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40 Days for Life — Week Three

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“Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.”
~ Mother Theresa

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Please come be part of the national 40 Days for Life campaign. Only one hour each week for the next 3 weeks to witness in public and pray for an end to abortion.

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.

Week One     Week Two

Stop the Reproductive Health Act

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RHA-smallLast month, Gov.Cuomo announced his plan for legislation that would establish abortion in NY as a fundamental right. And once that happens, any of the restrictions on abortion — which even Roe v. Wade left to the states to decide — would be in danger, such as parental notification laws, banning the use of public funds for abortion, and conscience laws allowing individuals and institutions to refuse to participate in abortions.

As this issue is debated, here are various resources with information you need to have.  Check it out frequently. We’lll keep adding to the list. And please send us links to anything you find that we all need to know. Email RocklandRTL@optonline.net.

40 Days for Life — Week Two

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“God loved and willed you into being.
Nobody is an accident.
You have life only by an intentional, loving, creative act of God.
You exist because God wanted you.”
~~ The Sisters of Life

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Can you help carry the message? You never know whose heart you may touch as they drive by. Or whose life you may save, because someone remembers a sign they once saw on the side of the road.  

Only one hour  each week for the next 4 weeks to witness in public and pray for an end to abortion.

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.

Week One

40 Days for Life — Week One

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“Human progress is neither automatic or inevitable.
Every step toward the goal of Justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle,
the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
~~Martin Luther King Jr.

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Can you make the sacrifice for the unborn? Only one hour  each week for the next 5 weeks to witness in public and pray for an end to abortion.

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.

Sign the Petition to Stop the RHA

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RHA-smallHelp stop the radically pro-abortion “Reproductive Health Act” (RHA).

Click here to SIGN THE PETITION.

Something else you can do: “Like” New Yorkers for Life on Facebook. This is a diverse coalition united in opposition to Gov. Cuomo’s proposal to expand the number of abortions in New York. You can also follow them on Twitter @NYS4Life.

NY4Life_1“SAYING THAT NEW YORK NEEDS MORE ABORTION IS LIKE SAYING TAXPAYERS NEED TO PAY MORE TAXES” — Kathleen Gallagher, NYS Catholic Conference.

Day 1: 40 Days for Life Begins

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securedownload-1The 11th 40 Days for Life observance in Rockland began with a prayer service on Ash Wednesday at the Planned Parenthood Prayer Site, on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley.

Day 1 -1Prayers were led by  Fr. John Palatucci from St. Paul’s in Congers and Fr. Joseph Kuzhichalil from St. Margaret’s in Pearl River.

The 40 Days for Life is a national prayer campaign to end abortion. It is taking place in 261 cities this spring, including Spring Valley and White Plains.

The Rockland location is across from the Spring Valley Marketplace on public property on Perlman Drive near the Planned Parenthood office. The time is 9 am to 5 pm. From 6 pm to 8 am, prayer continues at the St. Gregory of Barbarigo Eucharistic Chapel in Garnerville.

Please come for one hour a week to pray for Life as a Lenten Sacrifice. Call 845-492-6709 or email Rachelminister@aol.com.

Survey: New Yorkers Oppose Cuomo’s Proposed Abortion Expansion

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RHA-smallNo surprise. Even in New York, 80% oppose unlimited abortion through the ninth month of pregnancy, and 75% oppose changes in the current law that will allow non-doctors to perform abortions, according to a statewide survey.

In the proposed “Reproductive Health Act,” Gov. Cuomo and his allies in the abortion lobby go far beyond the sensible restrictions on abortion most New Yorkers support. Click here to read about the survey, which the Chiaroscuro Foundation released today on the steps of New York City Hall.

The Reproductive Health Act would, among other things:

  • Allow non-physicians to perform abortions;
  • Remove criminal penalties even from unlawful abortions;
  • Prevent an unborn child who is the intended victim of a crime from being recognized as a victim;
  • Prevent any limitation on use of taxpayer funds to curtail New York’s Medicaid policy of paying for abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy;
  • Deceitfully redefine pregnancy as beginning at implantation – not fertilization;
  • Falsely redefine fetal (child) viability and
  • Unleash new assaults on the consciences of those who oppose participating in abortion – health care professionals, hospitals, hospital residents, and health insurance providers.

Prolife New Yorkers Push Back on ‘Reproductive Health Act’

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RHA-smallNew York prolife advocates appear to be successfully pushing back against “The Reproductive Health Act,” a bill that would take virtually every prolife law off the books and promote late-term abortions

Just a few weeks ago, prolife state senator Ruben Diaz (D-Bronx) said, it looked like Cuomo had the votes to ram the legislation through the 63-member Senate. But strong public opposition led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and the New York Catholic Conference (NYCC) to Cuomo’s inclusion of the Reproductive Health Act in his women’s equality bill has raised awareness about the abortion expansion and generated unease among some lawmakers, Diaz said.

For complete LifeNews story, click here.

Spring 40 Days for Life Campaign Begins Wednesday

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” . . . We know that whether we will live to see victory over abortion is not in our hands.
We also know that standing for truth, for mercy, and for justice is always within our power, and so we will keep doing it for as long as evil endures.”

The 40 Days for Life will begin at 3 pm, Wednesday, Feb. 13 at the prayer site on Perlman Drive near the Spring Valley Planned Parenthood office.  The vigil of prayer, fasting, and peaceful activism will continue around the clock, rain or shine, for 40 days, 9 am to 5 pm (and in the evening and throughout the night at the Eucharistic Chapel of St. Gregory Barbarigo on Cinder Road in Garnerville), ending on March 24.

Rockland participants in this nationwide campaign of prayer to end abortion give one hour of their time a week for the next 40 days to come to the Planned Parenthood site to stand and pray.

Why Planned Parenthood?

Although surgical abortions are not done at the Planned Parenthood Spring Valley facility, the parent organization’s own fact sheet admits to its having performed over 333,964 abortions in 2011. And although PP says these abortions amount to 3 percent of the services it provides, it has been estimated that abortion nevertheless accounts for more than 38% of PP’s income.

Vigil participants gather on Perlman Drive (across the road from the Spring Valley Marketplace)  to pray that women considering abortions will have a change of heart,  to ask for God’s help and guidance was they work to build a true culture of life, and to bring the attention of community of Rockland to Planned Parenthood as a nationwide abortion provider.

Rockland Right to Life  website will follow the progress of the vigil volunteers throughout the 40 days of this spring’s campaign.

For more information or to volunteer to pray for an hour each week, please call 845-492-6709 or email Rachelminister@aol.com.

For more information about the 40 Days for Life campaign, which will kick off at 261 sites across America on Wednesday, click here.

The quote above is from Abortion, An Enduring Wrong, National Review, Feb. 11, 2013