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Dan Brusstar, some pictures and arrangements

UPDATE from Kathy: in lieu of flowers donations may be made to EMCFrontLine.org or Good Counsel Homes.

We posted this two days ago Dan Brusstar  and if you haven't seen it we urge you to.

Thanks to Chris S. for sending us these pictures.

Dan and Kathy

Dan’s wake will be Sunday, January 2nd from 6-8pm (they may go past this time as long as needed) at Reed and Steinbach funeral home  2335 Lower State Rd Doylestown, PA  18901

(about an hour outside of Philadelphia).

 

The funeral Mass will be Monday, January 3rd at 11am at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Doylestown, PA - the service will be followed by a burial and lunch. Mass or condolence cards may be sent to the funeral home, for Kathy Brusstar.

 

 

At the March for Life in the late 1990's. Kathy, partly hidden at the back and Dan holding his son Joe. They are with Chris Slattery and two of his daughters, Brigid and Mary Francis.

Dan Brusstar

We deeply regret having to pass on word that on early Christmas evening Dan lost his five year battle with cancer. In the late 1980's and early 1990's Dan Brusstar was co-head of the Bi-state Operation Rescue Network (BORN) which rev'ed up the prolife movement and saved many babies and their mothers.

We express our profound heartbreak to Kathy, Joe, Suzanne, and Mary Margaret.

Additional information will be passed along as we receive it.

As one of our correspondents commented, "Interesting that Dan, who had devoted so much of his time and energies to the rescue movement and prolife causes, which was all about babies, died on the day of THE BABY........Christmas. Perhaps a small sign from God in his regard."

Rather than a picture of Dan, below are pictures of a baby he saved during the "category zero" rescue in Dobbs Ferry, New York in 1990/1991. While the abortion chamber was being non-violently blockaded by over 50 people, Dan spoke to the mother, starting with "You don't really want to be here." Dan and Fr. Joseph Irwin took her for coffee. The result was a turnaround and her baby boy was born about five months later. Trinity Parish in Mamaroneck gave aid to the family for about two years - the boy would now be about 30 years old.

We can verify the pictures. No names since this site is regularly looked at by the pro-abortion people and even all these years later they could try and harass the family.

 

Highlights: 2021 Good Counsel Homes Fr. Groeschel annual award luncheon

This was a  lovely event. A good video to send around to promote Good Counsel.

"What I've Learned In 30 Years Of Praying In Front Of Abortion Facilities"

From our co-director

What I've Learned In 30 Years Of Praying In Front Of Abortion Facilities (thefederalist.com)

 

I have been going to abortion facilities to pray for 30 years. I have watched as “safe and rare” has turned into “abortion at any time for any reason.” I have witnessed the hardening of hearts, which I believe can often be attributed to the silent suffering of those who have experienced abortion.

We are told abortion is “women’s health,” that life will go back to “normal” with the termination of an “unwanted pregnancy,” that abortion is common, and even that it “saves lives.” Despite tons of evidence to the contrary, the adverse impact of abortion on millions of women is still denied, leaving them to feel crazy and alone if they in fact don’t find peace with their abortions.

As the abortion debate again fills headlines and minds while the Supreme Court deliberates on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case that could see a reversal of Roe v. Wade, I’ve been feeling that we do not speak clearly enough to the heart of the mother going in for an abortion.

Hit the link for the whole article.

Awesome: "Progressive" feminist group does Red Rose style rescue in Virginia.

The rescue was on November 16th. Here's some info off the RRR facebook page and the rescuer's entire press release is below, explaining their pro-life position.

Seven Pro-lifers arrested in Rescue today Nov. 16, 2021 from new group called Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising-- and Two Red Rose Rescuers--Lauren handy and Jonathan Darnell participated. Five women left the clinic during the rescue that took place at the abortion center in Alexandria, VA. see here their press release. https://mailchi.mp/4b9.../progressive-pro-lifers-arrested...

They were charged with trespassing-- and all are released from jail.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ALEXANDRIA VA  - This morning activists from Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising entered 5999 Stevenson Ave Medical Complex where the largest abortionist provider in Northern Virginia, Alexandria Women's Health Clinic, is located. There they entered the abortion facility’s lobby as well as stationed themselves around the medical complex for the eventual goal of shutting down Alexandria Women's Health Clinic for the day. This is an act of non violent direct action which directly disrupts the cycle of abortion violence. Founder and Executive Director of PAAU, Terrisa Bukovinac explains, “Social justice can only be achieved when people from every corner of society are willing to put their bodies in-between those being oppressed and their oppressors. Late capitalism fuels the commodification and killing of unborn children along with their parents who are exploited and coerced into abortion for profit.” Inside the building, they offer help to abortion-minded families, counsel them to change their minds about aborting their babies, and information on local resource centers. Activists stationed around the building pass out flyers encouraging businesses to put pressure on building management that “Abortion is Bad Business” Typically in these situations when asked to leave the facility by law enforcement, each activist offers an act of non-violent passive defense of the unborn children about to die. This usually results in the activists’ arrests and possible incarceration.  Activist and organizer Lauren Handy shared, “Abortion does not disappear societal problems, they disappear human beings and at Alexandria Women's Health Clinic that’s an average 7000 preborn children killed each year. We must take bold and decisive action if prolifers want to even begin to stem the tide against such violence.” Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, launching October 1st of this year, works to mobilize grassroots pro-life activists for direct action, to dismantle the pervasive and exploitive influence of the abortion industrial complex, and to uphold the progressive values of equality, nonviolence, and non-discrimination for the most marginalized among us: the unborn victims killed by abortion violence. “The Abortion Industrial Complex professes their care for marginalized communities, while at the same time capitalizing from the bias society holds against them through aborting these groups for profit. Their industry is rooted in violence against already vulnerable people, only when members of these communities, like those from PAAU, stand up to end this violence will it end.” Kristin Turner, Communications Director for PAAU. For interviews and questions contact: Terrisa Bukovinac | 404-388-6464

Former Planned Parenthood director exposes pro abortion SC justice

A 3 minute video interview with Abby Johnson. She's referencing Justice Sonia Sotomayor (who is a graduate of Cardinal Spellman HS). We've put excerpts from Sotomayor's comments below the video. Draw your own conclusions.

 

This is after the issue of fetal pain came up - Sotomayor's point -

Sotomayor - generally a "follow the science" person - on when life begins -

A true believer-- in the Democratic Party. My Party, right or wrong, but right or wrong my Party.

 

 

From NRO: "Justices Show Supreme Skepticism of Roe"

SAD: Some young women outside the Supreme Court, claiming to be taking abortion pills...

From National Review online -

Veterans of Supreme Court cases past know that it is risky to read the tea leaves from questions at argument, but it is hard to see how the argument could have gone much better for the pro-life cause.

The lawyers for the abortion clinic and for the Biden administration insisted on an all-or-nothing outcome, giving the Court no alternative path to uphold the Mississippi law without overruling Roe. Every effort by Chief Justice John Roberts to find some potential compromise standard was rebuffed. That is a risky strategy when the likeliest way to disappoint pro-lifers is the Court’s incrementalists preferring to bend rather than break Roe, but it reflects the calcified, uncompromising extremism of the pro-choice movement.

Nobody seriously defended Roe as a correct reading of the Constitution. Its defenders instead circled the wagons around the institutional importance of adhering to past precedents. Justice Breyer, sounding very much like a man who expected to end up on the losing side of the case, thundered about the Court’s institutional need to avoid revisiting past decisions even if seriously erroneous. Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested, implausibly, that a decision overturning a longstanding precedent could lead to the Court throwing out Marbury v. Madison and discarding the Second Amendment — even though she herself has already voted to overturn D.C. v. Heller. These same arguments could have been made for keeping the pro-segregation Plessy v. Ferguson decision 58 years later in Brown v. Board of Education.

 

 

 

More on the White Plains NY Red Rose Rescue

This is the press release posted on the Red Rose Rescue facebook page. It seems to have been posted the evening of the Rescue - the 27th

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Red Rose Rescue is feeling hopeful.

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Today in White Plains, NY, Red Rose Rescue conducted a nonviolent direct action intervention at the "All Women's Health & Medical Services" murder facility. This for-profit buisness performs grisly abortions on babies in the womb up to 24 weeks old!

There were five primary sidewalk and vestibule prolife counselors offering information and roses to the arriving pregnant mothers. And in addition, there were two patient advocates and one counselor in the waiting room also handing out roses with pregnancy aid cards.

The waiting room advocates and the vestibule counselors were able to pray, counsel mothers, and dialogue with staff (and police) inside the abortion facility for over TWO HOURS.

"We stayed inside the building to be faithful patient advocates for the moms and their tiny little ones in the womb," said Will Goodman, "in conscience, we could not leave while innocent people were in harm's way."

Approximately seven mothers entered the facility during the rescue. Each received compassionate prolife counseling. One mother freely chose to leave the abortuary, and was in tears as she departed. This young mother was offered help and did not return to the abortuary.

"We have great hope that our witness for life today touched the hearts and minds of each mom," stated Laura Gies, a seasoned prolife veteran sidewalk counselor.

Two waiting room patient advocates and one vestibule counselor were unjustly arrested by command of the abortion mill chief administrator.

Sidewalk counselors, meanwhile, remained at the killing facility in the cold wind for over four hours total. At least four more pregnant women showed up for abortions after the arrest of the nonviolent patient advocates. However, counselors witnessed two moms leaving the butchering center as "turn aways" from abortion and were not seen to return.

"Today saw an excellent effort in our counseling outreach," said Br. Simeon of the Franciscans of the Renewal-- a sidewalk prayer warrior and servant of the outcast poor.

There were also good opportunities for constructive and respectful discussions with local law enforcement. Similarly, peaceful words were shared with the homicidal staff members.

The onsite RRR team had ten women, two Catholic Priests, a Franciscan Brother, and seven laymen.

Arrested were Fr. Fidelis, Will Goodman, and "Baby John Doe."

All have been released unharmed with a court appearance at the White Plains courthouse set for December 13th, which happens to be the "observed" Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Archdiocese of New York.

Thank you for all of your prayers, love, and support!!

Please continue your faithful intercession on behalf of the pregnant moms and their little babies, the fathers, the abortion factory workers, the police, and the rescue team.