Albany, April 15 — Hundreds and hundreds of prolife New Yorkers packed West Capitol Park and lined the streets with signs asking our government officials, “Can’t we love them both?” The event was planned by the coalition New Yorkers for Life and drew in individuals and groups from all across the state united in opposition to the governor’s plan to expand late-term abortion.
Photo and article from Pressconnects.com
Statement from Kathleen Gallaher from the NYS Catholic Conference
You’ll see footage from the 40 Days for Life in Spring Valley in this News 12 video.
NEWS ALERT
NYS Right to Life Airs Radio Ads to Expose
Governor’s Extreme Abortion Agenda
Beginning today, New York State Right to Life is airing radio ads in several key districts to alert New Yorkers to Governor Cuomo’s extreme abortion agenda. This legislation seeks to make abortion a fundamental human right, comparable to freedom of religion or freedom of speech. It would allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, allow non-doctors to perform this surgical procedure and threaten the conscience rights of those who don’t wish to be complicit with abortion.
Listen to our radio spot.
Sister Lucy Marie, of the Sisters of Life and Respect Life Coordinator for the Archdiocese of New York, has sent this message:
Dear Friends,
As you are aware, we have been working for the last few months to organize opposition to the Reproductive Health Act, the bill that would expand abortion here in New York.
A coalition has been formed with other state-wide groups, called New Yorkers for Life, as a focal point for these efforts. New Yorkers for Life has been asking for organizations to sign in support of the “Statement of Principles.”
Here is the current list of organizations which support the principles of New Yorkers for Life. [Among them, you’ll find the Rockland Right to Life Committee, Gracepoint Gospel Fellowship in New City, Good Counsel Homes, the Rockland Catholic Coalition, Living Waters Fellowship in Suffern, Sacred Heart Church Respect Life Group, St. Francis of Assisi Church, and Blessings of Health in Stony Point, 40 Days for Life (Spring Valley, NY), Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court St. Anne #866 (Piermont, NY), Help Rescue our Children (Monsey, NY), Men’s Club of St. John’s Church (Piermont, NY), Respect Life Group (Rockland Cty, NY), St. Augustine Youth Group (New City, NY),
St. Margaret’s Pro-Life Cenacle (Pearl River, NY), St. Margaret’s Altar and Rosary Society (Pearl River, NY)]
We would like for there to be many more organizations signed on so we are again encouraging all parishes, K of C Councils, religious orders, pregnancy centers, small businesses, etc. to review this and spread the word and get many more to sign on the statement of principles.
Our goal is to take the list into legislative offices to show our lawmakers that organizations in their districts support life and are opposed to abortion expansion.
Thank you and God bless you.
Sr. Lucy Marie
Respect Life Coordinator
Archdiocese of New York
On March 9, the Youthfest was held at Rockland Community College. It’s an annual event whose goal is to provide the community with an opportunity to interact with businesses and agencies that provide services for children, youth, and families in Rockland County.
Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood Hudson-Peconic was on hand, with their propaganda and big display van, eager to meet our youth.
But Eileen was there too. Armed with her sign at the entrance to the campus, she reminded everyone about the truth about Planned Parenthood.
March 24 — It was still cold, but the early spring sun was warm and welcoming on Palm Sunday — Day 40, the last day of the 40 Days for Life.
The volunteers who had been part of this 6-week prayer vigil — which began on Ash Wednesday — gathered for a closing ceremony on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley, outside the Pascack Plaza Mall where Planned Parenthood has its office.
Msgr. Robert McCabe of St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Haverstraw led the group in the recitation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet and the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. The program included “God bless America” and hymns and the “Song of Our Lady of Guadalupe.”
In this 40 Days for Life campaign, over 550 lives nationwide were saved from abortion — those that we know about. One story comes from White Plains.
Sometimes all it takes to turn a woman from abortion is the presence of someone to remind her not to panic, to take time to stop and think, and listen to her heart. Someone to assure her that God is with her and that all will be well, who can point her in the direction of help and support.
Rockland Right to Life salutes the committed volunteers of the 40 Days for Life. Thank you for your prayers to end abortion, for enduring the cold, wind, and snow to witness for Life, and for being there for the unborn children and for their parents when they so desperately need a sign of hope and love.
More photos from the closing ceremony and the last week of the 40 Days of Life (click to enlarge)
New Yorkers for Constitution Freedom, Catholic bishops, and the New York State Catholic Conference lobbied in Albany Tuesday against a bill that would enshrine abortion as a “fundamental right” in New York through nine months of pregnancy.
Meeting with a representative of Sen. William Larkin, prolife senator representing Haverstraw and Stony Point.
Meanwhile the Concerned Clergy for Choice, who support abortion, released a statement urging Gov. Cuomo to pass the 10-point “Women’s Equality Act,” which includes the abortion bill, and the NYC chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) called the bishops “out of touch.” Read more.
Marching under the ‘Respect Life’ banner, 25 prolife supporters carried their message to the thousands of spectators, lining the streets of Pearl River for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade Sunday.
The Marchers represented various Rockland prolife organizations including the 40 Days for Life campaign, Divine Mercy, and the Rockland Right to Life Committee.
Joe O’Brien, Arlette and Howie Phillips, Haverstraw Supervisor
Howie Phillips, Haverstraw Supervisor, and his wife, Arlette, marched with the Respect Life again this year.
The grand marshal of the parade was Msgr. Ed Weber, former Vicar of Rockland and pastor of St. Francis of Assisi in W. Nyack, a strong supporter of prolife efforts in the county.
Click on photos below to enlarge.
The photos below are courtesy of photojournalist Bob Reers of Pearl River.
“Never be afraid to raise your voice
for honesty and truth and compassion
against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world … would do this,
it would change the earth.”
~William Faulkner
As this Lenten Season nears its end, please take part of the national 40 Days for Life campaign. It may be one of those crazy, out-of-your-comfort-zone sort of sacrifices you normally wouldn’t consider. But it may be one of those remarkable opportunities that will bring untold graces not only to you, but to many caught up in the culture of abortion.
Only one hour for the next week to witness in public and pray for an end to abortion. The closing ceremony will be on Sunday, March 24
We are on public property from 9 am until 6 pm on Perlman Drive, in Spring Valley, and from 6 pm until 9 am at the St. Gregory Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel on 21 Cinder Road in Garnerville.
God Bless You! For more information, click here.
ROCKLAND RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE 