NARAL doesn't like the Choose Life License Plates!

NARAL Pro-Choice Mass. seems to think pro lifers have no right to have these plates and that, if we do have them, the money should go to organizations that spread the NARAL philosophy. You can see the representative from NARAL on Emily Rooney's show with Merry Nordeen who heads the Choose Life efforts. You will be so proud to be on the pro life side! http://www.wgbh.org/programs/programDetail.cfm?programid=11 To view video, scroll to picture of license plate. This morning I was talking to Bill Kelley in Holyoke. He told me there had been only one person in town who had reserved a Choose Life plate, so he went out and got 11 other people. He promised me that he would get 11 more besides. In all of his 83 years, I don't think Bill has never broken a promise. I know each of us can do as well. Please print out applications for 11 people. http://www.machoose-life.org/images/ChooseLife_Registration_Application.pdf Good luck and thanks! Anne Fox, President Join Mass Citizens

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Rush for Life - Worcester Update

Oct 17 Sat and everyday 40 Days for Life Prayer Vigil Protest (Day 25) at Planned Parenthood behind Best Chinese Restaurant 625 Lincoln St. Worcester. Beth in Phoenix knows of babies saved from abortion because people were praying at the 40 Days for Life vigil while the clinic was closed.  Women often arrive at the abortion facility without realizing it is not open every day. Beth said that's why it is important to be there praying every day of the 40 Days for Life campaign –- including the times the center is closed.  Check out the blog info at http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=292

A sleaze named Jack Huberman wrote a book that claimed Rush Limbaugh said Martin Luther King Jr's assasin (James Earl Ray) should get the medal of honor.  Trouble was Huberman did not attribute when or where Rush allegedly said this racist remark and still refuses to answer, because Rush never said this.  So Huberman is a liar.  But a lie goes half way around the world before the truth gets its shoes on, so CNN, MSNBC (including specifically Rachal Maddow) NYT and the major broadcast stations have all repeated this calumny.  It's a sad day that totally false remarks, lies, can be repeated by the Ministry of Truth; the mainstream media including NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN, and of course the New York Times.
http://newsbusters.org/people/radio/rush-limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh has always advocated the Pro-Life position strongly.  These anti-life bigots should not only be sued, but we should all avoid helping them profit from lies by boycotting these anti-life news outlets!
Rush: "Looking toward the future, Limbaugh expressed optimism that Americans, perhaps many yet to be born, would reject the pro-choice rhetoric, saying it evinces a cavalier attitude toward life itself.   "Every generation has thought from the beginning of time ... it's living in the 'last days,' ... yet it's never doomed and it's never finished, and it's never over with, and why is that? Well, because there's always a new generation or two that have yet to be born that don't know any of this negative stuff. And they eventually do get born despite the pro-abortion crowd, and they grow up and they decide they want a certain life for themselves that may not include some of all this rotgut that current generations are facing."

US criminalizes thought with "hate crimes" bill that is anti-Judeo-Christian heritage.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=715334

Help a pregnant Northeaster student - http://www.birthright.org/
Marlyn at www.friendsoftheunborn.org  has offered to help with housing

Oct 24 Sat 9-10AM Prayer Vigil Protest at Planned Parenthood on Lincoln St. behind Best Chinese Restaurant 625 Lincoln.

The National Committee for a Human Life Amendment, NCHLA has a link for you to send messages to your Congressmen to stop abortion funding in any Health Care reform:
http://actions.nchla.org/link/target/nchla37056454.aspx

Oct 29 Wed 7PM Assumption College Hagan Hall Francis Cardinal George

More on Obama's Assistant Education Secretary Kevin Jennnings and his radical homosexual agenda - http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=714792
Hear Jennings in his own words complain that Schools promote "Heterosexuality", and he doesn't think that is good!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--tEY8gwrlQ&feature=player_embedded

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: Jack McGuirk leukemia, 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: Patrick Swayze, 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…

Your testimony still needed!

The hearings at the State House on Tuesday were a pleasant relief for those who attended. After Planned Parenthood opened the show in their always-premiere position, the rest of the afternoon was filled with testimony from the "real people" who agree with us. The day ended - amazingly - around 5:00pm. We are most grateful to all of you who attended and testified. If you were not able to attend, you must email testimony. These bills are important for parents' right in general and in sex education in particular. Also, the bills we oppose could open the door allowing elements of the Health Care Frameworks to be taught. Your testimony can be as simple as a statement on parent's rights and responsibilities in educating their children followed by a list of the bills you support and those you oppose. We support: House, No. 472 Presented by: Elizabeth Poirier For legislation to require parental consent on sex education in public schools House, No. 485 Presented by: Michael F. Rush Relative to parental notification and consent for certain sexual education programs in the public schools House, No. 437 Presented by: Bradley H. Jones, Jr. Relative to requiring parental notification and consent prior to implementing curriculum concerning human sexuality House, No. 406 Presented by: William G. Greene, Jr. For legislation to prohibit public elementary or secondary school students from participating in certain surveys without parental consent House, No. 421 Presented by: Robert S. Hargraves For legislation to require parental consent for the attendance of students in sexual education classes in the public schools We oppose: House, No. 3434 Presented by: Alice K. Wolf Relative to the teaching of health education in schools House, No. 402 Presented by: Mary E. Grant For legislation to provide for a comprehensive health education program in the public schools. Senate, No. 218 Presented by: Harriette L. Chandler For legislation to provide health education in schools Please send your testimony to the House Chair of the Joint Committee on Education: rep.martywalz@HOU.STATE.MA.US For further information contact Massachusetts Citizens for Life 617-242-4199 or visit http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102767554648&s=2780&e=001CaPDPh-0EMhI6JFf8Jhj_VYCYKkiV6kRVfuIUu8e2a5z9vUp9ovVEzDNX9sKVJsG488U9UCEYgKTEfrSxmHpsDpu7r9Az-xtRWeWwp17C03wJeV8zS6vnyZgvJ_y8bEf7WMlULwNkNuP3jvTqjiykZq71bRIpy25 Marie Sturgis, Executive Director and Lobbyist, Mass Citizens for Life Join Mass Citizens

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Congratulations, "Choose Life" License Plates! Phase One Accomplished

Congratulations to Merry Nordeen and to everyone who has reserved a "Choose Life" license plate! In Massachusetts, the legislature does not have to approve the plates, but the organizer must have 3,000 people reserve their plates before the plates can be produced. If someone puts up a bond of $100,000, the plates will be produced with only 1,500 people reserving. Merry was fortunate to find a sponsor so the plates will happen with the 1,500 of us who have already reserved! It is extremely important to get the second 1,500 people to preserve the bond! The generous benefactor must not be left in the lurch. The generous benefactor must receive the bond back. All of us who will benefit from having the plates must continue to work as hard as we can to get 1,500 more people. Right now the number needed is 1,435 more reservations - let's get to it! Anne Fox, President Join Mass Citizens

Stop Obamacare Rally, Saturday, October 14, 10am - 2pm

The Senate Finance Committee just passed the Baucus Bill which: 1. Mandates abortion and abortion funding 2. Requires rationing and denial of care based on age or disability 3. Punishes doctors for giving good care to those over 65 Join those defending life, liberty, and freedom! Bandstand, Boston Common (corner of Park and Boylston) Saturday, October 17th, 10am - 2pm Features two pro life doctors: Dr Allen Unruh, Founder: South Dakota Right to Life Dr Mildred F. Jefferson, President, Crusade for Life past President, National Right to Life, Mass. Citizens for Life Dr Unruh discusses the bills: Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw8b6Iz1GRY Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YEZILPU7v8 Part Three FIRST HALF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLOw-Sb_0ew Part Three SECOND HALF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2yHM7gZa5c Join Mass Citizens

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40 Days' National Leader in Springfield & Public Square Rosary (for Life) Tomorrow!!!

Dear E-mail list members that live in the Western Mass/New England area:

This e-mail came in to our info@pvmcfl email today. We are passing along this message for the
40 Days for Life group here in our area. We are sure that they would appreciate the support.

MCFL
Pioneer Valley

Dear Pro-Life supporter:

I received a last minute email late last night that I didn't see until mid morning today
and we just finalized arrangements a little while ago...

David Bereit, the National Director of 40 Days for Life, is coming to Springfield
and will be at our Vigil at 3550 Main Street in Springfield, MA tomorrow,
October 10, 2009, from ~11:00 A.M. until noon.  Check our website for directions.

Mr. Bereit is traveling with his wife Margaret and their 2 children and would love to
meet as many of the 40 Days supporters as he can.  I'm sure he will have many things
to tell us.  This will undoubtedly be a memorable occasion.

As it turns out, the Tradition, Family and Property movement's America Needs Fatima
is conducting a national Public Square Rosary Rally simultaneously at 4,327 sites across
our country tomorrow at 12:00 noon.  The site for Springfield is our Vigil site.

So if you can arrange your schedule to be in the Medical District, I'm sure you'll be blessed!

Thanks for all you are doing to promote respect for life in all it's stages!
God Bless you!
Tim Biggins
Campaign Director
40 Days for Life in Western Massachusetts

Walk to Aid Mothers and Children: pictures and round-up

We are so grateful to Helen Cross and her committee: Steve Fielding, Ed Long, Connie and Cathleen Murphy, June Newman, Holly O'Hara, and the many others who helped make this year's Walk Wonderful! Don Feder was his usual eminent emcee. Jim Sedlak was rousing about Planned Parenthood. The young people from the Boston Archdiocese, the Fall River Diocese, the Montrose School, St Sebastian School, Presentation Academy, Methuen, MIT, Tufts, and countless other schools and parishes added so much enthusiasm and commitment! We had a huge increase in people overall, especially small children and their parents, which is so heartening! Ed Boylan's pictures are well worth checking out. Anne Fox, President Join Mass Citizens

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Worcester Update: 40 days, Rosary and Pro-Life

Oct 8 Thu 9AM NewtGingrich headlines Catholic Citizenship breakfast at the Union Club at Park St. Boston. $50/person, RSVP info@catholic-citizenship.org or calling 781.932.1348
Oct 9 Fri 7PM St. Paul's Bible study. http://cathedralofsaintpaul.blogspot.com/  Pope Benedict's Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation
Oct 10 Sat 9-10AM Prayer Vigil Protest at Planned Parenthood on Lincoln St. behind Best Chinese Restaurant 625 Lincoln.
Oct 10 Sat noon – National Rosary Rally, in front of the old Notre Dame Church corner of Front and Franklin St. in downtown Worcester.  Held at over 4315 sites including Leominster, Marlborough, Milford and Fitchburg.

Oct 13 Tue Boston State House Hearing Room 1A Sex/Health Education Bill hearing
Pro-life people support:
House, No. 472 Presented by: Elizabeth Poirier
For legislation to require parental consent on sex education in public schools
House, No. 485 Presented by: Michael F. Rush
Relative to parental notification and consent for certain sexual education programs in the public schools
House, No. 437 Presented by: Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
Relative to requiring parental notification and consent prior to implementing curriculum concerning human sexuality
House, No. 406 Presented by: William G. Greene, Jr.
For legislation to prohibit  public elementary or secondary school students from participating in certain surveys without parental consent
House, No. 421 Presented by: Robert S. Hargraves
For legislation to require parental consent for the attendance of students in sexual education classes in the public schools
Pro-life people oppose:
House, No. 3434 Presented by: Alice K. Wolf
Relative to the teaching of health education in schools
House, No. 402 Presented by: Mary E. Grant
For legislation to provide for a comprehensive health education program in the public schools.
Senate, No. 218 Presented by: Harriette L. Chandler
For legislation to provide health education in schools

Oct 14 Wed 2PM America Needs Fatima statue of Our Lady of Fatima in area.  Contact me.
Oct 15 Thu 7PM Mass. Family Institute fundraising supper, Newton Marriot. www.mafamily.org or call 781.569.0400 or https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d2/default.aspx?wid=28803

Oct 17 Sat 9-10AM Prayer Vigil Protest in front of new (empty) Planned Parenthood building at 487 Pleasant.St. Worc

40 Days for Life continues every day praying outside Planned Parenthood on Lincoln St., check out the blog info at http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=292           -  While all those people were out there praying, a woman walked towards the clinic for an abortion appointment. After people on the sidewalk spoke to her, she entered the nearby pro-life pregnancy center instead.  "The lady who was about to have the abortion told the counselor she started to shiver when she saw so many people praying," said Ken Groves of the Manassas 40 Days for Life campaign. "At that moment she said she felt God wanted her to have her baby.

Help a pregnant Northeaster student - http://www.birthright.org/
"Hi all - I'm basically just reaching out to all my contact for a tougher than usual Birthright case. I'm working with a Northeastern University senior who'e expecting in March and due to graduate in May. Northeastern does not allow her to stay in housing with a baby so now she needs to find housing for next semester. They also have not been helpful about childcare or options or even an EAP program like they might have for their employees.

So, her, her parents and the father of the baby are looking at ways to make this work so she can graduate. I guess I'm wondering if anyone has a friend or relative in Boston that might be able to watch an infant a few days a week (I believe the family could pay some - not a ton but probably a reasonable amount). Or maybe you know someone who has an apartment or room they could sublet or some other good housing situation?

Parents are 5.5 hours away and don't think it's a good idea to separate Mom and baby in the first two months so they can't take the baby home till she's done.
If nothing else I could use your prayers. Seems like a great family, a solid woman - her major is American Sign Language  - which is why she can't always have the baby at class with her - too hard to sign if the baby needs to be held or fed :)"

C-Fam Catholic Families International fights for the rights of unborn worldwide.
http://www.c-fam.org/campaigns/lid.2/default.asp
Human rights for all humans!  Help C-Fam gather 1 million petitions.

Oct 29 Wed 7PM Assumption College Hagan Hall Francis Cardinal George

Traditional Family Values candidates for public office in Massachusetts - http://www.mipac.org/

Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncanson has hired a homosexual recruiter, Kevin Jennnings as asst. secreatry.  Urge Duncanson to fire Jennings for his radical homosexual proselytizing - http://www.capwiz.com/afanet/issues/alert/?alertid=14137916#

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: Patrick Swayze, 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…

Important Public Hearings on "Sex Education", October 13th!

IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEARING! COMMITTEE: Joint Education Committee HEARING LOCATION: Hearing Room A1 DATE: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 TIME: 1:00 p.m. On October 13, 2009, the Joint Committee on Education will hold a public hearing on legislation that will affect your children. Please know when bills contain the term "health education" fully translated it means "sex education." Most of the bills requiring health education attempt to make Health a core curriculum subject, thereby making implementation of the Frameworks mandatory in all school districts. Under the Frameworks, students would be taught (numbers indicate learning standards or interdisciplinary objectives): how to get an abortion without parental knowledge (4.20 and 4.a, parental notification / judicial bypass); how to get contraceptives (4.7, whom to consultand 4.9, students report on state policy); behaviorsfor pregnancy prevention (4.8); acceptance of consensualpremarital sex (4.b); and, acceptance of homosexual behavior (4.3, 4.4, 4.14 and 4.b). Some of the bills below are commonsense legislation and should be supported, while others would usurp parental rights, especially in matters pertaining to children and sexuality. The bills below are of interest to all parents: Pro-life people support: House, No. 472 Presented by: Elizabeth Poirier For legislation to require parental consent on sex education in public schools House, No. 485 Presented by: Michael F. Rush Relative to parental notification and consent for certain sexual education programs in the public schools House, No. 437 Presented by: Bradley H. Jones, Jr. Relative to requiring parental notification and consent prior to implementing curriculum concerning human sexuality House, No. 406 Presented by: William G. Greene, Jr. For legislation to prohibit public elementary or secondary school students from participating in certain surveys without parental consent House, No. 421 Presented by: Robert S. Hargraves For legislation to require parental consent for the attendance of students in sexual education classes in the public schools Pro-life people oppose: House, No. 3434 Presented by: Alice K. Wolf Relative to the teaching of health education in schools House, No. 402 Presented by: Mary E. Grant For legislation to provide for a comprehensive health education program in the public schools. Senate, No. 218 Presented by: Harriette L. Chandler For legislation to provide health education in schools Please bring a written copy of your testimony to leave with the committee. If you cannot attend, please send your testimony to the Joint Committee on Education, Room 473G (House), Room 511B (Senate) State House, Boston, MA, 02133. For further information contact Massachusetts Citizens for Life 617-242-4199 or visit http://masscitizensforlife.org/frameworks.html#agenda Marie Sturgis, Executive Director and Lobbyist, Mass Citizens for Life Join Mass Citizens

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MCFL Health Care Radio Ads

This is the link to our health care radio ad, http://www.houndbite.com/?houndbite=17351 We have had very positive feed back on the ad. People are very grateful that someone is actively opposing the proposed plans. A few weeks ago, we had "saturation" (that is playing an ad enough times to be sure that everyone hears the ad often enough to get the points) on WTAG in Worcester and WHYN in Springfield. Right now we are running this ad in Boston on WRKO. The market in Boston is much more expensive than Worcester or Springfield. We have not yet been able to purchase enough time to reach "saturation" on WRKO. Please listen to the ad, consider how important it is for everyone to hear and understand. Then, please, make a contribution. We must reach the "saturation" point for this ad! Thank you, Anne Fox, President National Right to Life sent out this explanation on how abortion is faring in the Senate bills - very badly from our point of view. Their press release is below if you want to know what is really going on in Washington. Thanks again! WASHINGTON (September 30, 2009) -- Events this week in Congress provide fresh proof that top Democratic leaders in Congress are pushing forward with plans to establish massive new programs that would pay for elective abortions and subsidize insurance coverage of abortions -- which, if achieved, would break from decades of federal policy. "Bills currently advancing in Congress would establish direct federal funding of elective abortion, and tax subsidies for private insurance that covers elective abortions -- both drastic breaks from longstanding federal policy," commented Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states. "Ongoing events on Capitol Hill demonstrate the hollowness of President Obama's public assurances that he does not seek government funding of abortion." The Senate Finance Committee today continued a series of meetings to amend the "America's Healthy Future Act," a health care restructuring bill proposed by Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mt.). The bill has a number of major abortion-related problems. Most of today's abortion-related debate in the committee focused on a proposed new program that would use tax money to help purchase private health insurance for about 19 million Americans. The bill specifically authorizes the use of these federal funds to pay premiums on private plans that cover elective abortions -- a departure from longstanding federal policy. Pro-life Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) pointed out that federal subsidies for coverage of elective abortions are not currently allowed under Medicaid, the Federal Employees Health Benefits program, or other federal health programs. Hatch offered an amendment, backed by NRLC, that would have prohibited federal funds from subsidizing plans that cover elective abortions, but would have allowed insurers to sell abortion coverage through separate supplemental policies not subsidized by federal funds. The Hatch Amendment failed, 10-13. Baucus and all other Democrats on the committee opposed the Hatch Amendment, except for Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), who supported it. All of the Republicans on the committee supported the Hatch Amendment, except for Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), who opposed it. By an identical roll call, the committee also rejected another Hatch Amendment that would have codified the Hyde-Weldon Amendment, which is a temporary law prohibiting any level of government from discriminating against health-care providers that do not wish to participate in providing abortions. On July 15, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved a different health care bill (S. 1679), which also contains provisions that would result in sweeping pro-abortion mandates and government subsidies for elective abortion. NRLC's Johnson commented, "Today's Finance Committee votes mean that the combined bill that will reach the Senate floor in a few weeks surely will contain provisions that would result in both pro-abortion federal mandates and huge federal abortion subsidies. However, the full Senate must vote on the pro-abortion subsidies, and other pro-abortion components as well." Meanwhile, in the House, Reps. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.), Joseph Pitts (R-Pa.), and 181 other members of the U.S. House on September 28 sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.), pointing out that the health care bill approved in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (H.R. 3200), including an amendment offered by Rep. Lois Capps (D-Ca.), "radically departs from the current federal government policy of not paying for elective abortion or subsidizing plans that cover abortion." The letter notes, among other things, that the Capps language "explicitly authorizes the federal government (the Department of Health and Human Services) to directly fund elective abortions, with federal (public) funds drawn on a federal Treasury account," through the proposed "public plan." The signers -- 25 Democrats and 158 Republicans -- urged Pelosi to allow a vote on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to prohibit coverage of elective abortions by the public plan and subsidies for private plans that cover elective abortions. Seven other House Democrats have sent Pelosi similar letters in recent days, for a total of 32 Democrats. In response, on September 29 Rep. Capps sent Pelosi a letter in which she argued that the proposed public plan really would not be paying for abortions because "money is transmitted to a private contractor who then reimburses physicians." Johnson called Capps' argument "truly laughable -- it is like arguing that it is not the government paying for the abortions if the government sends the payment via the Internet." In reality, Johnson said, "The proposed public plan will be entirely a branch of the federal government, all of its funds will be federal funds, and when it pays for abortions, that will be direct government funding of abortion." Johnson also noted that the nearly united opposition to the Hatch Amendment by Senate Finance Committee Democrats, and the continued resistance by the House Democratic leadership to allowing a vote on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, "support our theory that President Obama is misleading the public when he says he does not want federal dollars used for abortion. In an attempt to keep his 2007 promises to Planned Parenthood, the President is trying to smuggle sweeping pro-abortion policies into law behind smokescreens of contrived language, verbal misdirection, and outright misrepresentation." The National Right to Life Committee, the nation's largest pro-life group is a federation of affiliates in all 50 states and 3,000 local chapters nationwide. National Right to Life works through legislation and education to protect those threatened by abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and assisted suicide. Join Mass Citizens

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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.