Lia Mills never runs out of ideas to defend LIFE! Give a listen as she answers the questions: Is abortion a PERSONAL preference? Or is life a RIGHT?
Video Links: Unborn
The music video of “Unborn” shows a woman faced with the most important choice she will ever make: whether to give her baby life or take it away. As her baby implores …
Your choice is all I have
Your voice my only chance
Please keep me
… you see the mother drive up to an abortion clinic but then quickly leave, and later watch her smile with a beautiful child in her arms.
These extraordinarily moving images play over a lovely song called “Unborn” by singer/songwriter Caitlin Jane. The song’s pro-life message is powerful but positive, showing the love and peace that come when a woman chooses life.
Caitlin wrote “Unborn” after a college friend faced an unplanned pregnancy. “I was moved by her decision to keep the baby,” she said. “She made a lot of sacrifices to put her child first. It inspired me and touched my heart.”
ACTION ALERT: Planned Parenthood Moving to a Neighborhood Near YOU!
Attached you’ll find excerpts of a letter by Stephanie Kemp, who teaches the Sidewalk Counseling Workshops each month at PPCFL. The news is stunning … appalling … and a call to ACTION.
Please read and respond generously with your time!
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Dear Pro-Life Friends,
There is some important breaking news to share with you- good and bad- about Planned Parenthood at 1330 West Colorado Avenue. The most recent edition of The Independent has printed a story confirming the information we heard on Tuesday of this week. We learned, after being in that location for over 3 decades, our prayers and the prayers of many others during that time have been answered. Planned Parenthood is closing its doors at the end of July. Old Colorado City residents will finally have their neighborhood back.
Unfortunately, PP is moving its abortion mill to 3480 Centennial Blvd- a nearly new and much bigger location north of Fillmore. They are moving from 3000 square feet to over 11,000 square feet “to more efficiently handle a greater number of patients, mostly women seeking reproductive health care.” Needless to say, we are all shocked by the news. The building they are moving into used to be a Osteopathic Hospital and was purchased for $2.05 million (in cash) in February of this year. The purchase was done under the name of Majors Property LLC.
The area has been scouted out by a number of people who come to pray regularly on the sidewalk It is going to be … harder yet to reach the moms and dads going in because of the long private drive off Centennial Blvd to get to the abortion mill. There are no sidewalks close by to even stand on. We all agree where there’s a will… there’s a way. Our ongoing witness on the Centennial Blvd. corner sidewalk is do-able, but it will take some creativity, greater perseverance and even more faithful prayer as we will have very little access to the moms and no wonderful pregnancy center across the street to take mothers that at the last minute open their hearts to life.
The closest we will legally be able to witness is nearly 200 yards away from the front door. We are sure that the increased activity on the West Colorado sidewalk over the last few years and the Old Colorado City Pregnancy Center and Prayer Chapel across the street are the reasons this new property was chosen.
We are going to need a great deal of help over the next few weeks to get the word out to the neighbors in the area: nearby businesses, homeowners, schools, and churches. Our plan is to blanket the area as soon as possible, going door to door, handing out information about the abortion chamber moving into the neighborhood. We also will be standing near the shopping center to the south passing out fliers to cars leaving the lot.
This is going to be a monumental effort. Will you be able to help us get the word out? Please prayerfully consider this urgent request. It’s a bit providential, I think, that in the Gospel, we hear about the 72 disciples Jesus sent out ahead of Him to proclaim the kingdom. He sent them out in pairs like lambs among wolves. Their mission was going to be demanding and possibly perilous. This account in Luke’s Gospel is a good reminder that discipleship requires a single- mindedness that is uncompromising. The 72 returned with jubilation, marveling that even the demons were subject to them because of the Name of Jesus. As always, if we do this with the love of God, He will reward our faithfulness.
I’m not saying we can change the course of events now because it appears Planned Parenthood purchased the building and are not just leasing space. However, we have an opportunity to shine the light of truth on PP and it’s grisly business before they change locations.They can run but they can not hide. It is an awesome opportunity to educate people about the deception PP sells to moms who need support not abortion. I think everyone would agree if we lived in the neighborhood we would want to know that an abortion mill was moving in right down the street. I expect we will find a lot of people who will be shocked, dismayed, angered and thankful they were alerted ahead of time.
Can we count on you? Please let me know if you can help and your availability…weekdays, weekends, mornings, afternoons. Dates to distribute have not yet been chosen yet. All is dependent on when the fliers for the homes and businesses are available, so flexibility will be important.
Please get back with me as soon as possible. I know it is going to be a tricky time with summer vacations but we will need more committed pro-lifers than ever in this new effort. One advantage of getting the word out now is that we may inspire some new people in the nearby neighborhood to join us in prayer on the sidewalk when the time comes.
We would also appreciate any suggestions, advice, technical help, financial support (for the banners) and most importantly, your prayers.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
God Bless.
Stephanie
481-4355
P.S. In anticipation of all that is changing on the PP sidewalk, there will be no Introduction to Sidewalk Counseling Class as scheduled for this month.
NRLC Statement on Abortion “Deal” on Health Care Bill
Press Statement by National Right to Life Committee:
STATEMENT BY THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE
ON ABORTION “DEAL” ON HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON — (Sunday, March 21, 2010, 6 PM EDT) – In response to today’s announcement regarding an agreement between Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.) and President Obama on the pending health care bill (H.R. 3590), the following statement was issued by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in the 50 states:
The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) remains strongly opposed to the Senate-passed health bill (H.R. 3590). A lawmaker who votes for this bill is voting to require federal agencies to subsidize and administer health plans that will pay for elective abortion, and voting to undermine longstanding pro-life policies in other ways as well. Pro-life citizens nationwide know that this is a pro-abortion bill. Pro-life citizens know, and they will be reminded again and again, which lawmakers deserve their gratitude for voting against this pro-abortion legislation.
The executive order promised by President Obama was issued for political effect. It changes nothing. It does not correct any of the serious pro-abortion provisions in the bill. The president cannot amend a bill by issuing an order, and the federal courts will enforce what the law says.
To elaborate: The order does not truly correct any of the seven objectionable pro-abortion provisions described in NRLC’s March 19 letter to the House of Representatives, which is posted here.
Regarding Community Health Centers (CHCs), NRLC has documented the problem created by H.R. 3590 here.
Prof. Robert Destro, a professor of law and former dean of the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America, and an expert on abortion-related litigation, has sent lawmakers a letter explaining why the bill opens the door to direct federal funding of abortion in Community Health Centers.
Prof. Destro clearly explains why it is the statutory language that will govern.
Regarding the new program to provide tax credits to purchase private insurance, the executive order merely tinkers with the formalities of a bookkeeping scheme under which federal subsidies will pay for plans that cover elective abortion — a break from the longstanding principles of the Hyde Amendment.
The order does nothing at all to mitigate the other abortion-related problems described in the NRLC letter, dealing with bill provisions that create dangerous regulatory mandate authorities, revise Indian health programs, and create pools of directly appropriated funds that are not covered by existing restrictions on funding of abortion. Nor can the order correct the omission from the pending legislation of the necessary conscience-protection language that had been included in House-passed health care legislation last November (the “Weldon language”).
For additional information regarding the abortion-related components of the legislation, and NRLC’s assessment of the gravity of these issues, please refer to the March 19 letter linked above, and other materials posted on the NRLC website.
What you SHOULD Know About Jack
Am sharing with you Wesley J. Smith’s recent comments on what you can expect NOT to know about Jack Kevorkian after viewing HBO’s film You Don’t Know Jack. Mr. Smith is a lawyer, associate director of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and author of the well-known blog Secondhand Smoke.
[I’ve added my own comments, in red bolded type.]
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I have embedded the trailer for the upcoming puff HBO bio of the murderer Jack Kevorkian, entitled, You Don’t Know Jack, at the bottom of this post. Before viewing it, take a look at a few of the key aspects of Kevorkian’s “career” that I have listed below. Anyone want to bet whether the movie will bring these facts up?
1. Before assisting the suicides of disabled, terminally ill, and the non sick despairing, Kevorkian went to most prisons where executions are conducted asking to experiment on condemned prisoners. […because these prisoners have no intrinsic value, or are less than human?]
2. He never limited his killing practice to people with terminal illnesses. About 70% were disabled. Five of Kevorkian’s patients were not sick upon autopsy. [Note that an autopsy cannot diagnose depression or other mental illness.]
3. Kevorkian took the kidneys from one assisted suicide victim–a man with quadriplegia–and held a press conference offering them “first come, first served.” [What does this say about the motives for assisting in suicide in cases where organs are later harvested?]
4. Janet Good (played by Susan Sarandon), conspired with Kevorkian in his reign of lawlessness, even planning to help kill a patient and then, with Kevorkian, rush the cadaver into a hospital, so organs could be procured. (They never carried out the plan). She committed assisted suicide and her autopsy showed that her pancreatic cancer was not near the terminal stage.
5. Kevorkian did not care much about alleviating the suffering of patients, (he once said he couldn’t remember their names) but rather called it “a first step, an early distasteful professional obligation” toward obtaining a license to engage in human experimentation, writing further:
What I find most satisfying is the prospect of making possible the performance of invaluable experiments or other beneficial acts under conditions that this first unpleasant step can help establish–in a word, obitiatry–as defined earlier.” [Kevorkian liked to coin terms. Obitiatry is the word he invented to describe experimenting on people as part of the practice of human euthanasia.) [Kevorkian treated his victims like LAB RATS. Where‘s PETA when you need ‘em?]
6. Kevorkian wanted to experiment on the brains and nervous systems of people he was euthanizing, writing in his 1991 book Prescription Medicide:
If we are ever to penetrate the mystery of death–even superficially–it will have to be through obitiatry…But knowledge about the essence of human death will of necessity require insight into the nature of the unique awareness of consciousness that characterizes cognitive human life. That is possible only through obitiatric research on living human bodies, and most likely by concentrating on the central nervous system [He clearly wasn‘t interested in the victims‘ human dignity, or in the dignity of their passing.]
Jack Kevorkian is a dangerous nut who should be shunned, not celebrated. But you won’t see any of this in the movie, because HBO, the producers, and Pacino don’t know Jack. And the worst part is that they–and the popular media generally–don’t want to know Jack. They have a story they want to tell and facts would just get in the way.
[And they want to push the idea that people have a right to die when they so please. But our lives are given us by our Creator, who knows best when our lives should end.]