Will Joe Tevington get his requested meeting?

Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 8:00 AM

Subject: RE: Defund Planned Parenthood

The Honorable Robert Casey United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Casey, As per your biography, you "graduated from The College of the Holy Cross in 1982 and spent the following year teaching fifth grade and coaching eighth grade basketball in inner city Philadelphia for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps." That very same year, the young woman who became my wife volunteered full time in Center City for Mercy Corps, working with formerly homeless women. Spending much time in Philly's small, social circle of full time Catholic volunteers, it's highly likely that you and we crossed paths and/or knew people in common. In that small circle of idealists of a quarter century ago, we spoke fondly of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker; Dorothy had died in 1980. While we recognized Dorothy as a great champion of impoverished people, few of us were aware of her disdain for manipulative, wrongheaded efforts that disrespected their human dignity. "Day After Day - November 1933": "....Mrs. A. with her four children and unemployed husband living on $1.50 a week, is trapped by economic circumstances and everyone is so indifferent that it took three or four afternoons of Mike Gunn’s time to see to it that the Home Relief came to the rescue....Three little pigs are crowded into a too-small cage, the case is brought into court, the judge’s findings in the case being that pigs should not be crowded the way subway riders are. And a family of eight children, mother and father, are crowded in three rooms and the consensus of opinion is that they’re lucky to have that and why don’t they practice birth control anyway...." "The Family vs Capitalism", January 1936: "....it is to the re-creation of the Catholic family, that microcosm of society and type of the Mystical Body, that we must look now if we expect later generations in this country to see Catholicism, instead of Marxism, a vital force in the nation, if we hope to maintain 'the freedom of the children of God' against the diabolic forces of fascism. if we wish our posterity to enjoy the peace which is their heritage from Christ instead of the strife of wars and hatreds between nations and classes...in New York..., there is no diocesan provision whatsoever for the poor who are trying to observe the teachings of the Church against birth control and raise families despite their economic circumstances! We would suggest that as a first, even though inadequate, step toward realizing out ideals of family life our Catholic lay-people and clergy show the sincerity of their conviction by raising their voices in loud agitation for Catholic provision of such care." "Disgraceful Plight Of Migrant Workers On California Farms", May 1940: "....I must say that my first view of the government camps made me anything but happy....Margaret Sanger has sent her agents around, and there are birth control clinics at every camp....Here there is room indeed for farming communes, for missions modeled on those the Franciscans started in the beginnings of California. As it is, there is nothing so beautiful that man has made in the entire state as the remains of those very missions which non-Catholic as well as Catholic point out with pride. Here there is room for personal responsibility, for the 'Christ’s room' in every house and on every ranch that the early Father’s talked of, instead of leaving everything to the government, which in spite of all they have done that is good, still think in terms of corporation farming and birth control clinics for the rural proletariat." "On Pilgrimage - July/August 1962": "....I seldom speak at state universities or non-Catholic colleges without the question of overpopulation, birth control, abortion, and euthanasia coming up. The entire question of man’s control over the life of others, over the life forces within man, is one of the most profound importance today...." "On Pilgrimage - September 1963": "....It is one thing not to judge others, and it is still another thing to expect men and women to live according to right reason, to seek wisdom and live by it....there has been a pamphlet published in England by the Quakers which is said to condone premarriage sexual intercourse 'if the parties are responsible.' My reaction to this is that of a woman who must think in terms of the family, the need of the child to have both mother and father, who believes strongly that the home is the unit of society. Sex is a profound force, having to do with life, the forces of creation which make man god-like. He shares in the power of the Creator, and, when sex is treated lightly, as a means of pleasure, I can only consider that woman is used as a plaything, not as a person....the act of sex in its right order in the love life of the individual has been used in Old and New Testament as the symbol of the love between God and Man. Sexual love in its intensity makes all things new and one sees the other as God sees him...." "Chastity," 12/10/66: "How presumptuous it is to try to treat of such a subject in a short article, when great books (like Dietrich von Hildebrand's In Defense of Purity ) have been written on the subject....the marriage act purged of impurities is the nearest thing to the beatific vision we can know....To offer the suffering of celibacy, temporary or permanent, to the Lord is to make use, in the best possible way, of man's greatest joy...." "On Pilgrimage - December 1972": "....birth control and abortion are genocide...." "On Pilgrimage - May 1980": "....I have lost my sister, who had always been my closest friend and confidante....One difference of opinion between my sister and me came strongly to my mind a few nights ago as I watched, on television, the story of Margaret Sanger....My sister...went to work for Margaret Sanger, whom she revered as a great pioneer. After Della’s own marriage, she had three beautiful children, and, as she explained to me 'We are true believers in planned parenthood, and only had those to whom we could give five years of college, or even more for research.' When she went on to exhort me on another occasion, that I should not urge, as a catholic, Tamar, my daughter, to have so many children, I got up firmly and walked out of the house...." When I called your office the other day, it was disturbing to hear your young aide spout the supposed benefits of Planned Parenthood's self-serving promotion of contraceptives. Your dad and Dorothy Day would have been appalled. Please do not let the memory of your late, great dad's noble fight in Casey v. Planned Parenthood become muddled with Casey for Planned Parenthood in our own time. Embracing that great heritage of your dad and Dorothy Day, please defund Planned Parenthood. Also, please co-sponsor and support S. 91, Life at Conception Act S. 165, Abortion Non-Discrimination Act Sincerely, Joseph Tevington Morrisville, Pa 19067 --- On Fri, 2/25/11, Scheduling (Casey) wrote: From: Scheduling (Casey) Subject: RE: Defund Planned Parenthood To: "'Joe Tevington'" Date: Friday, February 25, 2011, 10:19 AM This is an automatic email to confirm we have received your scheduling request for Senator Casey. Your request is now under review by our scheduling department. While we do our best to review all invitations in a timely fashion, during periods of high volume, please be aware that our review process may take longer than we would like. We appreciate your patience during these times. In order to ensure the timely processing of your scheduling request, we ask that all invitations be submitted at least two weeks before the day of the requested appointment. If you have not heard from our office one week before the date of your visit, please feel free to contact us to follow up on the status of your request. Otherwise, you can expect to be contacted by our scheduling department regarding the specifics of your request closer to the event date. If you have any questions, please contact the scheduling office at 202-224-6324 or via email at scheduling@casey.senate.gov. Michelle Shwimer Scheduler Office of Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. Phone: 202-224-6324 Scheduling Fax: 202-228-3078 Main Fax: 202-228-0604 Please submit all scheduling requests here. If you would like to RSVP for Breakfast with Bob, please click here. If you would like to sign up for Senator Casey's email list, please click here. From: Joe Tevington [mailto:atptptjt@verizon.net] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 4:50 AM To: Scheduling (Casey) Subject: Defund Planned Parenthood I am a constituent from Lower Bucks County, who is extremely concerned about Senator Casey's lack of resolve to defund Planned Parenthood. May I have an appointment to meet with the senator this Tuesday morning (March 1)? Thank you.

What does the world clock tell us about the abortion rate?

Dear Pro-Life / Pro-Family associates,

I'm looking at the world clock http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks/worldclock/ a friend sent me. It has all kinds of category's including "deaths". I clicked that icon and a screen came up showing all the numerous "causes of death"

That list included age groups .

Down at the bottom of the page was abortion with a total listed at 5,194,725 deaths and counting.

I noticed it was clicking along much faster than the one - one -thousand two-one thousand count that is normally used to click off seconds when there is no clock available.

Meanwhile the only other category that seemed to increase once every 20 sec. was Respiratory Infections. there was approx a 20:1 ratio of abortions vs Respiratory Infections. That was the only one I could count as a refence against the abortion rate. The others hardly moved as I write this e-mail.

I'll try to attach the link so you can examine it yourself.

Another interesting point was that the STD/HIV/AIDS category changed approx every 13 sec. while those who died from Diarrhoeal changed at approx the same 13 to 14 sec.

The total for each of those category's was 270, 809 and counting. Their numbers were almost identical.

As I interpret the World Clock, it set on the year column meaning these are yearly numbers and counting for the first 45 days of 2011.

When you consider ALL the money that is appropriated for HIV and Aids compared to other category's like Cardiovascular ( 92,132,616 deaths), Cancer (947,715 deaths), Respiratory Disease (504,119 deaths ), Digestive (255,457 deaths) etc. It demonstrates how powerful the gay lobbyist are and the priorities of our budget appropriations. DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD !!

Planned Parenthood supporters believe that giving our teens and young adults will "slow down" or "reduce" the pregnancy rate and thereby abortions. It has done neither, over the years the more money given to Planned Parenthood the higher the Sexually Transmitted Disease rates and abortions. It is more difficult now to count rhe number of pregnancy's and abortions because teens and/or their older "partner" can buy the over the counter abortion pill and no one even counts how many they sell. So Planned Parenthood tells the media that abortions are decreasing. I think that EVERY sale of the "morning after pill and the "emergency contraceptive pill should be counted as a chemocal abortion, or at least "half of them". This would show that abortions aren't decreasing but really increasing, in fact keeping pace with the STD rate.

Bill Miller

Pro-Life Groups Promote Monday Vigils at Planned Parenthood

In N.E. Phila, the vigil will be at Comly Rd Planned Parenthood located at Comly Rd. just east of Roosevelt Blvd.

I Bucks County, The vigil will be at Warminster Planned Parenthood at 610 Louis Drive just north of Streey Rd. ( Pa. Rt. 132 )

by Steven Ertelt | LifeNews.com | 2/12/11 10:40 AM

A collection of national pro-life organizations are promoting vigils at Planned Parenthood abortion centers across the nation in response to the series of videos showing staff at the abortion business aiding sexual traffickers.

The Expose Planned Parenthood Coalition features groups ranging from the Susan B. Anthony List and Students for Life of America to Americans United for Life, CWA, Catholics Advocate, 40 Days for Life and state pro-life groups. Live Action, the sponsor of the investigative series of undercover videos is a member of the coalition as is LifeNews.com.

The goal is to encourage pro-life advocates to hold vigils at Planned Parenthood offices at noon on Monday across the country to highlight the videos and the massive taxpayer funding Planned Parenthood receives.

“Are you sick and tired of Planned Parenthood getting $363 million of taxpayer funding a year — while aiding and abetting illegal underage sex trafficking?” the groups say on the Expose Planned Parenthood web site promoting the vigils. “Take a public stand Monday and tell Congress ‘No more tax funding for Planned Parenthood.”

“For the last two weeks, the national media has been abuzz with the shocking story of the undercover sting operation that caught abortion giant Planned Parenthood red-handed in the despicable act of aiding and abetting sex trafficking and prostitution of girls as young as 14,” the groups said. “Numerous undercover videos have now been released, documenting Planned Parenthood workers at multiple locations across several states assuring an undercover investigator posing as a pimp that the organization would secretly provide abortions and other services to underage victims of human trafficking, facilitating their exploitation.”

“The institution-wide scandal has now reached the highest levels at Planned Parenthood, with top executives making the appalling claim that their workers who were caught on video facilitating underage sex slavery “responded professionally,’” they said. “After receiving a record $363 million in taxpayer funds last year, Planned Parenthood’s president Cecile Richards then had the audacity to send out an urgent appeal for abortion advocates to contact Congress — so the organization can rake in even MORE of your hard-earned tax dollars.”

The groups continue: “We must act swiftly and take a public stand against Planned Parenthood’s harmful agenda — raising awareness in the communities where we live, and calling upon Congress to immediately strip the abortion chain of all tax funding. This Monday, February 14, all people of faith and conscience are being called upon to hold one-hour “Vigils for Victims” of human trafficking during the Noon hour in the public right-of-way outside Planned Parenthood offices nationwide.”

Congressman Mike Pence has introduced legislation that would yank the Title X family planning money Planned Parenthood receives, and he recently told the Los Angeles Times he will go further and introduce an amendment to federal spending bills that would cut all federal funding for the abortion business.

Since February 1, 2011, Live Action has released footage from New Jersey, Virginia, and New York Planned Parenthood clinics, all of which have been met by an ever-changing defense from Planned Parenthood.

The sting operations revealed Planned Parenthood center staffers were willing to provide assistance to alleged operators of a sex trafficking ring — ranging from helping them arrange abortions for the underage girls they said they were victimizing to showing them how to avoid scrutiny and skirt parental involvement laws. The videos covered Planned Parenthood centers in Richmond and also other centersin Roanoke, Charlottesville, and Falls Church. A District of Columbia Planned Parenthood also encouraged and assisted sexual traffickers, as evidenced in an undercover audio file.

Live Action also filmed Planned Parenthood staff helping sex traffickers in New Jersey — and the nurse who aided the alleged traffickers there has already been fired while the state health department is looking into the problems further.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has already received the full, unedited footage of the Planned Parenthood expose’ videos and he told CBS 6 WVTR in Richmond that they are “shocking.”

Live Action has previously released more than a dozen hidden camera videos from ten states. This body of visual evidence shows several alarming patterns of illegal Planned Parenthood activities including cover-up of sexual abuse of minors, the skirting of parental consent laws, citing unscientific and fabricated medical information to manipulate women to have abortions, and Planned Parenthood’s willingness to accept donations earmarked to abort African-American babies.

Dine out for Life dates

GREAT NEWS!!!
Just an early notice to mark your calendar...
that on March 22 we will be dinning out for life in Newtown!

VECCHIA OSTERIA by Pasquale.... he says he is going ALL OUT!!!

This will be a huge benefit for the BCCWC as the owner has offered a very LARGE percentage of all profits the restaurant received on March 22.

SO I am sending this out early in case you are associated with a Church or organization who could advertise this event!

Use the flyer attached as a bulletin insert or to post!

Eat in or take out all day from 11am - 10pm -- the Italian food is absolutely delicious and the restaurant is beautiful~~ like Italy!

Pasquale is very generous and in a recent fundraiser for another cause he donated all profits beyond covering his costs ---

He wants to do even more for this fundraiser -- so please be sure to advertise especially if you are close to Newtown PA (Bucks County)area!

See flyer attached!

Upcoming Events...
2-22-11 Dine Out For Life : Smoke'n Dudes BBQ- Bensalem
2-26-11 Night For Life: Trenton Country Club (tickets are going fast!)
3-22-11 Dine Out For Life: Vecchia Osteria by Pasquale-Newtown
Please spread the word....pass this on...
Any questions please call the BCCWC!

--

Marie Joseph
Executive Director
Bucks County Community Women's Center
712 New Rodgers Road, Bristol PA, 19007
215-826-8090

A report you won't get from Main Stream Media - By Terry Noble

A Report You Won't Get From the MSM

The following is a report Terry Noble wrote after attending this year's March for Life in Washington, DC. Photos she took are in a folder called 2011 March for Life on my page.

Friends,

Attached are photos that I took of the 38th Annual March for Life in Wash., DC on January 24th. ( They can be found on Pat Dowling's Face Book page.) It marked the anniversary of the infamous Supreme Court decision of Roe vs. Wade. Over 55 million unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion in our nation since 1973. As usual, there was not much coverage of this event from the mainstream media. So, here is a report that I decided to share with you.

Estimates of the crowd ranged from 300,000 to 400,000. Youngsters, teens, and college age students far outnumbered the "old guard" of pro-lifers who have marched since 1973. A veteran pro-lifer estimated the ratio of teens and young people to adults was 500 to 1.

The March down Constitution Avenue went on for several hours, filling the wide street from side to side. My friends and I stopped marching right before we got to the Supreme Court. We watched in awe as the crowd passed by. Row after row, banner after banner, mothers with toddlers in strollers, fathers with their children on their shoulders, grandparents with grandchildren, teens with their classmates, college students, and priests, nuns, adults and seniors all marching in unity for the right to life and protection for the unborn

One large group of women held signs stating, "I Regret My Abortion". Fathers held signs that read "Men Regret Lost Fatherhood". Hundreds of signs read "Defund Planned Parenthood". I saw banners identifying churches, schools, colleges, universities and organizations from all over the country. The states that I could identify were North Dakota, Texas, Indiana,Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, North & South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. There were many other states on banners that I was unable to identify due to the large crowd.

I asked several teens why they were taking a stand for the sanctity of life. Several said that their teachers gave them an assignment in biology on the development of the fetus. One said that their parents were pro-life. Some said that abortion was murder. A report on the Christian Broadcast Network (CBN) interviewed 2 teens. They both said that they realized they and their friends were abortion survivors.

I observed that the majority of marchers were Catholic and included the Knights of Columbus, and many other Catholic groups. I spotted 2 Anglican banners, 1 Presbyterian banner and 1 Baptist banner. There may have been other protestant denominations there, so I apologize in advance, for not including them in this report.

So there you have it. Another March for Life and the silence of the media and our nation is deafening. The statistics on abortion are horrific. Abortion takes the life of an unborn baby and wounds their parents and families. Only Jesus can heal their wounds and mend their hearts.

Pray for an end to abortion.

Yours in Christ,

Terry Noble

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Psalm 139:13 & 14

Patricia Dowling

» Virginia Planned Parenthood Aids Pimp of Underage Sex Ring - Big Government

All those legislators who think contraception is a "good" way to prevent abortions should view this video. Putting teens on birth control pills and condoms not only violates parents efforts to instill morals in their children, it also violates their parental rights.
Giving teens BCP's and Condoms only increases the chance of pregnancy and ultimately abortions for Planned Parenthood. It givesteens a false sense of security and leads them into a promiscouis life style. Even in the following video there is agreement on this point between the "undercover pimp" and the PP staff member.

http://biggovernment.com/lrose/2011/02/03/virginia-planned-parenthood-aids-pimp-of-underage-sex-ring/