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.”

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.

[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.]

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.

With many thanks to James Bell of American Principles Project (APP) for stating this so succinctly (and to Thomas Peters of APP for sharing the info) … here are some features of the Senate Healthcare Bill that make it pro-abortion:

• The Senate Health Care Reform Bill spends taxpayer dollars on health care plans that fund abortions.
• The bill spends $12 billion on Community Health Centers that Planned Parenthood will be eligible to receive.
• This bill also gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius the right to declare abortion as a pre-existing condition to be covered under every health care plan in the federal exchange under the Mikulski Amendment.
• It eliminates conscience protections for insurance providers, trip-wires the direct funding of abortions to potential expiration.
• Under this bill, everyone — including men and old women — will be forced to pay at least $1 (to be raised under jurisdiction of Congress) to a fund for “reproductive rights” that will cover 100% of the cost for anyone who gets elective abortions.

James puts it in a nutshell:  “To say that the Senate Health Care Reform Bill is the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade is an understatement.”

FOLKS, please phone or email your Congressman!!!  Urge them to stand up for the sanctity of life, and to STOP Federal funding of abortion (click here for phone #’s of US Representatives for the state of CO).

Dear Friend for Life,

As expected, President Obama and his ideological allies have announced their plan to ram through the House of Representatives the incredibly anti-life Senate bill they passed in the wee hours of Christmas Eve.

It doesn’t matter to these people that Americans overwhelmingly oppose Obamacare because they do NOT want federal funding of elective abortion.

It doesn’t matter to them that Americans do NOT want the radical Medicare cuts and diminished medical services that will inevitably lead to rationing.

It doesn’t matter to them that Americans do NOT want to violate the precious conscience rights of ethical doctors and nurses committed to “do no harm.”

Aiming for a March 20^th vote (or March 21 — admin), Obama et al are twisting arms, making deals, and offering bribes…like the just-announced federal-judgeship for Scott Matheson, whose brother, Rep. Jim Matheson, was originally a ‘no’ vote.

United with pro-life groups across the country, we’re fighting to ensure crucial decisions about your health care and coverage remain in your hands, not turned over to bureaucrats.

But all of us, now, must speak up one more time… and with one message!

So even if you’ve contacted your Member of Congress about this in the past, we ask you – at this critical time – to make another call RIGHT NOW.

Strongly urge your Representative to OPPOSE the Senate health care bill.

Say you think it would be inexcusably irresponsible to vote for this awful bill based on feeble and unpersuasive promises about some other bill that might — or more likely, might not — be enacted at some point later on.

For Life,
Connie Pratt, President
Colorado Citizens for Life

Rep. Diana DeGette   (202-225-4431)
Rep. Jared Polis   (202-225-2161)
Rep. John Salazar   (202-225-4761)
Rep. Betsy Markey   (202-225-4676)
Rep. Doug Lamborn   (202-225-4422)
Rep. Mike Coffman   (202-225-7882)
Rep. Ed Perlmutter   (202-225-2645)

P.S. If the Representative’s staff person insists that the bill does not allow federal funding of abortion (a now-familiar ploy), politely point out that you have access to detailed information which proves it does.  Then, share the information from our recent PPCFL Blog Post!

NOTE:  Among other things, the bill contains — buried deep within its 2400 pages — a provision for $7 BILLION (Mr. Obama wants $11 BILLION) for community health centers or CHCs.  Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain, already gets $350 million of our taxes.  Yet it meets the CHC criteria!

Playing his guitar, Kennon sings about the lives of two individuals that would have ended very differently way if a phone call had not been made at the time of great need.

The first is a young, despairing Marine at the point of reaching for his gun to commit suicide. His cell phone rings. It is a friend, asking him to join in a motorboat outing. The girl the Marine likes will be there and she is excited to learn that he might join the fun. He changes his mind about suicide and joins the outing.

The second is the story of two 18-year-olds who “had let a kiss go too far” in the backseat of a car. The young man pressures his girlfriend into scheduling an abortion. As she sits weeping in the “clinic,” her phone rings. Her boyfriend asks her not to have the abortion; tells her he’s bought a ring and wants to marry her.  Kennon’s own birth mother planned to abort him, but her doctor said she was two weeks past the legal limit.  His birth father never intervened – and actually tried to sell Kennon on the adoption black market for $10,000.  Kennon considers his adoptive parents to be his real parents; that he has been very blessed from the day they welcomed him into their lives. He grew up playing drums and singing at Bethel Christian Church in
Conyers, Georgia.

Hear the song and see the video at CMT or check it out here:  You’ll be glad you did!

(H/T to Peter Smith of LifeSiteNews:  New Country Music Star Born As Pro-Life Ballad Climbs the Charts)

As LifeSiteNews reported this week:

In another powerful and articulate address, the young Toronto native explores the devastating consequences Canada would face if it welcomed euthanasia, and implores Canadians to find ways of caring for suffering patients rather than killing them.

Lia’s speech on abortion last year, which won her school’s public speaking competition, has now been viewed over 850,000 times on Youtube.  The story was LSN’s most popular good news story of 2009, and she shared a revised version of the speech at last year’s National March for Life in Ottawa.

Without further ado, here’s Lia on abortion:

and on euthanasia:

For many, the very word engenders a mental picture of violence – and that is what rape or sexual assault is.

The possibility of a baby’s being conceived through such action is enough to cause some pro-life people to believe rape is – and should be – an exception to any ban on induced abortion.

Abortion is seen as an automatic problem-solver.  It is assumed that the woman pregnant through rape is anxious to get rid of the baby so that she can forget the assault AND the pregnancy.

Considerations:

• In no other incidence would we consider killing a child for the crime of his father.
• The act of rape has never carried the death penalty; how can we condone the death penalty for the innocent baby?
• Abortion does not undo the rape; the woman is violated twice.
• The effects of abortion are very similar to the effects of rape.

Rape victims have overwhelming feelings of anger, depression, and guilt.  They feel dirty and violated and can have flashbacks, nightmares, and insomnia.  After being assaulted, many show a lack of interest in friends and family and become isolated.  Some even contemplate suicide.

Women who abort their baby may suffer from post-abortion syndrome with all of the accompanying emotional and psychological impact of the rape victim.  (See the Post Abortion Complications article.)

Why does this happen?

The rape was done to her.  She was the victim of unspeakable violence and violation.  In obtaining an abortion, she is a willing participant in a second act of violence, the killing of her pre-born child.

If abortion is used as the solution, the victim is often expected to “go home and forget about it (the rape).”

The prolife community cannot agree with that.  The assault victim needs our love and concern.  The healing process may take a long time.  We are willing to walk with her.

Testimonies given by victims of rape are available as well as testimonies from adults who were the “product” of a rape.

Incest

Incest is sexual assault or molestation by a boy or man who is related to the victim as brother, father, uncle, grandfather, cousin, possibly as “step” relationships.  It may be a violent act or a supposed act of “love.”

The incest victim may need as much protection as does her unborn child.  Aborting her child puts her at risk of the same physical, emotional and psychological repercussions as the rape victim.

Abortion may be used to cover up the incestuous relationship.  The victim is forced to abort and forced back into the incestuous situation by abusive parent(s) or guardians.  Proof of paternity is lost in the abortion.

Regardless of the manner of conceiving, abortion can bring harm to the mother and always kills a baby.