40 Days for Life Concludes — 402 Babies Saved

Posted on March 30, 2015 by rocklandrtl

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT 40 DAYS FOR LIFE

SHAWN CARNEY, CO-FOUNDER, DIRECTOR, 40 DAYS FOR LIFE

“Children who were scheduled to be aborted are alive today … because over these past 40 days, God blessed your prayers and peaceful vigil. In fact, we know of 402 babies saved from abortion during this 40 Days for Life campaign!“

The Spring 2015 40 Days for Life vigil drew to a close at 3 p.m. Sunday in Rockland and in hundreds of locations across America and around the world.

The closing prayer service on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley, attended by over 40 members of the Rockland 40 Days for Life project, was led by Msgr. Robert McCabe of St. Mary of the Assumption in Haverstraw.

Rockland Right to Life would like to express our admiration and gratitude for the 40 Days for Life group — all the organizers and volunteers — who witnessed so bravely throughout the harsh winter days against a culture of death in our midst. Continue reading →

40 Days for Life: An Amazing Visitor

Posted on March 27, 2015 by rocklandrtl

On March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation, one of the traveling missionary images of Our Lady of Guadalupe arrived in Rockland County.

Replicas of the miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the basilica in Mexico City, the traveling images have journeyed to thousands of sites across America over the past 15 years to bring foster conversions, reverence for life, sanctity of the family, and solidarity of the Church.

The image was displayed at the 40 Days for Life prayer site at Perlman Drive in Spring Valley, the chapel of St. Margaret’s in Pearl River for the Cenacle of Life, and at the Sisters of Life Motherhouse in Suffern. Continue reading →

NYS Assembly Passes Stand-Alone Abortion Expansion

Posted on March 26, 2015 by rocklandrtl

From NYS Right to Life:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY PASSES DANGEROUS EXPANSION OF ABORTION IN THE THIRD TRIMESTER

[Note: All three Assembly legislators representing Rockland County voted FOR this pro-abortion bill: Ken Zebrowski, Ellen Jaffe, and James Skoufis. Skoufis and Zebrowski even co-sponsored it]

ALBANY – Today in a vote of 94-49 the New York State Assembly approved passage of AB 6221, the extreme stand-alone 10th point from the previously packaged 10-point Women’s Equality Act, which would expand third-trimester abortions and allow non-doctors to perform abortions. Since 2013, abortion advocates have been holding the Women’s Equality Act hostage to this single dangerous bill, refusing to break the 10-point bill up. This session, however, the will of the voters was finally heard, and the stand-alone bills have been considered. “Expanding cruel and brutal third-trimester abortions has long been a goal of the anti-life lobby who never met an abortion they didn’t like,” said Lori Kehoe, New York State Right to Life executive director. “With no regard for the fully developed unborn baby who is violently dismembered, or otherwise killed, the New York State Assembly once again put the abortion lobby above New York State women and their children.” Continue reading →

Respect Life Group Marches In Pearl River

Posted on March 23, 2015 by rocklandrtl

A classic St. Patrick’s Day — brilliant, clear sky, brisk wind, a warm, early spring sun shining down on all! Members of the Rockland prolife community marched under the banner of “Respect Life” in the Ancient Order of Hibernians’ St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Pearl River on Sunday, March 22.

Continue reading →

40 Days for Life — Week 4

Posted on March 20, 2015 by rocklandrtl

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT 40 DAYS FOR LIFE

POPE FRANCIS, VIA VATICAN SECRETARIAT OF STATE

“The Holy Father greatly appreciates the dedicated work that you and everyone involved in 40 Days for Life are engaged in to promote respect for the lives of all unborn children. His Holiness assures you of his prayerful support for you, your colleagues and all those whose prayer, fasting and sacrifices are saving countless lives and giving glory to God.”

The Care-Net Pregnancy Center of Rockland is in this building at 2 Perlman Drive in Spring Valley.

Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in America, has an office in the strip mall near our prayer site on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley. Which is exactly why we’re there.

But right across the street, there’s another building. That’s where the Care-Net Pregnancy Center of Rockland has its office — a place where women with unplanned and unwanted pregancies can come for honest information, where they can feel safe and share how they feel, a haven where there is caring and help in bringing their baby to term. Continue reading →

Senate Dems Stop Vote on Bill to Help Sex Trafficking Victims

Posted on March 17, 2015 by rocklandrtl

A bill to strengthen laws against sex trafficking passed the NY State Assembly unanimously yesterday.

UPDATE: APRIL 22 The U.S. Senate Bill to provide justice for victims of sex trafficking passed today (99-0) with a compromise to divide the victims’ compensation fund into two separate parts: one part would pay for law enforcement services and shelters, but not medical services; money for medical services for the victims would be segregated into another fund furnished by taxpayer money. This fund would be subject to the Hyde Amendment federal restrictions on abortion funding. Sens. Schumer and Gillebrand voted for the bill.

But things did not go so well for sex trafficking legislation on the federal level in Washington, D.C.

Today Senate Democrats blocked a vote on a bill to help victims of sex trafficking because it would not allow a proposed victims’ compensation fund to be used to pay for abortions.

The vote was 55-43, with both senators from New York, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillebrand voting to block debate on the bill.

Further votes to break the Democratic filibuster are expected this week.

NYS Assembly Begins To Vote Separately on Women’s Equality Issues

Posted on March 16, 2015 by rocklandrtl

Today the NYS Assembly unbundled the elements of the Women’s Equality Act (WEA) and passed an individual bill focused on toughening the penalties for sex trafficking and providing more support for victims.

This seems to signal a break from last year when the Assembly passed the entire 10-point WEA package — including the controversial abortion expansion bill — only to see the whole WEA die at the end of the session when the Senate eliminated the abortion measure but passed the other nine women’s rights components individually. The Assembly, in response, maintained that the abortion plank was an indivisible part of women’s equality and refused to vote separately on any of the individual bills the Senate presented them with. As a result, none of the WEA provisions became law last year.

Now that the Senate Republicans hold the majority in that house after winning in November, the Assembly’s strategy of holding the whole WEA hostage to the passage of the abortion expansion bill has changed.

Again, it’s an example of how much your vote counts.

Today’s bill passed unanimously. The Senate has already passed their version of this bill.

Assembly breaks up Women’s Equality Act, passes sex trafficking bill ~ Politics on the Hudson

40 Days for LIfe — Week 3

Posted on March 14, 2015 by rocklandrtl

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
ABOUT 40 DAYS FOR LIFE

DR. ALVEDA KING
NIECE OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

“40 Days for Life brings 2 Chronicles 7:14 into 21st century focus. As one human race, we become united in prayer.
Glory to God!”

The founders of the 40 Days for Life movement may not have been thinking specifically of the Old Testament Book of Chronicles, but the call of God to his people in the passage Dr. King refers to is exactly what the 40 Days is all about:

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

At 40 Days for Life we pray that God will heal our land, changing the hearts of those involved in the abortion industry, forgiving and bringing peace to those who have had abortions, bringing hope to those who are contemplating abortion, and forgiving all of us for all ways that we have failed in building a culture of life that respects and nourishes life, and asking Him to give us strength and show us the way.

We’ve passed the half-way point in our vigil. Please, If you haven’t come yet, you still have two weeks. The final day is Palm Sunday, March 29.

The Rockland 40 Days for Life takes place every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley. It is peaceful and prayerful. It continues overnight from 6 p.m. to 9 a.m. in the Perpetual Adoration Chapel of St. Gregory Barbarigo Church in Garnerville.

For more information on how to participate, please e-mail RachelMinister1@aol.com or call 845-492-6709.

Day 1 Week 1 Week 2

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40 Days for Life — Week 2

Posted on March 5, 2015 by rocklandrtl

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT 40 DAYS FOR LIFE

JIM DALY, FOCUS ON THE FAMILY

“40 Days for Life is a testimony to the power of prayer and what can happen when we’re consumed by a magnificent obsession, namely that life is sacred and every baby at every stage of development deserves to be protected under law. God is on the move amidst the darkness.”

Here in Rockland, we’ve just completed the second week of 40 Days for Life, not as cold as last week, but still challenging and snowy. We think of the other 40 Days participants across the nation — like us, standing in little areas where the snow has been cleared, offering their prayers and suffering for the unborn. You feel a closeness with them. Yes, “God is on the move amidst the darkness.” Please come and join us and help bring abortion to an end.

The Rockland 40 Days for Life takes place every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley. It is peaceful and prayerful. During this cold spell, many participants are praying from inside their parked cars.

The 40 Days continues overnight from 6 p.m. to 9 a.m. in the Perpetual Adoration Chapel of St. Gregory Barbarigo Church in Garnerville.

For more information on how to participate, please e-mail RachelMinister1@aol.com or call 845-492-6709.

Day 1 Week 1

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40 Days for Life — Week 1

Posted on February 26, 2015 by rocklandrtl

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE 40 DAYS FOR LIFE:

ABBY JOHNSON, FORMER PLANNED PARENTHOOD DIRECTOR — NOW A PROLIFE ADVOCATE

“I am in this movement today because of ordinary people who took on an extraordinary task. My former abortion clinic is closed because of their sacrifice. Babies are alive because of them. Women are no longer being hurt by abortion in their community.

You can do this. You can save a life. I now stand alongside you in this 40 Days for Life movement.”

The Rockland 40 Days for Life takes place every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley. It is peaceful and prayerful. We stand on public property on the outskirts of a mall where Planned Parenthood has an office. There is no confrontation or attempt to block access. We can’t even see the part of the mall where the office is. But we hope anyone going there — and all those passing by — see our message and are moved by our prayers.