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The blog for Massachusetts Citizens for Life: the pro-life movement in the Bay State since 1973.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
How the storm helped the March for Life and news of Rebecca
The main stream media ignored the March as usual, bur, because of the storm and a lot of neat things like the Mass by the Turnpike, there was a huge amount of coverage on social media, some of which even spilled over You'll like this article and feel very good about leaving our work to "the kids"!
You'll also love these signs that kids made:
Priscilla updates us on Rebecca's condition:
Hi Anne,
Thank you so much.
After Rebecca seemed to go into a coma, more tests were run and it seemed that her cancer had continued to spread despite chemo, so it was decided to stop all cancer treatment.
The doctors told her family that they should expect her to live anywhere from 24 hours to a week, that was on Jan. 21st.
Her mom and sister flew out to be with her, and her dad and brother flew back home.
Since then however, she has actually woken up, is very chatty, though not always making sense, and she has also started to drink smoothies.
So maybe her body needed some time to rest before taking on additional treatment.
I will let you know when I get any updates on her health.
Obviously the prayers are working and perhaps Rebecca will receive the miracle of life that everyone is praying for.
Certainly Nicolette has received the precious gift of life, a gift from her very brave mom and dad.
God Bless,
Priscilla
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!
We have the March for Life on January 22 in DC. Bus information is on the MCFL website. The buses that are staying overnight in DC are pretty well filled but you should be able to find seats on the "red eye" buses. Plane fares seem to be back to normal. Be sure to check the wonderful offer of free vans from VERC Rental. http://masscitizensforlife.org/march-for-life-bus-information/
Also in DC, Mass Citizens for Life is sponsoring our annual MCFL Caucus, Jan 22, 9:30 - 11 :30, Kennedy Caucus Room, Russell Senate Office Building. music, coffee and pastriesSpeakers: Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Dwight Duncan, Esq, Jacqueline Harvey, PhD, Prof. Michael New, PhD, and Megan McCrum, Legislative Aid to Cong. Chris Smith, NJ
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
Friday, January 1, 2016
Thank you! Joyous New Year Wishes
I am so grateful to you all! We reached our goal of $5,000 through your generosity! It helps so much because 2015 was a slow year for MCFL fund-raising.
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!
In a few days, I'll be getting back to you with our 2016 plans.
Today I want to wish you and yours a Joyous New Year and a wonderful 2016!
Thanks again!
Anne
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Where would we be without MCFL?
Dear Pro-Life Friend,
What would the past year have been like without the educational efforts of Massachusetts Citizens for Life?
Ten thousand young people would not have heard the pro-life message; there would have been no D C Caucus; no Convention; no educational meetings around the state about the doctor-prescribed suicide legislation, no billboards by the State Houise - just to name a few things.
The death lobby has, literally, billions of dollars, from the half billion in tax monies that go to Planned Parenthood to the fortune that George Soros is pouring into legalizing doctor-prescribed suicide. We have you, our donors. That is why I am so excited about this opportunity to make your donation go twice as far!
Please double your donation right now: http://masscitizensforlife.org/2015-matching-funds/ We have only until Thursday at midnight!
Thank you for your consideration at this important time!
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!
Thank you very, very much to those of you who have donated thus far.
Your gift will be doubled.
If you have not yet donated, please know that we need just $990 to make the $5,000 goal.
Donors are making my New Year's Eve very Happy. Please join them! http://masscitizensforlife.org/2015-matching-funds/
Thank you in advance for whatever you can do.
Anne
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
PLEASE HELP US SAVE LIVES TODAY
Dear Friends,
We have until midnight tonight , New Year's Eve, to raise funds that will be doubled by a kind friend!
Right now we are only a third of the way to our goal of $5,000 so we really need your help today!
God bless you!
Anne
This is especially for the matching funds
Or mail a check marked "matching funds" to us at The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street, 1M9, Charlestown, MA 02129
Thank you!
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
An early Christmas present: 53 abortion clinics
This is amazing news: 81% of abortion clinics open in 1991 have closed. See the maps and reasons:
What a way to end the year!
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street
Boston Massachusetts 02129
United States
Heartwarming, Heartbreaking, and a well-deserved Shout Out.
Heartwarming:
A four-year-old asks Santa to pray for a sick baby whom he doesn't even know: http://www.godupdates.com/a-little-boy-prays-with-santa-for-a-miracle-for-baby-knox/
Prayers needed: Baby of mother who refused cancer treatment dies at eight days:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/22/baby-tragically-dies-8-days-after-birth-after-mom-refused-breast-cancer-treatment-to-save-her
And a shout out to Brian Camenker, founder of Mass Resistance, who has been named the "#1 top pro-family hero in America for 2015" in a list released last week by Dr. Scott Lively's Abiding Truth Ministries organization. "We looked especially for leaders who showed courage under fire or whose words and actions gave special encouragement to our movement," said Dr. Lively in his announcement.
All the best,
Anne
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
Good old New Boston Post! They are featuring end of life issues in November and will be featuring beginning of life issues in January. Tina McCormack has an excellent article on doctor-prescribed suicide followed by a poll. We are doing very well in the poll. It should give us a really good result to cite in Letters to the Editor, etc. You'll like the article and be sure to vote.
Anne
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
God bless all the people who participated in 40 Days for Life!
They say, "Work as if it is all up to you. Pray as if it is all up to God" We are blessed to have 40 Days as such an important part of the pro-life effort.
There were three babies saved in Worcester during the campaign and 517 in the entire country. You know, that is also 517 mothers, 517 fathers, etc saved now and countless generations descended from those children.
Congratulations to all the people involved in 40 Days, particularly the coordinators: Attleboro: Ron Larose, Boston: Rita Russo, Haverhill: Debbie Papalia, Lynn: Cori Connor-Morse, Springfield: Tim Biggins, and Worcester: Pauline Morris!
We are so proud of you and all your pray-ers! Anne
Monday, November 2, 2015
Do you know anyone who lives in Brockton, E Bridgewater, Easton, Whitman, Hanson, Hanover, Halifax, Plympton?
On Tuesday, there is a special State Senate race in those towns. There are two State Reps running for the seat. Geoff Diehl is a great friend of life. The MCFL PAC has endorsed him. They have made many hundreds of phone calls to pro-lifers in the district. The PAC distributed more than 2,000 cards showing the difference between the candidates and urging people to vote pro-life.
The PAC has asked me to remind you about the election. They urge you to contact at least one person you know who lives in the district and remind that person to vote for Geoff Diehl for State Senate on Tuesday, Nov 3rd!
This is important! Thank you,
Anne
Friday, October 30, 2015
China modifies one-child policy - rejoice with All Girls Allowed!
Chai Ling, who received an award at our Banquet recently, has expressed the way we all feel about the change in Chinese policy.
Let's hope the government will remove all restrictions on families! Anne
October 29th, 2015 started as a rainy, cloudy, and cold day in Boston, MA. But that is far from how the day will forever be remembered.
Among a team who has been keeping watchful eyes over China's brutal One-Child Policy, the news headlines carried by the media sent bursts of excitement through smartphones, emails, and Facebook: "What?! This is happening? Yes, yes, yes!" "Have you heard this news?" "I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the news!" "It is like a dream come true." "I thought I would never see this headline in my lifetime." "Thank you God, you did it! You did it!" "Today, the history of our nation has turned a new page!"
The above statements were the collective reactions from the staff members, friends, Board members, supporters, donors, and prayer warriors of All Girls Allowed -- In Jesus' Name, Simply Love Her -- following China's announcement on Thursday morning to officially end its 35-year-old One-Child Policy, allowing all couples to have two children.
The news emerged from the Fifth Plenum of the Central Committee held in Beijing this week. Various sources claim that China's escalating demographic crisis and the desire to rebrand its human rights record were the driving force behind this decision. However, at All Girls Allowed, we see a bigger force at work. A month ago, when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited America, we released a statement with the following remarks:
"May this trip mark the time when President Xi Jinping takes courage to declare the end of the One-Child Policy and to replace it with an All Children Allowed Policy or All Girls Allowed Policy, in honor of God, of men, and of our shared country China!"
We see that God, in His sovereign timing in the year of Jubilee, has answered our prayers mightily and swiftly! The rest are coming! Yet on this day, our minds are overcome with memories and emotions of the people affected by this policy in the past 35 years: the 400+ million babies who were aborted under force or coercion; the millions of mothers like Feng Jianmei who cried helplessly to protect and save their unborn children; women who suffered forced sterilizations and families who faced staggering fines, torn-down homes, and loss of jobs for exceeding their birth limits; the 13 million "over-quota" children who are unable to attend school, travel between cities, and receive medical care; the 37 million missing girls; and all the victims of female infanticide, child abandonment, child trafficking, and other forms of gendercide resulting from China's traditional male preference. All these sufferings, and more! But now, these sufferings have an ending! God promised that He "will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." (Revelation 21:4)
So today, All Girls Allowed commends the Chinese leadership for taking this courageous step to publicly abolish a policy that has caused so much physical, emotional, and spiritual damage to the families in the nation. We encourage them to move to an All Children Allowed or All Girls Allowed Policy swiftly. We celebrate this exciting milestone with our supporters, the people of China, and women and men across the world. We give God all the glory and praise for this important victory in our battle to restore life, value, and dignity to Chinese mothers and daughters!
When All Girls Allowed was founded in 2010, we intentionally made one of our missions to be "revealing the injustice of China's One-Child Policy", for we believe the credit and glory for ending it can only go to God. In the past 5 years, God invited us to be on the front row seats as we witnessed how He answered our unceasing prayers and led us step by step on this triumphant journey to transform a great nation, from rescuing a dying abandoned infant on the roadside to reuniting a trafficked toddler "Little Bean" with her family; from rescuing a pregnant mother Nie Lina from forced abortion to lifting her out of "black jail"; from bringing a lady out of coma on a One-Child Policy anniversary to the changing of Popes; from enabling our hero Chen Guangcheng's miraculous escape from China to the ending of the brutal late-term forced abortions in 2012; from uniting the U.S. Congress through speaker Boehner in commemorating the 25th Tiananmen Massacre anniversary to passing the "Girls Count Act" led by Senator Rubio and Congressman Chris Smith; from shining a light to end sexual violence on all fronts to sending missionaries into China to teach millions of believers when life begins......
Today is another day the Lord has done a great and mighty thing. Today is the day we watched God part China's red sea -- the One-Child Policy -- an act few ever thought was possible! The Lord answered our prayers in this year of Jubilee, the year of freedom and celebration! God is bigger than any government. Today we also honor our "Wilberforce" hero Congressman Chris Smith who has been fighting against China's One-Child Policy and forced abortions since the very beginning of its enforcement. God will honor and remember all the kind and tireless work he has done, and is still doing, to help the people of China.
Today we take comfort that those 400 million babies are with God. God will continue to comfort His people and will settle families in a good land. We have an even greater task ahead to get to the promised land of a free and peaceful China. But today is a day that will enter China's and the world's history! Today is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!
October is Down Syndrome Month
I must apologize! All during October, I have been planning to send out an email about Down Syndrome Month. There have been so many fires and I do regularly send out nice stories about people who have Down Syndrome... National Right to Life News saved the day with these two marvelous articles, one with a delightful Boston twist.
http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2015/10/buenos-aires-relentless-dog-befriends-toddler-with-down-syndrome-2/#.VjO8yyvQiRI
Enjoy the little ones tomorrow! Anne
Thursday, October 29, 2015
We are still way behind in Springfield DPS poll!
We have come from practically nothing but we are still 10 points behind. this is an MA poll so you know they'll use it if we finish behind.
Please vote NOW! Poll part way down next to article on the right
Thanks, guys!
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