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Where are the girls? Documentary on gendercide

Part of today's email from Consistent Life .

New Documentary on Gendercide
 
         “It’s a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World” is the title of a new documentary, and it’s not much of an exaggeration. The United Nations estimate is now that there are over 200 million “missing” females in the world due to feticide, infanticide, and abandonment of babies solely because of their gender.

Rodney Stark
Discovering God, (HarperCollins, 2007), p. 320-21
 
He is discussing the Roman Empire.
 
        “The advantages of Christian females began at birth. Infanticide was widely practiced by Greco-Romans, and it was especially female infants who were dispatched. A study of inscriptions at Delphi made it possible to reconstruct six hundred families. Of these, only six had raised more than one daughter. As would be expected, the bias against female infants showed up dramatically in the sex ratios of the imperial population. It is estimated that there were 131 males per 100 females in the city of Rome, and 140 males per 100 females elsewhere in the Empire.”

 

Latest Westchester Guardian weekly issue: "Abortion Homicide denial"

Great feature/aritcle on page three of the free Westchester Guradian - can be found in a variety of places.

By Chris Rostenberg

Hell hath no fury like a nine-month pro-choice woman whose baby-killing is scorned.

It would be almost funny, if it wasn't a tragic reality. The denial of reality.

Here's a small sample - hit the link for "the rest of the story."

As for the moronic pro-choice claim that women and men do not reproduce until the child is born, I first heard it at college.  While discussing prenatal homicide with my feminist college advisor, I said, “Before I was born, maybe I didn’t have legal rights, but I was still me, right?”  She answered, “No, Chris, you did not exist until you were born.”  In this case, I was never inside my mother’s body.  Before your birth, your pregnant mother had something alive in her womb which only became you at birth.  When I confronted a second professor about this, he said when a child is born, it had been “retroactively” inside his or her mother, but that if there was an abortion, no child was killed.

Great job Chris.

Parisi and Stinson impress at Women's Equality Day Reformed!

Take 10 minutes and listen to the Rev. Barbara Stinson - "Barbara From Harlem" from our previous posting! Women's Equality Day Reformed this past Friday - Great!

A Proclamation from Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett began the day as over 30 attendees celebrated 93 years of women's voting rights,including previous Honorees Dorothea Muccigrosso and Christine Mortell Plazas.

Christine, Barbara, Martina and Dorothea. Christine and Dorothea were prior honorees

 

The 2013 Mott-Stanton-Anthony Awardee, Martina Marie Parisi, impressed all with her poise and entrepreneurial talents in self-publishing her artistic and researched book Choice. Here are more pictures, video and text version of most of the day...

       Women’s Equality Day Reformed – Friday, August 9, 2013 – Text

Theme: The Feminist Legacy: Defined by “Choice” or Truth?

 

(Opening - Judy)

On behalf of this year’s Women’s Equality Day Reformed Committee, welcome and thank you again for taking time to be with us to celebrate the historic anniversary of women’s voting rights.

Our ceremony today is in memory of the late Ingrid Climis, a friend and stalwart pro-life woman of exceptional distinction. We also remember the late Kevin Rielly who with his daughter Maura by his side, courageously battled illness to the end.

We wish to now acknowledge those members of the County Board of Legislators here with us today, and we invite them to say a few words: The Honorable, Sheila Marcotte District 10 and Michael Smith District 3. The Hon. Gordon A. Burrows and John G. Testa support WEDR, but were unable to attend today. Sponsorship and attendance by at least one member of the Board is a rule of the BofL and allows us this space under equal access and free speech. 

Our thanks, too, to Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett who presented our Honoree with a Proclamation just prior to this ceremony. Rob Astorino apologized that his return home from Ireland was delayed.

Please let us now stand and recognize our 2013 Mott-Stanton-Anthony Award Honoree, Martina Marie Parisi! Martina’s book available for purchase and signing after!

We also welcome at this time our wonderful keynote speaker the Reverend Barbara Stinson who will address us shortly.

We now invite Pastor Quessie Carr to officially open our ceremony with the Invocation. Please stand.

Regina Riely will now lead us in the Pledge & Anthem                          

(Regina)

The theme this year is “The Feminist Legacy: Defined by “Choice” or Truth?” We want to explore the true legacy of feminism put further at risk in New York by Gov. Cuomo’s Women’s Equality Act. This narrowly won battle for life, and its intended consequences for women, challenge us all to speak and act boldly. Being here today counts, so share the experience with others.

As most of you know in 2006 Carol Crossed, President of the

Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, purchased the original Susan B. Anthony house in Adams, Massachusetts for the museum. It is teaching true feminism daily at their location and website www.susanbanthonybirthplace.com. What do we mean by this?

(Judy)           

This year we listened in shock as Gov. Cuomo addressed 150 people at Wesleyan Chapel at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park, the site of the first Women’s Rights Convention in July 1848. He used Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the woman’s movement, as a platform to push his Women’s Equality Act; an Act that included the most sweeping abortion expansion since Roe vs. Wade; an Act that would have codified infanticide; an Act that held hostage by its abortion plank, concrete ideas for women’s betterment in society, with legislation against sexual harassment, human trafficking, pregnancy and housing discrimination, equal pay for equal work.

 (Judy continues)

To challenge this affront to the facts and true feminist legacy, Carol Crossed spoke these words, quoted in Kathryn Jean Lopez’ NRO piece entitled Andrew Cuomo’s History Problem. In it Carol accused Gov. Cuomo of “desecrating” “holy ground” by “advancing abortion in Seneca Falls.” Carol also said,

“the suffragists, even when they lacked birth control, education and work opportunities, condemned abortion in the strongest terms, calling the practice ‘child-murder’, ‘infanticide’, and ‘pre-natal murder’.

 

Because slavery and women’s inequality were abuses of humans as ‘property’, Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, “When we [women] are considered the property of men, we cannot treat our children as our property to destroy as we see fit.”

 

They also believed women needed the resources to support their children, not ‘access’ to destroy them.

 

Besides the taking of a child’s life, the suffragists said abortion allowed or encouraged the promiscuity of men. The recent scandal in the NY State Legislature where the Speaker of the Assembly Silver (D) silenced sexually harassed women with payoffs with government money is a case in point. Abortion access and expansion by Cuomo and government leaders is another inducement to allow men to take advantage of women.

 

Lopez continued, “Crossed calls the governor’s invocation of the suffragettes as cover for his abortion expansion “historically inaccurate.” Forty years into Roe, we should be ashamed of ourselves as Americans for not doing more to protect unborn innocent life and helping women feel like they can choose motherhood as crisis-pregnancy centers and maternity homes do. Instead, Andrew Cuomo campaigns for abortion expansion in a state where the numbers of pregnancies that end in abortion are miserably high, misrepresenting not only his legislation, but history along the way.”

(Judy continues)

Carol’s efforts remind us of our inspiring recipients of the Mott-Stanton-Anthony award. You will find all their names on your program and many of you will remember when they were with us on this day recalling our role models in history.

(Regina)

Imagine. We celebrate 93 years of women’s full citizenship in the American Experiment knowing that our founding foremothers, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, did not live to see it themselves. Their love of truth and its intimate connection to freedom, however, permeates the genuine feminism and the self-sacrificing humanism pro-life feminists follow today. 

Knowledge of the true feminist legacy is sadly being overshadowed by lies and falsehoods and aggressive advancement of the “choice” of abortion. This destruction of innocent human life continues to hurt women, too.

(Regina continues)

Choice is also the name of the book written by our 2013 Woman of the Year. By contrast, it implicitly draws one to the life-giving choice of offering one’s life for another, exercising the highest form of love and of freedom known. Many ordinary people sacrifice everyday for the needs of their family, friends, or community. Their choice is a participation in the Good and the True, the One and the Beautiful. Such choice of the good opens them to greater freedom – freedom in the truest sense of the word.

(Regina)

Barbara’s  partner in her radio ministry is Bebe Diamond, her daughter. Their joint project is a manifestation of their Faith in Truth Incarnate. Barbara is the proud mother of five grown children. She received her college degree magna cum laude from the College of New Rochelle where the Reverend spread the light of truth to many souls unwittingly, we are certain. She is a great radio friend of Mark Levin and a unique radio personality in her own right with her weekly show on WMCA, 570 AM, 9 p.m. on Wednesdays. She is a friend of Rev. Clenard Childress, a friend and previous speaker at Women’s Equality Day Reformed. May I present Bebe Diamond to introduce our wonderful keynote speaker… the Rev. Barbara Stinson, Barbara From Harlem.

Bebe’s and Barbara’s comments                                               

Barbara’s Q&A                                                                                            

(Judy reads honoree Martina’s bio)

Martina Marie Parisi, 2013 honoree

Ms. Parisi is the holder of a BFA in graphic design from the School of Art and Design at the State University of New York, Purchase. She is the founder of Silently Screaming Designs, a company that creates customized and affordable invitations, party goods, stationery and handmade goods. 

Shortly after graduation, Martina re-wrote and published her book, Choice. This comprehensive and carefully documented educational tool is also a feast for the eyes, with all 140 pages in full-color and with extraordinary medical photography on every page.

Martina previously worked as the Assistant Director of Marketing at Mercy College and currently serves as Art Director at Visual Profile Books in New York City.                       

Martina recently was trained by Dr. Nanci Coppola, our 2011 WEDR Honoree to teach the Healthy Respect Program. She will be implementing it into the 8^th grade curriculum at St. Eugene’s School in Yonkers this coming fall.

She is also treasurer of the parish’s Catholic Daughters of America through which she participates in various charitable works. Let’s welcome the remarkable Martina Marie Parisi.

(Martina’s talk)

Joy Dechiario reads and presents Mott-Stanton-Anthony Award to Martina.

Judy presents roses on behalf of the HVCL (at end of the day).              

(Closing)

(Judy)

Thank you, Martina and Barbara, our Committee, guests and attendees.  Ninety-three years later, more than 40 years after Roe, and 43 years in New York where we have endured the most unrelenting targeting of those who champion the right to life or defend other Constitutional freedoms, we must continue to ask the important questions that truly elevate women in society.

(Regina)

This will never be accomplished at the end of the abortionists’ instruments of death. One pundit said that today women are willingly participating in their own degradation. True feminism recognizes the need for change as well as a changeless moral order. The axiom often repeated here, “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world,” signals women to eagerly connect to the intimate role as mother, if not in experience then in respect.

Life depends on it.

(Judy)

And so we thank you all for continuing for another year this remarkable American tradition of pro-life feminism here at Women’s Equality Day Reformed!

Now we will close with Benediction and invite Pastor Quessie Carr to lead us in prayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women's Equality Day Reformed this past Friday - Great!

The 12th annual WED REFORMED commemorated 93 years of women's suffrage and the legacy of the original feminists. The REFORMED part? For 28 years the County's Women's Equality Day blacklisted prolife women, refusing to recognize their personal and professional achievements!

This year's event was wonderful, with 2008 School of Art & Design, SUNY Purchase graduate and entrepreneur Martina Marie Parisi honored as the author of Choice, and Harlem activist Barbara Stinson offering a rousing keynote address. County Legislators Michael Smith and Sheila Marcotte were in attendance, two of the four legislators who sponsored the event (the others were Gordon Burrows and John Testa), allowing for the use of the county legislator's conference room in the County space in the Michaelian Building.

With County Executive Rob Astorino's return to the U.S. delayed, Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett pinch hit for him, giving Ms. Parisi a County Proclamation in the Executive offices.

Then it was down to the Legislators' 8th floor conference room - and what a great keynote by Barbara Stinson, who was introduced by her daughter, BeBe. Barbara gave an intense and marvelous talk.

 

There's more, which we will be posting. Here is Ms. Parisi, with family members, and her Mott-Stanton-Anthony Award, honoring her as Women's Equality Day Reformed's 2013 Woman of the Year.

Two great women -

 

 

HVCL co-director Judith Anderson interview on WVOX for Women's Equality Day (Reformed)

An excellent job by Judy. You may have to turn up your speakers.

 

PR for this Friday's Women's Equality Day (Reformed)

Join us at 12 Noon on Friday, August 9, 2013 at the Westchester County Michaelian Building, 8^th floor large Conference Room, 148 Martine Avenue at Court Street, White Plains

 

The Feminist Legacy: Defined by “Choice” or Truth?

 

Women’s Equality Day Reformed will hold its 12^th annual commemoration of the granting of women’s voting rights on August 26, 1920. Ms. Martina Marie Parisi, author of the beautiful book “Choice” is the 2013 Woman of the Year and recipient of the Mott-Stanton-Anthony Award. Ms. Parisi is a talented young entrepreneur who epitomizes the aspirations, concerns and experiences of many young women today. Her engaging business style and her personal witness to the truth and beauty of life in that process sets her apart and demands recognition.

 

Mott, Stanton and Anthony’s sixty-plus years of hard work also relied on unique gifts, mutual respect, and unparalleled tenacity to achieve the good. These icons set a high standard for women to emulate. The 2013 theme challenges women to ask if over forty years of choice has enriched women’s lives in society as did the 19^th Amendment or, if in the words of one pundit, are women increasingly “buying into their own degradation?” Has the proud feminist legacy been forever tarnished by abortion on demand?

 

Keynote speaker, radio personality Barbara Stinson, “Barbara From Harlem,” will share her personal journey and some of the cultural challenges that enliven her talk show. Do not miss it!

 

“The day again celebrates with women of all voting persuasions and now honors a new group of Westchester women formerly denied recognition by the County for 28 years. These women, like their feminist foremothers, champion a shared voice in government and the essence of womanhood: protection of the continuity of life,” says spokesperson Regina Riely.

 

Limited capacity and security check with photo ID. Seek long-term, 3-hour parking nearby to avoid having to leave the ceremony. For additional details call Regina 914.319.7491; Brigid 914.271.4598 or Judy 914.329.5163; or email the Committee at wedreformed@aol.com.

 

The Honorable Messrs. Gordon A. Burrows, John Testa and Michael Smith and the Honorable Ms. Sheila Marcotte of the County Board of Legislators will sponsor the event again this year.

Prior to the 8^th floor ceremony, County Executive Rob Astorino will honor Ms. Parisi, as well.

 

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