Two Crisis Preganacy Homes In SE PA to Celebrate 45 Years of Combined Service to Women and Children

With the start of the Abortion holocaust in America, there arose the need to provide alternatives to women who chose to give the gift of life to their children, rather than killing them by abortion.  Because of this choice, many were deserted by their families and friends, and desperately in need of care and housing.  At first, those needs were accommodated by pro-life people who generously opened their own homes to those women.

As the number of women in this situation increased, pro-life groups began to establish residences, referred to as “Crisis Pregnancy Homes,” capable of accommodating the greater need. These homes are totally supported by the sacrifices of caring pro-life people. Our Lady’s House and Guiding Star Ministries are two of the residences.  

Our Lady’s House opened their doors in November of 1987 in Glenside, PA on a property that was donated by Pat and Wendy Stanton.  Our Lady’s House mission is to provide for single mothers aged 18 years and their minor children who wished to re-order their lives in a peaceful environment.

Guiding Star Ministries opened on August 31, 1992 in the former rectory of St. Benedict’s Church in the West Old Lane section of Philadelphia, PA.  The mission for these women is to establish a long-term program that would not only provide living arrangements to pregnant women and their children, but would also be directed at encouraging their spiritual and economic development.

Together, they have operated for 45 years and have served over 290 women and 301 children!

On April 25^th they will be having a banquet to celebrate.  Anyone who would like to purchase an ad can send their ‘camera ready’ ad to Our Lady’s House, P.O. Box 201, Jenkintown, PA 19046 or via e-mail to media@prolifeunion.org. To purchase tickets for this event, contact Voices for the Unborn at pdowling1947@gmail.com.  

All donations will go directly to help both of these homes!

Help Us End the Killing of Babies Born Alive in Abortion Mills!

 

From Father Frank Pavone

What does Planned Parenthood say should happen to a baby who is born alive after a failed attempt to abort the child? "We believe that any decision that’s made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician.”

Those were the words of a Planned Parenthood representative just last week! Yes, this is hard to believe, so go ahead and read those last few sentences again if you need to.

Then I want you to hear for yourself this incredible response by watching a short video. Here's the background. The State of Florida is working to pass a bill that would protect babies after they are born as a result of a failed abortion attempt. We already have this law on the federal level. It's the "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act."

But states still need to pass it on the state level, which is what Florida is doing now.

As part of the legislative testimony for this bill, a Planned Parenthood lobbyist named Alisa LaPolt Snow spoke the other day in the Florida legislature. And she was asked this question: "If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?” And her answer was what you read above…it should be left to the family and the doctor to decide.


Unbelievable! That's what we're dealing with in Planned Parenthood, in abortion clinics nationwide, and in the radical "prochoice" mentality.

Use this link to see testimony for yourself and to contact the Florida legislature

A Declaration - July fourth In The Year Of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred Eighty "Eight

I was going through some boxes to get rid of decades of old papers today and came across this "Declaration".  I'm not sure where I got this (after all it was almost 25 years ago), but thought it worth posting. I've included the text below the picture.

A Declaration

July fourth In The Year Of Our Lord

Nineteen Hundred Eighty "Eight

'When in the course of a nation's history it becomes necessary for the (God-fearing citizens of that nation to take actions which in times of peace would be considered drastic or extreme, a decent respect to the opinions of their countrymen requires that they should declare the causes that compel them to act.

'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that God created mankind, and that all men and women, in-utero or out, are endowed by their Creator with, certain unalienable rights, the first and foremost being the right to life, governments are established among men to protect and defend the lives and God-given rights of its citizens, governments and rulers that stray from their Divinely appointed purpose, and tolerate or participate in the oppression and slaughter of its innocent people, are held as barbaric and tyrannical, and history happily records the day of their downfall and just recompense. 'But before justice is restored to any such nation, before tyrants meet their end, courageous efforts from within or without must be made to break, the bonds of tyranny. In such hours of crisis, it is the right and the duty of a nation’s citizens to act in a manner which seems to them will best secure justice and safety for the oppressed, and for future generations.

'We are in such an hour of crisis; an hour that is far darker and more grievous than the darkest hour endured by the original thirteen colonies under King George III; an hour with more cruelty, murder, injustice, and exploitation than the founders would have dreamed possible. This is why our people must act. Let the facts therefore be candidly submitted to the world.

1967marked the beginning of certain states legalizing child-killing for reasons of convenience.

In 1973, a bloodbath was unleashed in all fifty states by the barbaric Roe vs. Wade decision. Seven despots, whose tender mercies are cruel, forsook, their Constitutional responsibilities, and against all decency, common sense, scientific evidence, and natural and 'Divine Law,’ stripped our in-utero countrymen of their rights. They declared these children non-persons who could be slaughtered through the sixth month of gestation, for any reason, and until birth for the so-called 'health' of the mothers. In the wake of this Barbarism, doctors-turned-executioners have developed insidious means of destroying the defenseless. Let them be plainly told.

Children are suctioned out of the womb, limb from limb, until their twisted dead bodies lie in a pile of human carnage.

Children are chemically burned to death By a salt solution injected into the uterus. This agonizing death takes from three to twenty-four hours, and has often resulted in live births.

Children are viewed on an ultrasound screen, and hunted By the assassin's hypodermic needle containing drugs to cause heart failure. The needle is brutally, without anesthetic, plunged into the child's chest cavity and into the heart, causing heart failure and death to occur shortly thereafter.

Children are cut up and scraped out by curette.

Children too large for curette or suction are wrenched, twisted, broken, and torn piecemeal from the uterus By the murderer’s forceps. Children are expelled prematurely from the womb after the mother's labor is chemically induced. The violent contractions produced have literally decapitated children during labor.

Children too large to be aborted vaginally are aborted By C-section. This method, along with other techniques already mentioned, often results in a live birth. The child is then either injected with a deadly narcotic, smothered, strangled by the assassin, or simply left unattended in a bucket or wash basin to gasp for breath and slowly die. On a few such occasions, an attending nurse moved with pity, has actually saved the child in spite of orders to let the baby die.

In all, nearly five thousand children per are butchered in ways that defy America to call herself a civilized nation. The Court, in keeping with its cruel tyranny, ruled that pregnant mothers do not have the right to be told the possible physical and psychological side effects of abortion. Vulnerable women in crisis pregnancies are deceived, lied to, and exploited for the monetary gain of others. 'Women suffer laceration of the cervix laceration of the uterus, perforation, of the uterus, which is often accompanied by bowel perforation; infection, blood poisoning, and prolonged bleeding.

As a direct result of these injuries, tens of thousands of women miscarry in future pregnancies, thousands become sterile due to infection or scarring, and thousands more have had emergency hysterectomies, also leaving them barren for life. Hundreds of women have actually died under the 'safe, legal abortionist’s knife.

'Beyond that, millions suffer psychological and emotional trauma, deep depression, and nightmares; others turn to alcohol or drugs, and, some, desperately wrestling with the guilt of a dead child, become suicidal. "Women have become the exploited second victim in this travesty.

Many courageous citizens have suffered harassment and arrest for attempting to prevent the murder of innocent children and exploitation of women; they have been prosecuted in mock, trials; evidence for their defense has been suppressed; and many have been imprisoned for their defense of life.

The good citizens of this country have long sought redress to secure justice for children and mothers in conventional ways, but have been rebuffed. All attempts at national legislation to stop the killing have failed. Pieces of stale legislation seeking protection for children and mothers have been brought before the court, whose incredible decisions have resulted in greater injury to children and mothers. The right of a father to protect his child has been abridged; the rights of parents to know if their minor daughter is obtaining an abortion have been denied; the right of the several states to demand that a truthful account of the child's development be given to the mother have been revoked; the right of the states to protect a viable child from murder during the seventh through ninth month of pregnancy have been overturned. Several states use taxpayer’s money to pay for the murder of the innocent. The horrific truth is thus: The United States of America has endorsed the wholesale slaughter of more innocent people than virtually any nation in the history of the world. Over twenty five million children are dead. A government that supports such heinous crimes, treating its weakest subjects with such cruelty, must be regarded as barbaric, tyrannical, and may soon be viewed by many as loudly illegitimate.

At the very least in the meantime, the good citizens of this nation have no obligation whatsoever to obey or regard as legitimate any law that permits, supports, or protects the exploitation of women and the slaughter of innocent children. The people must move to protect the innocent and the exploited, since the government has abandoned its responsibility to do so.

Our once great nation, though always with faults, was born because of and founded on the concept of Higher Law; the belief that God, not man, had given all people unalienable rights, liberties, and responsibilities; the belief that God, not man, was the Judge of the world, and that governments were accountable to Him, and that when they usurped His authority, they were no longer legitimate but tyrannical; the belief that it was the right and the duly of a people to challenge, alter, or abolish such tyrannical governments or despots that trod upon a people's God-given rights; and the belief that God would support and protect those who moved to challenge the authority of a government functioning against His will. 'With those beliefs, we heartily concur.’

Therefore, we have committed ourselves to challenging and fundamentally altering the present status of American law, as it relates to in-utero children and pregnant mothers.

'We hereby declare Roe vs. 'Wade and all subsequent court decisions and legislation which permits, supports, or protects wanton child-killing to be unjust, illegitimate, non-binding, and unlawful.

We appeal to the Supreme Judge of the world, the God of these innocent children, The God who gave our country birth, to protect us, to vindicate our actions, and to restore justice to this wounded nation before it perishes.  And with a firm reliance on Divine Providence, to the end of vanquishing this atrocity from our land, we pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honour.

Sen. Casey Flips to Political Pressure, Abandons Institution of Marriage

Statement from the Pennsylvania Family Institute
Michael Geer, President
 
 
“Until today, Sen. Casey seemed to understand the special, unique nature of marriage – a bond that brings the two halves of humanity –male and female – together in a commitment that best serves the children that likely will result from that bond.
 
“And so, it’s very troubling to see Sen. Casey respond to special interest pressure on an issue as important as this one.  Those special interests just recently announced their campaign to get him to flip, and it didn’t take very long at all. 
 
“This is so much different than the character and fortitude of his father, Governor Casey – who famously and courageously bucked his party’s embrace of abortion on demand, even to the point of beginning a campaign for President – to stand up for what is right.
 
“Many supporters of Sen. Casey had hoped for more from him, and today are sadly disappointed especially given that he’s advocating against the position he took when he was voted into office, and against Pennsylvania’s duly-enacted marriage law.


Use this link to contact Senator Casey and let him know of your displeasure in his decision


The Mission of the Pennsylvania Family Institute is to strengthen families by restoring to public life the traditional, foundational principles and values essential for the well-being of society. We are a research and education organization devoted to restoring these values to our state and nation. We produce policy reports, promote responsible citizenship and work to promote unity among pro-family groups.

Oppose the Abortion-Pill Mandate

From Jay Sekulow
ACLJ Chief Counsel

We have now won six critical victories against the Obama Administration's abortion-pill mandate. Six times federal courts have protected religious liberty and turned back the Obama Administration's assault on conscience and freedom.

The latest victories came today and Good Friday, when key federal courts granted our motions for an injunction.

As we have said many times, no one should be forced to pay for abortion-pill coverage.

As these cases continue to trial, and as we continue filing critical pro-life briefs in now over a dozen other cases against the HHS mandate, you have an opportunity to take a stand.

Defend life. Defend religious liberty.

 

Use this link to sign the petiton to protect religious freedom 

New WebMD Mobile App Helping to Make Pro-abortion Arguments Obsolete

By Luis Zaffirini

I recently discovered a mobile app on my Smartphone created by the people at WebMD, a website run by doctors that gives medical and health information. It is still another example of how technology is rendering standard pro-abortion arguments utterly obsolete.

The app is called “WebMD Pregnancy,” and it is described as “a free pregnancy app…that delivers trusted health information to expectant moms as well as fun features and tools. Whenever. Wherever. Online or offline.”

The app provides information based on individual pregnancy schedules including doctor-reviewed articles, videos, informative slide shows, and a calendar to keep track of your baby’s development and upcoming doctor’s appropriates.

Being a WebMD product, it also comes with features to help keep mother and baby healthy. There are check lists of things to ask your doctor throughout the different stages of pregnancy, appointment reminders, and a space to record things your doctor said or suggested to you at your appointments.

There are even more personal features to the app including a journal to record the events of your pregnancy and social sharing apps to keep your close ones informed on you and your baby’s progress.

WebMD even features a follow-up app called WebMD Baby to help you continue keeping your little one healthy.

“WebMD Pregnancy” is built for an age where unborn babies can have their very own Facebook pages, and where being pregnant can mean remembering to incessantly email friends and family members with every new development. 

As a mobile app that not only refers to the unborn from the first moments of its life as a “baby,” but also treats this baby as a patient as a living human being who requires care, I see this as yet another example of how technology threatens to leave the pro-abortion argument in the dust.

 

 

New Ed Sheeran Song, Small Bump, Has Pro-life Message

                                            

UK hit artist Ed Sheeran has written a  beautiful new song that recognizes the precious value of preborn babies. Sheeran writes "Small Bump" from the less-heard-from perspective of a father who is thinking about his child in the womb.

Encouraging Words From Generation Y

By Micaiah Bilger, Education Coordinator
Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation

 Last month felt like celebrating Christmas again here at the office.

Every morning, a new brown paper package or thick envelope arrived at my desk. More surprises waited for me in my email inbox. Soon I had a big stack of these, and I could hardly wait to open them!

These delightful packages and emails contained students' essays for our Pro-Life Essay Contest. We received hundreds of submissions from students all across the state.

As I read them, I felt warmed by the fact that so many students are carrying on the mission to protect the right to life at all stages. 

I was intrigued by the personal stories that the students shared - the joy of seeing a new sibling on an ultrasound screen, the heartbreak of hearing about a friend's secret abortion, or the infuriating suggestion of euthanizing a grandparent. 

Most of all, I felt encouraged by their wisdom about the value of human life. Let me share some of their thoughts with you:

"Life cannot be measured with days and months. Life is Life. When it begins, it begins at conception." - Adriana

"I believe women are strong. Women are strong to give birth and strong enough to live with rejection. I don't, however, think women are strong enough to live with the fact that they couldn't be strong enough to do what their mothers did for them - give the gift of life." - Olivia

"The idea that we do not know or cannot fully understand what is in a pregnant mother's womb is ludicrous. Science supports the fact that the unborn baby is human and thus deserving of legal protection." - Holden

"Someone that is pro-abortion would say that a fetus is not really a baby but is instead just a cluster of cells or a blob of tissue. ... are we not then just larger clusters of cells or bigger blobs of tissue?" - Anthony

Later this spring, we will announce the winners of our student Pro-Life Essay and Oratory Contests. Please keep watching to find out who these talented students are.