9 Oct 2017

Worse Than Slavery

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Since the infamous January 22, 1973 Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision which made abortion legal throughout the 50 states more than 19,000,000 black babies have died by abortion. That is more than quadruple the number of enslaved blacks (3,953,760) recorded in the 1860 U.S. census. As of January 1, 2016 the U.S Census Bureau estimated the black American population to be 74,500,000. This means that the equivalent of more than 25% of the current black population in the United States has died by abortion since 1973. Roughly 900 black babies die by abortion in the United States EVERY DAY!

Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood (the largest abortion provider in the United States) once wrote, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,” (Letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble on Dec. 10, 1939). In fact Sanger’s organization targets minority populations. A 2012 study by Protecting Black Life found that 79% of surgical abortion centers in the United States are within walking distance of minority neighborhoods. Black children in the United States are five times more likely to be aborted than white children are. African-American women make up only 13 percent of the U.S. female population, but they account for more than 36% of the abortions. (Mark Crutcher, Life Dynamics).

If you were alive in the 1860s would you have stood with the abolitionists against slavery? Where will you stand today?

24 Oct 2016

Is Abortion Really Only One Issue?

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As we draw near to Election Day in this very contentious campaign, some Christian voters say that abortion is only one issue.  They believe it is fine to vote for a candidate who has vowed both to expand abortion coverage and to choose Supreme Court justices who likewise favor the expansion of this gruesome practice.  These voters consider other issues such as immigration reform, gun control, or environmental issues to be more important than ending legal abortion in the United States.  It is undeniable that all of these issues and many others are important, but do any of them really matter as much as the right to life does?  Consider these facts:

The estimated total of abortions in the United States since 1973 exceeds 58.5 million (Life News 2016/1/14).  The US Census Bureau estimates the current population of the United States to be over 324.7 million. (www.census.gov). This means that in the United States since 1973 we have aborted the equivalent of more than 18% of the current population!

The combined population of the 26 lowest populated states of the United States (as tabulated by the US Census Bureau’s 2015 estimates) is less than the number of babies who have died by abortion in our country since 1973! You could eliminate the total populations of: Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming; and you still would not equal the number of babies who have died by abortion in the United States since the Supreme Court’s January 22, 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

Before you vote for a candidate who has promised to expand abortion coverage please ask yourself, “If I had lived in Germany during World War II would I have supported Adolf Hitler if I had known he was promoting the slaughter of more than 6 million innocent Jewish people?”  If your answer is no, then please don’t vote for a candidate who is favoring a practice that has already caused the death of NINE TIMES more innocent people than the Nazis murdered.

If you have had an abortion, supported abortion rights, or voted pro-abortion in the past, then  please turn back to Jesus– Who is infinitely Merciful– and Who prayed for us all as He was dying, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34).

Sister Mary Rose, DMML

12 Sep 2015

Cottontails versus Babies

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In light of the recent horrific revelations regarding Planned Parenthood I wrote to US Senator Jeanne Shaheen requesting that she work for the defunding of this eugenic, racist organization.  Yesterday, not surprisingly, she emailed back a letter to me filled with glowing praise for all that Planned Parenthood supposedly does to help women.  Today (9-12-15) Jeanne Shaheen’s picture was on the front cover of the Foster’s Daily Democrat under the headline “Cottontail No Longer Endangered.”  The picture shows her releasing cottontails into the wild.

What could be more ironic than a “Catholic” Senator who promotes abortion being praised for taking care of cottontails?   Where is Shaheen’s concern for the millions of babies who are being brutally murdered and then sold for parts by Planned Parenthood?  Even if Jeanne Shaheen did a tiny bit of research she would learn that Margaret Sanger who founded Planned Parenthood was a racist eugenicist. She was an associate of Hitler and she commissioned Dr. Ernst Rudin, the director of the Nazi Medical Experimentation Program to write an article in her magazine, The Birth Control Review.  In her book entitled The Pivot of Civilization, Sanger argued for the elimination of “the Negro race” and for the sterilization of “genetically inferior races.”  Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, more than 13 million African American babies have died by abortion (http://www.blackgenocide.org/black.html).  That is equivalent to approximately 29% of the current African American population in the United States!

One would have to be seriously deluded or extremely naïve to think that Planned Parenthood is actually helping women.  Ask Abby Johnson or any of the millions of grieving post-abortive women what they now think of Planned Parenthood.  Nothing against cottontails!

 

 

9 Feb 2015

The Dawn of the Culture of Life

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Sister Esther Marie and I had the privilege of attending the Vigil for Life Mass and the March for Life which occurred in Washington, D.C. on January 21- 22, 2015.  At the Vigil Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception I counted more than 40 Bishops in the opening procession.  The procession itself, which also included hundreds of seminarians, deacons, and priests, took more than half an hour.  Prior to the Mass we had attended the March for Life Conference and Expo and the Culture of Life Seminar which were held at the DC Renaissance Hotel.  The purpose of these events was to educate the participants regarding the March for Life theme which this year was “Every Life is a Gift.”

The following morning prior to the actual March we attended the Youth Rally and Mass for Life which took place at the Verizon Center.  There are so many young people who attend this Mass each year that the archdiocese of Washington has had to present it in two locations—another Mass was held at the DC Armory at the same time.  Many of the young people attending these events had traveled for more than ten hours by bus to offer their witness to the beauty of life. The actual March for Life began at about 1:00 pm (after various representatives had given pro-life speeches near the Washington Monument).  I have attended several Marches but this year’s was the most crowded in which I have ever participated!  At one point we came to a standstill for quite a while since there was no room to walk forward!  I saw only about 15 people who were advocating for abortion.  Later I read in a newspaper that “thousands marched for life.”  Having been there I can assure you that it would have been much more accurate to say that “hundreds of thousands marched for life.”

Although the secular media tends to ignore the significance of these events which take place each January in our nation’s capital, it is critically important that we all know that they are occurring because is it the dawn of the culture of life!  With the help of God, Life is beginning to overcome the grim and disturbing culture of death which has become so noxiously pervasive in our country and throughout the world!

Shortly after returning from the March for Life I read a very misleading editorial in our local newspaper which is an example of the deceptiveness of the culture of death.  It was written by Kate Murray and entitled “Banning information won’t reduce abortions.” The main premise of this editorial was that “education about contraception is a pretty good way to reduce unwanted pregnancies that may end in abortion.” The fact is that education about contraception would be useful if people were taught that oral contraceptives sometimes act as abortifacients and that they have been linked to increase risk of: cervical and breast cancers, heart attack and stroke, migraines, higher blood pressure, gall bladder disease, infertility, benign liver tumors, decreased bone density, yeast overgrowth and infection, and increased risk of blood clotting. http://bodyecology.com/articles/dangers_birth_control_pill.php#.VMzs7c85C1s

Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director, would dispute the naïve opinion promoted in this editorial that “everyone involved in women’s health care works to limit the number of necessary abortions.”  In her book, Unplanned, she states, “I no longer saw Planned Parenthood as a benevolent charitable organization with the goal of decreasing unwanted pregnancies.  I was now convinced that it was an abortion machine in the business of killing unborn babies and meeting revenue goals.” (pg. 130)

The third fallacy in this editorial was the assumption that killing unborn babies is ever necessary!  For every baby that is killed by abortion in the United States there are 36 infertile couples who have a great desire to adopt a baby.  Any one of these couples would adopt that baby in a heartbeat! http://liveactionnews.org/abortion-vs-adoption-why-so-many-choose-the-first-and-what-we-can-do/

Few people realize the magnitude of the crisis that has occurred through abortion.  At this date we in the United States have killed more than 57.5 million of our children through abortion.  This is equivalent to more than 18% of the current population which in 2013 was estimated at 316.1 million.

Education about the beautiful gift of human sexuality and procreation would be much more beneficial than teaching people, through the use of contraception and abortion, to treat one another as objects to be manipulated and exploited for sexual pleasure. People should be respected as unique personal subjects whose masculinity or femininity deserves to be respected for its awesome inseparable powers of unity and procreation.