Voices for Life : May 2018

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Irish Pro-Lifers Vow to Keep Fighting: ‘With God’s Help ... We Will Rise Again’

By Lianne Laurence
Live Action News

Pro-life groups in Ireland say they’ll regroup and keep fighting to defend unborn children as the battle shifts to rearguard action after Friday’s majority vote for legal abortion.

Nearly 66 percent of a 64 percent turnout of Irish citizens voted to repeal the country’s Eighth Amendment, which recognizes the unborn child’s right to life, in a result pro-life leaders described as tragic and heartbreaking.

Health minister Simon Harris said after Saturday’s vote count he would ask for cabinet approval as early as Tuesday to turn the government’s draft law into a proposed legislative text, the Guardian reported.

Harris said he’s hoping to bring in legislation on abortion in “early autumn” and Irish prime minister, or Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, said the law will change within six months to allow abortion.

“We will hold the Taoiseach to his promise that repeal would only lead to abortion in very restrictive circumstances,” countered Dr. Ruth Cullen, spokesperson of the LoveBoth campaign, on Saturday.

“He gave his word on this, now he must deliver on it. No doubt many people voted for repeal based on the Taoiseach’s promises in this regard,” said Cullen, as quoted in the Irish Catholic.

Pro-life activist Cora Sherlock, deputy chair of the Pro-life Campaign, reiterated in a tweet the day before the referendum that the government was proposing unrestricted abortion.

“Tomorrow’s vote is about abortion on demand. It’s not restrictive, it’s not limited. A vote for repeal would introduce abortion laws more extreme than the law in Britain where 1 in 5 babies are lost to abortion,” she noted.

She tweeted Saturday the fight wasn’t over.

“We now have to hold the government to what they have said, that they want to see a situation where abortion will be rare,” Sherlock told Reuters.

She told the Irish Independent that she was “very, very upset” by the vote.

“I will accept the will of the Irish people, at the same time I will make it very clear what I feel of the campaign that has taken place,” she said. “We will now regroup and find out what our next move is.”

The government’s draft law will allow abortion on demand in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, after a three-day waiting period, according to the Guardian.

The proposed law permits abortion after the 12th week on the grounds of alleged risk to the mother’s life or “serious risk” to her health, or for alleged fatal fetal abnormality, and with approval by two doctors.

It will restrict abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy but allow it at any stage for alleged fatal fetal abnormality.

“We will oppose that legislation,” John McGuirk of Save the 8th campaign noted in a statement Saturday. “If and when abortion clinics are opened in Ireland, because of the inability of the government to keep their promise about a GP-led service, we will oppose that as well.”

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BreakPoint: Human Life and Ethics in a Brave New World

byJohn Stonestreet & G. Shane Morris
BreakPoint

Advances in technology are changing almost everything about our lives. But it must not change how we understand, and value, human life.

Over the past few weeks on BreakPoint and our BreakPoint podcast, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about medical technologies and the ethical dilemmas we all face now because of them.

On the surface, the issue seems simple: Having babies is a good thing, so any technology that helps us have babies must be good, too.

But technologies—like in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, egg donation—raise enormously important questions: Where is the line between fulfilling God’s command to be fruitful and actually playing God in ways that trivialize human dignity? Is it ever okay to treat life in the womb or the test tube as a commodity? Are today’s reproductive technologies safeguarding life or redefining it? What, in the end, does it mean to be human? To bear God’s image?

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The Miracle of Life, as Seen Through the Eyes of Children

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative/PAC Director
Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation

They came at just the right time.

Work had been bubbling up like a geyser before me, and I was swamped. Just when I was feeling overwhelmed, I saw two small faces peering at me through my office window.

I went outside my office door to investigate and I found them--five young children, accompanied by their pregnant mother. She had come to our office to pick up literature--her boys and girls were there to see our soft-touch fetal models which show the child in the womb at various stages of development.

The children squealed in delight as I handed them each of the fetal models. To say they were excited would be a vast understatement.

Their mother took one of the larger fetal models to compare it with the child growing inside her. It was truly a touching sight.

Seeing the miracle of life through the eyes of these precious children was a tremendous gift. It reawakened my sense of responsibility for educating the public about the sanctity of human life.

I handed each of the children a parting gift--a fetal model to take home with them. They were thrilled.

And I was exuberant, knowing our work to restore protection for innocent life is not in vain.

The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation is a grassroots right-to-life organization with members statewide. As the state affiliate of National Right to Life, PPLF is committed to promoting the dignity and value of human life from conception to natural death and to restoring legal protection for preborn children. For more information on the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, please use this link.

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Pregnant, need help or know someone who does?

National Hotline: Call 1-800-712-HELP or Text 'HELPLINE' to 313131.

In Southeast Penna: Call the Community Women's Center at  215-826-8090

If you or someone you know is suffering after abortion, confidential non-judgmental help is available. Call Project Rachel's national toll-free number 888-456-HOPE (4673) or visit hopeafterabortion.org.

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

America’s Abortion Culture Decimates Our Population: 2017 Had the Fewest Babies Born Since 1987

By John Stonestreet
Life News

So just as America’s fertility rate is tanking, China is waking up to the damage of its one-child policy.

In mid-May, the Centers for Disease Control reported that “The birthrate fell for nearly every group of women of reproductive age in the U.S. in 2017.” A drop that led to “the fewest newborns since 1987.”

Even more, it was the single biggest one-year decline—three percent—since 2010, which was in the depths of the great recession, and which lower birth rates were expected.

The fertility rate is an estimate of how many babies a hypothetical group of 1,000 women would likely have over their lifetime. In 2017, America’s was just a paltry 1.76 births per woman.

We’ve talked before on BreakPoint about the economic and cultural consequences of declining birthrates. As Jonathan Last, author of the book “What to Expect When No One’s Expecting,” has written, “There is no economy that has managed to knock out gangbuster growth with a declining population.”

This truth has not been lost on, of all people, the People’s Republic of China. The same day the CDC announced its findings, a story in the UK’s Telegraph reported that the Communist Party “is considering scrapping the limits it places on how many children families can have.”

As the Telegraph told its readers, the move is in reaction to the “consequences of four decades of strict family planning controls,” most notably, the infamous “one-child policy.” Consequences include “a dwindling workforce and a huge increase in elderly citizens.”

In a dramatic turnaround, China is using its formidable propaganda machine to urge “prospective mothers to ‘seize the time and conceive.’”

The irony in all of this is that China’s total fertility rate isn’t that much lower than ours: 1.57 births as compared to 1.76 births per woman here.

While China’s leaders are scrambling to reverse demographic trends, our intelligentsia is, to the extent they notice the issue at all, in denial.

One common form of denial we hear is that any shortfall in childbirths will be made up for by immigration. While this has been true in the past, it’s foolish to count on this being true in the future.

For starters, in case you haven’t noticed, Americans aren’t wildly enthusiastic about those high levels of immigration. Anxiety about immigration is at least one of the factors behind the 2016 election outcome.

What’s more, the traditional sources of those high levels of immigration, especially Mexico and Latin America, may be drying up. Since 2008, more Mexicans have left the United States than entered it.

As for the rest of Latin America, only a handful have fertility rates above replacement level themselves, and these aren’t big enough to supply the immigrants to take the place of the children American women aren’t having.

Another form of denial is seeing in the new low demographic numbers some good news, like the decline in teenage pregnancies. While that is good news, it hardly compensates for the possibility of irreversible demographic decline.

And yes, I used the word “irreversible”. Governments in Europe and Asia have tried all sorts of incentives to jump start fertility, and few, if any, have made a lasting difference.

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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Decision Upholding Arkansas Law Regulating Chemical Abortions

By Dave Andrusko
National Right to Life

In a decision with potentially nationwide implications, the Supreme Court this morning rejected an appeal from the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Arkansas, thus allowing the state to enforce its law requiring abortion clinics providing chemical abortifacients to have a contract with another physician with admitting privileges at a local hospital who agrees to handle any complications.

Currently, Missouri’s comparable law is before Judge Beth Phillips.

As NRL News Today reported, in 2015 U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker issued a preliminary injunction against Arkansas’ “Abortion-Inducing Drugs Safety Act.” However in July 2017, a three judge panel of the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the injunction.

Circuit Judge Raymond Gruender of St. Louis, Chief Judge William Jay Riley of Omaha, Neb., and Senior U.S. District Judge James Gritzner of Des Moines, sitting by designation concluded Judge Baker had failed to “make factual findings estimating the number of women burdened by the statute.”

Planned Parenthood appealed and the 8th Circuit placed its ruling on hold while Planned Parenthood appealed to the Supreme Court. This morning, without comment, the Supreme Court said no.

Without further legal action (which is highly unlikely, given Planned Parenthood’s history of litigation), the law, passed in 2015, would go into effect in mid-July.

Planned Parenthood had argued the effect of the law was to place an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to an abortion. As NBC News reported this morning, Planned Parenthood “said because its clinics could not find any doctors willing to accept a contract with a Planned Parenthood-affiliated physician, clinics in Little Rock and Fayetteville would stop offering abortion services if the law went into effect.”

But when the 8th Circuit vacated the injunction, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said it was “because Planned Parenthood failed to show that the state law is a substantial obstacle, preventing most women from having access to abortion services. This commonsense law will help ensure that medication abortions are conducted in a safe, responsible manner and with appropriate protections for women. I will continue to defend Act 577 as Planned Parenthood continues its challenge.”

The effect of the Eighth Circuit’s ruling, upheld by the Supreme Court, is the Abortion Industry, led by Planned Parenthood, will hopefully be that they will now have to actually present evidence that a specific statute or regulation imposes an “undue burden,” as opposed to asserting the claim.

Website: National Right to Life

Pregnancy Center Launches Anonymous Post-Abortion Support Group for Women Who Regret Abortions

By Jen Taggart
Life News

The shame of abortion can leave women in the dark of abortion—especially church-going women. That is a truth that Theresa Wilkins, executive director of The Pregnancy Care Center of Oswego County in New York, knows all too well.

That’s why the The Pregnancy Care Center of Oswego County is starting a monthly anonymous Post-Abortion Counseling Education (P.A.C.E.) conference call on June 9.

Post-abortive clients can fill out a confidential form to have the course book mailed to them and dial in at 10 a.m. on the second Saturday of each month. To grant even more anonymity, a PDF version to download from the website is in the works.

Though the Oswego pregnancy center offers one-on-one counseling using the book “Forgiven and Set Free,” not many clients have taken advantage of that service. According to Wilkins, many post-abortive women have hardly told anyone about their past—especially not their brothers and sisters in Christ.

“Some of the other centers we’ve talked to have tried to do group settings,” Wilkins said. “Now, if you get a churched woman where nobody in her church or even her best friends know that she’s post-abortive, she doesn’t know who she’s going to walk in and see.”

Wilkins had her own unexpected pregnancy when she was 18. Because the man she was with did not want the baby, she turned to abortion. Her life fell into promiscuity, drugs and alcohol. Wilkins had grown up in a financially comfortable family, but as an adult, her finances declined due to her poor life decisions. Eventually, she ended up living on welfare.

Then, when Wilkins was 32, she knew she needed a change in her life. After a friend invited her to an Easter service, she started attending the church regularly.

One particular Sunday, when a guest pastor spoke, something hit home. Wilkins learned what it meant to have a relationship with Christ rather than just the church. She read the New Testament four to five times in her first year of being a Christian.

“For a lot of years, I really felt guilty about that abortion,” Wilkins said. “I really had to learn that I was forgiven so that I could forgive myself which didn’t really happen until I came to know Jesus as my Lord and Savior.”

A few years after Wilkins devoted her life to Christ, a woman at her church, who was the executive director of what was then the Crisis Pregnancy Center of Oswego County, spoke about the ministry, and Wilkins saw it as an opportunity to redeem her abortion experience. Wilkins got involved volunteering at the center, doing administrative work, delivering gifts to young client families, and eventually, training to become a post-abortion counselor.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

REGISTER NOW for "Christian Ethics in the Brave New World"

Technology and changing moral standards have created ethical chaos. We are asking ethical questions we have never asked before. Even many Christians seem uncertain about questions on which the Bible and the church have spoken with clarity for centuries. How do we deal with the disabled? The elderly? What about in-vitro fertilization? Embryo adoption? What are the proper roles of individuals, the church, and the government in these areas?

The Colson Center will host a four-week, on-line short course to tackle these questions and more. Scott Klusendorf, Ben Mitchell, and Emily Colson will share with us their insights and experiences on these vital issues. The class will begin on June 5 and continue for four consecutive Tuesday nights. It will begin at 8 pm ET and last for an hour-and-a-half. The first hour will be a presentation from our special guest, and the last half-hour will be a question-and-answer session. The classes will be facilitated by The Colson Center’s John Stonestreet and Warren Cole Smith. The cost of the class is $49.

Christian Ethics in the Brave New World

June 5-June 26

Leaders: John Stonestreet and Warren Cole Smith

June 5: Beginning of Life Issues (with guest Scott Klusendorf)

June 12: End of Life Issues (with guest Ben Mitchell)

June 19: Disability and the Vulnerable (with Emily Colson)

June 26: Ever Evolving Technology and Human Dignity (with Ben Mitchell)

Judges Routinely Treat Abortion Like a "Drive-thru"

Martin Fox, President
National Pro-Life Alliance
You and I both know how pro-abortion judges "legislated" abortion-on-demand with Roe v. Wade. But they haven't stopped there. When they handed down Roe v. Wade they included a hidden kill switch.

In order to keep their pro-abortion agenda, they insisted that legislatures couldn't limit abortion in any form without first giving the courts the right to carve out an exception in any given case.

They called it judicial bypass.

Take for example, an underage girl who gets pregnant and doesn't want her parents to find out. Instead of dealing with the consequences, she goes before a judge and gets a judicial bypass so she can get an abortion without her parents' knowledge. All so she won't have to deal with the embarrassment.

Just as the Supreme Court judges came down with the pro-abortion Roe v. Wade decision: you and I know that there are plenty of pro-abortion judges at both the state and federal level ready and eager to grant a rubber stamp to any girl seeking an abortion.

For example, under many state parental notification laws, judges have the power to grant judicial bypass if the judge determines that the minor is "mature enough" to have an abortion without consulting her parents.

Pro-abortion judges frequently take advantage of this type of vague criteria to readily bypass the parents for virtually any reason or no reason at all. And don't think that abortion clinics don't know which judges will and won't do it.

In fact we know of abortionists who brag that no requests for judicial bypass in their area have been denied.

In Pennsylvania for instance, hundreds of petitions for bypasses are filed each year and only a handful are ever denied.

There is a solution.

That solution is the national Parental Notification and Intervention Act -- a federal law drafted by the National Pro-Life Alliance that would require "clear and convincing evidence of danger of physical abuse of the minor by the parent" before its provisions are waived by the judges.

Thus, not only would this law apply in all 50 states but it would remove the gray areas that allow pro-abortion judges to justify their rubber stamping of abortion.

With your continued support I am sure we will ultimately prevail and pass the Parental Notification and Intervention Act and the Life at Conception Act to end all abortion-on-demand.

The National Pro-Life Alliance occupies a unique and important role in the pro-life movement. The focus of many other pro-life organizations is research, publications or counseling. These are all important and worthy activities, but the National Pro-Life Alliance is singular in its focus on passing pro-life legislation that will protect the unborn from the moment of conception onward. For more information on the National Pro-Life Alliance or to make a donation, please use this link.

Pro-Life Ministry Outreach in Waco and Much More!

People were bringing children to Jesus that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child will not enter it." Then he embraced the children and blessed them, placing his hands on them. Mark 10:13-16

from John Pisciotta, Director
Pro-Life Waco

1. Destruction of preborn babies this Wed/Thur/Friday in Waco.

Above, you see the ministry agenda for Pro-Life Waco. The first and most severe challenge is abortions beginning on Wednesday. I wish it were not so. However, Waco is one of only eight cities where there is a dedicated center for killing Jesus’ precious little ones. I ask you to prayerfully consider an hour or two or three of prayer and public witness for babies and mom saved from abortion. On Wednesday, Aine Fitzgerald will lead a Rosary from 9 to 9:30 followed by ecumenical prayer for the next half hour. This is a special time of life-defender fellowship.

2. Let’s keep expanding First Sunday Life Chain Sunday.

We had an excellent Life Chain outreach in on the first Sunday of May. 19 life defenders were on site at the corner of Valley Mills Drive and Waco Drive exuberantly proclaiming the Gospel of Life. Our ministry is getting stronger and must continue to grow to challenge one of the greatest evils that has ever confronted the city of Waco. I am praying for at least an additional 10 life defenders this coming Sunday June 3, from 2 to 3 PM. Our neighbors will see from our public witness that the defense of life in Central Texas has risen to new heights. Look for the billboard truck near Pei Wei restaurant and your life defender friends will be nearby. Here is a photo from May Life Chain.

3. A “Don’t Miss” Second Sunday on June 10

You will experience an amazing testimony and stay engaged on new initiatives of prophetic life-defender witness in Central Texas. Here is the ad that will run in the Waco Tribune-Herald the next two Saturdays on the Religion Page.

4. Now a 14’ x 48’ life-saving billboard in Speegleville

Pro-Life Waco has its second 14’ x 48’ billboard on display on HWY 6 to plea to moms traveling to Planned Parenthood for abortions. This will be the first abortion week for this big billboard in the small city of Speegleville. Most travelers to Waco from the vast area of West Texas will be on HWY 6 going through Speegleville. To see the billboard drive 3-4 miles past the twin bridges over Lake Wake. Take the Spur 412 Exit. Come back over HWY 6 to the service road. Drive about a half-mile and you will see this wonderful billboard on your right.

Our first large billboard (near Providence Hospital) reached out to the vast majority of travelers to Planned Parenthood. With the new billboard in Speegleville, we have all the bases covered. While billboards are of great value, the most important “signs” are life-defenders offering prophetic witness against the evil of abortion.

5. Let your cell phone help you stay informed about life-defender outreach

Pro-Life Waco has begun using text messages to supplement email to keep you informed about pro-life events a day or so in advance. If you will be a part of this, just send me a text message to 254-644-0407 with the message “subscribe”.

You will receive from zero to two messages each week. With the platform I am using, any responses will be sent only to me -- not everyone in the group. As Central Texans, we have taken on an unprecedented challenge to Planned Parenthood in Waco. We must strengthen our game plan to defend those who cannot defend themselves.

6. Ireland eliminated constitutional protections for babies in the womb

I’m sure you’ve heard the news from Ireland. The life defender side not only lost in the vote last Friday, but the support for abortion was overwhelming. I was shaken and saddened. I read the explanations that were given. I am more of a person of action than complicated logic. My conclusion is that to have pro-life laws enacted and maintained, the underlying culture and moral values must continue to be strengthened. In Central Texas, we are on the right track continuing to appeal and to persuade our fellow citizens that ABORTION HURTS--the message of our billboards. Abortion hurts babies, moms, families church congregations, and abortion providers themselves. Let us continue the noble cause of defending life by our own efforts and by drawing fellow Christians and pastors into the robust participation. Let us pray for courage and wisdom for the steps and words we offer to our community.

Pro-Life Waco is a local community-based organization with collaborative relationships with regional and national pro-life affiliations. Pro-Life Waco is committed to ending abortion, its damaging effects among women, and promoting chastity. For more information on Pro-Life Waco, please use this link.

Monday, May 28, 2018

They Sacrificed … so We Could Fight for Life

Shawn Carney, President/CEO

40 Days for Life

We recognize that ending abortion locally isn't something we have to do; it's something we get to do.

Fighting to end abortion isn’t easy. It's a spiritual battle fraught with challenges.

In the United States, our right to stand in the public square – peacefully praying for an end to abortion – was secured through heroic sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

Tune in to the following episodes of the 40 Days for Life podcast, where we share how you and patriots everywhere can use your rights to help end abortion where you live.

Know Your Rights

Looking to America

Fr. Paul Scalia on Faith in the Public Square

Aborting Free Speech

Using or Losing Your Rights

Without these key rights, 40 Days for Life would not exist.

More importantly ... 14,643 abortion appointments scheduled out of despair wouldn't have happy endings.

For each of those moms, the tears of regret that would have followed an abortion have been replaced by the indescribable joy of a child’s smile. And none of this would be possible without patriots willing to exercise their freedom for love of God ... and love of country.

As we commemorate Memorial Day, let us recall that there's no greater tribute we can pay to those who gave their lives for our freedom than to use that freedom ourselves.

40 Days for Life is a community-based campaign that takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighborhoods, for their own friends and families. It puts into action a desire to cooperate with God in the carrying out of His plan for the end of abortion. It draws attention to the evil of abortion through the use of a three-point program:Prayer and fasting; Constant vigil; and Community outreach. For more information, please use this link.

ANOTHER EMPTY CRADLE

by Judy Alciatore

ANOTHER EMPTY CRADLE

ANOTHER EMPTY CRIB

IS THIS WHAT GOD INTENDED

MAKING EVE FROM ADAM'S RIB

ANOTHER INFANT SLAUGHTERED

ON THE ALTAR OF ABUSE

PRAISING THEIR GOD, MOLOCH

FOR THEIR LEGAL RIGHT TO CHOOSE

ANOTHER LIFE IS VANQUISHED

AND DO WE STILL KEEP SCORE

HOW MANY, LORD, HOW MANY

MORE AND MORE AND MORE

ANOTHER EMPTY CRADLE

ANOTHER EMPTY BED

NO CURLY-HAIRED INFANT

TO REST HIS LITTLE HEAD

FOR HE LIES NOW IN PIECES

THROWN DOWN UPON THE FLOOR

AND WE, WITH MUTED VOICE, NOW CRY

OH, LORD, OUR SOULS RESTORE

THANK YOU, LORD

Note from JudyAlciatore: Apparently, there is some confusion about the 3rd line of this poem....It is a rhetorical question, meant to make people think...And, of course, its meaning is that God did NOT intend for babies to be slaughtered...Surely the rest of the poem makes that clear.

Taking the Long View on the Right to Life in Ireland

What has changed, can change again

by David Quinn
MercatorNet

The pro-choice movement in Ireland won as emphatic a victory on Friday as the pro-life movement did in 1983. What was the response of the pro-choice side to their heavy defeat back then? Was it to go away? It was not. Instead they took the long view and immediately began the work of repealing the 8th amendment.

It has taken them 35 years to get to this point, and we have to be as patient and as diligent as they were. The unborn child still has a moral right to life and we must work to restore that in law.

As I said in my Sunday Times column:

"It remains as much the case today as it was on Friday that the unborn child has a moral right to life; that it is one of us. If the referendum vote had been 99-1 in favour of repeal, that would still be so. The law acknowledges the fundamental rights that are ours by virtue of being human, but it does not create them. The law may fail to acknowledge and protect your rights, but they still exist, morally speaking. The size of a vote has absolutely no effect on this. It then becomes a matter of fighting to have your rights acknowledged in law once more."

Continue reading this article here.

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Sunday, May 27, 2018

Ireland Sides with the Serpents. Now What?

by Mickey Kelly

If you are like me, I am devastated and appalled that nearly 2/3 of the voters in Ireland have voted for the repeal of the 8th Amendment. Following the potato famine, half of its population immigrated to the Western Hemisphere. The country has not recovered from it. Unfortunately, Ireland will created more problems with the repeal. Thanks to big liberal billionaires like George Soros who help influence its outcome.

It is no different in many parts of the world, especially in the United States that has seen 45 years of bloodshed of over 60 million babies. 1/3 of the Americans aborted were Millennials.

The reason it's all happening is because Satan was allowed to run our lives and not letting God in our lives. Satan is alive and well in the abortion industries, cafeteria Catholicism, and even many elected officials who support his agenda. The Catholic Church is divided because of poor catechism, vague preaching from many members of the clergy, and misinformation brought out by radical atheists who hate her teachings on life and marriage. Those who support abortion should not bother receiving communion until they repent of their sins and renounce Satan.

Voters of Ireland, like the nine men who sat on the Supreme Court in 1973, have made history for the worse. When they meet their creator on Judgment Day, God will ask them either of these two questions: How did you live your life? or What did you do to prevent the murder of innocent babies?

If I am one of those people, I would tell them that I prayed in front of abortion facilities like Planned Parenthood. I am offer time in adoration for the unborn and the conversion of the escorts and workers at the abortion facilities.

If we believe that abortion is murder, then we need to step out and peacefully assemble. Social media outlets may be good, yet it is not effective when there are boots on the ground. It's time pro lifers get off the screens, lace up their shoes, draw out our spiritual weapons, and bring the faith visibly back to the public square. We need to be bolder in our faithful witness. We need to fulfill works of mercy, fast, pray, educate, and most importantly not be afraid in our pro-life convictions. The pro-life movement is built on faith, hope, love and mercy. Let us use these virtues to save the unborn and give women the care they most desperately deserve.

Our Lady told us that her Immaculate Heart will triumph over death. We must never give up, persevere in faith, be courageous and bold in our faith, have a flame of charity, joy, and mercy burning in our hearts every time we stand against Satan outside of abortion facilities like Planned Parenthood. Most importantly, engage and educate our family, friends, and fellow parishioners on what really matters.

Dr. Alveda King on Roe V. Wade (The Movie)

from Eugene Vigil
Executive Assistant to Evangelist Alveda C. King
Civil Rights for the Unborn (CRU)

Hollywood, no surprise, is currently producing yet another pro-abortion movie but thankfully there’s a film that’s about to go into production called "Roe v. Wade" that will tell the real story of how people lied, the media lied, and the courts lied, to issue an opinion that has since killed 60 million Americans.

This film dramatizes America’s most famous court case and the events and people surrounding it, from Norma McCorvey who was "Roe", to Planned Parenthood’s racist founder Margaret Sanger, to abortionist Bernard Nathanson.

The film, going into production in June, stars Jon Voight, Stephen Baldwin, and Stacey Dash and has a cameo from Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who is also one of the Executive Producers.

View Dr. King's remarks on the video below or on YouTube using this link.

To help fund the movie go to roevwademovie.com and check out the perks for donors at the Roe v. Wade project.

The mission of Civil Rights for the Unborn is to bring awareness that the unborn have civil rights to protect through education, information, and civil action.

For more information, please use this link.

ANOTHER ABORTION FACILITY: CLOSED! Here's the Amazing VIDEO Story!

Lauren Muzyka, Executive Director
Sidewalk Advocates for Life

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." - Galatians 6:9

Ever prayed and worked so hard for something, but wondered if it would really happen?

The pro-life community of Harrisburg, PA wondered, too. The local abortion facility, Hillcrest, had been there for generations, taking the lives of 150,000+ innocent children while racking up an astonishing 44 pages of health and safety violations. They wondered if their prayers would be answered in their lifetime to witness the facility close.

Becky of Undefeated Courage — also the Director of Rachel's Vineyard for Central PA— decided to bring Sidewalk Advocates for Life to their community to help bring more structure to their loving outreach to abortion-minded women at the facility. Starting in the Fall of 2014, Becky and her team of Sidewalk Advocates — alongside the prayers of Kathy and 40 Days for Life-Harrisburg and countless others —built almost a constant presence at the facility...

...and in the Fall of 2017, they received the news that their prayers had been answered!! To God be the Glory!!

Watch the 3-minute inspirational video story below: https://vimeo.com/271514526

CLOSED: The amazing story of the closing of Hillcrest Women's Abortion Center in Harrisburg, PA! from Sidewalk Advocates for Life on Vimeo.

Please keep in your prayers all those who lost preborn children at this facility — we know God can heal them and bring them peace and freedom! Please also continue to pray for Becky and her team as they now cover the next two nearest facilities in prayer and peaceful outreach!

Want to help save lives and close your local abortion facility?

Knowing how busy you are, we developed a simple, research-proven sidewalk advocacy training program — along with tools and support — so you can be successful in reaching out to abortion-minded women and men through God's amazing grace! (Yes, we were created for busy people who want to make a difference!)

All you do is fill out a 5-minute application (where you pledge to be peaceful, prayerful and law-abiding), agree to a short phone conversation so we can answer your initial questions, and once approved, we ship you everything you need to quickly build a team of Sidewalk Advocates. Then, we walk with you, answering your questions and troubleshooting challenges as you build and grow.

Applications to bring Sidewalk Advocates for Life to your community this summar are NOW OPEN through May 31 at sidewalkadvocates.org/apply!

Questions? Check out How it WorksHERE: http://sidewalkadvocates.org/about/how-it-works/

...or drop us a line at info@sidewalkadvocates.org, and we'd love to be of service!

Don't give up, friends! God is moving, and we are seeing the beginning of the end of abortion!

The Vision and Mission of Sidewalk Advocates for Life is to train, equip, and support local communities across the United States and the world in “sidewalk advocacy”: to be the hands and feet of Christ, offering loving, life-affirming alternatives to all present at the abortion center, thereby eliminating demand and ending abortion. For more information, please use this link.

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