THU, JAN 26 -- A Planned Parenthood customer told Clare, a sidewalk counselor, "I couldn't do it" (#9). She left with pro-life info, and said she would call Janet, the other pro-life counselor.

WED, JAN 25 -- Pray for a woman who left Planned Parenthood today, without getting the abortion. But, as she told Eleanor, "I'm still undecided."

Our March for Life report.

Gary Bauer offers this YouTube video on Obama's mis-statements in the State of the Union address.

ABOVE: Ruth counseling a Planned Parenthood customer Saturday, in stormy Boston.

Clare was at Planned Parenthood Thursday (Jan. 16) and spoke to a young man who exited the facility -- hoping to encourage him to bring the woman out. On the way back in he talked with Clare and asked her what she would like to say to the girlfriend. Clare spoke -- as the man recorded her on his cell phone! -- and concluded with, "...don't do it!" And a short time later, the two of them came out! "You're going to keep your baby?" "Yes, I am!" said the woman. (#8)

WED, JAN 18 -- Today outside of Planned Parenthood, almost a repeat of last week.

    Eleanor, one of our sidewalk counselors, speaks with two women. Although both are pregnant, only one had an abortion scheduled. Thankfully, both were receptive to Eleanor's offer of help, so they went off to A Woman's Concern in Dorchester. (#7)

We nearly missed a woman as she headed into Planned Parenthood Tuesday morning, but she came over and talked with us and then accompanied Eleanor to Pregnancy Help. Ultrasound is scheduled for tomorrow. [Number 6 for 2012!]

An encouraging article about a bishop with some backbone! Archbishop John Nienstedt is warning Catholic clergy across Minnesota that there should be no "open dissension" of the Church's strong backing of a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would define marriage as a union only between a man and woman. LINK: http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/137358543.html

A couple exited Women's Health Services in Brookline this morning without having an abortion. Their attitude was ones of sarcasm rather than conversion, however. So, this one -- number 5 for 2012 -- may not last. But that's true of many who turn around. Pray for their perseverance!

Planned Parenthood was closed all of Martin Luther King weekend -- but the monthly Rosary vigil went off as usual on Saturday.

Ten buses will leave the Archdiocese of Boston's Pastoral Center in Braintree for the March for Life. They will carry Catholic teenagers and young adults to the March for Life. Link to Boston Pilot article: http://thebostonpilot.com/articleprint.asp?id=14204. The ten are in addition to the several other buses leaving the Boston area.

WED, JAN 11 -- Eleanor, one of our sidewalk counselors, speaks [BELOW] with a couple who just exited Planned Parenthood. [The woman's rose is from Eleanor.] They decided against abortion, and Eleanor had them follow her to Pregnancy Help, where they were counseled. Afterward, Eleanor took the couple to lunch. (#4)

SAT, JAN 7 -- A tearful woman and her mother exited Planned Parenthood this morning. The mother told Allison, a sidewalk counselor, that "she didn't do anything." Mother and daughter drove away. [#3]

Connie, a sidewalk counselor called to tell us that a woman changed her mind at Planned Parenthood Friday morning. [#2]

Janet and Bill and Marie were at Planned Parenthood Thursday morning. There were a few exchanges with a young woman who had a scheduled abortion. At first she was adamant about the abortion -- her boyfriend had left her. But a while later, they came out of Planned Parenthood and Janet approached them. The woman confided that she had changed her mind -- "I'm not going to do it!" she said. [#1]

LATE REPORT:  A baby was saved from abortion at 111 Harvard Street in Brookline last week, on December 27. A woman went into Women's Hell-th but came out after a couple of minutes. On her was back in, she hesitated. Jean, a sidewalk counselor, called to her, "You don't have to go in!" The woman walked back to the car. After a brief, apparently angry exchange with her male companion, they drove away (#117).

WED, JAN 4 -- Planned Parenthood Annual Report shows: $487.4 million from taxpayers over a twelve-month period and 329,455 abortions. CNSNews.com article

Sign of the times: Prosecutors said Tuesday they are dropping a rare self-abortion case against a woman arrested after her fetus was found among trash. (AP)

Mass. Judge Upholds Kidnapping Charge in Case of Unborn Baby (AP)

SAT, DEC 31 -- The 2011 total for babies saved hit 116 today as a young woman chose life for her baby -- very much against her mother's wish. Judy and Evelyn talked to the woman and called her decision "definite."

WED, DEC 28 -- There were about eight pro-lifers - a sizeable group as these gatherings go -- outside of Planned Parenthood Wednesday morning. Frank, as usual brought roses for the pro-life ladies, who give them out to women approaching the clinic and to other passerby.

The morning was almost finished when Eleanor saw a baby in a stroller, accompanied by a man and a woman, on the sidewalk down the street. She approached and asked the woman, "Would you like to have this rose?" She accepted it, and they talked a bit about the beautiful baby in the carriage, age 2. "He's a miracle!" Eleanor said. They thanked her and mentioned that they have a six-year old at home, too.

 

After exchanging a few more pleasantries, Eleanor walked back toward Planned Parenthood and stood in front of the building. A few minutes later the woman strode toward her with a determined look. When she reached Eleanor, she put her arms around her and said, "Thank you for saving my baby!" It turns out that she was pregnant and was going to the clinic after all -- a thought that had not occurred to Eleanor when she spoke with them. But the rose and Eleanor's gracious greeting -- and the Grace of God! -- swung the decision the other way.

The morning was punctuated by the rest of the pro-lifers who came over to encourage -- an give $$! to -- the young couple; and to thank the young man for his military service (he recently returned from Iraq). (#115)

TUE, DEC 27 -- Eleanor waited in her car near Planned Parenthood this morning instead of leaving at 11:00 as she usually does. She was waiting for a pair of women who had gone into the facility around 10:30 am. She was about to leave around 12:30, but her cell phone rang. During the few minutes she was on the phone, the women came out of the clinic! She was able to have a very pleasant conversation with them and learned that the pregnant one is going to keep her baby! (#114)

SAT, DEC 24 -- Clare, a counselor outside of Planned Parenthood called to tell us that a woman who had come out of the clinic about a month ago has finally decided not to have the abortion (they have been in touch ever since) (#113).

On Thursday, Janet reported on a woman who went into Planned Parenthood last week: "The five-month pregnant girl DID come back out of the clinic; and she IS going to keep her baby, she said!! (#112)
     She was glad to get out of that Clinic -- P.P. turned her away; pregnancy is too far along -- and she was happy to have decided to keep her child.  She has two other children.

On Wednesday morning, a busy day at Planned Parenthood, Eleanor talked to a young woman, already the mother of a one year-old, scheduled for an abortion. But she agreed to accompany Eleanor to A Woman's Concern. Thanks be to God for #(111).
 

THU, DEC 15 -- Late report from December 10: Judy and Evelyn talked to a woman who came out of Planned Parenthood last Saturday after deciding against her abortion (#110).

A couple came out of Planned Parenthood today (Dec. 15) and told Janet that they had changed their mind (#109).

WED, DEC 14 -- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10:  Providentially, at Women's Health Services, Harvard Street in Brookline, Steve was able to go right up to a car and converse with a couple, who accepted pro-life literature. They chose life for the baby and drove away. (#108)

ABOVE: Another sign vandal. Around 9:00 AM on Tuesday, outside of Planned Parenthood the woman who is driving the car in the picture, walked over to Eleanor's (a sidewalk counselor) car and tore down the pro-life signs attached to the car. One sign, thrown into the street, hit a passing van. She then hurried to her car -- a zipcar.com rental -- parked a few spaces away and made her getaway.

John took a couple of young women, who came out of Dr. Gordon's Haverhill abortion facility Friday morning to the crisis pregnancy center. The pregnant one affirmed she will not have the abortion. (#107)

Eleanor, a sidewalk counselor called Wednesday to say, "I just got a telephone call from a woman, who said that she received the information and my telephone number months ago: she left Planned Parenthood that day, and walked away" -- which we just found out about! (#106)

FRI, DEC 2 -- Janet and Bill were at their usual post in front of Planned Parenthood yesterday.  They had a remarkable morning. (A) A Russian couple came, but left after deciding to keep "our new baby." (#103) (B) A second couple -- Hispanic -- came out and confirmed that they, too, had cancelled their abortion. (#104) A Haitian couple cancelled their appointment, causing their interpreter to be sent home; however, we don't know the nature of their appointment nor their situation. Also, a remorseful cab driver, after learning where he brought a fare, told other drivers not to go to 1055 Commonwealth Ave.

TUE, NOV 7 -- Check out our most recent email newsletter for news from the clinics, as well as our account of the recent spiking by The Pilot of a non-PC column on homosexuality.

SAT, OCT 22 -- Video (in 2 parts) and transcript of Pat Buchanan interview with Sean Hannity, discussing Pat's new book, Suicide of a Superpower.

MON, OCT 17, 2011 -- Pat Buchanan has a new book, Suicide of a Superpower. Some excerpts are below. The Drudge Report has a longer excerpt.

"America is disintegrating. The centrifugal forces pulling us apart are growing inexorably. What unites us is dissolving. And this is true of Western Civilization.... Meanwhile, the state is failing in its most fundamental duties. It is no longer able to defend our borders, balance our budgets, or win our wars."

Chapter 3. The Crisis of Catholicism

“Half a century on, the disaster is manifest. The robust and confident Church of 1958 no longer exists. Catholic colleges and universities remain Catholic in name only. Parochial schools and high schools are closing as rapidly as they opened in the 1950s. The numbers of nuns, priests and seminarians have fallen dramatically. Mass attendance is a third of what it was. From the former Speaker of the House to the Vice President, Catholic politicians openly support abortion on demand.”

“How can Notre Dame credibly teach that all innocent life is sacred, and then honor a president committed to ensuring that a woman’s right to end the life of her innocent child remains sacrosanct?”

Cambridge abortionist, Nicola Louise Moore, is anonymous circuit rider. Operation Rescue exposed her. (LifeNews.com)

Why are things the way they are in the Boston 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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A 2.5-minute video of abortion fanatics on display. Disturbing!!