Happy Birthday, Jesus!

Happy Birthday, Jesus!!!

This year, we ask that you consider making a donation of baby items to a local maternity home or crisis pregnancy center in your area, to complete your nine months of prayer for a child with a "Christmas present". We hope that your child receives the greatest gift: the gift of life with the salvation of Christ.


Thank you for praying for your spiritually adopted child from Annunciation through Christmas.  We encourage you to spend the months from Christmas 2010 through Annunciation 2011 in prayer for abortionists and pro-choice politicians, asking that God will convert them and turn them from their lives of child killing.  Offer Rosaries on their behalf, with the intent of their conversion.     

Lord God, I thank You today for the gift of my life and for the lives of all my brothers and sisters. I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion, yet I rejoice that You have conquered death by the resurrection of Your Son. I am ready to do my part in ending abortion. Today I commit myself never to be silent, never to be passive, never to be forgetful of the unborn. I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement, and never to stop defending life until all my brothers and sisters are protected, and our nation once again becomes a nation with liberty and justice not just for some, but for all, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

This week in Christ's life… (40)

Although Jesus was officially full term 2 weeks ago, babies are considered “full term” any time between 38-40 gestational weeks/40-42 LNMP weeks.  He is 280 days old and can function outside the womb.  In 14 states, babies can be aborted at this age. Jesus, our Savior, inspire in the hearts of all people a love of life.  Touch the hearts of our elected officials and open their hearts to the sanctity of all life.

This week in Christ's life… (39)

Although Jesus was officially full term last week, babies are considered “full term” any time between 38-40 gestational weeks/40-42 LNMP weeks.  He is 273 days old and can function outside the womb.  In 14 states, babies can be aborted at this age.  Jesus, our Savior, inspire in the hearts of all people a love of life.  Touch the hearts of our elected officials and open their hearts to the sanctity of all life.

This week in Christ's life… (38)

This week, Jesus is 38 weeks old and officially full term.   He is 266 days old!  His chest is more prominent and his abdomen is round, due to the size of his liver.  A kick from him can knock a book off of Mary’s lap!  He can fully function outside the womb.  In 14 states, babies can be aborted at this age.  Jesus, our Savior, inspire in the hearts of all people a love of life.  Touch the hearts of our elected officials and open their hearts to the sanctity of all life.

This week in Christ's life… (37)

This week, Jesus is 37 weeks old.   His skin has become thicker and pinker.  His lungs are increasing their production of surfactant, to help keep the air sacs open.  His fingernails extend beyond his fingertips and his umbilical cord is approximately 2 feet long!  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

Truth Unmasked

Truth Unmasked video

Assuring, through education, equal protection under the law for all living humans from the beginning of their biological life
at fertilization until natural death.

According to most recent polls, almost half of Americans remain uncertain or confused regarding their position on abortion.

Since 1990, pro-abortion forces have been financing a very effective national campaign to convince these conflicted middle people that the most important consideration is whether a woman has the right to choose abortion, and that this right to choose overrides the right of the child to live.

We must counter this "who decides" and "pro-choice" mentality in American society.

We must emphasize our compassion to women much more than in the past.  The rights of women and the rights of the unborn can be joined.  We must reach out to every woman faced with the agony of abortion and say to her: Your life and the life of your baby are both important, and we will not desert either one of you.  We want to love you both.

Our research has determined that 87% of this conflicted middle believe that adoption is a loving alternative to abortion.  And so, loving alternatives like adoption can now be the focus of part of our debate.

We must change their hearts and minds on abortion.  The opposition is using the most effective marketing tools that money can buy.  Our days of guesswork are over.  We must be sure that we are proceeding wisely.

Life Issues Institute recognizes this crying need and is leading the way in reinvigorating and coordinating a major new educational campaign nationwide.

The teaching that is desperately needed is best described as "back-to-basics."  Until people are also convinced that this is truly a baby in the womb, no other arguments will be successful.

Life Issues Institute is leading a new nationwide effort that will involve all pro-life groups, state and local chapters, pregnancy help centers and churches in a common educational effort.

To be successful, this new effort must reach out to stimulate and educate the millions of people who have not yet made up their minds on the abortion issue.  These people are the ones who ultimately will determine if your children and grandchildren will be protected in the years ahead.

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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be hated, needs but to be seen; yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.      
--ALEXANDER POPE

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This poetic prophet couldn't possibly have imagined, in his worst nightmare, this accurate description of abortion today.

Shortly after the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, the early pioneers of the pro-life movement put forth a strategy; demonstrate the humanity of the unborn child, then raise abortion's ugly head for all to see, the broken and dismembered bodies, and America would soundly reject it.

Thus the pro-life movement began its slow, laborious undertaking of educating Americans to the reality of the beauty of the baby growing in the womb and the horror of abortion.  Volunteers addressed countless church, school and civic groups, sharing the pro-life message.  Their unselfish labor began to bear fruit.  America was slowly waking up to the fact that abortion kills unborn babies.

Then came the first major Supreme Court breakthrough, the Webster decision in 1990.  With it came the era of market research, opinion polls, media sound bites and print advertising.  Education of the masses had taken a contemporary twist.  Using such tools, the pro-abortion movement began to reach millions of Americans with researched phrases, through massive media buys and with the help of a sympathetic press.

Slowly, progressively, they changed the focus of the debate from the tiny victim being killed, to a question of women's rights, of ``who decides."  With this there developed a change in public opinion that would both condemn abortion but still allow it as a woman's right.

We came to the conclusion that pro-life education had to change.  Abortion had become too familiar.  America was showing signs of enduring it.

We had to update and alter the way we disseminated our message.  Choice, for those yet undecided, was a concept they had begun to feel comfortable identifying with.

Life Issues Institute was founded to reverse this alarming trend and to rejuvenate and reinvigorate a nationwide educational awakening. For several years we dedicated most of our resources to determining what new educational methods were needed in order for pro-lifers to again regain the initiative.  We did polling, focus groups, market research, and finally extensive market testing of our new themes and approaches.  Since then, we have dedicated ourselves full-time to promoting and providing effective educational tools for the pro-life movement.

Central to these new approaches was a continuing emphasis on the fact that a majority of people, working in the pro-life movement, spend their time and efforts helping the woman during and after an unexpected pregnancy or after an abortion.  Stopping abortion and protecting unborn babies remains a central thrust.  However, assisting women in crisis occupies the efforts of more than half of those involved in the pro-life movement.

We encourage you to examine the groundbreaking publications and radio efforts of Life Issues Institute, as well as the new and more effective educational publications.  Our goal is to retrofit and retool the educational efforts of the pro-life movement.  We hope you will share our excitement and optimism, and help support our efforts in changing the hearts and minds of Americans on abortion.

CONTACT US
Life Issues Institute, Inc
1821 W. Galbraith Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45239
Phone: (513) 729-3600
Fax: (513) 729-3636
Email: info@lifeissues.org

A Celebration of Life

This week in Christ's life… (36)

This week, Jesus is 36 weeks old.   His intestines have accumulated considerable meconium.  His head roughly matches the circumference of his shoulders and hips.  He weighs approximately 6 pounds and measures almost 14 inches.  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

Abortion/Breast Cancer link

 

Dear Friends:

Readers of our newsletter know that use of oral contraceptives (the birth control pill) has been implicated as a risk factor for breast cancer by: 1) the World Health Organization; 2) a 2006 meta-analysis in the journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings; and 3) a 2009 study in the journal, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, which linked the pill with the deadly triple-negative breast cancer [1-4] 

Our readers are also aware that National Cancer Institute branch chief Dr. Louise Brinton was a co-author in that 2009 study and that she and her colleagues had included in their study both abortion and the pill as "known and suspected risk factors" for the disease. [4] They concluded in unambiguous terms that abortion and oral contraceptives were associated with the disease and that their results "were consistent with the effects observed in previous studies on younger women." Approximately four dozen epidemiological studies, biological evidence and animal research implicate abortion as a risk factor for the disease. [4-15] 

Planned Parenthood, nevertheless, remains steadfast in its denial of these cancer risks. It is behaving in much the same way that the anti-science tobacco industry did during the last half of the 20th century.

The Dayton Daily News reported yesterday that a panel of three physicians told an audience at a conference on November 13, 2010 in Oakwood, Ohio that the pill puts women at risk for breast cancer. Lou Grieco, a reporter for that newspaper, quoted Becki Brenner, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio. She called the breast cancer risks of the pill and induced abortion "scientifically baseless."

Brenner's denial of the scientific facts in the face of staggering evidence to the contrary reminds us of Monty Python's Dead Parrot skit. Actor John Cleese made repeated, frustrated efforts to persuade an indifferent pet shop owner that a parrot he had purchased was undeniably deceased until, finally, an exasperated Cleese declared, 

"Look, matey.... This parrot has passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its Maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff, bereft of life. It rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to a perch, it would be pushing up daisies.... It's joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!"

The pill and induced abortion are clearly risk factors for breast cancer, but the risk of massive medical malpractice lawsuits may be motivatingPlanned Parenthood and others in the medical establishment to adopt an anti-science position of denying the evidence. Even worse, Planned Parenthood is damaging the health of thousands of women.

To read the story in the Dayton Daily News, click on the link below in our Abortion-Breast Cancer News Headlines.

Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES

"Doctors link contraceptives, breast cancer / Planned Parenthood chief says the claim is a 'distortion of science'"
By Lou Grieco
Dayton Daily News
November 15, 2010
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/doctors-link-contraceptives-breast-cancer-1002948.html

References:

1. Cogliano V, Grosse Y, Baan R, Secretan B, El Ghissassi F. Carcinogenicity of combined oestrogen-progestagen contraceptives and menopausal treatment. Lancet Oncology 2005;6:552-553.

2. Press Release No. 167, "IARC Monographs Programme Finds Combined Estrogen-Progestogen Contraceptives (the "pill") and Menopausal Therapy Are Carcinogenic to Humans," World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer, July 29, 2005. 

3. Kahlenborn C, Modugno F. Potter D, Severs W. Oral contraceptive use as a risk factor for premenopausal breast cancer: A meta-analysis. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2006;81(10):1290-1302. Available at: <http://www.polycarp.org>.

4. Dolle J, Daling J, White E, Brinton L, Doody D, et al. Risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer in women under the age of 45 years. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009;18(4)1157-1166. Available at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/Abortion_Breast_Cancer_Epid_Bio_Prev_2009.pdf

5. Brind J, Chinchilli V, Severs W, Summy-Long J. Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis. J Epidemiol Community Health 1996;50:481-496.

6. Brind J. The abortion-breast cancer connection. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly Summer 2005; p. 303-329. <http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com/Brind_NCBQ.PDF>.

7. Brind J. Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: A critical review of recent studies based on prospective data. J Am Phys Surg Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter 2005) 105-110. Available at: <http://www.jpands.org/vol10no4/brind.pdf>.

8. Carroll, P. The breast cancer epidemic: modeling and forecasts based on abortion and other risk factors." J Am Phys Surg Vol. 12, No. 3 (Fall 2007) 72-78.  Available at: <http://www.jpands.org/vol12no3/carroll.pdf>.

9. Naieni KH, Ardalan A, Mahmoodi M, Motevalian A, Yahyapoor Y, et al. Risk factors of breast cancer in North of Iran: A case-control in Mazandaran Province. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2007;8;395-398. Available at: http://www.apocp.org/cancer_download/Volume8_No3/395-398%20c_Naieni%204.pdf

10. Ozmen V, Ozcinar B, Karanlik H, Cabioglu N, Tukenmez M, et al.  Breast cancer risk factors in Turkish women – a University Hospital based nested case control study. World J of Surg Oncol 2009;7:37. Available at: http://wjso.com/content/7/1/37. 

11. Xing P, Li J, Jin F. A case-control study of reproductive factors associated with subtypes of breast cancer in Northeast China. Medical Oncology, e-publication online September 2009. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19771534.

12. Dolle J, Daling J, White E, Brinton L, Doody D, et al. Risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer in women under the age of 45 years. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009;18(4)1157-1166. Available at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/Abortion_Breast_Cancer_Epid_Bio_Prev_2009.pdf

13. De Silva M, Senarath U, Gunatilake M, Lokuhetty D. Prolonged breastfeeding reduces risk of breast cancer in Sri Lankan women: a case-control study. Cancer Epidemiol 2010;34(3):267-73. Abstract available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338838

14. Lanfranchi, A. Normal breast physiology: The reasons hormonal contraceptives and induced abortion increase breast cancer risk. The Linacre Quarterly 2009;76:236-249. Available at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/LQ_76_3_2_Lanfranchi.pdf

15. Russo J, Tay TK, Russo IH. Differentiation of the mammary gland and susceptibility to carcinogenesis. Breast Cancer Res Treat 1982;2:5-73.

This week in Christ's life… (35)

This week, Jesus is 35 weeks old.   His grasp is firmer and he now turns towards light, as he prepares for birth and to orient himself to his surroundings.  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

Prayer for Abortion Victims

Holy Mother of God and of the Church, our Lady of Guadalupe, you were chosen by the Father for the Son through the Holy Spirit. You are the Woman clothed with the sun who labors to give birth to Christ while Satan, the Red Dragon, waits to voraciously devour your child.

So too did Herod seek to destroy your Son, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and massacred many innocent children in the process. So today does abortion killing many innocent unborn children and exploiting many mothers in its attack upon human life and upon the Church, the Body of Christ.

Mother of the Innocents, we praise God in you for His gifts to you of your Immaculate Conception, your freedom from actual sin; your fullness of grace, your Motherhood of God and the Church, your Perpetual Virginity and your Assumption in body and soul into heaven.

O Help of Christians, we beg you to protect all mothers of the unborn and the children within their wombs. We plead with you for your help to end the holocaust of abortion. Melt hearts so that life may be revered!

Holy Mother, we pray to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart for all mothers and all unborn children that they may have life here on earth and by the most Precious Blood shed by your Son that they may have eternal life with Him in heaven. We also pray to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart for all abortionists and all abortion supporters that they may be converted and accept your Son, Jesus Christ, as their Lord and Savior. Defend all of your children in the battle against Satan and all of the evil spirits in this present darkness.

We desire that the innocent unborn children who die without Baptism should be baptized and saved. We ask that you obtain this grace for them and repentance, reconciliation and pardon from God for their parents and their killers.

Let there be revealed, once more, in the history of the world the infinite power of merciful love. May it put an end to evil. May it transform consciences. May your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of hope. May Christ the King reign over us, our families, cities, states, nations and the whole of humanity.

O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary, hear our pleas and accept this cry from our hearts!
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Protectress of the Unborn, Pray for us!

This week in Christ's life… (34)

This week, Jesus is 34 weeks old.   His limbs have dimpled at the elbows and knees; creases have formed around his wrists. His gums are ridged.  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

VOTE PRO-LIFE!!!!

Babies are depending on you!!!

GVH 25th Annual Memorial Service

Please RSVP by November 20, 2010 so that your baby's name is included in the Memorial Service program.  If you did not name your baby, but would still like to include your baby in the service, we encourage you to use "Baby (last name)".

____ Will be attending the service (___ #)
____ Will bring ___hors d'oeuvre  ___dessert
____ Would like to participate musically
____ Would like to read a short poem or remembrance to the group
____ Enclosed a short message to be printed in the program
____ Cannot attend but would like our baby remembered
____ Would like to make a donation in memory of __________________________
(Please make check payable to Grand View Hospital)

Baby's Name: ________________________________________
Parent's Name: _______________________________________

Address: ______________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________

___Please remove my name from the mailing list
___I cannot attend the service but would like to remain on the mailing list.

Please respond to:
Diane Carp
221 Kingfisher Court
Harleysville, PA 19438

This week in Christ's life… (33)

This week, Jesus is 33 weeks old and his mother, Mary, has entered her ninth lunar month of pregnancy.  He weighs approximately 4.5 pounds and is about 13 inches long.  He is settling into a head-down position, in preparation of birth.  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

This week in Christ's life… (32)

This week, Jesus is 32 weeks old.   He opens his eyes when he is awake, will turn away from bright lights, and will close his eyes when he sleeps.  His immune system is beginning to develop immune reaction.  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

Obamacare=Abortioncare

Why It's Absurd to Deny Obama's Healthcare Bill Contains Abortion Funding

Deal W. Hudson
With the decision of the Ohio Elections Commission to allow a hearing to decide whether the Susan B. Anthony List has falsely represented the voting record of Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH), the question is again raised: Was abortion funding authorized by the health care legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama?

The complaint arose from the SBA List's use of billboards declaring that Representative Driehaus of Ohio's 1st Congressional District had voted for taxpayer-funded abortions by voting for the health care bill. If Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA, is found guilty, she could go to jail. Supporting Driehaus's effort to imprison Dannenfelser are James Salt, policy director of Catholics United, and Kristen Day, president of Democrats for Life of America.

Driehaus, by the way, had made essentially the same characterization of the health care legislation as made by Dannenfelser. On March 19, Driehaus was an original co-sponsor of H. Con. Res. 254, an "enrollment correction," introduced by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI). That resolution would have removed abortion funding from the Senate version of the health care bill.

The language of the final health care bill -- "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (PPACA) -- had not changed when both Stupak and Driehaus voted for it and Obama signed it into law. Now, Driehaus is trying to send Marjorie Dannenfelser to jail for precisely the same view of the health care bill as expressed in his support for H. Con. Res 254 -- that it authorizes federal tax dollars to be spent on abortion.

Three members of the Ohio Elections Commission voted 2-1 to find "probable cause" to send the Driehaus complaint to a full hearing of the seven commissioners. The date has not yet been set.

The evidence supporting the SBA List is undeniable. In addition to the witness of Driehaus himself (and Stupak), there are the multiple provisions of the legislation itself that authorize the funding of abortions. The best summary is found in the affidavit submitted for last week's meeting of the Ohio Elections Commission by Douglas Johnson, legislative director of National Right to Life.

As Johnson points out in his affidavit, the provisions of the Senate version of the bill, ultimately signed into law, contained many of the same abortion funding mechanisms that the Stupak-Pitts amendment of the House bill removed. (There were new, additional problems in the Senate bill.) Stupak, Driehaus, and all those who supported the Stupak-Pitts amendment in the House had full knowledge that those provisions had not been removed. Driehaus and Stupak also knew of a similar amendment, offered by Sens. Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), which was defeated soundly in the Senate. Interestingly enough, when the Senate bill passed (without removing the abortion authorizations), Stupak and Driehaus, along with Kristen Day, fought hard against its passage in the House. They worked diligently from the time Congress returned in January until March 19th when their objections suddenly, and inexplicably, vanished.

Here, Johnson provides an overview of the abortion funding in the 906 pages of PPACA:

 It contained multiple provisions that authorize new programs or expand authorizations for existing programs that are authorized to cover abortion, either explicitly or implicitly. Some of these provisions are entirely untouched by any limitation on abortion in existing law or in the PPACA itself, and others are subject only to limitations that are temporary or contingent.

Those who deny this characterization must have been surprised when three states -- Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Maryland -- began the implementation of Section 1101 (42 U.S.C. § 18001) creating the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP), also known as the "high-risk pool" program. Abortion coverage was explicitly included by these three states in this $5 billion program that provides coverage for up to 400,000 people.

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This week in Christ's life… (31)

This week, Jesus is 31 weeks old.   As fat has accumulated under his skin, it has changed from red and transparent to pink and translucent.  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

Fr. Chris & End of Life Issues

Where: St. Maria Goretti Parish- Drexel Hall
When: TOMORROW!!! Wednesday, Oct 13th @ 7pm
What: End of Life Issues, presented by Fr. Chris Walsh

Last year's program had over 80 people.  Dont miss out on this outstanding speaker and important topic!

This week in Christ's life… (30)

This week, Jesus is 30 weeks old.   He can register information from all of his senses.  His nostrils are full formed and his hair is growing longer.  He is 210 days old.  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

This week in Christ's life… (29)

This week, Jesus is 29 weeks old and his mother, Mary, has entered her eighth lunar month of pregnancy.  Because he has grown so large, he is now curled up in the fetal position.   His brain continues to rapidly develop, increasing the number of interconnections between individual nerve cells and identifying groups of cells that will perform complicated functions.  Infant Jesus, you raised us to heaven by taking on manhood.  Open all hearts to this truth and teach the world to reject the evil of abortion

Pray for Us, Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe, we turn to you who are the protectress of unborn children and ask that you intercede for us, so that we may more firmly resolve to join you in protecting all human life. Let our prayers be united to your perpetual motherly intercession on behalf of those whose lives are threatened, be they in the womb of their mother, on the bed of infirmity, or in the latter years of their life. May our prayers also be coupled with peaceful action, which witnesses to the goodness and dignity of all human life, so that our firmness of purpose may give courage to those who are fearful and bring light to those who are blinded by sin. Encourage those who will be involved in the March for Life; help them to walk closely with God and to give voice to the cry of the oppressed, in order to remind our nation of its commitment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people. O Virgin Mother of God, present our petitions to your Son and ask Him to bless us with abundant life. Amen.

This week in Christ's life… (28)

This week, Jesus is 28 weeks old.  His bone marrow takes over the production of red blood cells and his lanugo has disappeared.  He is about the length of a standard ruler and weighs almost 3 pounds.  Infant Jesus, you raised us to heaven by taking on manhood.  Open all hearts to this truth and teach the world to reject the evil of abortion

This week in Christ's life… (27)

This week, Jesus is 27 weeks old.   He can see light and dark through the walls of the womb.  His brain can direct rhythmic breathing and control his body temperature.  His eyes move in their sockets and he is practicing seeing.  He can see shades of reds, greens, and yellows.  Infant Jesus, you raised us to heaven by taking on manhood.  Open all hearts to this truth and teach the world to reject the evil of abortion

This week in Christ's life… (26)

This week, Jesus is 26 weeks old.   His eyelids have completely unfused and can open and shut.  His eyelashes are present.  In two weeks, he has grown so much!  He is almost 10 inches long and weighs over 2 pounds!  Infant Jesus, you raised us to heaven by taking on manhood.  Open all hearts to this truth and teach the world to reject the evil of abortion

Prayer for the Helpless Unborn

Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect against the wickedness of the devil, those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life. Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant in our world today who are not thinking of motherhood.
Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image - as well as theirs  - made for eternnal life. Dispel their fear and selfishness and give them true womanly hearts to love their babies and give them birth and all the needed care that a mother alone can give.
We ask this through Jesus  Christ, Your  Son, Our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy  Spirit, one God, forever and ever,  Amen.

Morningstar Ministries Annual Dinner

Morningstar Ministries of the North Penn Area, Inc. is a local (Souderton) Christian Maternity Home that provides a loving and supportive environment for women (age 13-25) in crisis pregnancy.  They have helped over 200 women and babies over the past 22 years. 

 

This is their annual fund raising dinner ... the cost is a free will offering ... the key note speaker this year is a former Planned Parenthood Clinic Director, Abby Johnson .. she observed an ultrasound of an abortion and quit. 

 

The Table is #22 ... and if you can join me, please either call me on my cell 215-285-4837 or, send an email to rosettabuss@comcast.net if you are interested in coming to dinner on Saturday evening, September 11th.  The dinner will be held at the Family Worship Center on Troxel Road in Lansdale and will be served promptly at 6:pm.  There are ten seats at the table, please join me.  We can always get a second table if we need it; unfortunately, that's not usually the problem.  Hope you can join me!  Please let me know by Monday evening, September 6th. 

 

Thank you for your consideration.  God Bless,

 

Terry Prykowski

215-285-4837

This week in Christ's life… (25)

This week, Jesus is 25 weeks old and his mother, Mary, has entered her seventh lunar month of pregnancy.  His lungs are capable of breathing room air.  His brain wave patterns are similar to that of a newborn.  Infant Jesus, you raised us to heaven by taking on manhood.  Open all hearts to this truth and teach the world to reject the evil of abortion

This week in Christ's life… (24)

This week, Jesus is 24 weeks old.   His permanent teeth buds have come in beneath his baby teeth.  His nostrils are open and he is practicing breathing.  Air sacs have developed in his lungs. Auditory and visual brain waves have started, so that he will be able to input and process data after birth. He is now 168 days old, 9 inches long, and 1.25 pounds.  Infant Jesus, you raised us to heaven by taking on manhood.  Open all hearts to this truth and teach the world to reject the evil of abortion

Prayer for the Right to Life

O heavenly Father, strengthen us against the mounting forces of anti-life; enlighten those who walk in this deadly way that they may see the enormity of their sin and return to the generous observance of the divine law. We pray, too, for mothers, that they may prize the great privilege of motherhood; and that they may bring up their children in the holy love and fear of God, thus saving their own immortal souls and furthering the honor and glory of their Maker. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Pray for us, St. Gerard, protector of the mother and her unborn child,
that we may be worthy of the promises of Christ!

This week in Christ's life… (23)

This week, Jesus is 23 weeks old.   He daily hears the beating of Mary’s heart, the sound of her voice, and the muffled sounds of the voices around her.  He will startle and jump if he hears a loud noise.  Blood vessels have developed in his lungs, so that when he is born, oxygen will be able to circulate to his vital organs and systems.  Infant Jesus, you raised us to heaven by taking on manhood.  Open all hearts to this truth and teach the world to reject the evil of abortion.

This week in Christ's life… (22)

This week, Jesus is 22 weeks old.  Even though this is the period that babies are considered viable outside the womb (22w gestational/24w LNMP weeks) with a 50% survival rate, every state allows abortion at this age.    Infant Jesus, you raised us to heaven by taking on manhood.  Open all hearts to this truth and teach the world to reject the evil of abortion.

This week in Christ's Life… (21)

This week, Jesus is 21 weeks old and his mother, Mary, has entered her sixth lunar month of pregnancy.   The bones of his inner ear have hardened, making hearing possible.  Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.

This week in Christ's life… (20)

This week, Jesus is 20 weeks old.   His lungs are beginning to produce surfactant, which will allow them to inflate to breathe oxygen.   He can blink and he can grip his hands with force.  Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.

Another Abortion Pill??? (SBA)

Another abortion pill?It appears the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving quickly towards approving ella (Ulipristal Acetate), to be marketed in the in the U.S. as an emergency contraceptive, even though it is similar to RU-486, the chemical abortion pill, which has caused severe injury to women—even causing deaths. Like RU-486, ella functions by blocking progesterone receptors which prevents an embryo from implanting in the uterine wall and could prevent an already implanted embryo from receiving proper nutrition—causing an abortion.

Congressman Joe Pitts (R-PA) has written a letter urging the FDA to do additional research on ella and emphasizing that the drug should NOT be approved at all if it could end the life of an unborn child.

If ella is deceptively marketed as an emergency contraceptive, women will be misled into thinking the drug will prevent pregnancy, when it could actually result in an abortion of their unborn child.

Ask your Representative to co-sign Rep. Pitts’ letter to the FDA, urging them to do further research on ella. We only have until Wednesday to get as many co-signers as possible.

The FDA is supposed to exist to protect Americans from harmful drugs—which is why they must do more research before approving ella—as they risk approving a drug which could end the lives of the youngest, most vulnerable Americans. When the abortion pill RU-486 was approved, it was done so without enough research—a mistake which has resulted in thousands of women injuring themselves—and some even dying. The fight to end the use of RU-486 continues, but now there is an additional battle to be waged.

We can’t let another abortion pill make its way into pharmacies across the country.

Please ask your Congressman to co-sign Rep. Pitt’s letter today, and insist the FDA do more research before approving ella.



With you in this fight for Life,

Marjorie Dannenfelser
President, Susan B. Anthony List
www.sba-list.org

This week in Christ's life… (19)

This week, Jesus is 19 weeks old.  He can move however his brain directs, including spinning, jackknifing, turning, and somersaulting.  He looks like a miniature newborn and can suck his thumb at will.   (This is the earliest that a preterm baby born in modern times has been able to survive.  Born at just 21w6d LNMP/19w6d gestationally, a little girl born in 2006 survived and is doing well.)  Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.

We're Paying for Abortion-On-Demand (SBA)

Well, the “gift” of health care reform keeps on giving. Since Wednesday, when Marjorie wrote to you with the horrific news that $160 million of our federal tax dollars were sent to establish a high risk insurance pool in Pennsylvania, a new program established by the health care bill, with no restrictions on abortion funding, New Mexico has also been added to the list of states receiving this blood money—unwillingly given by citizens from across the country.
Our hard earned tax dollars are being used by the federal government to fund high-risk insurance pool programs that cover abortion on-demand.

Taxpayer dollars--from every American across the country--being used to end the lives of innocent, unborn children in Pennsylvania, and now New Mexico. We must act now.

When those so-called pro-life Democrats like Bart Stupak and Kathy Dahlkemper voted for health care reform, they said our tax dollars would not be used to end unborn lives. President Obama said that his executive order would protect the conscience of the American taxpayers.

But I can think of 160 million reasons why that’s not true.

From the beginning, the Obama Administration hasn’t tried to hide their radical abortion agenda. First the repeal of the Mexico City Policy, then so-called “health care” reform, and an Executive Order that wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Now, $160 million taxpayer dollars from across the country can end the lives of unborn boys and girls in Pennsylvania and New Mexico.

With you in this fight for Life,


Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave
Director, Votes Have Consequences
Susan B. Anthony List
www.sba-list.org

P.S. Before defying the will of her constituents, Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-3) said she would represent the pro-life majority in her district. But now Pennsylvanians, and all Americans across the country, are being forced to pay for abortions with their own money. Rep. Dahlkemper and the Obama administration said the executive order would prevent taxpayers from having to pay for abortion, but the high risk insurance pool programs in Pennsylvania and New Mexico prove that this was a false promise.

This week in Christ's life… (18)

This week, Jesus is 18 weeks old.  Heat-producing brown fat begins to form at the base of his neck.  His eyebrows have formed, and he sleeps and wakes as much as a newborn.  Hair has formed on his scalp. He now weighs about 11 ounces and measures about 6 inches long.  Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.

Obama's phony assurance (NRL)

H.H.S. Approves Pennsylvania Plan
to Use Federal Funds to Subsidize Coverage of
Nearly All Abortions in New “High-Risk Pool” Program


WASHINGTON (July 13, 2010) – The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March — and has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of Governor Edward Rendell (D) under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.

The high-risk pool program is one of the new programs created by the sweeping health care legislation (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that President Obama signed into law on March 23. The law authorizes $5 billion in federal funds for the program, which will cover as many as 400,000 people when it is implemented nationwide.

“The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million in federal tax funds, which we’ve discovered will pay for insurance plans that cover any legal abortion,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states. “This is just the first proof of the phoniness of President Obama’s assurances that federal funds would not subsidize abortion — but it will not be the last.”

An earlier version of the health care legislation, passed by the House of Representatives in November 2009, contained a provision (the Stupak-Pitts Amendment) that would have prevented federal funds from subsidizing abortion or insurance coverage of abortion in any of the programs created by the bill, including the high-risk pool program. But President Obama opposed that pro-life provision, and it was not included in the bill later approved by both houses and signed into law. An executive order signed by the President on March 24, 2010 did not contain effective barriers to federal funding of abortion, and did not even mention the high-risk pool program.

“President Obama successfully opposed including language in the bill to prevent federal subsidies for abortions, and now the Administration is quietly advancing its abortion-expanding agenda through administrative decisions such as this, which they hope will escape broad public attention,” Johnson said.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has emphasized that the high-risk pool program is a federal program and that the states will not incur any cost. On May 11, 2010, in a letter to Democratic and Republican congressional leaders on implementation of the new law, DHHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote that “states may choose whether and how they participate in the program, which is funded entirely by the federal government.”

Details of the high-risk pool plans for most states are not yet available. But on June 28, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario (a member of the appointed cabinet of Governor Edward Rendell, a Democrat) issued a press release announcing that the federal Department of Health and Human Services had approved his agency’s proposal for implementing the new program in Pennsylvania. “The state will receive $160 million to set up the program, which will provide coverage to as many as 5,600 people between now and 2014,” according to the release. “The plan’s benefit package will include preventive care, physician services, diagnostic testing, hospitalization, mental health services, prescription medications and much more, with subsidized premiums of $283 a month.”

Examination of the detailed Pennsylvania plan, reveals that the “much more” will include insurance coverage of any legal abortion.

The section on abortion (see page 14) asserts that “elective abortions are not covered.” However, that statement proves to be a red herring, because the operative language does not define “elective.” Rather, the proposal specifies that the coverage “includes only abortions and contraceptives that satisfy the requirements of” several specific statutes, the most pertinent of which is 18 Pa. C.S. § 3204, which says that an abortion is legal in Pennsylvania (consistent with Roe v. Wade) if a single physician believes that it is “necessary” based on “all factors (physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman’s age) relevant to the well-being of the woman.” Indeed, the cited statute provides only a single circumstance in which an abortion prior to 24 weeks is NOT permitted under the Pennsylvania statute: “No abortion which is sought solely because of the sex of the unborn child shall be deemed a necessary abortion.”

As a result, “Under the Rendell-Sebelius plan, federal funds will subsidize coverage of abortion performed for any reason, except sex selection,” said NRLC’s Johnson. “The Pennsylvania proposal conspicuously lacks language that would prevent funding of abortions performed as a method of birth control or for any other reason, except sex selection — and the Obama Administration has now approved this.”

A group of Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives who initially withheld support from the federal health care bill, because of concerns about pro-abortion effects, cited President Obama’s March 24 executive order in justifying their votes to pass the bill over objections from NRLC and other pro-life groups, which argued that the executive order did not contain effective barriers to federal subsidies for abortion. As USA Todayreported on March 25, “Both sides in the abortion debate came to a rare agreement on Wednesday: The executive order on abortion signed by President Obama, they said, was basically meaningless. ‘A transparent political fig leaf,’ according to the National Right to Life Committee’s Douglas Johnson. ‘A symbolic gesture,’ said Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.”

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This week in Christ's life… (17)

This week, Jesus is 17 weeks old and his mother, Mary, has entered her fifth lunar month of pregnancy.  Lanugo hair appears on his head and body.  Vernix caseosa is forming on his skin.  He can hiccup so forcefully that the Blessed Virgin Mary can feel it on the outside of her belly.  Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.

Ending Abortion- NOW!

This Saturday, July 10th, you are invited to be part of "Ending
Abortion": a huge, day-long, webcast mega-conference
uniting the entire pro-life movement to ...

1. Educate, equip, and empower pro-lifers to have a
  greater life-saving impact right where they live

2. Increase involvement in the fall 40 Days for Life
  and other local pro-life activities

3. Dramatically increase the prominence of pro-life
  concerns prior to the fall elections

Get all the details now at:

http://www.EndingAbortion.com

Dozens of leading national pro-life organizations --
and more than 30 of the top pro-life leaders and
experts -- are joining forces with us for this
landmark event.

Here are just a FEW of the confirmed speakers:

* SCOTT KLUSENDORF, Life Training Institute
* DR. TONY LEVATINO, former abortionist
* MARK CRUTCHER, Life Dynamics
* LOU ENGLE, TheCall
* PEGGY HARTSHORN, Heartbeat International
* WENDY WRIGHT, Concerned Women for America
* THERESA & KEVIN BURKE, Rachel's Vineyard
* MARJORIE DANNENFELSER, Susan B. Anthony List
* KRISTAN HAWKINS, Students for Life
* ALVEDA KING, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

And that isn't even ONE-THIRD of the speakers!

With some of the groups and leaders participating in
this unprecedented event, I suspect there could be
thousands of attendees ... including YOU!

Join the excitement at:

http://www.EndingAbortion.com

The event will break the pro-life message up into ten
different hour-long focused topics (in Eastern time):

* 10 AM: The Case for Life
* 11 AM: The Abortion Crisis
* 12 Noon: Planned Parenthood's Abortion Empire
* 1 PM: The Power of Prayer
* 2 PM: Pregnancy Help Centers: Compassion in Action
* 3 PM: Saving Lives Outside Abortion Facilities
* 4 PM: Hope & Healing for Post-Abortive Women & Men
* 5 PM: Legislative & Political Efforts
* 6 PM: Pro-Life Youth Advocacy
* 7 PM: Influencing the Culture

During each topic, you will hear from 3 or 4 of the
top pro-life leaders/experts in that subject area.

If you can't participate in the live webcast, the
entire event will be recorded and made available
afterward -- so be sure to register now even if you
have a schedule conflict this Saturday:

http://www.EndingAbortion.com

Here are the three things I would ask you to do:

1. PRAY.

Pray for God to guide this event, pray for the
speakers to share the right messages, pray for
all attendees to be inspired to take action.

2. PARTICIPATE.

If possible, attend some (or all) of the sessions
yourself -- either live on Saturday, July 10, or by
listening to the recordings afterward.

3. PROMOTE.

"Word of mouth" is the most powerful form of
advertising in the world, and the key to the success
of this event will be YOU. Please forward this e-mail
to everyone you know so they can also participate.

This event could have a profound impact on
pro-life work in communities across North America --
and around the world -- and I can't wait to see what
God has in store for this effort!

This week in Christ's life… (16)

This week, Jesus is 16 weeks old.  All the major elements of his lungs have formed, except those involved with oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange.  Meconium begins to form in his bowel.  His has primitive finger and toe prints. Myelinization begins and Jesus now measures approximately 5.5 inches long, big enough to be cradled in his mother’s hand.  He has lived for 112 days.  Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.

Prayer for the Dignity of Human Life

Lord and giver of all life, help u s to value each person, created in love by You. In Your mercy, guide and assist our efforts to promote dignity and value of all human life, born and unborn. We ask this through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

This week in Christ's life… (15)

This week, Jesus is 15 weeks old.  With the help of his placenta and umbilical cord, his circulatory, digestion, respiratory, and waste systems are operating as they will after he’s born.  His reflexes have developed. Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.   

ALL Babies Deserve Life

‘Miracle baby' celebrates first year of beating odds

---A happy birthday for Joey---Bruce and Lisa Pagac with their “miracle baby,” daughter Joey. (Staff photo/MATT AIKEN)

By Matt Aiken

Published:

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 10:40 AM EDT

Joey Pagac's first birthday is much more than a milestone.

To her parents, Bruce and Lisa, it's a miracle.

“I brought her home from the hospital expecting that I'd only have maybe a few more days with her,” says Lisa. “And here we are.”

Where they are is the maternity ward of Chestatee Regional Hospital, where little Joey is wearing a tiny birthday hat as she's passed back and forth between adoring nurses and cooing doctors.

It was a little more than a year ago that Joey beat the odds by emerging into the world despite her diagnosis of Trisomy 18.

“Trisomy 18 children generally have a whole host of issues,” said Lisa. These issues can range from holes in the heart to non-functional kidneys. The disease is so severe that approximately 95 percent of babies that are diagnosed with it don't make it through delivery. Others rarely live more than a few hours after birth.

Naturally, when the young Murrayville mother found out her child had the vicious disease, she was crushed.

After trying for eight years to conceive, Lisa and Bruce had turned to in vitro fertilization and watched Joey develop from an egg. So when the results of an early test came back, Lisa felt as though she already had a daughter.

“I had seen her look like an egg, then I saw her look like a frog, and then I saw her look like a porpoise,” says Lisa. “I mean, I watched her stages of development, and I was already attached. I couldn't bear the thought of losing her. And I wasn't going to make the decision to end her life. I would leave it up to God. And I'm glad that I did.”

Chestatee nurse Ellen Wren says the gutsy move of Lisa and Bruce is to be admired.

“I think what was so amazing was she was given a choice,” said Wren.

Joey's pediatrician Dr. Stephanie Corn agrees.

“Their plan was ‘I want to hold this baby for 30 seconds, for 60 seconds, maybe a day, maybe two days,'” she says. “They lived in the moment.”

Joey arrived two weeks late. And the delivery process was brutal, says Lisa. She credits Dr. Robert Brown for getting her child through it.

“We almost lost her twice,” she says. “... But she came out crying. She didn't require anything special.”

Normally Trisomy 18 babies need breathing and feeding tubes to live. Joey requires nothing like this. Instead she has spent the past year growing and developing with very few complications.

And, in turn, Lisa, Bruce and Joey have grown into a family.

“I'm just happy,” says Bruce.

Joey is too, adds Lisa.

“She's really a very happy baby,” she says. “I'm so lucky. She's so good natured.”

After returning home from the hospital, Lisa says she learned that she wasn't alone in her plight when she met up with other parents of Trisomy 18 children on Facebook.

“After connecting with a bunch of people I found out, ‘Gosh, I'm not the only one.' There's so many other people out there,” she says.

In turn, Lisa says she hopes she can provide comfort to any parents-to-be who find themselves in a similar situation.

“It's an individual decision, and I would never criticize somebody over choosing the opposite of what I chose,” she says. “But I would hate for someone to choose that path, thinking there was no hope.”

As she says this, proof of this hope is still wearing a small pink birthday hat and making the rounds among a beaming hospital staff.

“She's a year old,” says a smiling Lisa. “A year and a day. And tomorrow will be a year and two days.”

This week in Christ's life… (14)

This week, Jesus is 14 weeks old.  His eyes begin moving under closed lids.  His skeleton is actively ossifying.  His toenails are growing from their nail beds.  His head sits upright.  He is almost 5 inches long and weighs almost 4 ounces.  Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.

Pro-Life America (SBA)

Have you heard about the Republicans' newly launched website called “America Speaking Out”?  Members of the Republican leadership created the site to give the American people a chance to share their national policy ideas with Members of Congress by telling them which issues matter most.
As we’ve seen in the recent healthcare debate, the cost of disengagement is dire. This is your opportunity to become engaged and to help set the priorities for your Representatives in Washington. As a former Representative who has fought hard for Life, I can’t tell you how important it is to have the back-up of pro-life citizens across the country when speaking out on the issue that matters most—protecting innocent unborn children.   While most Republicans agree that Life is precious at all stages, they need encouragement and support from us. It is our job as constituents to keep the pressure on Congress to ensure that protecting unborn children is at the top of the legislative agenda.


The America Speaking Out website contains forums where citizens can voice their ideas and concerns. Currently in the “Life” section, radical, pro-abortion groups have taken it upon themselves to submit suggestions, such as: “the sanctity of life should support whatever of woman wishes to do with her body. Without this right freedom is meaningless.”

the majority of Americans are pro-life, so we need to make sure our voices are heard. Stand up for the values of the pro-life American majority and unborn boys and girls across this nation by supporting Life on the America Speaking Out website.

Right now, the number one policy goal for pro-lifers is to ensure that the healthcare bill protects Life.  Click here to send this message loud and clear to Republicans.

Abortion is not healthcare.  Any bill that replaces or changes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act must ensure that no federal funds go toward elective abortion, must prevent any federal agency from mandating abortion, and must protect the conscience of healthcare workers.


To support this idea and make your voice heard click the link to the site, then click the “thumbs up” on the website.  You will be asked to create an account if you do not already have one.  Then you can place a final “thumbs up” vote to take abortion funding out of health care.  You can also comment on our post, send a link to your friends, and put it on your Twitter and Facebook. (If you create an account and are having trouble finding the comment, just click here to give a "thumbs up" for Life.)

now is your chance to tell Republican leadership that we must continue to fight the expansion of abortion through healthcare reform. Don’t let the pro-aborts out-vote us on our pro-life post.  Click here now and vote for Life.   It is important to vote as soon as possible so that, together, we can send the clear message that protecting unborn American lives should be a legislative priority.  The Republican Leadership cannot help but pay attention if our idea gets overwhelming support in a short span of time.  Vote Now!

Let’s speak up and let Congressional Republicans know what’s important to us.  Vote today and stand strong for Life.


For Life,



Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave
Susan B. Anthony List

www.sba-list.org
P.S. Don’t miss my friend and SBA List President Marjorie LIVE tomorrow (6/16) on Fox and Friends at 8:15 AM Eastern Time on the Fox News Channel.  She’ll be discussing the wonderful pro-life women in this year’s elections.