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40 DAYS FOR LIFE: Week 4 — The Message of Life

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Hundreds of cars pass by each hour where we pray — just off Route 59 across from the entrance of the Spring Valley Marketplace, one of the county’s major crossroads.

It’s a constantly changing audience for our 40-day vigil. And probably not many truly understand the stakes, the battle of life and death that goes on under what appears to be only a cluster of commonplace folks with Bibles or rosaries, praying by the side of the road.

So we show them our signs — so they’ll understand what it’s all about, and why we’re there.

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Please join us the prayer site on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley at any time from 9 am to 5 pm. If you can make a commitment of one hour per week, please email rachelminister@aol.com or call 845-492-6709.

Prayer continues overnight at the Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel at St. Gregory Barbarigo Church on Cinder Road in Garnerville.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD

The Americans United for Life (AUL), the legal arm of the prolife movement, has put together a project called “The Planned Parenthood Exhibits.” It presents the case for investigating and ultimately defunding Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider has been operating for years at the taxpayers’ expense.

In this and our upcoming Rockland 40 Days for Life weekly updates, we’ll present one of the AUL “exhibits.”

Here’s  Exhibit 1: The Alliance Between Planned Parenthood and the Obama Administration.

It shows the Obama administration’s determination to channel taxpayer dollars to the abortion giant despite the known misuse of taxpayer funds by some Planned Parenthood affiliates and in the face of a $16 trillion national debt.

The complete Planned Parenthood Exhibits are available on the AUL website.

Day One     Week 1     Week 2     Week 3

Carvin, Lowey, Morganthaler Vie to Represent Rockland

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Frank Morganthaler — “I’m Prolife”
Joe Carvin — “I’m Prochoice”
Nita Lowey — “I’m Strongly Prochoice”

The three candidates for the 17th CD clash on life issues and other matters in this “Editorial Spotlight”  webcast of an interview conducted by the Journal News editorial board on Oct. 24.

Click here to watch the Journal News Video  (Be patient. It takes time to load.)

Below you’ll find a list of topics covered in the interview. You can drag the timeline to the topics you’d like to hear the candidates discuss.

01:20 — Opening comments
07:44 — Who’s responsible for the log jam in Congress?; bipartisanship
14:23 — The economy
18:45 — Social Security and Medicare
28:25 — The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
32:02 — Creating jobs
40:00 — The Tappan Zee Bridge
46:00 — Abortion rights, Planned Parenthood funding
52:37 — Gun control; Second Amendment
51:30 — Federal minimum wage

Gillibrand and Long Debate Overturning Roe v. Wade

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N.Y. Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand and her Republican challenger, Wendy E. Long, faced off in an hour-long debate on Wednesday, Oct. 17.

Ms. Long declared emphatically in the debate that she was prolife. She has been endorsed by the prolife Susan B. Anthony Fund. Sen. Gillibrand said she upholds abortions rights and the HHS Mandate, which requires employers to provide insurance plans that offer contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs.

For the C-Span video, we’ve provided a list of topics covered so you can drag the timeline to the topics you’d like to hear the debaters discuss.

00:00 Opening remarks
04:00 Foreign affairs, Libya
07:00 Stimulus program and government spending
13:43 Roe v. Wade, abortion rights, NY abortion laws, HHS mandate
22:08 Supreme Court
24:01 Gun control — Second amendment rights
28:20 Lightning Round — death penalty, funding PBS, banning large sugary drinks
31:38 The economy, reforming tax code
32:57 Sexual harassment scandal cover-up in Albany
35:44 Medicare and the Affordable Care Act
37:33 Bipartisan compromise
40:37 Foreign affairs, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan
48:01 Economy in New York state, fracking
54:41 The Dream Act, immigration
56:55 Closing remarks.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE: Week 3 — For the Cause of Life

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“The killing of the unborn that occurs daily in this country goes overwhelmingly unnoticed. People who take a strong public stand against this killing are dedicated to keeping the issue alive: Abortion kills a human being.

“I have deep admiration for all those who, in conscience, participate nonviolently to oppose the killing of the unborn.”

— John Cardinal O’Connor
Archbishop of New York

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Please join us the prayer site on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley at any time from 9 am to 5 pm. If you can make a commitment of one hour per week, please email rachelminister@aol.com or call 845-492-6709.

Prayer continues overnight at the Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel at St. Gregory Barbarigo Church on Cinder Road in Garnerville.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD 

The Americans United for Life (AUL), the legal arm of the prolife movement, has put together a project called “The Planned Parenthood Exhibits.” It presents the case for investigating and ultimately defunding Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider has been operating for years at the taxpayers’ expense.

In this and our upcoming Rockland 40 Days for Life weekly updates, we’ll present one of the AUL “exhibits.”

Here’s Exhibit 3: Planned Parenthood Has Worked Vigorously to Oppose Bans on Late-Term Abortion

It shows how PP is committed to making sure that the United States remains among the only nine nations in the world — in company with China, North Korea, and Canada — that allow abortion after 14 weeks’ gestation.

The complete Planned Parenthood Exhibits are available on the AUL website.

Day 1     Week 1     Week 2

Thomas More Law Center Program on Sunday

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Tom Lynch, of the Thomas More Law Center, will be speaking on “Defending the Sanctity of Human Life” and other important topics on Sunday, Oct. 28. Please come and learn how the Law Center fights for laws protecting unborn human life, free speech rights of prolife demonstrators and sidewalk counselors, and the rights of conscience for medical professionals. Tom is the son of Betty Lynch of Nanuet.

Love Always, Daddy

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“YOU’RE MY LIGHT IN THE DARK, AND IT’S A PRIVILEGE TO BE YOUR DAD. LOVE ALWAYS, DADDY”

This video, called “Perfect,” aired Oct. 1 on ESPN’s award-winning primetime sports magazine E.60. It tells the story of Heath White, who chased perfection, and how the birth of a girl with Down Syndrome led to the rebirth of a man who thought he had everything — until he discovered the joy of pushing Paisley.  Continue reading →

40 DAYS FOR LIFE: Week 2 — Believe – Trust – Pray

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The 40 Days for Life completes its second week. Those who hear the call to protect and defend the sacred gift of life continue to come to the prayer site.

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Please join us the prayer site on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley at any time from 9 am to 5 pm. If you can make a commitment of one hour per week, please email rachelminister@aol.com or call 845-492-6709. 

Prayer continues overnight at the Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel at St. Gregory Barbarigo Church on Cinder Road in Garnerville.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD 

On Oct. 16, the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, will be 96 years old.

And to finally shut the doors on this organization which has been operating for years at the taxpayer’s expense, Americans United for Life (AUL) — the legal arm of the pro-life movement — has been working hard to expose the truth about them.

AUL has put together a project called “The Planned Parenthood Exhibits.” It presents the case for investigating and ultimately defunding Planned Parenthood.

In this and our upcoming Rockland 40 Days for Life weekly updates, we’ll present one of the AUL “exhibits.”

Here’s Exhibit 2: Planned Parenthood’s ‘White Lies’

It explains how PP tries to play down its involvement in the abortion business by insisting that abortion procedures are a very small part of what it does when, in fact, they may have made over $99 million from performing abortions in 2010.

The complete Planned Parenthood Exhibits are available on the AUL website.

Day 1     Week 1

40 DAYS CO-FOUNDER VISITS ROCKLAND

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Shawn Carney, center, at the 40 Days for Life vigil in Spring Valley

Shawn Carney, the co-founder of the 40 Days for Life movement to end abortion, was in town yesterday to attend the 26th annual banquet of the CareNet Pregnancy Center of Rockland.

Before the event he came to the prayer site on Perlman Drive to meet the Rockland volunteers. With great enthusiasm he told the story of the founding of the 40 Days for Life project which began with an idea around the kitchen table and which has since expanded to prayer vigils in 450 cities in every state in America.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE: Week 1 — Why 40 Days?

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40 Days for Life is a national effort and community-based campaign to draw attention to the evil of abortion and its devastating effects on women and men.

Why 40 Days? In the Bible, God used 40-day periods to transform individuals, communities … and the entire world. From Noah in the flood to the disciples after Christ’s resurrection, it’s clear that God sees the transformative value of His people accepting and meeting a 40-day challenge.

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And it is a true challenge. In some of these photos you’ll see volunteers praying in the rain (talk about Noah’s Flood), but that’s how important the message is.

Please join us the prayer site on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley at any time from 9 am to 5 pm. If you can make a commitment of one hour per week, please email rachelminister@aol.com or call 845-492-6709.

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