WALK TO AID MOTHERS AND CHILDREN this Sunday!

Join us in a celebration of life to aid women in need! 2009 MCFL Respect Life Walk to Aid Mothers and Children Sunday, October 4, Boston Common 1:30 pm Registration and Pre-Walk Celebration Music, pro-life speakers, visit pro-life vendors Free Ice cream, face-painting and balloon animals for children 2:30 pm Walk Our keynote speaker is James Sedlak, Vice President of American Life League' nationally recognized expert on Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States. Master of Ceremonies: Don Feder Pastor Basil Yarde, Rabbi Henry Morse The Respect Life Walk raises money to help support the life-saving work of 48 beneficiary organizations who help women choose life for their unborn babies. These organizations are run by volunteers who depend on our generosity to help provide food, shelter, prenatal and postnatal care, counseling services, materials needs, adoption services, and post-abortion counseling to aid women in desperate circumstances. They are counting on us! Obtain a sponsor sheet and start raising money to save lives! Call: (617) 242-4199, ext. 2 Or go online at: www.masscitizensforlife.org Walk photos welcome! If you have a camera, please submit good walk photos to: info@masscitizensforlife.org (please obtain written permission for any photos that include children) You can help greatly today. Please submit this bulletin notice to your church Put your faith into action to help women in crisis pregnancies choose life for their babies! The Massachusetts Citizens for Life Walk to Aid Mothers and Children will be held on Sunday, October 4 at 1:30 pm on Boston Common. Walk to raise money for 48 beneficiary organizations who help women in need with food, shelter, prenatal care, material needs, counseling and adoption services. Call MCFL at (617) 242-4199, or visit masscitizensforlife.org for a sponsor sheet. Thanks, Helen Cross, Walk Chair Join Mass Citizens

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October "The Rose" is now on-line

Dear E-mail list members,

    The October version of "The Rose" is now on-line. Please go to our website at this link:
http://www.pvmcfl.org/page18.html
Some highlighted stories are:

1) Health Care Bill (some developments on this story may happen this week)
2) Longmeadow Life Chain- This event will happen on October 17th, attached to
    this e-mail is a flyer for distribution.
3) Bethlehem House- How you can help. Attached is a United Way form you can
     download if you want to choose Bethlehem House as your agency to donate to
     through your payroll deduction.
4) Massachusetts legislation- six bills to look at and call our state legislators.

Please forward to family and friends of life.

Take care,

Julie Mishol
PV-MCFL "The Rose" newsletter editor

40 Days for Pro-Life

Tell President Obama that Health Care does not include abortion
http://www.realhealthcarerespectslife.com/#petition

Sep 23 Wed – 40 days for life starts in 212 cities across 45 U.S. states, 5 Canadian provinces, and Denmark. Sign up at  www.40daysforlife.com/worcester - Pray outside Planned Parenthood to end abortion
Sep 25 Fri 7PM St. Paul's Bible study. http://cathedralofsaintpaul.blogspot.com/  Pope Benedict's Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation
Sep 26 Sat 9-10AM Prayer Vigil Protest at Planned Parenthood on Lincoln St. behind Best Chinese Restaurant 625 Lincoln.

Never forget – Catholic Vote
https://www.catholicvote.org/index.php?/site/donationpage/

Oct 2 Fri 8PM First Friday Mass with all night Eucharistic Adoration
Oct 3 Sat 8AM Mass 9-10AM Prayer Vigil Protest new Planned Parenthood at 487 Pleasant.
Oct. 4 Sun 1:30PM Walk for Life in Boston, 2-3:30PM Life Chain in Worcester
Oct 10 Sat noon – National Rosary Rally
Oct 29 Wed 7PM Assumption College Hagan Hall Francis Cardinal George

The loyal opposition party; Republicans on local TV, Charter TV3 Worcester, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Thursday 7PM, Shari Worthington on Central Mass Chronicles.  Massachusetts needs a two party political system to avoid corruption.  Please consider all Pro-Life and Pro-Family Republicans to break the Democratic stranglehold on Political power that promotes abortion and the homosexual agenda.

Bishop Murphy's USCCB statement on Universal Health Care which explicitly prevents abortion and enforces conscience clauses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKByGyTlgRc

Highlights from the Voter Values Summit
http://www.frcaction.org/vvs-webcast

Thanks and God Bless,
Jay G.
http://www.dtf-jayg.blogspot.com/

Prayer Needs;
http://dtf-jayg.blogspot.com/2009/02/prayer-needs.html

Little Grace at Visitation House now weighs 6 lbs. Keep praying because the Prayers are working! There are now 10 moms, 6 babies and 4-year-old Max, Grace's oldre brother.

Health and spiritual needs: Bob recently widowed, with two boys to raise, Peachie with Lupis, Barbara R.- URGENT as she is dying NOW;   Brian N.- cancer;    David- whose wife left family with 3 children; Lisa- who left husband and 4 children- that they reunite and the children and Dad find strength, comfort, and faith, and that the Mom returns home, Ron's sister with brain tumor, My cousin Barbara B. who's back on chemo, Chris T. second operation, Sherry, (waiting for lung transplant), Robbie Coudert, Lauri, four babies now at Visitation House Damien the newest and Grace gained weight and is a real fighter, Marilyn Birnie from "Friends of the Unborn", George recovery from leg surgery, John Benoit who's in Life Care in Auburn, Sean Seely married with 5 yr old twins has  leukemia, Pam G. and Molly full recoveries from Cancer, Georgia and her daughter 2 lb. 1 oz. daughter Grace who needs heart surgery, Keishela. Clyde that he is enlightened by the Holy Spirit, Joni and her husband from http://www.joniandfriends.org/ - special Prayer request for Caroline for health and spiritual healing, and for a paying roommate to live in her house. John Sinacola stomach cancer, Ian, Dave K. motorcycle accident, Lisa Lauring stage 4 lung cancer, Abortion workers seeking new jobs …

Recently Deceased: 19 year old Brittany was in i.c.u., Ted Kennedy, Skip, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Al Thoman, Patty G., John Bellione, Bob DeMarco 51 father of three boys, Georga's father, Mike Paul's mother-in-law Dorothy, Dom DeLuise, Mari Loli of Garabindal, Jerry, Wes Schaefer, Defender of Life Pat Taylor…

Good news about the Walk!

All these wonderful young people will be joining us! Please spread the word. The Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults COMING SOON Walk as Children of Light: Boston Respect Life Sunday You don't want your teens to miss this amazing day! 10am: Youth Rally with Bob Rice 11:30am: Mass at Cathedral 12:30pm: Pizza Party 1:30-3:30pm: MCFL Respect Life Walk Price: 15.00 Register now!!! www.oymboston.org Contact Kathy Stebbins kstebbins@rcab.org The Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults 66 Brooks Drive Braintree, Massachusetts 02184 617.746.5811 Join Mass Citizens

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Founding member of PV-MCFL Patricia Day has passed away

Dear e-mail list members,

 

PV-MCFL is saddened by the passing of Patricia Day on September 20, 2009. Pat was an original founding member of PV-MCFL and devoted countless hours to the defense of the unborn. She served as Ludlow Chapter chairman, edited "The Rose" newsletter for years, and worked diligently with her husband John in every aspect of running the Pioneer Valley Massachusetts Citizens for Life. We ask that you keep Pat, her husband John and their family in your prayers.

 

For more information, there is an on-line obituary and guest book at http://www.kapinosmazur.com

and for our members that live in the New England/Western Mass. area the funeral arrangements are as follows:

 

Services:

Patricia Day's wake will be held at the Kapinos-Mazur Funeral Home, 64 Sewall Street, Ludlow, MA on Thursday, September 24, 2009 from 4-7 PM.

Funeral services celebrating her life will be Friday, September 25, 2009 with family and friends gathering at the Kapinos-Mazur Funeral Home at 8:45 AM to be followed by a Liturgy of Christian Burial in Christ the King Church, 41 Warsaw Avenue, Ludlow, MA at 10 AM.

Rites of committal will follow in Island Pond Cemetery, 500 Center Street, Ludlow, MA

 

Further information:

Kapinos-Mazur Funeral Home is located at 64 Sewall Street, Ludlow, MA 01056. It is next door to Ludlow Printing and across the street from the old Ludlow Hospital

Christ the King Church is located at 41 Warsaw Avenue, Ludlow, MA. Take a left off the turnpike (RT.90) go ahead, after the overpass bear left at fork in the road.

Island Pond Cemetery is located at 500 Center Street, Ludlow, MA. It is across from Haviland Pond.

MCFL
Pioneer Valley

Updates: Dinner and Choose Life plates

The Mass. Citizens Annual Dinner was a sell-out with 450 people attending.  They were inspired by Professor Esolen remarks, especially on what we pro lifers see as the "seamless garment".  The video of his talk will be posted shortly on the web site. Congratulations to State Representative Elizabeth Poirier and her husband, Kevin, who is a former State Representative.  They received jointly the Dr Joseph Stanton Award "for outspoken courage in defense of life, through tireless personal example".   Marian Desrosiers, head of the Pro Life Office for the Diocese of Fall River, received the Ignatius O' Connor Award "for outstanding contributions to the pro-life movement". Local Chapter Service Awards, given to "the unsung hero of a chapter who has demonstrated outstanding service", were awarded to Don Golden, Longmeadow; Madeleine Lavoie, Greater Fall River; Jim Loughman, North Adams; and Claire Donohoe, West Roxbury/Roslindale. Pro-Life Community Awards, "given to a citizen or group who demonstrates outstanding support of a chapter's mission", were awarded to Eleanor McCullen, Newton; Msgr Francis McGann, Needham; Patricia Stebbins, Cape Cod; and The Watertown Knights of Columbus Charitable Trust. The enthusiasm and commitment of the attendees was inspiring! Choose Life License Plates Only 242 people needed and another excellent reason for reserving. We have been buying advertising for the Walk to Aid Mothers and Children and have learned that radio ads in Boston cost as much as $500.00 for 30 SECONDS. TV and newspaper ads cost in the tens of thousands. For forty dollars, you are spreading the word to more people than any of that other advertising, which is seen or heard only once. You will be interested to see how many people in your town have reserved:  http://www.machoose-life.org/Plate_Counts.htm The reservation form was inserted in the July/August MCFL News.  Or you can print it out, http://www.machoose-life.org/images/ChooseLife_Registration_Application.pdf Do it now! Anne Fox, President   Join Mass Citizens

How you and I will stop Obamacare!

"Obamacare is arguably the single most important issue of our time. It's not about taxes, debt, wasteful spending or burdensome regulations it's about our very lives, and the lives of our loved ones. Americans seriously need to wake up and see the horror staring them in the face, and then they need to let their elected representatives know, in no uncertain terms, exactly what they think of Obamacare." whistleblower

What do pro-lifers think of when we think of Obamacare?

abortion, euthanasia, denial of care, "death counseling", rationing, no choice of insurance or provider, life and death decisions made by some czar, no conscience rights for doctors or patients

Is it possible to correct these things? Some pro life congressmen tried to put in wording saying abortion would not be involved - wording was voted down! If euthanasia were removed, there would be nothing left of the plan.

But if the bill could have everything that is anti - life removed, would it be acceptable? Let's face it: officially, Mass Citizens deals with the life issues. We know it is impossible to remove the anti-life underpinnings of the plan but, even if it were possible, as individuals we have to be scared by this bill for other reasons.

We know that Massachusetts has run out of money covering just "universal insurance". This bill would be "universal health care". Trying to cover everything would be like the clunkers and would run out of money just as quickly. According to reports, a national health card would be required with access to personal bank accounts.

And we all know we have the best coverage of any country in the world right now.

I bring up health care with everyone I talk to, especially strangers. Almost everyone is opposed but doesn't realize that other people are also opposed because of the media coverage.

You wonder what we can do in Massachusetts. I'll tell you. We need to make every bit as much noise as people in the rest of the country. Even if it doesn't convince our Congressmen, they will go back to Washington after vacation and complain about how we were all over the place. That will influence the Congressmen who might change. The perception has to be that everyone is against it and we have to add to that perception.

Here is what has happened so far:

Markey's office has said he can probably meet with us.

Olver's office said he wasn't planning meetings but the people are keeping after him and his staff may be be softening

Tsongas has actually scheduled "Town Meetings" (schedule below). Good for her!

When we were meeting with Congressmen on FOCA, one person called to organize small groups to attend.
This time each of us must call demanding to know the schedule of "Town Meetings".
If your Congressman says he is not having meetings, we strongly suggest that you go in person to his office to make sure he knows how you feel.

Every one of us must act now! When you are denied care in November, it will be too late!

We will let you know as we get feedback on activity around the state. It is up to us!

Anne Fox, President


Schedule for Cong. Nicki Tsongas "Town Meetings"

Chelmsford, MA
August 8, 10AM to 12 Noon
Chelmsford Town Hall - Gymnasium
50 Billerica Rd

Hudson, MA
August 11th, 5PM to 7PM
Super Stop & Shop Grocery Store
10 Technology Drive (at Route 85)

Lawrence, MA
August 18th, 5PM to 7PM
Market Basket Grocery Store
700 Essex Street

CNN/Fortune: 5 freedoms you'd lose in health care reform

If you read the fine print in the Congressional plans, you'll find that a lot of cherished aspects of the current system would disappear.

By Shawn Tully, editor at large
July 24, 2009: 10:17 AM ET

http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_care_reform_obama.fortune/index.htm

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- In promoting his health-care agenda, President Obama has repeatedly reassured Americans that they can keep their existing health plans -- and that the benefits and access they prize will be enhanced through reform.

A close reading of the two main bills, one backed by Democrats in the House and the other issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy's Health committee, contradict the President's assurances. To be sure, it isn't easy to comb through their 2,000 pages of tortured legal language. But page by page, the bills reveal a web of restrictions, fines, and mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage.

(the rest of the article is here)

1. Freedom to choose what's in your plan
2. Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs
3. Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage
4. Freedom to keep your existing plan
5. Freedom to choose your doctors

article: "Too Many (Other) People"

(excerpt from this article)

As a left-leaning Rutgers law professor in the early 1970s, Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought that the Roe v. Wade abortion decision was the product of "concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations we don’t want too many of," she recalled in a recent New York Times Magazine interview.

Her expectation was that the purported right to abortion created in Roe "was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them."

Ginsburg doesn’t specify which parts of the human population "we" should cull, or how the creation of an abortion "right" would necessarily be a prelude to creation of a system in which abortion would be required in some circumstances. She told the Times that the question was effectively rendered moot by the Supreme Court's Harris v. McRae decision, which upheld a ban on Medicaid funding of abortion. That decision, handed down in 1980, indicated that her "perception" of the issue "had been altogether wrong," Ginsburg concludes.

But this means that there was an interval of roughly seven years during which Ginsburg, a well-informed and influential academic, believed that America was creating a eugenicist system in which abortion would help reduce "undesirable" populations – however those populations would be defined. This was what Roe had wrought, Ginsburg believed for several years, and if she ever experienced misgivings about it, she managed to keep them private.

Another question worth examining is this: Where did Ginsburg – a rising star in academe long before being tapped to fill the Rosa Klebb seat on the Supreme Court – get the impression that American policy-making elites were discussing the use of welfare subsidies to bring about the attrition of "undesirable" populations?

If I may be permitted a modest venture in speculation, I’d suggest that Ginsburg, sometime in the 1960s or 1970s, became at least superficially acquainted with the writings of John Holdren or of like-minded people in the most militant branch of the population control movement.

(... read more -- excerpt from this article)

Economic ruin from our aborted generation

The media occasionally speaks about "aging populations" as though an entire society naturally ages, but what that really speaks of are declining birthrates and aborted children. If we didn't abort an entire generation of taxpayers, there wouldn't be a social security crisis. If we let the country's population grow instead of letting them die at the hands of the abortion industry, we would have an expanding economy and not a contracting one.

Look at the careful words chosen by this British editorial:

No doubt Ireland has been the victim of a savagely tight monetary policy - given its specific needs. But the deeper truth is that Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, the US, and Japan are in varying states of fiscal ruin, and those tipping into demographic decline (unlike young Ireland) have an underlying cancer that is even more deadly. The West cannot support its gold-plated state structures from an aging workforce and depleted tax base.

All those terms mean societies that dislike children, countries that have ruined their young and have thrown them away rather than let them grow and prosper. Women deserve better than abortion, and deserve more options and real choices than the ones society is foisting upon them now. Even in the face of this major 'demographic winter' and 'aging' of our population, what message do colleges send to pregnant women in their midst? Right now, a pregnancy center is in every major community and yet how many women realize how many good choices are all around them?

We will turn this 'winter' into a spring of life only by continuing the battle, pushing for real choices for women, supporting families and once again loving every life.

Tad on Frozen Embryos

The question of what to do with frozen embryos has been a dicey one in pro-life circles, considering the numbers of children frozen and the snowflake babies who are born through this process. While not encouraging more embryo donation, and thus more life destruction through the process, Fr. Tad explains that the most moral thing to do would be to keep them frozen in the hope that science can one day rescue them or that they die naturally and peacefully rather than turn them over to science for barbaric testing or killing them without giving them a chance.

Obama appoints advisor who wanted forced abortions and sterilizations

In a stunning appointment, Barack Obama has appointed John Holdren, a man who in 1977 co-authored a book that advocated forced abortions and forced sterilizations as a way to control so-called 'overpopulation'

Then again, it's one thing to be a bumbling soothsayer but quite another to underestimate the resourcefulness of mankind enough to ponder how "population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution," as Holdren did in "Ecoscience" in 1977. (article)

Holden, of course, taught locally at Harvard.

Vietnamese abortions skewing births

Matching the trends in other countries like China and India, Vietnam is now seeing an alarming rise in the number of male births. Where normal and natural births achieve harmony, peace and order, abortion sows division, despair and chaos. No one knows what the effect of having all these extra men will be, ones without a potential spouse and in a part of the world prone to major military conflicts.

Pro-life cartoonist

John Borra runs Veritatis the Cartoon, a blog featuring his artistic work on behalf of the unborn.

New website: Healthcare for Gunner.com

Students for Life of America Executive Director Kristan Hawkins has a young son recently diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, and has released a website detailing the way in which healthcare proposals would affect him. The website, Healthcare for Gunner, approaches the healthcare debate not only from a pro-life perspective, but from a uniquely pro-child one as well.

New website: "Here is the Blood"

Lila Rose, known for her undercover work exposing the racist donations accepted by Planned Parenthood as well as Planned Parenthood's repeated cover-up of rape, as part of her group Live Action has released a website called "Here is the Blood" (warning: graphic images).

Abortion case potentially coming up before the Supreme Court

from the article:

Two years after the Supreme Court last ruled on abortion restrictions, a new test case is likely on its way to the Court, perhaps reaching there by next Fall. Responding to an order by the Justices to take a new look at a Virginia abortion ban, the Fourth Circuit Court on Wednesday upheld the law. The en banc Court divided, 6-5, in sustaining the law against claims that it would criminalize the most common method of abortions performed in the second trimester.

Keeping Churches and Pastors faithfully pro-life

Charlie Coudert is a longtime pro-life activist who leads a monthly vigil outside the Framingham Union hospital which provides abortions. In Charlie's July letter he included some material of interest to our many Catholic members, that encourages them to have their priests pledge fidelity to church teachings and documents that support and affirm life. You can find that pledge here. These documents are a project of Human Life International, which does great work trying to reduce abortions globally. HLI's head, Fr. Tom Euteneuer also spoke two months ago in Worcester, to the dinner for Visitation House which is the feature story on the front page of the most recent MCFL News.

Reality vs. the media

The media is reporting gleefully that the aftermath of the Tiller murder has put the pro-life movement in supposed "disarray" - yet the opposite is true. It seems the only time the media likes to talk about abortion is when an abortionist is killed, not every other day of the year when 3,600 children are being killed through surgical abortion daily. If the media were to ask any of the 2000 pregnancy centers, or statewide right-to-life chapters lobbying for legislative change, or the many pro-life committees based out of religious communities, they'd hear that nothing has changed, and the goal of protecting the unborn, helping parents and making a better society more receptive to life is still the job of everyone in the movement.

Abortion as a "blessing"?

You have probably heard about the Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge Divinity appointment of Katherine Ragsdale, featured here in the Phoenix. The article goes to great lengths to explain Ragsdale's infamous "abortion is a blessing" statements in Alabama, as well as rationalize why 'common ground' with us pro-lifers is misguided, and that abortion is never a 'tragedy' because, well, a woman chooses it.

The article fails, of course, to put in context that Ragsdale sits on NARAL's board and that board provides the political cover for an multi-billion dollar publicly supported industry involved with the destruction of children for any reason.

It's so telling to read her words and the obvious contradictions within. Ragsdale is obviously a very intelligent woman, and well-spoken, but she says certain things without even considering their implications:

From the article:

"I suppose it's possible for an intelligent, faithful person to still believe that there's no moral difference between a zygote and a baby," Ragsdale allows. "But there's no reason for most of us to believe that. And I don't."

How can a scientific or moral truth be so subjective that it depends on one's own personal beliefs? That would make it not a moral principle, but a matter of personal interpretation. There has to be an objective truth: either the fetus is a child or it is not, but to cop out and say that it depends on what you want to believe is akin to saying that a baby chicken is only a real chicken if you want it to be, other people can disagree and perhaps it's not a chicken at all. Her line of logic is purposefully anti-logic, it is the cold, calm rationalization of forcing what you want to be true over the objective truth.

Her bad logic continues later in the article:

"That's the tragedy in most cases," she continues. "That birth control failed, that they might want to have a baby but the economics are such that they can't possibly afford it, that we don't have healthcare, that women can't choose to have the babies they want. There's a tragedy."

What, I wonder, does she mean by "it"? What is "it"? And by saying "babies they want" she's clearly contradicting her earlier statements that "it" is not a baby. She's saying that until "it" is born, the baby is not a baby, but in the same sentence, just a short few words later, she acknowledges that some babies are wanted and the aborted babies are unwanted, but it shows that she recognizes that they are both babies.

I can't fault Ragsdale, she is obviously so wrapped up in pro-abortion politics, organizations, and self-identity politics that it is likely an enormous intellectual mountain to climb to state the obvious: that abortion kills a child. And I hesitate to too easily castigate the media and the Phoenix, for they are likely surrounded by a climate that doesn't engage these ideas and issues in a competitive way-- they all blindly accept Ragsdale, and look to her as the authority figure. They are reporters who don't know, so they seek out whom they trust to know for them, and are getting bad answers.

No, friends, the uncomfortable blame lies with us. The blame lies on our shoulders because these lies continue without our constructive corrections. These appointments go unchallenged because we give up on the world. We hear too often religious people excuse their own personal inaction because they 'see signs of the end times' or because there's "no hope" or because things are "too far gone" and they let these things continue. We focus on the overwhelming problems and get dispirited, whereas, instead, we need to challenge ourselves each and every day to continue taking constructive pro-life action to help save the unborn. When we hear a pro-abortion argument we need to correct it. When we see a pro-choice politician we need to respectfully engage them, when we find the pro-choicers in our own family, we need to dialogue with them, and when we see a woman in need we need to continue speaking to her and bringing her to the many wonderful pregnancy centers around the state.

The blame lies with us, the challenge is upon us, and the future will change because of you.

Sneak peak into our July issue...

The four main stories will be:

1. Legal problems around adoption
2. Teen outreach and related mental health issues
3. Undiagnosed elderly depression
4. An article on the way to pass Laura's Law

If you have any thoughts or contributions, please contact Helen Cross and let us know. Especially if you know individuals who have had experiences with related topics, we would love to hear from you! You can reach Helen Cross at chapters-at-masscitizensforlife-dot-org

"Social Egg Freezing" and overplanning modern motherhood

This story in "Essential Baby" covers women who are freezing their eggs in order to get around the natural decline in their fertility when they lack a father. On one hand, this seems like a convenient way for working women to deal with their ticking biological clock while managing the pressures of the workplace. But on reflection, the relationship to pro-life is that it makes the children a commodity, and we allow ourselves to 'plan' our lives and children become too managed. We forget the wonder of the unexpected, and the virtue in dealing with the unplanned. Prof. Tony Esolen spoke about many of these topics last fall for Mass Citizens. We have social problems that we solve through science, when considering our high level of wealth and success we really ought to be considering changes in our culture and attitudes that foster communities and a climate where an unplanned pregnancy is welcomed. We want a family, career and meaningful relationships/marriages, and these three things are not in competition with one another and can be balanced instead of 'solved' through technology.

The death of George Tiller

George Tiller, infamous doctor known for performing partial-birth and late-term abortions in Wichita, Kansas was shot and killed yesterday in his church. The emotional trauma of abortion, fostered and reinforced by abortionists and the abortion industry, will sadly only be furthered by this act, not alleviated. The violence also denies the powerful opportunity for conversions, such as those by Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Norma McCorvey. The murder of George Tiller inflicts emotional distress like the abortions he routinely provided, and will not save any babies. It's a sad day in many ways, not the least of which is the knowledge that one 67 year old man has died, and thousands more babies are going to die tomorrow. We live amongst a culture of death.