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By Katherine Sabelko
The article, The Sisterhood, 27 Years Later, by Barbara Curtis, The Washington Times, January 24 is the nightmare of every pro-abortion, feminine liberal. As we know as defenders of life and truth, women have been lied to and misled about abortion. Ms. Curtis clarifies her position as a woman who was a pro-choice activist who eventually fell and knew the truth. Abortion kills children and hurts women.
One of our favorite bumper stickers, "I think...therefore I am pro-life," sums up the journey that Curtis lived. Her opening paragraphs s of the article speaks volume:
Twenty-seven years ago, nine black-robed men handed feminists a triumph that would try our souls, and, I have come to believe, find them wanting.
On Jan. 22, 1973, when the "Sisterhood is Powerful" crowd rejoiced at the outcome of Roe vs. Wade, I was with them as a Washington radical feminist scholar/abortion rights advocate, much in demand as a spokeswoman by virtue of my motherhood. After all, who better to illustrate the righteous need for abortion than a young woman with a future, already encumbered by a three-year-old in day care?
Five years later in San Francisco, that same little girl clutched my hand as we struggled against the chilly Van Ness Avenue wind on our way to some euphemistically styled "women's health clinic."
"Samantha," I explained, ever the politically vigilant parent, "Mommy is pregnant. But since Jasmine's only 2 and I'm not married anymore, this just isn't a good time to have a baby. We're lucky women have a choice."
I was proud of the legacy we would leave my daughter's generation. Thanks to the second wave of feminism, abortion was now available, accessible and not much worse than a trip to the dentist. Paid for by the state of California, to boot. And on the morning of my own abortion, I was feeling a little extra righteous. After years of posturing and sloganeering, I finally had an opportunity to demonstrate my core beliefs like a rite of passage. Or a sacrament."
Many women were swept up in a movement that seemingly gave them a power that would guarantee them success in the world. Through bitterness, confusion and a thirst for power, pro-abortion supporters were able to dictate their terms for behavior. The 1970s liberal feminists believed that, with the victory of legal abortion, they had succeeded in becoming the controlling force in American culture.
In the article, Curtis shows how empty that victory truly has been and how destructive to the woman of today.
And in the 27 years since Roe vs. Wade, isn't that what it's now become? Consider the sacred ground around abortion temples, free speech suspended so as not to hinder partaking of the ritual within and abortion providers occupying pedestals for their noble efforts. Heretics dare not blaspheme by calling a fetus a baby or what happens to it murder. And, as though in the grip of a state religion, the media use only sanctioned terms: pro-choice, reproductive rights, products of conception.
In the United States, according to the very pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute, 34 million abortions took place from 1973 to 1996. That's a million and a half per year. Who knows what genius men and women were whooshed away from our midst and with them what art, what music, what inventions, what cures.
How about it, sisters? Especially those of you who rode the crest of the second wave with me: Did you ever dream that this was where we were headed? Did you ever dream we would call a politician a friend to women no matter how flagrantly he exploited them as long as he continued to back abortion on demand? Did you ever dream we would enter the realms of denial required to condone a procedure in which a perfectly viable infant is pulled feet first through the birth canal until all but its head is exposed, then stabbed in the skull to suck out its brains, delivered dead and sold to the highest bidder for body parts?
Perhaps it's time to wake up and slap some cold water on our faces. Time to stop the hypocrisy, to sever the ideals of feminism dignity for women, equal status, equal opportunity, equal pay from what has become a religious devotion to death.
We should have listened to our mothers, the feminist ones, that is.
Susan B. Anthony, now featured on our currency, wasn't thinking of political correctness when she referred to abortion as "child murder." Nor when she wrote: "No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with her anti-slavery perspective, wrote, "When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit."
If you ever wonder if we will win the battle against abortion, the answer is yes, God willing. We have made strides towards the respect for all life and, as women like Curtis continue to speak out, our gains will increase.
Just remember, we "think, so we are pro-life!"
| These Children of the Rosary volunteers who handled the Life Rally table in January are our unsung heroes! Our thanks to Bob and Willie Gibbs [foreground], Tom Takash, the Arizona coordinator, and Gus Eckout. |  |
By Frank Joseph, M.D.
Hillary, in one of her litanies to alleviate the suffering of the American people, from babies to the grave said that there is an increase of breast cancer in Long Island and she wants to do something about it.
In Long Island? What about the entire state -- what about the entire country? Where has she and her husband been for the past seven years? Talk is cheap.
Breast cancer has risen dramatically in America, by 50% since 1973's Roe Vs. Wade decision when abortions were legalized, and is also increasing worldwide. Recent studies, though, have pointed out a dramatic relationship between the rate of abortion and the rising incidence of breast cancer. In fact, as the rate of abortion rises in America, so does the rate of breast cancer, with those women who have aborted having significantly higher rates.
Is it possible that Hillary has seen the light and is going to throw politics aside and expose America's best kept secret -- the abortion/breast cancer link, which the abortion mills, the American Cancer Society and this Administration are trying to hide? The liberal media is also in lock step.
Talk about a vast right-wing conspiracy. How about the deadly, vast left-wing conspiracy to hide the truth from the American people. Thousands of women have been dying yearly because they are not told of this risk by the abortion mills before they have their unborn baby killed.
It's obvious why the abortion mills won't reveal this deadly risk -- it would be a big blow to their multimillion dollar industry. But, for the American Cancer Society, and this Administration and the Media to conceal the fact that 10 of 11 United States and 31 of 35 worldwide studies have proven it, is disgusting.
They would rather have thousands of women die every year than to do anything that might harm the abortion industry. I always thought NOW and all the other feminist groups existed to help women. Not a peep out of them.
But, wait, Hillary, the self proclaimed champion of the downtrodden, the savior of babies and children -- this noble and compassionate woman has come to the rescue. She will use all of her power to expose this deadly link, thus saving thousands of women's lives every year. She will condemn her own party, for withholding this life saving information.
Don't hold your breath. To this administration, politics is thicker than human life. They even scorn the suffering of a partial-birth abortion baby, whose entire body is delivered except for the head, which they make sure stays in the birth canal (otherwise it would be murder), and then the baby's head is punctured with scissors, a tube is inserted and the baby's brains are sucked out.
This late-term, barbaric procedure is NEVER needed to save the life of the mother or to ensure her health. It is NOT an emergency procedure. Other methods are better and faster if the mother's life is in jeopardy. The pro-aborts do not want this gruesome procedure banned, in case a woman changes her mind late in her pregnancy and wants to have her unborn baby killed, and they want to make sure it's a "legal killing." This is sick.
Even reliable studies that reveal that unborn babies who are killed at 20 weeks gestation and beyond (in some studies even earlier) suffer excruciating pain -- don't phase the pro-aborts.
If Hillary, who claims she wants nothing but the best for the children of America, is elected Senator, she will side with the other pro-aborts and vote NOT to ban this cruel procedure. Her hypocrisy knows no bounds.
We MUST vote for pro-life candidates, which also leaves out Gore, who is blinded by Satan, because he also sees no evil in this horrific procedure. May God help us, if he is elected president. There is NO more important issue that faces our country than the killing of unborn babies. If pro-life candidates don't reveal the inhumanity of the pro-abort candidates by describing the procedure of a partial-birth abortion to the public and stating that their rival wants this barbaric act to continue, then they deserve to lose.
This pro-abortion view was printed in the Arizona Star, February 21, on the Arizona pro-life bills being considered by the State House and Senate:
Minors who need and want abortions should be able to get them. Once more, however, zealous lawmakers are doing all they can to deny that right to them.
A new bill once again would intrude on a minor's right to abortion. Yet even the few enlightened amendments it carries are under attack.
Senate Bill 1238 has a court-mandated requirement that a judge must approve an abortion if a girl chooses not to involve her parents. This is an issue that comes up over and over because some cling to the idea that it's always best to get parents' consent to a pregnant minor's abortion.
For many, that's appropriate. For others, it's completely impractical, and the parents may even be part of the teen-ager's problem.
"We have a dysfunctional society,'' said Rep. Jake Flake, R-Snowflake. "If we allow this to go through the Legislature, we're going to have a more dysfunctional society.''
How does allowing a teen-ager on her own to decide not to give birth create a more dysfunctional society? Is it not dysfunctional to have her hear a parent say no to abortion and then be forced to carry the pregnancy to term, give birth, and then either give the baby up for adoption or have to raise the baby herself? One could argue that those scenarios perpetuate dysfunction.
The bill makes an important allowance for a minor to have an abortion without parental consent if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. It may be that a father or other family member impregnated the girl, and she needs an unencumbered path to abortion. Yet the rape/incest exception had the anti-abortion forces scurrying to kill it, arguing that girls would freely lie about their pregnancy just to get rid of it. The legislator who raised that as a loophole for the girls was asked to cite examples of children lying about being raped or victims of incest. He reportedly dodged the question by saying it wasn't relevant.
So now we have a perceived, unverified problem raised over what should be a reasonable exemption - rape or incest. Another amendment to the bill would allow a girl to expand the list of who could approve an abortion to grandparents, aunts, uncles and adult siblings.
That, too, drew snipes from anti-abortion forces, who charged allowing other family members to provide consent would be valid if they are surrogate parents, but could just be a minor going on a "family shopping spree" to get around parents.
There shouldn't be a need to get around anyone. If a pregnant minor feels she's incapable of becoming a mother, that ought to be enough to end her pregnancy. Nothing is served by forcing a child to have a child. It has to be a decision between the girl and her doctor.
Now the bill goes to a conference committee and the anti-abortion forces will keep trying to make it tougher for abortions. Pregnant children are not served by this harassment.
One of our contributors, Sue Widemark, responded to the Arizona Star (website: http://www.azstarnet.com ) where the opinion had been published to set the record straight:
Do you really want your teenage daughter to be able to get an appendectomy without your knowledge or permission?
An appendectomy is much safer than an abortion, which renders 10-25 percent of women sterile or worse.
Or do you really want your daughter to get elective surgery like liposuction (one in 1000 die of it) without your knowledge or permission?
An abortion is elective surgery which, 21 out of 23 studies say, raises the risk of breast cancer significantly (as much as 250 percent higher risk).
Some of us feel that protecting teens might be a good thing and one way to protect them is to have parental involvement in their life and death decisions.
For example, a teen might go to the cheapest abortion clinic because she might not know the difference and with all this secrecy from you, the mother, she doesn't ask you for the bucks. Disaster, looking for a place to happen! How ever, if the parent were involved, obtaining an abortion for their daughter, they might make sure she had a doctor they trusted (not one of those fly-by-night jobbers you find in a lot of clinics) and they might make sure it was done in a hospital where they can handle emergencies (like they have an emergency room, etc.). Plenty of teens lie there bleeding in clinics because the clinic hesitates to call ambulances due to "it looks bad." Did you know that in the very clinic where Hill shot the doc, an 18-year-old girl had bled to death a couple of months hence?
Do you really want to even take the tiniest chance your daughter may be laying, dying in a clinic, while you don't even know where she is or she told you she went to a girlfriend's home and then, later, hello? you get the news? I sure wouldn't.
Remember, this is your daughter, a part of you, the little babe you nursed at your breast.
When fighting for legislation for 'other teens' you should always treat the subject like it was a law for YOUR daughter. Kind of puts things in better prospective.
By Katherine Sabelko
Much has been made recently of a stranger who began to walk up and down the streets of an impoverished mining town, sharing the Word of God and answering questions about the positions of the Catholic Church.
People in the town were at first a bit leery of the simply dressed man, but soon began to not only accept his presence but were concerned that someday he might leave their community, moving on to another small town.
He spoke with gentleness, but was always clear in expressing his Catholic beliefs. He began to attract the youth of the town and, several times was seen at the local high school, talking and listening to the teenagers.
The older people anxiously awaited his visits to the retirement home and hospitals, many saying they felt he had a healing affect on them.
The part of the story which would raise many people's eyebrows is that this stranger was dressed in a simple white tunic, worn in the fashion of Our Lord, wore no shoes in the summer and simple shoes in the winter. At first glance, this bearded man so arrayed, might truly cause a bystander to take a quick second look.
Carl J. Joseph has been traveling from town to town in different countries, he said, for 13 years, sharing Catholic teachings with whomever is interested.
Though seemingly an interesting, but not a world-changing story, there seems to be no relationship between this man's position on abortion and the modern-day activities of the majority of Americans.
I had thought about this man, dressed as Jesus dressed and found so fascinating by the townspeople of the coal-mining town, Hazelton, Pennsylvania, and wondered what if this man had walked to an abortuary? What if he had asked others to pray and counsel at the abortion mill? I believe the people would have responded. They would have been there with him, praying for the babies and the mothers.
But Jesus is with us every day. In the Holy Eucharist, in our hearts and in our words. Would anyone doubt that while we stand in front of an abortion mill, that Jesus and Mary are not right there? They were there all night, waiting for us to come in the morning.
Do we need to see Jesus and Mary to realize how the Son of God and His Mother love us and love each preborn child? No, we know this, through the generous gift of faith God has given us.
Then why is it so hard to get people to come to an abortuary to pray? Perhaps we should start to imagine Jesus right behind us. I think He would stop at the first abortuary He passed to pray. How many times do we drive by an abortion mill and look the other way? And don't see Jesus waiting?
Just wondering... k.s.
By Katherine Sabelko
During the Lenten season, Catholics are encouraged by the Church to make a more concerted effort to atone for our past sins and to offer up acts of charity and acts of self-denial for not only ourselves but other people.
Though most people would acknowledge that God loves us and forgives us of our transgressions, when we sincerely confess them to a priest, many people have begun to ignore the fact we still must purify our souls that have been stained by sin. Yes, God forgives us but we still must accept His purification through our prayers and actions before, death or after our death, in Purgatory.
Sadly, many people, through their own denial of spiritual reality or the misguided homilies of priests at funerals, choose to believe that once we leave this earth, we go right to Heaven. Sadly, it is truly for only a very few people. Most people, who die in the state of grace, still must endure the pains of Purgatory to remove any blemish of sin.
Prayer and good works are increased during Lent in an effort to remove these marks of our offenses to God. Father Nouwen remarked in his article, Choosing Joy, New Covenant, November, 1992, "From God's perspective, one hidden act of repentance, one little gesture of selfless love, one moment of true forgiveness is all that is needed to bring God from His throne to run to His returning son and fill the heavens with sounds of divine joy."
Our trips to the abortuary are a wonderful, positive method of showing God our sincere efforts to follow His way and, at the same time, reaching out to people who are in a dangerous spiritual situation by choosing abortion. During the Good Friday Prayer Vigil each year at Planned Parenthood, we also begin the Divine Mercy Novena, which prayed with the correct spiritual goals, can gain a Catholic plenary and partial indulgences.
We have provided some general information on indulgences here so that we can be reminded not only of God's great mercy while we are here on earth but that we can strive for a greater spiritual growth. The abortion battle is spiritual - the greatest of all battles will always be between God and the evil forces of Satan. This is a wonderful way to put our spiritual armor on for our time of battle in this world!
These are the satisfaction made to God for the temporal punishment due to sin after the guilt has been forgiven through the sacrament of Confession. Forgiveness of sin involves two things:
- Forgiveness of guilt of sin. This takes place with a good confession with absolution from the priest.
- God's just punishment for the sin, which must be suffered either in this life or in the next. If a soul dies in the state of grace and still has not made satisfaction for the punishment due his sins, he must atone for them in the next life, namely, in purgatory.
Indulgences are either partial or plenary. Partial indulgences remit part of the debt owed by our sin; a plenary indulgence means that the whole debt is paid and the soul goes immediately to heaven. Indulgences can be gained either for oneself or for the souls in purgatory. During the Jubilee year, the Holy Father has asked each of us to strive to gain the Plenary Indulgence, even daily.
The requirements for gaining the Jubilee Plenary Indulgence are:
- Confession: within eight days either before or after your intention to gain the Indulgence. (If you aspire to gain daily you will need to receive the Sacrament of confession once every two weeks).
- Holy Communion: on the day you desire to gain the Indulgence.
- A prayer-filled visit to church. Those who are unable to make a visit to a Catholic Church or chapel, either because of illness, poverty, or other impediments, may fulfill this requirement by making a "spiritual visit," lifting up their minds and hearts in prayer, with a desire to gain the indulgence.
There is a change in the weekly Schedule for the Tempe, Arizona area
We ask you to join other pro-lifers on Fridays at Family Planning Institute, 2525 South Rural Road at 8:45 a.m. instead of Planned Parenthood on Apache Road.
Shame on YOU for your biased stand on political issues. You were highly critical and made a big deal out of a statement made by Barbara Bush (a Republican) about how little a president can do about abortion. Then there is our current President, a Democrat who not only favors abortion, but approves of Late-Term abortion. Where is your criticism of his and the rest of the Democrat party's stand on the issue?
Harold Phelps
Scottsdale, Arizona
Ed. Note: I realize that you are new to our mailings and I thank you for the sincere response!
It has been clear for many years that our organization stands against the pro-abortion Democrat party. We will be happy to run this letter as we do all of them. Since it is so obvious that Clinton and his buddies are the bad guys, we try to expose some of the murky statements that can confuse people who are not totally "pro-life."
I have written many articles on the Clintons and the Democrats. My thoughts, sadly, are that so many of our well-meaning priests vote democrat every election and publicly state it on television, etc.
By the way, Clinton doesn't just "approve" of partial-birth abortion, he lies about it and defends it.
We also are printing another anti-life, pro-abortion item on the Clintons, by Dr. Frank Joseph, so that other new readers will have up-to-date facts to use in discussions.
Thank you for your brochure on The Sale of Baby Parts. It was really tough to read but it is reality, a reality a lot of pro-lifers better face!
I showed it to two friends who go to daily Mass with me. So far they have never had the time to come to the abortion mill with us because they are soooo busy! They keep saying they vote pro-life but they sure don't do anything else!
When they started to read it, both women handed it back, with that sound people use to say something is oh, so terrible, that "Tich, tich." sound. Well, they still won't come out to pray but at least I feel that now they have to know the horror of abortion. If they do nothing, it will be between them and God!
Please keep up the hard hitting (though hard to read about) facts about the horror of abortion!
Barbara Whiting
Long Beach, California
Last night I watched the 20/20 program on the selling of Baby parts. I cried through the whole program. I also prayed for that the doctor that was on via the hidden camera.
I have miscarried three children in my life time, two of them at 12 weeks and the third at five months. I was horrified at the thought that other babies were being ripped to pieces to be sold to the highest bidder.
We, as a country, deserve what ever the good Lord wants to throw at us when we allow this horror to continue.
When I explained to my dear husband what the show was about, he was very disturbed. Our last daughter was a preemie and I could tell that he was thinking, "thank you, God that she survived and is a wonderful healthy soon to be 3 year old." But that there are other children that are not as lucky to survive, and might end up as those poor souls.
If that show does not make pro-lifers out of every one ... I think we are a cursed race.
There was only one good thing that was said by that "doctor" she kept calling the babies fetuses not tissue samples, that means that know the whole world knows that babies in the womb are not tissue samples but babies.
Sara Walsh
Athens, NY
Recently my wife and I went to see the movie- Cider House Rules with Michael Caine which has been nominated for several Academy Awards. Having read a review in a secular paper, we understood the movie to deal with a compassionate medical doctor who devotes his life to the care of orphans.
Unfortunately, Hollywood always has its hidden agendas, in this case, abortion. It became evident as the movie progressed that this film was actually a platform to promote abortion and to portray abortionists as loving, caring people.
We left the movie about halfway through it, and sought out the manager. We told him of our anger at the deception Hollywood used in promoting the film and demanded, and received, our money back.
In this morning's newspaper, The Arizona Republic, the director of the film mentioned that he was quite surprised and happy that the pro-life people had not protested this piece of garbage (my description, not his).
Please ask your readers to boycott this film. Due to it's academy nominations it is certain to have another run through the theatres with much fanfare!
Tom Takash
Phoenix, Arizona
Ed. Note: This has happened to many Christians, who unknowingly go to see a movie and belatedly discover it goes against every decent fiber of our being.
At times it seems impossible to find out in advance exactly what a movie's true theme is and what insulting scenes may flash in front of us with no warning. This is one of the worst movies out and the message is clear.
In an attempt to guide people in the viewing of films, the Office of Film and Broadcasting National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB)/United States Catholic Conference has a website where you can reference any movie you are interested in viewing.
The review for The Cider House Rules from the NCCB site:
Because of its positive treatment of [then] illegal abortions, references to incest, violent and suicidal behavior, drug abuse, a fleeting sexual encounter and brief nudity, the U.S. Catholic Conference classification is O -- morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents are strongly cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. The Cider House Rules is a romanticized 1940s drama in which a young man (played by Tobey Maguire) leaves the Maine orphanage run by the doctor (played by Michael Caine) who had raised him to carry on in his footsteps, but the youth refuses to perform illegal abortions until he resorts to the procedure when a farm worker (played by Erykah Badu) becomes pregnant by her own father (played by Delroy Lindo). The movie adaptation of John Irving's 1985 novel is emotionally manipulative in its pro-abortion stance with the story's humanist themes failing to apply to life within the womb. December 1999
The Internet can be a useful tool for avoiding bad movies and deceptive advertising. Even if you do not have a personal computer, you can access the National Conference of Catholic Bishops movie review site from a public library computer at: http://www.nccbuscc.org/movies/a.htm
On this site you have the "latest" releases:
http://www.nccbuscc.org/movies/index.htm
For your general information and snail-mail correspondence, this is the mailing address:
Office of Film and Broadcasting, National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference
1011 First Avenue, 13th Floor,
New York, NY 10022
(212) 644-1880
My only copy of your Rosary meditations for the Life Rosary is getting worn out. I used your address on the back of your pamphlet. Could you please send me another copy?
If you still make available the pamphlet, The Life Rosary , could you mail me a dozen copies, in fact, for our group who all picket at the abortion mill here in Ocala? I'll be happy to cover whatever costs are incurred or send a donation. Thank you so much for being there for us!
Mrs. Mary Brock
Ocala, Florida
I recently became acquainted with your excellent Newsletter by picking up several copies in Church. I am just finishing up the October, 1999 issue. May I compliment you on several very enlightening articles: the first; Princeton's Dark Prince ; 2nd; Internet Expose of Christ Hospital ; and 3rd; Who is Killing Who? ; 4th: Are You Really You?
These were all so well written and thought provoking. People really need to get this kind of information because there is so much double-speak out there anymore sometimes it is difficult to tell truth from fiction.
I want to subscribe to your excellent publication!
May the Blessed Mother smile on all your efforts on her behalf, and may her spouse, the Holy Spirit, continue to inspire your insightful comments and articles.
Mrs. Linneman
Mesa, Arizona
I have just recently become aware of your organization and the work you are doing to help stop abortion. I think that there should be a concerted effort within the Pro-Life community and within its supporters to reach our children.
My husband and I experienced the loss of our first three children. As a young married couple we were forced to face the prospect of a life without the ability to have the legacy of our love live on in children of our own.
We were both from relatively large families, as society labeled them in the 60's and 70's. Dan was one of four and I was one of five. We grew up believing that having children was a biological "right." The lesson that giving life to a child is truly a miracle of God and the only control we had over the process was through our prayers was a heart wrenching yet valuable lesson.
Our prayers were answered with two miracles, Danny in 1988 and Mary Lynne in 1990. We have made a serious commitment to reinforce in our children the knowledge that they are miracles. We have taught them that every life, regardless of how short or long, has a purpose in God's providence. The impact of those three children, that we never got to hold, has changed our lives and the lives of all that know us. They too were chosen for a special purpose.
I thank my parents for teaching me not to be afraid of my children, and that my role as their parent is infinitely more rewarding than being their friend. I do my children no favors by allowing them to believe that the world will bend to suit their whimsy, because this sets them up for disappointment the first time they need to make their own way in this world.
I believe the most important gift I will give my children is the knowledge that society is not where they will find the answers to right and wrong. That the time to make a "choice" is prior to taking part in behavior that will have negative consequences. And finally, that just because a "choice" is legal, does not make it right, it only makes doing the wrong thing a little easier.
Thank you for all of your work and prayers to end abortion.
Margaret A. Zimmerman
Mesa, Arizona
The article, Failing The Little Ones , by Katherine Sabelko, January 2000 Children of the Rosary newsletter was right on target. In the paragraph beginning, "When every church can stand strong, speaking about abortion, and not hide behind tax exempt status, we will be much further along."
How much more comfortable it is to stay out of the mine fields, remain silent, and to blame the silence on the separation of church and state. This is nothing to do with church and state. It's a moral issue plain and simple, and as such the clergy has a moral obligation to address this on a straightforward and regular basis.
The Pope has made the position of the Church very clear; it seems as if the breakdown occurs at the point where leadership is most needed...the pulpit.
You and I write letters, but for the most part we're preaching to the choir. Nothing I've written here is news to you, and while a letter like yours is important to energize pro-lifers, there are 60 million Catholics in this country that will not have the opportunity to read it.
While praying for abortionists, it's also important to pray that the clergy will have a renewal of the courage that seems to be lacking in this crusade. We already know about the wheat and the chaff. It would be nice to hear a homily begin with the words, "As Catholics, you are morally obligated to....!" No one is going to be offended. I think people would expect and welcome some strong leadership.
Ed Novak
Phoenix, Arizona
The abortion industry in Spain is getting financial help with tax-payers' dollars, Zenit news service reported. "The Spanish government has decided to provide public funds to pay for the abortion pill Mifegyne (RU-486), and to distribute the pill in private hospitals and clinics."
Javier Valentín-Gamazo, delegate of Madrid's Archdiocesan program for the pastoral care for the family, and Dr. Pilar Cebrián, medical specialist from La Paz Hospital, gave their opinion about the abortion pill RU-486 invented in France in 1981, to Madrid's Archdiocesan news agency, "Infomadrid."
Dr. Cebrián defines the pill's effect as "a type of abortion, including pain and hemorrhages. I do not believe that abortion is the way out for the Spanish women, nor for any woman. Generally speaking abortion results in psychological problems; that must also be said."
Agency France Press reported, February 21, that Russia saw its sharpest decline in population last year. The 0.5 percent drop in the population since 1992 translates into 884,500 people. This data was cited from an official Interfax agency.
The latest figures compiled by the State Statistical Committee (SSC) showed that the Russian population has shrunk by 2.8 million, or almost two percent, in the past eight years.
While these statistics are in some disagreement, the fact remains that Russia's population is declining. Here's why: Though the report attempts to attribute the falling population to a crisis in public health and widespread alcoholism, which is known as a severe problem in the former Soviet Union, another important fact is that the abortion rate is so high there that the mortality rate outstrips the birth rate by a factor of 1.5.
Though public policy on abortion has not changed in Russia, the director of the Academy of Medicine, Valentin Pokrovsky, warned "Russia is on the verge of a population catastrophe due to its low birth rate."
America's birthrate has been below replacement since about l970. If birthrates continue to fall according to current projections, Massachusetts and the Northeast Corridor will be joined by more and more states in their dependence on foreign immigration.
Another way of putting this is that America's population growth rate is too low to sustain its current rate of economic growth, which will in turn increasingly affect its competitiveness in the world market. This slow-burning demographic implosion will be one of the principal challenges facing the US during the next millennium.
If the negative population groups and the radical left wing of the environmental organizations cheer at decreasing American birth rates, they should be reminded that these unwanted children being destroyed every day were the future contributors to the Social Security coffers. - K.S.
On Christmas Eve day Children of the Rosary prayer warriors met in front of Planned Parenthood, in Phoenix, to pray that the mothers going into the abortuary would change their minds and accept the help the sidewalk counselors offered them.
By Mike Fichter
Indiana Right To Life
The Indiana Medical Licensing Board stripped abortionist Robert Morgan of his Indiana license, ending months of hearings on numerous allegations of improper care. Morgan, who had worked as an abortionist at the Indianapolis abortion clinic known as Clinic for Women, will no longer be able to legally do abortions in Indiana and may not apply for a new license for seven years.
The focal point of the hearings had been the death of Robert James Rollins III, the newborn son of Lori Rollins. Robert James was born comatose, deaf and blind and died a little over two months after birth. The Indiana Attorney General's office alleged the baby's death was a direct result of Morgan's negligence in responding to Lori Rollins' troubled labor during which her uterus ruptured.
The Indianapolis Star reported on February 20, 1999, that Morgan has had 23 medical malpractice suits filed against him at the Indiana Department of Insurance during his 28-year career. According to the attorney general's office, a medical review panel determined Morgan committed malpractice in at least three of the instances. In December 1995 Community East Hospital denied renewal of Morgan's privileges.
The Indiana Medical Licensing Board's decision is a victory for Indiana women. Too many times our medical community has looked the other way in cases involving abortionists. We believe a clear signal is being sent that abusive practices will not be tolerated in Indiana. There is nothing to prevent Morgan from doing abortions in other states.
We have included a new, expanded order form for not only bumper stickers, envelope stickers but also shirts, sweatshirts and our handmade rosaries.
Be sure to check out the pictures of the stickers on our web site (http://www.childrenoftherosary.org/bumpmain.php) as well as the other items.
This is a wonderful way for you to support the pro-life movement and also spread the word of life on your car, on your letters and on your clothes!
The Roe vs. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision's yearly anniversary marks the darkest day in this country's history. In an effort to remind the public that all life is precious, parishes in and around Phoenix have erected wooden crosses on the parish grounds in October and January each year. |
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This year St. Paul has once again set up a large sign and almost 1,200 crosses in the lawn, as shown in these pictures. Other parishes who have participated in the past are Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Glendale and St. Helen's Catholic Church in Glendale.
 | These crosses are available to any church interested in setting them up. October, marked as Life Month in the Catholic Church and January are excellent times to use the display. Please call us at 602-548-3131 for more information. |
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