Babies saved at Boston-area abortion clinics:
For year 2009: 55
For year 2008: 85
For 2003: 60, 2004: 65, 2005: 64, 2006: 80, 2007: 90
"The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. ...How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?"
— John Adams "[J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men."
— John Adams
Obama on abortion: http://obamawantsyou.com/mainpage.html http://stoptheabortionagenda.com NEW! Video of Obama speech to Planned Parenthood:
http://obamawantsyou.com/53seconds.html More on Obama: Everything you need to know about Barack Obama How the facts of Obama's actions and associations reveal a far more left-leaning tilt to his background — and to his politics.
THU, JUL 2 -- A couple came out of Planned Parenthood yesterday and told Eleanor and Mary, our sidewalk counselors, that they had decided not to have the abortion (# 55). Death takes a (partial) holiday:
Planned Parenthood is CLOSED on Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 4.
Women's Health Services (Rte. 9, Brookline) is OPEN Friday, July 3 and CLOSED Saturday, July 4. A new undercover video shows a staffer at a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Birmingham, Alabama telling a woman who appears to be a victim of statutory rape that "we bend the rules." MON, JUN 29 -- Caritas moderates abortion connection (Globe, June 27, 2009) Commentary from Phil Lawler:Clearly this is a victory, and thank God for that. I don't care who gets the credit; the right thing happened. Thanks to everyone who played a role. But: 1 - Before I do any noisy celebrating, I'm going to want to check over the new deal very carefully. Caritas Christi is still being secretive. We know that there was a big push behind this proposal, and I doubt that the people involved gave up easily. Is this a real withdrawal or a paper move? Let's be wary.
2 - In no way can this be seen as an advance for the pro-life cause. The ground that we hold today is ground that we held before. We have avoided a huge setback. Still we've held ground against a very determined offensive by the other side. That's a real victory, and reason enough to rejoice.
CJ Doyle of the Catholic Action League issued a press release
FRI, JUN 26 -- Caritas withdraws! But . . . ?? Globe article excerpt: "Centene Corp., the Missouri-based insurer, will continue to participate in the state-subsidized program, called Commonwealth Care, starting Wednesday.
"And Caritas will continue to participate in the program, but now simply as one of many health care providers hired by Centene to treat patients. Caritas's role as a provider will be the same as the role it plays when providing care to people covered by private insurers such as Blue Cross.
"In keeping with the ethical directives that bind Catholic hospitals, Caritas hospitals will not provide abortion or sterilizations. Caritas already refers privately-insured patients who seek such services to their insurance providers, and will do the same with state-insured patients." Unanswered question: what is the contractural arrangement with Centene and the state? If Caritas is totally out of the contract, what is the purpose of Centene / CeltiCare? Smoking gun: "Caritas already refers privately-insured patients who seek such services to their insurance providers, and will do the same with state-insured patients" -- who are obligated by contract with the state to provide them abortions. Why wouldn't they be sent to the archdiocesan crisis pregnancy center?? TUE, JUN 22 -- Obituary: Dorothy Carleton, mother of Father Tom Carleton died Sunday morning around 2:00 AM. The wake was this afternoon. The funeral Mass is tomorrow at 11:00 AM at the Saint Benedict's Center chapel in Still River, MA. A young couple -- the woman had cried on the way in -- came out of Planned Parenthood this morning in Boston. The scheduled abortion did not take place! (# 54) Pray for this couple as there still some ambivalence. "I have been married for forty-eight years, but might I still register as a domestic partner with one of my friends who is working for the government? Or with a few of them in separate twosomes? If a domestic partnership is not a marriage, why should my marriage pose a hindrance? The laws on bigamy cannot come into play. After all, I can be married to my wife and be a partner in a business or a member of several associations, sharing obligations with others. What principle of “domestic partnership” confines the relation to two people and only one set of two people?" -- Hadley Arkes on same-sex "marriage" and related matters PBS Celebrates Late-Term Abortions, Attacks Pro-Life Advocates -- Brent Bozell comments on their bias MON, JUN 21 (Sts. Thomas More & John Fisher) -- Baby saved: Ruth Schiavone called to say a pair of young women exited Planned Parenthood in Boston Saturday morning, and one of them told the gathered prayer supporters that "I couldn't do it" -- Thanks be to God! That's the 53rd child spared from abortion-death this year! A Catholic psychologist who specializes in reparative therapy with homosexuals says it's possible for those with same-sex attractions to change, despite agenda-driven ideologies that state the opposite. FRI, JUN 19 -- Gail Besse article on Caritas in National Catholic Register Wichita pro-life groups receive death threats Editor of Vatican Newspaper Stands by Comment That Obama “Not a Pro-Abortion President” (He's 'pro-choice" -- WED, JUN 17 -- Two children were saved from abortion today (# 51 & 52), following the mediation of sidewalk counselors Eleanor and Mary. One was another woman who prayed for an got "a sign" -- the pro-lifers -- and cancelled her abortion. The other is a more tenuous -- the woman and her boyfriend went with Eleanor to A Woman's Concern but due to the ultrasound technician being out today, the appointment had to be postponed a week. Pray for all of these people! Government-sponsored perversion: Children from middle schools and high schools across Massachusetts on May 9 attended a Youth Pride Day event ending with a prom inside of Boston City Hall sponsored by the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Youth, or BAGLY, a group seated on the Massachusetts Commission for GLBT Youth. Read the WorldNetDaily report -- caution: it's graphic, with photos!! Why women are unhappy -- Phyllis Schlafly NewsBusters.org -- Obama administration defends Defense of Marriage Act MON, JUN 15 -- LeRoy Carhart Will Begin Training Staff in Nebraska to Do Late-Term Abortions Bellevue, NE (LifeNews.com) -- Nebraska-based late-term abortion practitioner Leroy Carhart said he will begin training his staff to late-term abortions in addition to the second-trimester ones he already does at his Omaha-area abortion center. Until now, Carhart had performed late-term abortions only at George Tiller's center in Wichita, Kansas. However, with the shooting death of Tiller, Carhart has taken it upon himself to replace Tiller and become the leading center of late-term abortions in the central United States. Tiller was shot and killed at his church 12 days ago, and Tiller's family said it plans to close his abortion business. Attorney General Jon Bruning, a longtime pro-life advocate, told Nebraska media he's not happy about the plan. "I'm disgusted and I'm saddened, and I hate it that he's here in Nebraska and I hate it that he's in America," Bruning said. "I mean, this guy is one sick individual." Carhart said some of the staff from Tiller's clinic may help him with the training in Bellevue. A film screening of “The Demographic Bomb: Demography is Destiny” (Part II of “The Demographic Winter”) will take place Wednesday, June 17 at 11:00 AM at the Family Research Council in Washington, DC. The documentary will be available via live webcast at www.frc.org (Only at 11 AM EST on June 17, 2009). Please RSVP for the webcast. FRI, JUN 12 -- "Doubt, Dialogue and Demonization" by Fr. Roger Landry — The Anchor (5/22/09)
The fundamental reason why the President called for dialogue and common ground on abortion in South Bend—and set up an elaborate pseudo-religious argument to pretend that it's all that can be achieved between the "irreconciliable" views on both sides of the abortion issue—seems to be because he seeks to draw pro-lifers, and Catholics in particular, from a position of moral absolutism about the evil of abortion to one aligned with the "demands of a new age," which wants unfettered abortion access. Full article THU, JUN 11 -- Baby saved from abortion (# 50) today at Boston's Planned Parenthood Today's Boston Globe article on Caritas and cardinal's statement Cardinal O'Malley's statement
on Caritas & CeltiCare It should be self-evident that the archdiocese's statement (PDF) does not refute the assertion that the arrangement is not a moral one. A key sentence in the statement is the following: Mr. Ralph de la Torre, President of Caritas Christi, stated that "when a patient seeks such a procedure, Caritas healthcare professionals will be clear that (a) the hospital does not perform them and (b) the patient must turn to his or her insurer for further guidance."
Why "must" a patient be directed to "her insurer for further guidance"?? Especially when the insurer is CeltiCare, which has contracted with Planned Parenthood to kill children? What "guidance" do you think they might offer? Why wouldn't women be directed to the Archdiocese's Pregnancy Help? Also unaddressed in the statement is the fact that the archdiocese sought this partnership with Centene / CeltiCare, and sought the contract with the state, which was awarded on the condition that the partnership commit to child killing! In exchange, the partners are paid fees by the state. Caritas is also culpable because its partner is directly involved with the killing; in partnerships each individual party is completely liable for the harm brought about by either individual party, especially where there is prior intent. And even if money for an abortion is funneled from the state to Planned Parenthood with no cut for Caritas / CeltiCare, the fact that their contract with the state -- and thus revenue from the state -- can only exist because they agreed to play a role in abortion means that they are sharing in the financial gain produced by sin. |
TUE, JUN 9 -- Official: CeltiCare is in the abortion business, with Planned Parenthood named as the "provider." CaritasChristi's relationship to this is explained on CeltiCare's web site under the FAQs:
"Is CeltiCare part of Caritas? No, Caritas is a community-based hospital system that has partnered with Centene to form CeltiCare." Web address:
http://www.celticarehealthplan.com/members/faqs/ Whatever became of "Be not unevenly yoked." Catholic News Agency sought comment from the Archdiocese of Boston and was told the matter was “under review.”
Terrence Donolin, the Archdiocese’s Secretary for Communications and Public Affairs, referred CNA to previous stories, stating “At this juncture there is nothing new to report and no announcements have been made.” Commentary on Caritas Christi by Judie Brown -- Part 1 and Part 2 CLOSED: The family of slain abortionist George Tiller said Tuesday that his Wichita clinic will be "permanently closed," effective immediately.
Operation Rescue press release on closing Pro-Life Jihad?? -- Brent Bozell The Anti-Reagan -- Pat Buchanan Homegrown jihad in Arkansas and Ohio -- Robert Spencer SUN, JUN 7 -- Father Bill Lohan brought the St. Mary's of Dedham Teen Life group out to Planned Parenthood Saturday morning. Sidewalk counselor from Friday called to report a woman left Planned Parenthood after choosing life for her baby (# 45). Partial-birth abortionist LeRoy Carhart will assume killing duties at Tiller's Wichita abortion facility. He called pro-life advocates "terrorists" and said Tiller's death was "a declaration of war" from the majority of Americans who take a pro-life position on abortion. He called pro-life Americans "fundamentalist terrorists... no different from al-Qaida, the Taliban or any of them." Full story at LifeNews.com THU, JUN 4 -- Two more children saved from abortion according to sidewalk counselor feedback. On Wednesday, a couple pulled into a parking space behind Eleanor, who was just leaving. She talked to the young couple -- who said they had an abortion appointment -- and noticed that the woman looked quite ill. She got them to Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, for which the young man was quite grateful. No final word on what will be done to her baby, but so far, no abortion (# 43).
Today, at Planned Parenthood, a couple was turned away from their abortion, and the counselors -- Janet & Mari -- were able to give the story of the saved baby (# 44) to Toviah Smith of NPR, who was there for an interview. Bill O'Reilly on the Tiller killing 49 million to five -- Ann Coulter on the Tiller killing Who Was William Long? by Gary Bauer
Private William Long was murdered in cold blood yesterday. The 24-year old Army recruiter was mowed down outside the Army recruiting station where he worked by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a Muslim convert formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe. Muhammad wounded another soldier, Private Quinton Ezeagwula. The jihadist had recently returned from Yemen, where he studied his new faith under an Islamic scholar who apparently forgot to tell him that it was a “religion of peace.” Muhammad had been under investigation by the U.S. Federal Task Force on Terrorism. How did he get his weapons and commit these crimes when he was under investigation?
The sound you heard after this terrorist attack was silence. President Obama, who immediately condemned the murder of abortionist George Tiller on Sunday, still has not – 24 hours later – said one word about the cowardly attack on these soldiers. The U.S. Justice Department, which sent federal marshals yesterday to guard abortion clinics, has sent no one to guard our military recruitment offices, even though more than 100 of those offices have been attacked in recent years.
Big Media, which is doing its best to link the killing of George Tiller to the mainstream pro-life movement, is going out of its way to assert that there is no evidence that Abdulhakim Muhammad had any connection to Muslim groups. Only Fox News is giving any significant coverage to the attack.
The American media are failing to fulfill their responsibility to bring all the facts to the American people, even facts that don’t fit the media’s worldview. As for the president, he is the commander-in-chief. He is responsible for the wellbeing of our men and women in uniform. His silence in the face of this brutal attack is shameful. But I guess he was just too busy poring over drafts of his presidential proclamation declaring June “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” MON, JUN 1 -- Pro-lifers have nothing to apologize for regarding the killing of Dr. Tiller -- one of the most flagrant, ghoulish child murderers in the USA. To all appearances the words of Jesus apply: "Better for this man had he never been born."
Rather it is the officials, legislative and judicial, who not only fail to penalize abortionists, but fabricate and promote the fiction of "abortion rights," who have the lion's share of blame, along with their apologists and other promoters. To paraphrase John F. Kennedy, "Those who make legal protection impossible, make violent reaction inevitable."
The flaunting of child killing -- regardless of the rhetorical packaging and disclaimers about it being a "difficult choice" that "no one likes" -- is a stain upon this nation and a mocking of God. And a gratuitous provocation. As Christians, we should have no part such violence. But don't be surprised by it either. Nor should we be intimidated into suppressing our pro-life message, e.g., via a "lowering of voices" as a certain misguided prelate once advised.
Pray for charity and fortitude. Expect persecution. "He who perseveres to the end will be saved." Pro-abortionists blame pro-lifers for Tiller shooting:
LifeNews article 1
LifeNews article 2 Interesting article in Thursday's Globe on the pending move by abortionist Delli-Bovi in Brookline. Two numbers of note: this article states that Delli-Bovi's facility did 3301 abortions last year.
Planned Parenthood, on the other hand, according to Harvard Medical School's web site, does about 9000 abortions per year at its Boston facility. Harvard trains their "Family Planning Fellows" at Planned Parenthood, and at Delli-Bovi's Women's Health Services. LINK:
http://www.familyplanningfellowship.org/Site_Harvard.htm Tear jerker quote: A recent change of landlords at the Boylston Street address brought with it "a rent we can't sustain," said Dr. Laurent Delli-Bovi, who owns the Women's Health Services practice.
"We will literally go broke, if we stay here," said Delli-Bovi. THU, MAR 5 -- Archdiocese of Boston has no comment on proposed abortion referrals at Caritas Christi hospitals (Boston Globe)
Background info on Globe reporter's blog
Why is a Catholic health-care agency actively seeking involvement in a program that would involve abortion referrals? -- Commentary from Phil Lawler WED, FEB 18 -- The historical fraud of overpopulation -- Cardinal Mindszenty Report SAT, NOV 8 -- From MassResistance: What did we learn from the election? TUE, NOV 4 -- But Where Did Bush Go Wrong? by Patrick J. Buchanan -- The GOP is bracing for losses of six to nine in the Senate, and two dozen to three dozen additional seats in the House. "I doubt that he is the long-prophesied ruler of the world, but I also believe that he is a carrier of a deadly moral virus, indeed a kind of anti-apostle spreading concepts and agendas that are not only anti-Christ but anti-human as well." -- Michael O'Brien on Barack: the Antichrist? SUN, OCT 5 -- A letter from Bishop Joseph F. Martino to be read aloud by priests at all Roman Catholic Masses in the Diocese of Scranton, PA this weekend calls on the faithful to understand and remember the church's position on abortion come Election Day.
"Jesus Christ ... does not ask us to take up his Cross only to have us leave it at the voting booth door," Bishop Martino says in the two-page pastoral letter, which will also be circulated with all parish bulletins on Saturday and Sunday. In it, he criticizes the laws that protect abortion rights and takes particular aim at political candidates who express support for those rights.
In the letter, Bishop Martino refers to abortion as "homicide" and writes, "It is a tragic irony that 'pro-choice' candidates have come to support homicide — the gravest injustice a society can tolerate — in the name of 'social justice.'" THU, FEB 17, 2005 -- Research vindicates Catholic teaching on marriage and contraception (Touchstone)
Why are things the way they are in the archdiocese? One must be careful not to over-generalize, but we still believe there is a lot of insight in Professor James Hitchcock's article, "Conservative Bishops, Liberal Results"
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