Over thirty people, plus a family of six - not pictured - who arrived at the end.
AND mostly a good response from passers-by. It's a great intersection for a pro-life demonstration and channel 12 cablevision had some afternoon coverage, including a brief quote from Judy Anderson, a co-director of HVCL. The abortion mill was not open that day.
Below are the specifics of the meeting, along with a few pictures from the June 8th prayer and picket outside the Yonkers Planned Parenthood killing mill.
Where:
Manhattan Bible Church
401 West 205th St.
New York, NY 10034
Exit off Major Deegan at Fordham Rd. Go west. Church is two blocks south of W207th St., which is the Manhattan continuation of Fordham Rd. Just take first left off w207th., onto 9th Ave.
When:
Monday January 10, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM EST
I write to invite you to a gathering of pro-life pastors and pro-life lay leaders from New York City and out of state, including Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The event will run from 7:00PM till 9:30PM. The church is near the #1 train, and there is ample free parking in the church lot. Find the site right near the Fordham Rd. exit off the Major Deegan. Expressway.
Other speakers include:
Pastor Clenard Childress, Montclair, NJ, Pastor Michel Faulkner, New York, NY, Dr. La Verne Talbot, Los Angeles, CA, Pastor Bill Devlin, New York, NY, Chaplain Viviana Hernandez, Brooklyn, NY, Mr. Arnold Culbreath, Cincinnatti OH, Pastor Walter Hoye, Oakland, CA, Rev. Pat Mahoney, Washington, DC
We will fight to defend the network of 23 pro-life pregnancy center offices in NYC which supply over 12,000 girls and women with care and support each year. Their success at preventing abortions has earned them many powerful enemies in the abortion industry and government.
Now the New York City Council is assaulting these centers with proposed legislation, Intro Bill #371, meant to drive women away from their doors, legislation whose wording is filled with lies and deception.
Please come join with other pastors and faithful, gathering together as a faith community rising up in opposition to this unconscionable legislation.
We need to prayer in unison with many of different faith traditions for the civil rights of the unborn, and of the pro-life movement in America's Abortion Capital.
If you cannot make this exciting and important event, please sign our Petition at www.SaveTheLifeCenters.com and share it so we can influence as many City Councilmembers as possible.
Thank you for praying for our Life-saving work with more intensity this month, as we approach the Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, on January 22nd, and the March for Life on the 24th.
Yours for Life,
Christopher Slattery
Expectant Mother Care-EMC FrontLine Pregnancy Centers
[email protected]
212-213-4690
The annual Vigil for Life at the Marian Shrine in Stony Point was held on Monday July 5th.
100 people in attendance, with the Mass con-celebrated by Fr. Bill Bucciferro (Salesian) and Fr. Nicholas Callahan from St. Catherine's.
There was coverage by the Journal News, as they ran photos in their "Daily Gallery" online feature. These photos are from Eileen Peterson.
What it's all about -
The Advocates of Life held a pro-life public prayer witness and their annual Consecration for Life in Yonkers on Saturday, June 12.
After the Mass presided over by Bishop Gerald Walsh, Rector of St. Joseph's Seminary, and attended by approximately 160 persons at St. Mary's Church, pro-life leaders were invited to re-consecrate their work to th Most Holy Trinity through the sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Songs were sung during the procession with banners of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Planned Parenthood's abortuary at Getty Square in the shadow of Yonkers City Hall. Here legislators continue to turn a blind eye to what is being perpetrated on its citizenry.
This abortion center, and others like it located primarily in minority neighborhoods, is a tragedy lost on public officials who decry racism at the drop of a hat everywhere else! Members of the Black and Hispanic communities, many present at this public witness in Yonkers, see abortion as both a moral aberration and a cultural assault, where their most valuable gifts - their vulnerable children in the womb - are being destroyed. How can we ignore the disintegration of the family that includes an increasing rate of violence against women and more and more fatherless homes with their resulting gang activity, and not lay them at the feet of a society destroying its own progeny?
LifeNet and the Hudson Valley Coalition for Life thanks Tony Felicissimo and the Advocates of Life for their bold witnesses for life throughout the year. And we thank Fr. Christopher, SAC, of the Palatine Fathers and Parochial Vicar of Our lady of Mt Carmel Church, as well as Fr. Arthur Rojas, Parochial Vicar of St. Joseph's Church, for participating and leading prayers outside of the abortion chamber. Join them next time!
Pray for life.
Pray for the unborn and for all mothers and fathers to accept the responsibility of parenthood.
Pray for families.
We are raising generations of "survivors" whose sense of their own personal dignity and worth is being swallowed up by the increasing acceptance of abortion as a normal act, "health care" even. The degradation of the role of parents as protectors of children and the ensuing social implications for these lost generations and for the future of our society as a whole is more than frightening to ponder. It is a tragedy of incalculable proportions already with us.
May 17th was the first anniversary of the President's speech and honoring at Notre Dame.
This comprehensive article is being widely circulated online.
New Chapter In Notre Dame Controversy
By Ann Carey (Our Sunday Visitor: May 16, 2010)
Judge to hear arrested pro-lifers’ allegations of ‘viewpoint discrimination’
A year after the University of Notre Dame’s controversial conferral of an honorary degree on pro-choice President Barack Obama, 88 pro-lifers arrested for trespassing when they came on campus to protest still face charges, despite pleas from the defendants, alumni and pro-life groups to the university to ask the prosecutor to drop the case.
Pressure on the university is increasing. The judge in the case ruled last month that the defendants can gather information from Notre Dame about why campus police arrested the pro-life demonstrators, but allowed pro-Obama and pro-choice demonstrators free movement. The previous judge assigned to the case had issued a stay order on discovery, but eventually recused herself after the defense argued possible bias, given that she is married to a longtime Notre Dame professor who has been outspokenly pro-choice.
Upping the ante, a local newspaper, the South Bend Tribune, reported earlier this month that its investigation of the defense’s allegation of bias did show “variations in how some protesters were handled at the university.”
Different Treatment
A day before the article appeared in print, Holy Cross Father John Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president, issued a 670-word statement defending the university’s actions in the case, reiterating its pro-life commitment, and calling the prosecutor’s actions against the protesters, known as the ND 88, “balanced and lenient.” He noted that some other pro-life protesters arrested around the commencement simply pleaded out and paid a small fee to cover court costs.
Thomas Brejcha, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm representing the ND 88, said the lifting of the stay on discovery is “very significant,” because he hopes it will produce evidence that Notre Dame engaged in “viewpoint discrimination” and singled out the ND 88 “for especially harsh treatment.”
Lead defense attorney Thomas Dixon explained that because the Notre Dame Security Police has full police powers in the state of Indiana, the police are in effect “state actors” when making arrests. Since those police are agents of the university, that makes Notre Dame subject to anti-discrimination laws, he said. Thus Dixon contends that Notre Dame violated his clients’ constitutional rights by arresting them but not other people demonstrating on campus at the same time.
The notice of deposition asked Notre Dame to respond to questions about who directed the campus police to arrest the pro-life protesters, and it asked for all communications on the case between Notre Dame and local civil authorities. The notice also sought information about some 2007 demonstrations in which gay rights and Catholic Worker demonstrators were arrested for trespassing at Notre Dame, but charges were not pursued.
‘Promising Upheaval’
The 2007 cases were investigated by the South Bend Tribune in its report. One Catholic Worker demonstrator was officially charged in 2007, but those charges were dropped. That person told the Tribune he spent one night in jail and was released the next day. Reporters interviewed one of six Soulforce demonstrators, who said the group was arrested by campus police and detained briefly before being driven to their hotel, and nothing further happened.
In his statement, Father Jenkins seemed to suggest that the pro-lifers arrested — who included a cassocked 88-year-old Catholic priest, former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, and Norma Corvey, the “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade — were particularly unruly, saying they “were led by individuals who threatened peace and order by promising upheaval on our campus.” But either way, he noted that the cases are in the county prosecutor’s hands, not the university’s.
Technically that’s true, said Charles Rice, a Notre Dame Law School professor emeritus and author of a book about the Notre Dame-Obama controversy, "What Happened To Notre Dame? (St. Augustine’s Press, $15). But Rice said if a complainant asks the prosecution to drop charges in a nonviolent case like this, there is “no way” the prosecutor would continue at the cost of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars.
“This has been the dumbest thing I’ve seen in 40 years at Notre Dame … to single out the pro-life guys for sanctions and leave the other guys alone,” Rice said.
The judge has ruled that after discovery is complete, he may convene an evidentiary hearing to decide whether to grant the defense’s motion for dismissal of the cases.