Friday, February 19, 2016
Blog End
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
How the storm helped the March for Life and news of Rebecca
Monday, January 4, 2016
Full Time Job Opening at MCFL
This is your opportunity to join the staff of Massachusetts Citizens For Life!
Massachusetts Citizens For Life needs an energetic, self-starter to manage its Boston Office. The successful candidate has at least three-years experience managing a small business office, is able to direct several projects at one time, meet deadlines, enjoys working with people, and has a demonstrated commitment to pro-life causes. If this describes you…read on.
POSITION: Office Administrator/Bookkeeper
LOCATION: The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street, Ste. 1M9, Boston, MA 02129
SUPERVISION: This position reports to the Executive Director and President of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc.
SUMMARY: The Office Administrator will perform administrative tasks on a daily basis to keep the office running efficiently and productively. This will include doing basic bookkeeping, Internet-related and financial functions.
DUTIES : Oversee all office operations and needs, including, but not limited to: interfacing in person and on the phone with visitors, vendors, volunteers, members, donors, staff, officers and directors; reordering supplies; keeping current contact information for directors, vendors, members, volunteers and others doing business with or working with or for MCFL; manage and maintain organizational calendar of events and fundraising mailings; assess workflow and make recommendations for improvement as needed; participate as needed in preparation of mailings and event planning and preparation, including printing of handouts, flyers and brochures and ordering supplies for same; attend MCFL events; handle in-coming calls and emails and respond independently as appropriate; assist callers with questions and route calls to others as required; manage phone system and make changes as needed through phone service provider, NPV; manage office equipment and arrange service as needed; review action@masscitizensforlife.org emails daily and forward appropriate emails to President; send "eblast" emails to members as directed by President; schedule volunteers to assist with mailings and other tasks when appropriate; prepare correspondence; pick-up mail, open, sort and send mail out daily as needed; send monthly meeting reminders to directors with agenda and draft minutes; send bi-monthly reminders to staff to submit time sheets to accountant; schedule and assist in preparation for meetings with volunteers, directors, committees, and others; manage MCFL finances including accounts receivable and payables; keep track of invoices and ensure no duplication of payments; prepare monthly accounts and balances updates and invoice reports for accountant and treasurer with copies to executive director and president; prepare other financial reports as needed on weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis; provide other administrative support to organization and staff as needed.
SKILLS: Strong interpersonal skills; ability to work with and manage volunteers with various ages and backgrounds; strong computer skills, including proficiency in MS Word and MS Excel; strong clerical and bookkeeping skills; proficiency in Quickbooks; strong organizational ability; is detail oriented and able to work independently, manage time efficiently, meet deadlines, and multi-task in a frequently hectic environment.
TIME: Full time daily Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. and attendance at five MCFL events on weekends throughout the year.
SALARY: $38,000 plus benefits: health insurance, paid sick, personal, and vacation days.
SEND RESUME (No phone calls) TO: pstewart@masscitizensforlife.org
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
January is looking good!
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
Friday, January 1, 2016
Thank you! Joyous New Year Wishes
We have a lot of work to do in 2016 - just think, a year from today, we will be planning to inaugurate a pro-life president!
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Where would we be without MCFL?
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
You make the difference!
We are in a life and death battle! We must win. I am counting on your gift to match our year-end educational effort.
In these final two days of 2015 we must raise $5,000 in order to earn matching funds. Your gift will make the difference. Your gift today will help to save a life.
Over the next two days, please contribute to the life-saving educational work of the Massachusetts Citizens for Life Charitable Trust and receive a tax deduction for 2015. Please click on http://masscitizensforlife.org/2015-matching-funds/
You may also send a check to MCFL CHT, 529 Main Street, 1M9, Charlestown, MA 02129. Please mark Matching Funds on the memo line.
Contributing any time until midnight Thursday night will not only help us save more precious babies and save many women from a lifetime of regret, but it will be fully tax-deductible for you when you file your taxes for 2015.
Any amount will be doubled and will move us toward our goal! Thank you for acting on your passion to protect life at all stages!
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
Christmas wishes
We are so lucky to have Linda Thayer who has put together this beautiful Christmas meditation which I want to share it with you. It comes with best wishes for you and yours from the MCFL Board and Staff. http://masscitizensforlife.org/christmas-2015/
Blessings, Anne
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
We need $990 in the next 7 hours!
Anne
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
PLEASE HELP US SAVE LIVES TODAY
Dear Friends,
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
An early Christmas present: 53 abortion clinics
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
Heartwarming, Heartbreaking, and a well-deserved Shout Out.
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
Monday, November 9, 2015
Sex ed abortion bill: vote this week, call now!
The bill has a new number but the same old problems (see below), especially teaching children how to get secret abortions.
This is what each of us needs to do: we must call our own senator and representative right now urging them to vote against S - 2013.
You will find the phone number for your senator at https://malegislature.gov/People/Senate and your representative at https://malegislature.gov/People/House
If you do not know the names of your legislators, you may look them up here. http://www.wheredoivotema.com/bal/myelectioninfo.aspx
Please let your legislators know your concerns about this dangerous bill! Anne
What does the bill propose to do?
- This bill makes the MA Health Curriculum Frameworks normative for sexuality education throughout the Commonwealth
- The Health Curriculum Frameworks would teach young people how to get an abortion, and contraceptives without parental knowledge
- They give tacit approval to teenage sexual activity and abortion regardless of what parents may wish to teach their children
- They do not respect the Freedom of Religion, by which parents would pass on their values to their children
- Passage of this bill would make "comprehensive sex education" a one-size-fits-all for all children regardless of individual maturity and readiness
- A public policy of "comprehensive sex education" has failed our young people over the last few decades (26% of teen girls in America have an STD, this includes 48% of black teenage girls; Massachusetts has the 11th highest teen abortion rate in the nation)
- This bill would have the Commonwealth determine how many parents have opted their child out of sexed – without determining how many school districts have notified parents of the radical nature of the Frameworks objectives. Therefore the number of opt-outs is likely to be small, and may be used as a justification for eliminating parents' right to opt-out.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
DPS poll, vote NOW
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
God bless all the people who participated in 40 Days for Life!
Monday, November 2, 2015
Do you know anyone who lives in Brockton, E Bridgewater, Easton, Whitman, Hanson, Hanover, Halifax, Plympton?
Friday, October 30, 2015
China modifies one-child policy - rejoice with All Girls Allowed!
October is Down Syndrome Month
Thursday, October 29, 2015
We are still way behind in Springfield DPS poll!
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Sen Ted Kennedy, Jr. opposes DPS!
"When I was told I was going to lose my leg, the first thought I had was that I would rather be dead…I don't think we should let those type of ideas infiltrate what should be a medical decision.
"Secondly, if you are terminally ill and have made those wishes to your doctor saying 'I don't want to be kept alive, I'm in pain and I want to go,' right now, that's what happens. It's not like people are being artificially kept alive against their own will.
"My wife is a psychiatrist, she spends her life trying to prevent people from killing themselves, and now we are going to say 'it's okay, you can do that.' I just don't see it."
Kennedy states that he wants to increase services, such as visiting nurse care, so that people don't feel as if they are at that point.
For a printable copy of the article, click here: Kennedy on DPS.pdf
Friday, October 23, 2015
Firm DPS hearing date and time, next PP Protest date
It is confirmed that the hearings for H-1991, the Doctor-Prescribed Suicide bill will be October 27 from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm in Gardner Auditorium. H-1991 will be the only bill to have hearings before the Public Health Committee that day.
The next Planned Parenthood protest date has just been announced with ho further details yet. It is Saturday, October 10.
Additional 40 Days info,
Kick-off Event at Haverhill Clinic, 288 Groveland Street.
Wed., Sept. 23, 8am
The 40 Days for Life Haverhill Fall Campaign is in memory of a prolife prayer warrior - John Cronin - who spent hundreds of hours praying at the Haverhill clinic. Kick-off event will be followed by a 9am Mass at St. John the Baptist Church, 110 Lincoln Ave., Haverhill. John Cronin's widow, Connie, will be present at the event.
We're also starting a new initiative -- The Prayer Partner Hotline will match people with a prayer partner so they can pray with another person at the clinic. Email us 40daysforlifehaverhill@gmail.com to become a prayer partner and help others feel comfortable praying at a clinic.
Doctor Prescribed Suicide Informational Public Meetings
Sept 23, Chicopee Public Library, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sept 24, Westfield Athenaeum, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Sept 28, Walpole Public Library, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sept 29, Danvers Public Library, 7:00 pm 0 8:00 pm
Sept 30, VFW Hall, Leominster, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Oct 4, Mass for Pro-life Month, St Jerome, Weymouth, 10:30 am
Oct 4, North Adams Life Chain, noon - 1:00 pm
Oct 14, Celebration of Life Day at the State House featuring PRC's, Great Hall 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Oct 17, Death With Real Dignity Seminar, 9:00 - noon, Assumption College
Oct 18, Eleanor McCullen at St Catherine's, 3:00 pm, St Catherine, Norwood.
Oct 22, MCFL Banquet featuring Karen Santorum, with emcee Scott Wahle
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ANY OF THESE EVENTS, CHECK http://masscitizensforlife.org/
Good news and then there is the way your congressman voted.
Good News
Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 3134 to stop, for one year, taxpayer funding going to any Planned Parenthood Federation of America unless it certifies that it will not perform or provide any funding to any clinic that performs abortions. The bill now goes to the U.S. Senate.
The U. S. House also passed HR3504 The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. It is straightforward bill that requires that infants who survive an abortion are entitled to the same standard of care of any child born alive. The bill should now go to the Senate.
The way your congressman voted
If you ask me how your congressman voted, I won't even have to ask you who your congressman is. No matter where you live in Massachusetts, your Congressman voted to fund abortions at Planned Parenthood with your tax money and to allow babies who are born alive to be mutilated in the ways we saw and heard in the PP Scandal videos.
When you are in the pocket of the death lobby you don't have to think.
Next Tuesday, the U. S. Senate is scheduled to vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36). Let's see if it can pass in spite of our senators. Anne
Another great letter on DPS!
We know people all over the country are watching the doctor-prescribed bill here in MA. This was brought home to me when someone from CT sent this along:
One of your folks - Mark Rollo, MD – recently wrote a letter to the editor in Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/letters/ci_28995303/dont-give-doctors-right-kill
Please write to your paper. We have good tips: http://masscitizensforlife.org/writing-an-effective-letter-to-the-editor/
Or, you could take some of the good technical tips from this webpage from Compassion and Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society) and turn their arguments to our advantage by telling the truth. http://compassionandchoices.org/userfiles/Letter-Writing-Guide.pdf
Please send copies of your letters so we can share them. Thanks, Anne
U.S.House votes to curtail PP funds - MA 0-6
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the "Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act," (H.R. 3762), 240-189. Among other things, the bill would block, for one year, most federal payments to affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
In advance of the vote, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of state right-to-life organizations, advised House members that the roll call on passage of the bill would be included in NRLC's scorecard of key right-to-life votes, and added, "Our members and affiliates will view the roll calls on H.R. 3762 as votes for or against stripping $400 million from Planned Parenthood."
H.R. 3762 is a special type of legislation called a "reconciliation bill." This means that it cannot be blocked in the Senate by the filibuster, which has been the main obstacle to previous attempts to pass legislation to defund Planned Parenthood. Nevertheless, the bill faces formidable obstacles in the Senate.
"Planned Parenthood now commands about one-third of the total abortion 'market'," said Carol Tobias, National Right to Life president. "For far too long federal taxpayer dollars have been funneled to the nation's abortion giant, and it's time for that to stop. We applaud passage of the reconciliation bill and we urge the U.S. Senate to act quickly."
The bill would close the largest pipeline for federal funding of Planned Parenthood, Medicaid, and apply as well to the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Title V and Title XX block grant programs. These sources account for roughly 89% of all federal funds that currently flow to Planned Parenthood. Under the bill, the amounts denied to Planned Parenthood are reallocated to community health centers.
Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest provider of abortions – at least one-third of all abortions in the U.S. are performed at Planned Parenthood-affiliated facilities. According to their most recent annual report, Planned Parenthood received at least $528 million annually from the federal government or state and local governments.
Based on data from their own annual report from 2013-2014, nearly one in eight women walking through the door of a Planned Parenthood clinic has an abortion. A background memo from National Right to Life is available here:http://www.nrlc.org/communications/ppfamediabackground