile out of St. Peter’s square and across the adjacent piazza and down the wide Via della Conciliazione that leads up the Basilica.

But if organizers knew about a planned appearance by the pope at the march, they made no mention of it before the event, leaving participants delighted by the unexpected arrival of the pontiff.   

The pope also gave a shout-out to the marchers from his usual weekly Regina Coeli address, briefly welcoming them and endorsing a European-wide pro-life petition against embryo research. 

The ‘One of Us’ campaign is seeking to gain 1 million signatures as part of a European Citizen Initiative. If organizers of the campaign achieve their goal the European Parliament is duty-bound to schedule a debate on the issue.

A Mother's Day Card "Reclaiming Our Children"

From Lumina

Reclaiming Our Children: Healing After Abortion

 

Late term abortionist Carhart on how late abortions take at least 2-3 days

This puts the lie, as we all knew, to the idea that abortion is needed to save the life of the mother in the third trimester. For a discussion by a physician of this lie, go here and follow the links to the Lohud forum. It's in the midst of the online video.

This should be used when lobbying politicians who hide behind the "life of the mother" argument when looking to expand abortion.

Late-Term Abortion Doc Caught Comparing Unborn Baby to “Meat in a Crock Pot”

When a Live Action investigator, who is 26 weeks pregnant, asks about what happens to the baby during the procedure, Dr. Carhart responds:

Dr. Carhart: It gets soft – like, mushy – so you push it through.

Woman: So what makes the baby “mushy”?

Dr. Carhart: The fact that it’s not alive for 2 or 3 days.

Woman: Oh. So I’ll have a dead baby in me?

Dr. Carhart: For 3 days, yeah… It’s like putting meat in a crock pot, okay? … It gets softer. It doesn’t get infected or–

Woman: OK, so the dead baby in me is like meat in a crock pot.

Dr. Carhart: Pretty much, yeah … in a slow cooker.

Dr. Carhart tells an undercover Live Action investigator who is 22 weeks pregnant:

We do a shot into the fetus to end the pregnancy the first day. … Well, if everything works right, you just deliver them and they come out fine. I mean, if for some reason that doesn’t happen, then we have to take them out in pieces…

A twenty-six-week pregnant Live Action investigator inquires what will happen in the case of complications:

Woman: But if we run into trouble … for some reason, I’m not able to deliver, you’ll be able to get it out in pieces.

Dr. Carhart: We’d take it out…

Woman: What do you use to break it up? Just–

Dr. Carhart: A whole bunch of–

Woman: You’ve got a toolkit.

Dr. Carhart: A pickaxe, a drill bit, yeah (laughs).

Sadly, you can't make this stuff up.

News 12 covers protest outside Yonkers Planned Parenthood

Hit the link! Protest was organized by Advocates of Life -

Protesters picket Planned Parenthood in Yonkers

FOX News has rescheduled it's special on the Philadelphia abortionist Gosnell murder trial

See No Evil – The Kermit Gosnell Murders will air at 9 p.m. this Friday, May 3, on FNC. It had previously been scheduled for Sunday evening.

The hour-long program will be by far the most in-depth coverage the trial has received on any national broadcast outlet. The only program of comparable length, 3801 Lancaster, has been restricted to an internet audience.

That is apparently the way some in the mainstream media like it. Joseph Slobodzian of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who has covered the Gosnell trial from inside the courtroom from the beginning, rolled his eyes when Anderson Cooper allowed writer/director David Altrogge to give the website to his CNN audience.

Live Action's Lila Rose vs. pro-abortion Tamara Holder on Hannity

Here is Live Action's youtube channel with all the complete videos.

Holder is one of the "legal contributors" on FOX news. "Fair and Balanced" as we are, you be the judge of who comes across better.

 

Controversy: iPS & adult stem cells could be embyros?

This is a difficult controversy/situation and has come up before. While other scientists do not agree with this, it is important to look at all points of view.

VATICAN CITY, April 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the top researchers in the field of stem cells has said that iPS (induced pluripotent) stem cells, the “embryo-like” cells hailed by many as the answer to the ethical problems presented by embryonic stem cells, are “probably” actually already embryos and have already, with the right conditions and treatment in the lab, developed into “complete animals” in experiments.

At the time of their discovery in 2007, iPS cells were hailed by both the research community and many in the pro-life world as a solution to the problem of obtaining pluripotent cells – those capable of producing all the tissue types of the body – without destroying human embryos. In 2012 Dr. Gurdon and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work surrounding the development of iPS cells. 

Since their discovery, however, some ethicists have warned of various problems with iPS cells, including the fact that cells derived from embryos have been used in the process of creating the iPS cells. Some also warned that iPS cells could give rise to complete organisms and are, in fact, indistinguishable from embryonic cells that can be induced to begin replication as whole embryos. According to his own papers, Yamanaka said that some of the cells obtained through his process are “pluripotent,” while some are “totipotent,” which means they can spontaneously become embryos and start to develop into a mature organism.

LifeSiteNews.com spoke with Dr. Dianne Irving, a former bench biochemist researcher with the National Institutes of Health in the US, who confirmed Dr. Gurdon’s assertion, saying, “Some iPS cell are potentially embryos.”

Yamanaka himself stated in his research paper that in a test in the lab for signs of pluripotency, some of the iPS cells obtained “tested positive for embryonic antigens, not for pluripotent antigens,” explained Irving.

“Those were embryos,” she added. “So according to that assay some of the iPS cells are already embryos. Most of them are not, but have the potential to be reverted back.”

Some of the procedures used to create iPS cells, Irving continued, “take the DNA back too far, and end up with a new single cell embryo or a totipotent, rather than pluripotent cell, one that has the capacity to revert back to a new embryo”.

Irving described the process of “regulation,” a natural part of the embryo’s genetic systems, which automatically reacts to changes in an embryonic cell to correct genetic damage and reassert the direction of development to produce a whole embryo with the normal complement of 46 chromosomes. This process can also revert the DNA in a separated totipotent cell to what it needs to function as an embryo rather than just a “cell.”

“It may not be well known or understood in the public,” Irving said, “but in the scientific research community, it is well known that sometimes a pluripotent iPS cell could, through this process of regulation, spontaneously revert to being totipotent, which can then become an embryo.” 

“This has long been documented in the scientific literature. It’s not new,” she added.