What?? Heaven help us!
From the Daily Caller, online news publication:
“At a campaign stop in Manchester, New Hampshire, Monday, [Republican presidential candidate] Chris Christie said that abortion “can be an act of self-defense” and explained how that belief can still be consistent with a pro-life stance.“
Update (2/10/16): Chris Christie has dropped out of the presidential race.
At the 40 Days for Life on Perlman Drive, Spring Valley, March 2015.
The winter 40 Days for Life begins on Ash Wednesday at 3 p.m., near the Planned Parenthood Office in Spring Valley (Perlman Drive, on public property).
Please join this peaceful international campaign of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion. 11,165 lives have been saved since its inception in 2007. 127 abortion workers have had a change of heart and quite their jobs. 64 abortion centers have closed their doors forever. For information call 845-429-6709.
From the prolife lobbying group, Susan B. Anthony List:
I think you’ll also be interested in reading this letter Marjorie [Dannenfelser, president of SBA List] sent to all Republican presidential campaigns. As you may have seen in the news, some campaigns and their supporters have been attacking Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio for supposedly being “too pro-life” to win. Marjorie has called for an immediate end to these outrageous attacks – which are essentially the talking points of Planned Parenthood!
As Marjorie explains in the letter, “an attack on [these] candidates’ pro-life positions is an attack on the pro-life movement as a whole.” (I encourage you to read the letter linked above. You can also read stories about the matter from Politico, CNN, and The Weekly Standard).
As a group of feminist organizations pushes abortion in the Zika virus healthcare crisis in Brazil, the Brazilian Conference of Catholic Bishops has stated the disease is “no justification whatsoever to promote abortion.”
The virus, spread by mosquitos, has been linked to an increase in microcephaly — a condition where babies are born with small heads and other complications.
“The connection between the Zika virus and microcephaly deserves special attention, even though it has not been scientifically proven,” the bishops said, as they called for a “comprehensive and effective national health policy” to fight the disease as well as “medical assistance to persons affected by the disease, especially babies with microcephaly and their families.”
For a clear, nuanced discussion of microcephaly and the situation in Brazil, please click here.
The vote to override President Obama’s veto of a bill to defund Planned Parenthood fell short of the two-thirds margin required to pass. The House of Representatives voted 241 (in favor of overriding) to 186 (against).
The “Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act” (H.R. 3762) would have denied Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion provider, funding from Medicaid. Planned Parenthood performed 323,999 abortions and received $553.7 million from taxpayers in 2014 alone, according to its most recent annual report. (LifeSite News).
Assemblyman Steve Katz (R-Yorktown) has introduced legislation that would prohibit state funding of Planned Parenthood in New York. The bill was moved to the Assembly Health Committee last week.
The bill (A09061) memo states “Using taxpayer dollars to support procedures residents may or may not support is an irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars. At a time when New York is desperately trying to revive its economy there are much better areas for hard earned taxpayer dollars to be used.”
Guest blogger Peter Partridge, of Haverstraw, who traveled to the March for Life in the face of the impending blizzard, makes his report.
March for Life took place Jan. 22, 2016. The date memorializes the day when Supreme Court justices stripped the unborn of historical protection in the womb and violated the most basic tenant of our civilization.
“Snowmageddon, the storm that dumped two and a half feet of snow on Washington D.C. and New York, would not stop the thousands that came. What is a snowstorm in comparison to an erroneous decision that is responsible for the death of 58,662,945 and counting? Tremendous numbers of young people were present.
March for Life President Jeanne Mancini announced the theme of the 2016 March: “IT IS PRO-WOMAN TO BE PRO-LIFE.”
Rally speaker Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), war veteran and the first woman combat veteran elected to serve in the United States Senate, had choice words for President Obama and Hillary Clinton. The President and Democrats seem to think there is a war on women going on. If they don’t know what a war is I can show them! It is not being waged on women in the United States.”
Marguerite Duane, MD, family physician at Georgetown University said that if anyone is waging a war on women it is those who support abortion and call it a woman’s right. Her research shows that women are targeted in the womb for destruction by sex selection. Unborn babies are being aborted simply because they are female.
The key note speaker was Matt Birk, a football player who won the Super Bowl in 2013 with the Baltimore Ravens. Following the Super Bowl, Matt chose not to attend the White House celebration dinner because of President Obama’s support for Planned Parenthood with taxpayer dollars. In his spontaneous speech he said, “I’m a football player, so I like to keep things really simple. We need to treasure life, not end it.” He went on to say that lots of work needs to be done recognizing the great sacrifice that many women make allowing their children to be adopted. Society actually sends the opposite message to these mothers; however, their love is great when they allow someone to adopt a child who would be better off in a loving family.
Silent No More men and women gave testimony concerning their mistakes in the past that caused suffering and death. The consensus was they were fooled and mislead and the result of abortion is a devaluing of our humanity and this hurts.
After the March ended, Peter walked to the Senate Office Building to deliver to prolife Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) a message about “New York values” — how about braving a historic snowstorm to support life!!
WASHINGTON – With the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary just days away, National Right to Life is pleased that every major Republican presidential candidate has taken a pro-life position. (National Right to Life News Today).
Unfortunately, not so the Democrats.
Jan. 22, the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion in America in 1973, was marked by a Rose Mass held at St. Anthony’s Church in Nanuet.
The main celebrant was Rev. Gerry Deponai, pastor of St. Anthony’s. The two concelebrants were Msgr. Emmet Nevin, pastor of St. Aedan’s in Pearl River and Dean of Rockland County, and Rev. Joseph LaMorte, pastor of St. Gregory Barbarigo Church in Garnerville.
The Rose Mass, held each year on Jan. 22, is a special prolife mass for eighth graders from the county’s Catholic elementary schools. This year the mass was attended by students from St. Anthony’s, St. Gregory’s, Sacred Heart in Suffern, St. Paul’s in Congers, and St. Margaret’s in Pearl River, along with Novitiate sisters from the Sisters of Life in Montebello, and the public.
A vase of long-stemmed, red roses stood on a table near the altar. “The rose,” Fr. Gerry said in his homily, “reminds us of the power of God, who gives us love and beauty.”
“We pray,” he continued, “that each and every human conceived will have the chance for life and the chance to bloom into the person God wants them to be.”
ROCKLAND RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE 