Interview with Episcopal Vicar Paschal Ryan about praying outside abortuaries in London

Who is asking those questions?
Me! Please have a listen. Then head over to iprayforlife.wordpress.com for some more

The errors of Russia? Abortion and the law

Could this represent the errors of Russia spreading through the whole world as warned by Our Lady at Fatima? Notice the beacons of Portugal and Poland (although abortion has subsequently been legalised in Portugal (2007) and is now available on demand up to 10 weeks). Currently Poland seems to be standing alone in this fight and is beginning to come under pressure from European courts. Please click on the image below for a larger view. The red areas show places where 30% or more of the total pregnancies are terminated by abortion and the blue of Poland represents an abortion rate of below 2%. The darkest reds represents places where more than two-thirds of all pregnancies are terminated by abortion.

I would like to quote a brief extract from Evangelium Vitae by Bl JPII:

The future of society and the development of democracy depend on the rediscovery of the innate human and moral values no one, no majority, and no state can create, modify, or destroy. There is a need to recover the relationship between the civil and moral law. "In no sphere of life can the civil law take the place of conscience or dictate norms concerning things outside its competence " (Dominum Vitae, III). The purpose of civil law is to guarantee an ordered social coexistence in true justice. For that reason it must ensure that in the first place the fundamental right to life of every innocent human being is respected. The legal toleration of abortion and euthanasia can in no way be claimed to be based on the respect for the conscience of others, precisely because society has the right and the duty to protect itself against abuses that can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom. Any government that refused to recognise these human rights would not only fail in its duty; its decrees lack any biding force." (from The Encyclicals in Everyday Language by Fr Joseph G Donders) 

Planned Parenthood's Weak Link, LIVE with Abby Johnson Tonight!

From http://plannedparenthoodsweaklink.com/:

Dear Pro-Life Friend,

This Tuesday night, August 23, Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood abortion center director turned pro-life advocate — and author of the Top 10 national bestselling book UnPlanned — will expose her former employer during a webcast event that will uncover the huge weakness she discovered inside the nation’s largest abortion operation … and that she frequently witnesses while traveling across America to speak out against Planned Parenthood.
YOU are invited to be there when Abby blows Planned Parenthood’s cover (but hurry, because there’s limited space available for the online event!)
Sign up below to register for the FREE webcast, where you’ll be among the first to discover:

• Why a Planned Parenthood clinic director and “employee of the year” changed sides to become an outspoken pro-life advocate
• The shocking truth about Planned Parenthood that was revealed through Abby’s high-stakes legal battle with the abortion giant
• The abortion industry’s #1 greatest fear — and how YOU can help make it come true
• Planned Parenthood’s secret “Achilles Heel” that could topple its abortion empire like a house of cards
• How to make abortion unavailable in your community … even while it’s still legal
• The most effective way to drive Planned Parenthood — or any other abortion operation — out of your community
• The brand-new tool you can use to change more hearts and minds about abortion, save more lives … and perhaps even impact eternal souls

You won’t want to miss this eye-opening LIVE webcast event where you’ll hear directly from Abby and other presenters including:

JEFF PARADOWSKI, Abby’s attorney who defeated Planned Parenthood’s legal team and PR spin machine in the high-stakes legal battle with the abortion buisness after Abby changed sides

DAVID BEREIT, national director of 40 Days for Life, the campaign of prayer and fasting, peaceful vigils outside abortion facilities, and grassroots outreach that played a major role in Abby’s conversion

SHAWN CARNEY, campaign director of 40 Days for Life, and the first person that Abby went to for help when she was ready to get out of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry

25 June 2011 Abortion Prayer in Ealing, London, UK

Please join with the prayer procession tomorrow led by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and Helpers of God's precious infants. The day will begin with Mass at Ealing Abbey (post code W5 2DY) at 9:15, followed by a procession to the Marie Stopes abortion clinic in Ealing (post code W5 5BJ). While the procession takes place there will be prayer supporters in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.

Please join us. I pray often outside this abortion centre and it is quite busy on Saturday mornings. Your presence is more valuable than you can imagine. And remember, we are there to convert hearts, whether the mother proceeds with the abortion or not. We love these mothers and need them to know we love and care for them.

You can see the printable poster here.

Music with Meaning - Shinedown - 45

This isn't a Christian song and the meaning may be a bit obscure, but I can share with you my interpretation of the lyrics. I also love the conviction that it is sung with. I believe the song is the point of view of a father whose child has been aborted. First we'll look at the lyrics and then I'll give my commentary.
The lyrics are:

Send away for a priceless giftOne not subtle, one not on the listSend away for a perfect worldOne not simply, so absurdIn these times of doing what you're toldYou keep these feelings, no one knowsWhat ever happened to the young man's heartSwallowed by pain, as he slowly fell apart
And I'm staring down the barrel of a 45,Swimming through the ashes of another lifeNo real reason to accept the way things have changedStaring down the barrel of a 45
Send a message to the unborn childKeep your eyes open for a whileIn a box high up on the shelf, left for you, no one else There's a piece of a puzzle known as lifeWrapped in guilt, sealed up tight
What ever happened to the young man's heartSwallowed by pain, as he slowly fell apart
[CHORUS]
Everyone's pointing their fingersAlways condemning meAnd nobody knows what I believeI believe
[CHORUS]

Imagine the pain of a man who has not been allowed to protect his unborn child from a brutal death. Add to that the pain of then being judged to have supported that murder. The character in this song has been driven to contemplate taking his own life, literally staring down the barrel of a gun. Let us pray for all men affected by abortion that they may discover healing.

Attention London: Pro-life Superman Msgr Reilly is in town

from Maria Stops abortion:

Monsignor Philip J Reilly, the founder of the Helpers of God's Precious Infants will be in London on Wednesday. He will be giving a talk at St James' Church, Spanish Place, 22 George Street, London, W1U 3QY, on Wednesday 18th May 2011 at 7.30pm.
The number of babies, as well as Mothers & Fathers saved from the horrors of abortion by God's Grace, through this Priest is amazing.Should we go to the abortuary and pray? What should we do when we are there? Do Bishops and Priests need to go? Will me going really make a dfference? Over years I've heard Monsingor answer all of this and much more besides.

Wonderful Pro-Life video just released for 40 Days for life competition

Act to defund Planned Parenthood NOW

Senate vote on Planned Parenthood, health law funding, set for Thursday | LifeSiteNews.com

Now is the time. This is the opportunity for Pro-Lifers to make the world a safer place.
Click here to find information to contact your U.S. Senator.

PreVue Fetal Visualization Device

I came across this today and am very excited by it. Certainly no one can now deny the humanity of the baby in the womb. What a beautiful invention.

PreVue Fetal Visualization Device by Melody Shiue | Industrial Design and Future Technology – Tuvie

Melody Shiue, an industrial designer of the University of New South Wales has designed a product called, PreVue. It is an e-textile based device that employs latest stretchable display technology over the abdominal region, letting other family members to connect with the fetus in its context. Not only PreVue gives you the chance for interacting and watching the baby’s growth inside, it as well serves as a tool to understand the personality of the baby. You can see the baby rolling, snoozing, yawning and smiling, bringing you closer until the day it finally lies into your arms.

Designer : Melody Shiue

The product represents design excellence and certainly deserves an Australian Design Award as it paves way for fetal-maternal bonding in order to keep the mothers in an optimistic state of mind. Establishing early bonding essentially sustains the maternal relationship post-birth and helps delivering a healthy child. The father also gets an opportunity to watch the current activity of his child and participate in the process of bonding. The fetus will be able to recognize the mother’s voice by the 18th week. Studies reveal that when mothers sing a specific song throughout pregnancy, they can use the same tune to appease a crying baby. This means, adaptive learning starts effectively in uterus, so mothers can stimulate a mild extent of education to the fetus via music and gently tapping over the belly and watch the responsive expressions as well as reflexes of the fetus through a contextual screen.

Victory for Life and Fiscal Sanity: U.S. House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood

By Deacon Keith Fournier

2/18/2011

Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - On Friday, February 18, 2011 the U.S. House of Representatives, by a margin of 240-185, voted to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood. The vote did not proceed along strict party lines. The vote did however reveal those members who have a conscience and care about what the American people truly want and those who do not.

Those who voted to cut off tax dollars to this organization are to be commended. That included 11 Democrats. Those who voted against this legislation, including 7 Republicans, ought to be publicly exposed. The one who voted "present" may be the worst offender. We will find out the names of the members in each category and inform our readers. The champion of this legislation was Rep. Mike Pence, who said after the historic vote:

"This afternoon's vote is a victory for taxpayers and a victory for life. By banning federal funding to Planned Parenthood, Congress has taken a stand for millions of Americans who believe their tax dollars should not be used to subsidize the largest abortion provider in America. I commend my colleagues in both parties for taking a stand for taxpayers and a stand for life. I encourage my colleagues in the Senate to support this legislation and end federal funding of Planned Parenthood once and for all."

We commend Congressman Pence and others, like Pro-Life Champion Congressman Chris Smith, whose courage and tenacity have led to this important vote. We urge our readers to pray fervently for those in the Senate who will soon be asked to consider this legislation. We also encourage everyone reading this article to continue to make their support of this legislation crystal clear to their own Senators. 

In 2009 I examined Planned Parenthood's 2007-2008 Annual Report. As a 501 c3 organization (with an affiliated "Action fund" for its more overtly political efforts) they have to make the report available to the public. I well understand the role and function of such reports having led not for profits groups in the past. It keeps members, supporters and friends aware of the organizations use of their funds and gives the organization the opportunity to self promote.

Planned Parenthood is built on a lie. They dress themselves up as a "Health Care Provider" while they include the taking of the lives of innocent children in the womb as a "service" under their offering of "reproductive services". They have insinuated themselves into the global delivery of "medical services" receiving massive government funding as this report clearly confirms. Included in these "medical services" is the killing of children in the womb.

There is nothing "reproductive" about abortion, it always kills a human person. It is certainly not a service to the child, the mother, the father or society. Nor is it "health care". Funding it is morally repugnant. Extracting tax dollars from all of us to do so is immoral and maddening..

Their 2007 - 2008 Report took their claims to a level of audacity which I had never seen. As a part of their outreach to "clergy" who condone their work, they honored a woman who referred to the killing of children in the womb through surgical strikes and chemical weapons as "Sacred Work" and "Prophetic Work".

They gave her the "Davis Award", named after Reverend Tom Davis, a minister in the United Church of Christ and his wife. Davis wrote a book entitled "Abortion -- Is it Necessary?" in which he contended that the "sacred work of justice," requires that America provide abortions to women. He is the chair of the "Clergy Advisory Board" of Planned Parenthood.

In the early paragraphs of their 2007- 2008 report they claimed "Planned Parenthood is the leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider, with 93 years under our belt. And in the near future, we will play a unique role in helping to shape the health agenda for the new administration." They certainly succeeded in their prediction. The current Administration is has become their greatest ally. However, today's important vote portends a change is in the air.

Thursday evening brought a three hour long, impassioned floor debate over this legislation. The defenders of the indefensible, using our tax dollars to fund the work of Planned Parenthood, used their tired old rhetoric, calling the proponents of the legislation, including women, of waging a "war on women". Fortunately, they failed. 

In her recent story written before the vote, Catholic Online's Jennifer Hartline said of Congressman Pence,  "Pence is among many pro-life heroes in Congress who are actively pursuing the permanent defunding of Planned Parenthood.  He's certainly gotten Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richard's attention with his Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act."

"Between the Pence amendment and the Live Action videos that reveal PP's utter disregard for children's welfare and safety and their disdain for the law, Richards knows that PP's federal gravy train is under serious threat of derailment."

She is referring to Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America who lobbied hard to prevent the passage of this amendment.

Jennifer Hartline continued, "Finally, the political facade is being melted away and many Americans are beginning to see Planned Parenthood for what it truly is; an organization that profits from the destructive sexual activities of minors and adults - and quite possibly criminal sexual activities - and the wanton extermination of babies.  And thankfully, many more Americans are asking, "Why should we pay for this?" 

"We shouldn't be paying for this.  Let the vocal and wealthy celebrities and abortion advocates in the country donate to their pet cause and keep PP operating if they choose, but keep our tax dollars out of it.  I choose not to fund PP.  I choose to value and protect my neighbor in the womb.  I choose life.  What about it, Cecile?  Aren't you supposed to be pro-choice? Thanks to Pence, Chris Smith of NJ and other unyielding defenders of life, the current Congress is poised to finally defund Planned Parenthood permanently."  

Cecile Richards responded after Friday's vote in these words, "The outcome of this vote is not a surprise, but it is radically out of step with mainstream American values and it is out of line with the issues voters want Congress to focus on." No, Ms. Richards, it is your organization which is out of step with mainstream American values and we are determined to stop paying its tab.

Next stop is the US Senate. Representative Pence had a message for his colleagues there, "I encourage my colleagues in the Senate to support this legislation and end federal funding of Planned Parenthood once and for all." We must all help to ensure they get the message loud and clear.

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Fr. Barron comments on Abortion: Shocking Numbers out of New York

Father Robert Barron gives his usual profound insight.

Check him out at www.wordonfire.org

I highly recommend his weekly homily podcasts.

The Lottery of Life

I came across this in mid October last year and it keeps coming back into my mind and thought I should post it. It is from remarks made by the Archbishop Chaput of Denver. He is very outspoken on life issues and has a way of cutting to the heart of things. You can see the full address here. Below I have added my highlights:

Some of you may know the short story, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. If you don’t, I need to spoil the ending to make my point.  But I promise the story will still be worth reading.

“The Lottery” is set on a summer day in a small town in 1940s America. The people are assembling for a very old annual ritual.  The ritual has something to do with imploring a good corn harvest -- but there’s no mention of any God, and no clergy anywhere in the picture.

Each person in the village lines up to draw a slip of paper from an old wooden box.  Tessie Hutchinson, a young wife and mother, draws a slip with a black mark.

From that moment, the story moves quickly to its conclusion. The lottery official gives the word, and the villagers move in on Tessie.  And they stone her to death.

“The Lottery” is one of the most widely read stories ever published in my country. And for good reason.  It’s well told. The ending leaves you breathless. Teachers like it because it provokes sharp classroom discussions.

Or at least it used to. 

A few years ago, a college writing professor, Kay Haugaard, wrote an essay about her experiences teaching “The Lottery” over a period of about two decades.

She said that in the early 1970s, students who read the story voiced shock and indignation. The tale led to vivid conversations on big topics -- the meaning of sacrifice and tradition; the dangers of group-think and blind allegiance to leaders; the demands of conscience and the consequences of cowardice.

Sometime in the mid-1990s, however, reactions began to change.

Haugaard described one classroom discussion that -- to me -- was more disturbing than the story itself. The students had nothing to say except that the story bored them. So Haugaard asked them what they thought about the villagers ritually sacrificing one of their own for the sake of the harvest.

One student, speaking in quite rational tones, argued that many cultures have traditions of human sacrifice. Another said that the stoning might have been part of “a religion of long standing,” and therefore acceptable and understandable.

An older student who worked as a nurse, also weighed in. She said that her hospital had made her take training in multicultural sensitivity. The lesson she learned was this: “If it’s a part of a person’s culture, we are taught not to judge.”

I thought of Haugaard’s experience with “The Lottery” as I got ready for this brief talk. Here’s where my thinking led me:

Our culture is doing catechesis every day. It works like water dripping on a stone, eroding people’s moral and religious sensibilities, and leaving a hole where their convictions used to be.

Haugaard’s experience teaches us that it took less than a generation for this catechesis to produce a group of young adults who were unable to take a moral stand against the ritual murder of a young woman.  Not because they were cowards.  But because they lost their moral vocabulary.

Haugaard’s students seemingly grew up in a culture shaped by practical atheism and moral relativism. In other words, they grew up in an environment that teaches, in many different ways, that God is irrelevant, and that good and evil, right and wrong, truth and falsehood can’t exist in any absolute sense.

This is the culture we live in, and the catechesis is on-going. But I don’t think this new kind of barbarism – because that’s what it is; a form of barbarism -- is an inevitable process.

It’s not easy to de-moralize and strip a society of its religious sense. Accomplishing the task requires two key factors: First, it takes the aggressive, organized efforts of individuals and groups committed to undermining faith and historic Christian values. Second, it takes the indifference of persons like you and me, Christian believers.

I want to focus on the second factor, because it involves us.

Christians in my country and yours -- and throughout the West, generally -- have done a terrible job of transmitting our faith to our own children and to the culture at large.

Evidence can be found anecdotally in stories like Kay Haugaard’s. We can also see it in polls showing that religious identity and affiliation are softening.  More people are claiming that they’re “spiritual,” but they have no religion.

Religion is fading as a formative influence in developed countries.  Religious faith is declining in Western culture, especially among Canadian and American young people. This suggests that the Church is actually much smaller than her official numbers would indicate. And this, in turn, has implications for the future of Catholic life and the direction of our societies.

What’s happening today in the Church is not a “new” story.  We find it repeated throughout the Old Testament.  It took very little time for the Hebrews to start worshipping a golden calf.  Whenever the people of God grew too prosperous or comfortable, they forgot where they came from.  They forgot their God, because they no longer thought it was important to teach about him.

Because they failed to catechize, they failed to inoculate themselves against the idolatries in their surrounding cultures.  And eventually, they began praying to the same alien gods as the pagans among whom they lived.

We have the same struggles today.  Instead of changing the culture around us, we Christians have allowed ourselves to be changed by the culture. We’ve compromised too cheaply. We’ve hungered after assimilating and fitting in.  And in the process, we’ve been bleached out and absorbed by the culture we were sent to make holy.

If our people no longer know their faith, or its obligations of discipleship, or its call to mission -- then we leaders, clergy, parents and teachers have no one to blame but ourselves. We need to confess that, and we need to fix it. For too many of us, Christianity is not a filial relationship with the living God, but a habit and an inheritance. We’ve become tepid in our beliefs and naive about the world.  We’ve lost our evangelical zeal. And we’ve failed in passing on our faith to the next generation.

The practical unbelief we now face in our societies is, in large measure, the fruit of our own flawed choices in teaching, parenting, religious practice and personal witness. But these choices can be unmade. We can repent.  We can renew what our vanity and indifference have diminished.  It’s still possible to “redeem the time,” as St. Paul once put it. But we don’t have a lot of time.  Nor should we make alibis for mistakes of the past.

Sixty years ago, when Shirley Jackson wrote “The Lottery,” she could count on her readers knowing what right and wrong were. She lived in a culture that reflected a broadly Christian consensus about virtue and moral integrity.  That’s no longer the case.

The culture we live in today proselytizes for a very different consensus -- one based on political and moral agendas vigorously hostile to Christian beliefs.

A recent article in the New York Times went directly to this point. It was about a new ad campaign launched by supporters of homosexual “marriage” in New York. The campaign features politicians and Hollywood celebrities making a series of reasonable-sounding arguments.

One example is from the actress, Julianne Moore. Her ad begins, “Hi, I’m Julianne Moore, and I’m a New Yorker. We all deserve the right to marry the person we love.”

The New York campaign is misleading and ultimately ruinous to real marriages and families.  But when Christians don’t understand the content or the reasons for their own faith, they have no compelling alternative to offer.

The points I’ve been making are these:

First, either we form our culture, or the culture will form us. Second, right now, the culture does a better job of shaping us than we do in shaping the culture. And third, we need to admit our failures, and we need to turn ourselves onto a path of repentance and change, and unselfish witness to others. 

The central issue in renewing Catholic catechesis has little to do with techniques, or theories, or programs, or resources. The central issue is whether we ourselves really do believe.  Catechesis is not a profession.  It’s a dimension of discipleship. If we’re Christians, we’re each of us called to be teachers and missionaries.

But we can’t share what we don’t have.  If we’re embarrassed about Church teachings, or if we disagree with them, or if we’ve decided that they’re just too hard to live by, or too hard to explain, then we’ve already defeated ourselves.

We need to really believe what we claim to believe. We need to stop calling ourselves “Catholic” if we don’t stand with the Church in her teachings – all of them.  But if we really are Catholic, or at least if we want to be, then we need to act like it with obedience and zeal and a fire for Jesus Christ in our hearts.  God gave us the faith in order to share it.  This takes courage. It takes a deliberate dismantling of our own vanity.  When we do that, the Church is strong. When we don’t, she grows weak. It’s that simple.

In a culture of confusion, the Church is our only reliable guide.  So let’s preach and teach our Catholic beliefs with passion. And let’s ask God to make us brave enough and humble enough to follow our faith to its radical conclusions.

ProLifeCon

Pro-life internet activists will gather at Family Research Council headquarters on January 24th, 2011 for ProLifeCon, the premier conference for the online pro-life community.  The event will be webcast live, and will feature experts and legislators to inform you about the cutting edge of the pro-life movement and give you ways to make a difference on blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the rest of the online world.
Event Schedule:

• 8:30 - 8:35 a.m. emcee Jill Stanek: Welcome & Introduction
• 8:35 - 8:50 a.m. Abby Johnson (Author, Unplanned)
• 8:50 - 9:05 a.m. Lila Rose (Live Action)
• 9:05 - 9:25 a.m. Panel: Taking the Pro-Life Message to Urban Audiences Online: Dean Nelson (Care Net) & Ryan Scott Bomberger (The Radiance Foundation)
• 9:25 - 9:35 a.m. Michael J. New, Ph.D.
• 9:35 - 9:50 a.m. Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.)
• 9:50 - 10:05 a.m. Special Announcements
• 10:05 - 10:15 a.m. Tony Perkins (Family Research Council)
• 10:15 - 10:30 a.m. Terrence McKeegan (C-FAM)
• 10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Kristan Hawkins (Students for Life)
• 10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Jeanne Monahan (Family Research Council)
• 11:00 - 11:15 a.m. David Bereit (40 Days for Life)
• 11:15 - 11:30 a.m. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)

(from http://www.frc.org/prolifecon)

The Presence is Real

Another reminder that there is no such thing as a pro-choice Catholic!

UNPlanned by Abby Johnson - free previews

Just a quick one. There has been a lot of press in Pro-Life circles regarding the new book by a former director of a Planned Parenthood Centre who changed sides after seeing an abortion on ultrasound. You can get the first chapter as a free download and other previews here: http://www.ignatius.com/promotions/unplanned/

Some quotes from that page:

"The moving true story of the shocking truth of abortion and how God's love transformed Abby's life." - Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR

"Abby walked out of the abortion industry and came into my office just next door. After seeing her transformation from running a Planned Parenthood to joining our efforts to help women and save lives, I believe that ANYONE can change their mind on abortion." - Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life

You can also listen to the launch party webcast in which 21,613 people participated (including Abby) earlier this week: http://instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=16864185

http://www.unplannedbook.com/

Golfing with the Trinity, it's infallible

I just came across this speaker, Dr Ray Guarendi. He has been featured on EWTN and is very inspirational. He is the father of 10 and a practicing clinical psychologist. The second half of the clip talks about artificial contraception and the teaching authority of the Church.

He's on His way - Christmas starts with Christ

This is part of the Churchads.net Christmas campaign for 2010

500 Crosses for Life London

Yesterday there was a great procession in support of life. It was an ecumenical march from Westminster Cathedral to Westminster Abbey covering both Lambeth Bridge and Westminster Bridge as well as the Houses of Parliament. The most touching part of the procession was the Mourning Session at Westminster Bridge where roses were thrown into the river Thames to remember those whose lives have been lost to abortion, as well as the mother’s who have been injured.

When we began at Westminster Cathedral each person was given a white cross to carry and we were introduced to the icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe (which I had the privilege of carrying J). This icon is very special as it shows Our Lady pregnant with Jesus (as signified by the brown belt around her waist).
We were told that this icon was chosen as it has been responsible for the most conversions in history (9 million).

During the procession we sang songs and prayed the Chaplet of the Precious Blood. This is a devotion to the shedding of Jesus’ blood. Each of the sheddings is followed by 5 Our Father’s and Glory be. The 7 blood sheddings are: 1) The Circumcision; 2) The Agony in the Garden (Jesus’ sweat turned to blood); 3) The Scourging at the Pillar; 4) The Crowning with Thorns, 5) The Way of the Cross; 6) The Crucifixion; and 7) The Piercing of His Heart

The mourning session on Westminster Bridge consisted of the reading of names symbolising those children killed by abortion as 50 red roses were thrown into the Thames River one by one to the sound of the funeral bell.

We also recited the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. It was a beautiful moment standing in Palace yard (across from Westminster Palace) at the analemmatic (“human gnomon“) sundial with it’s motto from Shakespeare’s Henry V: “To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, thereby to see the minutes how they run: how many makes the hour full complete, how many hours brings about the day, how many days will finish up the year, how many years a mortal man may live.”


What a great testimony it was. And as our MC put it: we were not there to make a political statement, we were there to witness through prayer.
We ended the memorial at the memorial to innocent victims of oppression, violence and war around the world. “All you who pass by, is it nothing to you?” it states very appropriately.

The smiling Foetus - only 17 weeks old

From http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6991946-the-smiling-foetus-only-17-weeks-old:

 

"According to a recent report, a baby can experience feelings such as happiness and pain much earlier in its development than previously thought.

Many experts dispute these claims, however, and say that a foetus is naturally sedated and unconscious in the womb and cannot experience any senses. 

Professor Stuart Campbell who took the picture at his London clinic with 3-D and 4-D scanning equipment said: 

'This is a joyful expression of the humanity of the foetus. I have seen a foetus making a crying face at around 18 or 19 weeks, but not a nice smile.'

'This is the earliest on record - it is just a delight.'

Professor Stuart Campbell is the former head of obstetrics and gynaecology at King's College and St George's hospitals in London.

The baby is due in January and its parents, Louise and Sam Henry from Swallowfield, Berkshire, admitted they were stunned to see the smiling face during a routine scan. 

This case would will prompt further calls from doctors and campaigners to lower the upper abortion limit from 24 weeks because by this stage the unborn baby can already feel agonising pain and the procedure is therefore inhumane."

We all know that the upper abortion limit should be ZERO weeks, but otherwise a great story. 

  

40 days for life in London ends today ... but the battle for life continues, not only in Europe and the USA but all around the world....

We went to pray in front of the Marie Stopes abortion clinic in London yesterday. As we were approaching the end of 40 days for life the crowd was getting bigger and bigger. Each person desperately wanting to show their support for life. For the Divine Mercy hour there were around 40 people praying together “Have mercy on us and on the whole world”. The sight was impressive: a legion of “life defendants” standing like soldiers and begging for the Divine Mercy. Young people, families with babies …

And the words of prayer were very meaningful in those circumstances. We were all UK residents (foreigners and British nationals) … not like “The Independent” quoted - a bunch of Texans where the “40 days for life” originates from. Well educated and well aware of what is happening … and ready to defend the lives.

It has already been a long battle but we Trust in God that He will listen to our prayers and put an end to the biggest genocide that has ever happened and is allowed to continue still.

Let’s start from the beginning. As the sign says, Stopes opened the UK's first family planning clinic, the Mothers' Clinic at 61, Marlborough Road, on 17 March 1921. It was called the Birth Control Clinic. Stopes and her fellow family planning pioneers around the globe, like Dora Russell, played a major role in so called reproductive health. In 1930 the National Birth Control Council was formed. It was a time of Margaret Sanger in the USA (IPPF today), Shidzue Ishimoto in Japan, and Elise Ottesen-Jensen (founder of RFSU which belongs to IPPF today and one of the founders of IPPF) in Norway and Sweden – who tried to appeal to individuals’ rights to health and happiness while organizing services to meet their needs. Ottesen-Jensen argued for sterilization or isolation of the unfit so the society. The first editorial of Marie Stope’s “Birth Control News” emphasized that her organization did “NOT desire to see the numbers of English People reduced. Instead it wanted to “recruit” from healthy, well-conditioned individuals only”. She declared “there has never been any birth control movement that did not lay stress on the eugenic side of it”. The terms ‘birth control’ was coined first by Margaret Sanger, and she did mean control. It was in 1914 and she was with her friends in her New York apartment. They considered ‘neo-Malthusiam’, ‘voluntary parenthood’, ‘voluntary parenthood’, ‘family control’, ‘race control’… and then it came ‘birth control’… but who exercised that control, by what means, and for what purposes, were questions that persisted since then…

Stopes was a prominent campaigner for the implementation of policies inspired by eugenics. In her Radiant Motherhood (1920) she called for the "sterilisation of those totally unfit for parenthood [to] be made an immediate possibility, indeed made compulsory." She contributed a chapter manifesto to The Control of Parenthood (1920), comprising a sort of manifesto for her circle of Eugenicists, arguing for a "utopia" to be achieved through "racial purification". In 1935 Stopes attended the International Congress for Population Science in Berlin, held under the Nazi regime. She was more than once accused of being anti-Semitic by other pioneers of the birth control movement such as Havelock Ellis. Following the death of Marie Stopes in 1958, a large part of her personal fortune went to the Eugenics Society that is now called The Galton Institute (It was founded in 1908 as the Eugenics Education Society, becoming the Eugenics Society in 1926 (often known as the British Eugenics Society to distinguish it from others), with the aim of promoting eugenics, it changed its name to the Galton Institute in 1989).

From the 1920s onward, Marie Stopes gradually built up a small network of clinics that were initially very successful, but by the early 1970s were in financial difficulties. In 1975 the clinics went into voluntary receivership. The modern organisation that bears Marie Stopes' name was established a year later as an international Non-Governmental Organisation working on Sexual and Reproductive Health. The Marie Stopes International (MSI) global partnership took over responsibility for the main clinic, and in 1978 it began its work overseas in New Delhi. Since then the organisation has grown steadily and today the MSI works in 38 countries, has 452 clinics worldwide. “In 2006 alone, the organisation provided services to 4.6 million clients and by 2010 aims to protect 15 million couples from unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortion” – quote.

The main focus is, however, not on European countries but on developing ones, still so many years after the first eugenics memorandums. Below you will find the strategic priorities for Marie Stopes International. I hope that will make you think about how much we need to focus our efforts not only on Europe but on developing countries as well, where people luck education and financial support to make sound and preferable decisions. The latest MSI campaign "Make Women Matter" with all the strategies behind should make you think. Yes, their lives matter to us but the solutions proposed by MSI are outrageous.

How much 'every women matters' for them is scandalous and do not be fooled by Freudian double talk (see photo).

Marie Stopes International aims to do this by (quote):

"Strategic priority one:

• continuing to expand into new countries, with a focus on Africa, as well as expanding within all existing country programmes

• providing the widest range of contraceptive choice with the aim of providing protection to more than 15 million couples from unplanned pregnancy and unsafe abortion during the year

• rolling out medical abortion into at least 12 countries and increase dramatically the number of safe abortions and post abortion care we provide around the world

• expand our service delivery infrastructure via the number of outreach activities Marie Stopes International undertakes and via the BlueStar social franchising network.

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Strategic priority three:

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• increase locally earned income, principally from MSI’s clinics
• continuing to build general reserves both in the UK and throughout the Group"

This is about something much bigger than choice. It is about what it means to be human. There is an agenda here to rid the world of the "poorest" and "weakest" in society (as decided by a handful of selfish people), and in the world. We need to stop this. Anyone passionate in joining me to fight for the lives of babies in developing countries, for those most vulnerable and poor that according to the terrible western/donor policies do not deserve to live because the population growth is out of control ... please let me know