Lost in the Fifties- Another Time, Another Place

Thank you Jack Kelly for this video.

It sur brings back memories of the 50's





Lost in the Fifties- Another Time, Another Place

Doctor Fired for Refusing to Dispense Contraceptives Sues Philadelphia

I am waiting for the outcry of Catholic clergy on this issue.

Has Archbishop Chaput or any of the other Archdiocesan Bishops spoken out in defense of Dr. Fernandez?

Has anyone heard it mentioned from the Pulpit?



Doctor Fired for Refusing to Dispense Contraceptives Sues Philadelphia

Having Patience for the Sausage-Making Synod | Word On Fire

It seems every radio station is discussing this topic.

Read Fr. Barron's comments.  As he said in his article. Keep calm.


What has just appeared is not even close to a definitive, formal teaching of the Catholic Church. It is a report on what has been discussed so far in a synod of some two hundred bishops from around the world. It conveys, to be sure, a certain consensus around major themes, trends that have been evident in the conversations, dominant emphases in the debates, etc., but it decidedly does not represent “the teaching” of the Pope or the bishops.




Having Patience for the Sausage-Making Synod | Word On Fire

Founding Fathers rip Obama’s Muslim ‘fabric’

Founding Fathers rip Obama’s Muslim ‘fabric’

Obama Forces Religious Groups To Pick Faith Or Funding : PatriotUpdate.com #patriotupdate @patriotupdate

Obama Forces Religious Groups To Pick Faith Or Funding : PatriotUpdate.com #patriotupdate @patriotupdate

John Stanton has been called to his heavenly reward.

This is an article from the Pro-Life Union of Greater Philadelphia about their founder and leader for over 40 years.

 

John Stanton will be greatly missed by all Pro-Lifers throughout all 5 counties of S.E Pa.

 

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/john-patrick-stanton-father-of-philadelphias-pro-life-movement-passes-away

John Stanton - A Pro-Life Leader and an example for all Catholic men.

As this article from the Pro-Life Coalition of Philadelphia expresses, We  all were honored to have worked for years with a true Catholic Saint.

God Bless John's  wife Harriet and his wonderful family.

We miss you John!


http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/john-patrick-stanton-father-of-philadelphias-pro-life-movement-passes-away

Culture Crisis for Catholic Faith

Following is a letter from Joe Tevington and my response to Joe.

Pro-Life activist are NEVER going to give up the fight for the unborn and the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman.

On June 19th I rode the bus from St. Andrews to the March for marriage.

When we arrived we were on the mall in front of the Capitol building. The crowd was composed of approximately 80 to 90 % Hispanics and Blacks carrying signs in Spanish and English stating Marriage is one man and one woman.

The speakers were dynamic , some spoke in Spanish and an interrupter let us gringos know what was said in Spanish

There was an estimated 30 thousand in attendance. Many of us felt that whites were in the minority.

Again there was very few Catholic Clergy, but many Evangelical Hispanic Pastors and Deacons, there were Jewish Rabbi's with their signs relating the Sanctity of Marriage in the Torah.

Next year I'm really going to promote this March...i.e. if I'm able to walk.. I could hardly make 2/3 of the way to the Capitol, but thanks to an old friend from the Rescue Days when we were trying to motivate  fellow Catholics and Christians, who helped me along the way and then back to the bus. Next year I will probably rent an electric wheel chair.

Bill Miller

----------Original Message----------

From: William J Miller
Date: Jul 1, 2014 12:15:33 PM
Subject: Re: re: "Why they walked away from St. Joseph the Worker"
To: atptptjt@live.com, info@quparish.com,
Cc: Thank you for this information Joe,

I will share it with everyone on my e-mail lists. At the Bucks County Pro-Life meeting last night many of these issues were discussed and people left very concerned that the leaders of our Catholic faith are not leading, not shepherding our faith, and not even mentioning these CRITICAL MORAL issues at Mass.

I speak with Pro-Life, Pro-Family people all across the Diocese and they feel the same. HOWEVER, they are determined that they will not back off in this fight for the sanctity of Life and Marriage.

 Our Governor, (Corbett) and our most of our Catholic Federal and State Legislators are unwilling to fight the fight for the Unborn being killed every day in Planned Parenthood abortion mills.

The Governor is unwilling to challenge the judicial decision on Same sex marriage. So many Pennsylvanians are disgusted with our political leaders who profess to be Catholics, yet continue to vote for Contraception funding (so called Family Planning).

 

There are many Republican Pro-Life and Pro-Family politicians who think that because ALL the Democrat candidates are Pro-Abortion and Pro-Same Sex marriage they will get their vote, but now these Pro-Life? Pro-Family are either not going to vote, or vote for a third party candidate. I personally don't agree with that approach. In the past, when 3rd party candidates ran they lost, and caused the Pro-Life candidate to also lose

 

 We have a lot of problems, but the greatest problem is lack of leadership from our priests and Bishops. It really hurts me to criticize them. but hopefully they will be true Shepherds and lead the flock through these trying times.

 

I attend daily mass and each day my prayer after communion is that the Lord will send us strong Catholic clergy and politicians leaders.

 

Joe, keep up the good fight. My now deceased pastor, Fr. William F. Tallon was a holy priest and always encouraged me to keep up the work of GOD.

When he would speak out on these issues he would be reprimanded by parishioners who were using contraception, or considering abortion. He was being obedient to God and they were being disobedient, and making their own rules.

 

When we look back on these days we will recall this all started with disobedience to Pope Paul VI encyclical Humane Vitae. In those days, many priests rejected the encyclical and refused to defend it.

So here we are now watching our church disintegrate.  

One parishioner commenting on the reason his parish had to be merged was because 70% of the parishioners never attended Mass or financially supported the parish. How true.

The same applies for the pro-Life movement, because there is no teaching on the Sanctity of Life and Marriage, the parishioner do not participate.

It could make Christ weep!.

 

Bill

 

On 07/01/14, Joe Tevington wrote:

 

If you have not yet seen it, there is an incredible reflection in today's Courier Times on the absorptions of St. Joseph the Worker, St. Ann St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Our Lady of Fatima, and Immaculate Conception:
"Three reasons for Catholic decline predate the scandal: the sin of contraception, the assimilation of Catholics into American culture and the secularization or 'paganization' of baptized Catholics.....

[With regard to contraception;] "no kids means no Catholics and no need for Catholic parishes....

"Catholics were accepted into the mainstream because so many lived openly double lives: attending Mass while rejecting church moral teachings....

[Pre-Christian Rome] "was characterized by promiscuity, birth control, abortion, recreational drugs, and the normalization of infanticide, polygamy and slavery. Christians were martyred for calling out pagan cruelties and inhumanity.

"What is the future for loyal Catholics whose faith commands calling out cultural atavism? It ain’t pretty....

"St. Joseph the Worker, pray for us" (Why they walked away from St. Joseph the Worker, Courier Times, 7/1/14).

Wow!  "The Sin of Contraception"!  Not something you hear much from the pulpit, is it? By the way, One More Soul and Pharmacists for Life International have only been able to identify handfuls of pharmacies - across the country - which do NOT sell contraceptives and abortifacients (e.g., hormonal "contraceptives").  Incredibly, a few pharmacies that sell these poisons have long been advertised in some local parish bulletins - receiving a quasi "imprimataur," if you will!  How could the laity not be confused by such mixed messages?

Immaculate Conception will be absorbed by Queen of the Universe.  Queen of the Universe, by the way, has long been advertising the Oxford Valley Pharmacy (When I last inquired, Oxford Valley even acknowledged that they carry the notorious Plan B for $39.99.). 

Our Lady of Fatima will be absorbed by St. Charles Borromeo in Bensalem, which has long been  advertising the Riccio Family Pharmacy.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton will be absorbed by St. Thomas Aquinas in Croydon.  While St. Elizabeth  long advertised the Riccio Family Pharmacy, St. Thomas has long "preferred" Mat's Pharmacy and Medical Supply.
On the web page of Bucks County's Catholic hospital (http://www.stmaryhealthcare.org/physicians), we are told that
"....St Mary Medical Center is a Catholic healthcare facility that strives for the highest ideals of quality care and institutional integrity. St. Mary Medical Center is firmly committed to maintaining fidelity to its Catholic identity by closely conforming to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.

"Health Care practitioners at St. Mary Medical Center abide by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic

 

Health Care Services while providing care at any of the St. Mary Medical Center campuses.  Many of these practitioners also provide services outside of St. Mary Medical Center where there is no institutional obligation to practice under the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services...."
That reasoning helps to explain why only one OBGYN can be found on a directory of NFP only physicians!

If you follow St. Mary's web page to "Find a Perinatology Specialist", you will be led to Doctors Stephen Smith, Richard Latta, and Marc Rosenn - all of Abington Perinatal Associates.  At Abington, their associate, Dr. Frank Craparo has been reported to be involved with fetal "reduction" – a euphemism for abortion (See http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/selective-reduction-termination-due-health-issues/692269-fyi-something-my-dr-said-others-might-find-interesting.html). 

Marriage March to Washington. I urge all Knights of Columbes and their spouses to make the trip.Try to make this trip.

Please check list of parishes in your area for bus information.

 

Ask your pastor to promote having your own bus or combining with another parish.

 

 People in Bucks County can e-mail Peggy at St. Andrews Parish to reserve a seat on their bus.
Her e -mail address is, yardleymom@gmail.com

 

http://catholicphilly.com/2014/05/news/local-news/marriage-march-ready-to-make-statement-in-washington/

Faithful in the 8th.

"The Redemption of the Body and the Sacramentality of Marriage"

Last week's court decision did not happen in a vacuum.  The comparatively meek and timid reaction - thus far - from our church leaders is also not happening in a vacuum.  For varied reasons, there has been a reluctance to boldly proclaim what the Church truly proclaims about "The Redemption of the Body and the Sacramentality of Marriage"....

How We Arrived at this Moment in History 
"....Where distorted views of marriage somehow flourished, might the stage have been inadvertently set for distortions of authentic teaching on the grandeur of marriage, family, and human sexuality?...." (Read more)
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A False Gospel Embraced by Many: the Sexual Revolution
"To a great extent... [in the 20th century, the truly] brilliant vision of marriage went unnoticed, ignored, and contradicted.  By contrast, many twentieth century Catholics did not escape the influence of the so-called Sexual Revolution, or its generals – Margaret Sanger, Margaret Mead, Wilhelm Reich, Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Heffner, and Helen Gurley Brown...." (Read more)

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Collateral Damage from the Revolution
"....The Sexual Revolution has left untold victims in its path.  Ready availability of contraceptives and abortifacients has ushered in an era where 56 times more Americans get an STD each year, than 1957’s total number of infected Americans.  The rate of forcible rape of women has tripled.  Fewer Americans marry and those who do are more likely to divorce.  We are barely beginning to fully grasp the devastating impact divorce has on children.  With such data, one would expect that Catholics – particularly the clergy – would proudly, joyfully and enthusiastically embrace Church teaching, in regard to marriage, family, and human sexuality...." (Read more)

Manicheanism (A Heresy!!!) 
“…. As Manicheanism sees God as the creator of all that is good and Satan as the creator of all that is evil, Manicheanism sees a sort of partnership where Satan has charge over the world and the body while God rules a spiritual domain.  Genesis instead tells us that God looked at EVERYTHING He had made and declared that it was GOOD!  Before becoming pope, John Paul II prepared a masterful book, meant to lead the Church and the world to a true appreciation of marriage, family, and human sexuality.  John Paul II saw monumental resistance to Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae, as attributable to a resurgence of Manicheanistic thinking.  People were simply failing to see the inseparable connection between what we do with our bodies and our spirituality.  Becoming pope before his book was published, John Paul II instead used his notes to address audiences at weekly catechetical sessions, across a span of five years.  In 2007, Dr. Michael Waldstein published an updated and magnificent translation of these Theology of the Body addresses, under the title: “Man and Woman  He Created Them.” (Read more)

"Man and Woman, He Created Them"

 

PART 1 - The Redemption of the Body (Read more)

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Chapter 1: “Christ Appeals to the ‘Beginning’”
"....In the earliest of his weekly catechetical sessions, Pope John Paul II deeply explores the opening chapters of Genesis and how Christ called humanity to return to this 'beginning,' regarding marriage.  In spite of all the wonders God created up to that point, the first man was 'alone' until God made the first woman – man’s 'suitable partner.'  Before the Fall, before original sin, this husband and wife were completely transparent gifts to each other – 'naked, yet they felt no shame.'  God Himself called them to sexual intercourse and procreation!  'Be fertile and multiply'....” (Read more)

Chapter 2: “Christ Appeals to the Human Heart”
. 51

"....The opening pages of Genesis gave us a phenomenal look at God’s original plan for monogamous, lifelong spousal relationships – between one man and one woman – which would be His platform for continuing His work of creation.  While spousal relationships changed for the worse after original sin, Christ calls us back to this “beginning”...." (Read more)

Chapter 3: “Christ Appeals to the Resurrection”
"....Our marriages must proclaim what Christ tells us about eternal life!  'At the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven' (Matthew 22: 30).  Pope John Paul II looks at what the resurrection reveals about marriage, as well as at foregoing marriage 'for the kingdom.'  Marriage and procreation are incredible goods of monumental importance, intended to lead us to salvation.  Though men and women will not be married and will not bear children in Heaven, we will be drawn even closer to each other, in God!  With our present finite understandings, the awesomeness of this eludes our grasps....We are meant to see God face-to-face!...." (Read more)

PART 2 - The Sacramentality of Marriage (Read more)

Chapter 1: “The Dimension of Covenant and Grace”

. 81

"....Pope John Paul II offers a profound reflection on marriage as a sacrament. A sacrament is not a mere sign or symbol; it is an efficacious sign.  It makes real what it signifies.  As the ministers of the sacrament, are not husbands and wives intended to be spiritual directors – of sorts – to each other?...." (Read more)

Chapter 2: “The Dimension of Sign”. 91

"So much has been written about notions of 'body language.'  Police investigators look for signals from the body, which betray deceit on a person’s lips.  Even the most sexually promiscuous person cannot escape the reality that sexual intercourse speaks a 'language of the body.'  Sexual intercourse proclaims committed love and openness to new life.  Hence, 'one night stands' – even for so-called 'consenting adults' – involve lying with the body.  Marriage does not mean a license to use the sexual functions willy nilly.  Using the sexual functions, in manners which cannot be open to life, similarly involves lying with the body.  As has been said, marriage is a sacrament – a 'visible and efficacious sign.'  If our behavior reflects the body’s authentic language, we are 'in the truth.'  Otherwise, we lie and are false prophets.  Yet, rather than primarily accused and/or condemned, we are first called.  In this section, John Paul II’s reflection on the language of the body looks closely at the Song of Songs and Tobit:...." (Read more)

Chapter 3: “He Gave Them the Law of Life as Their Inheritance”  104

"Christ responds to our verbal professions of love: 'If you love me, you will keep my commandments.  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you….Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him” (John 14: 15 – 17, 21).  Through His Church, Christ has been abundantly clear in what He teaches about marriage, family, and human sexuality...." (Read more)

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Good Cheer At The Gas Pump

You will really enjoy this video.



Good Cheer At The Gas Pump

These three statements tell you a lot about our government and our culture: 


1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works. 


2. We constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. How come we never hear about Welfare running out of money? What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the second didn't. 


3. The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year the greatest amount of free Meals and Food Stamps ever --- to 47 million people, as of the most recent figures available in 2013. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." The stated reason for this policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves."

Thus Ends Today's Lesson On Irony


Mark H. Dougherty
KEYSTONE STRUCTURES, INC.
705 Terminal Way
Kennett Square, PA 19348

President Barack Obama’s budget sends hundreds of millions of dollars to the Planned Parenthood abortion business — but that’s not the only concern it presents for pro-life advocates.

Yesterday, President Obama sent his proposed FY 2015 budget to Congress. Despite the fact that most parents of teens, whether Democrat or Republican, favor the abstinence approach, the president proposed the elimination of every sexual risk avoidance program, while continuing every sex education program that normalizes teen sex.

“By eliminating SRA (sexual risk avoidance) abstinence programs in his budget, the President has, once again chosen to ignore the wishes of parents and the approach that helps youth avoid all risk associated with teen sex. This is truly unfortunate, but not at all surprising. President Obama has sought to cut or eliminate SRA abstinence programs each year of his presidency. This – despite a growing body of research showing its effectiveness,” stated Valerie Huber, President of NAEA.

Huber tells LifeNews Obama’s FY 2015 budget will only increase the current 1:16 disparity between SRA abstinence education and so-called “comprehensive’’ sex education. She says that is despite the fact that nearly 7 in 10 Democratic parents would like to see more equality in funding for abstinence education and almost 60% specifically oppose the president’s efforts to eliminate SRA funding.

“In addition, since the CDC reports that nearly 75% of teens targeted for sex education classes (age 15-17) are not sexually active, one would expect federal sex education policy to reinforce the good decisions the majority of teens are making and encourage more teens to make the same healthy choices. Sadly, the President’s recent budget ignores these compelling facts,” Huber said.

Research shows that students benefit from SRA abstinence programs, regardless of their sexual experience, or lack thereof.  Students in successful SRA programs are more likely to delay sex than their peers, if sexually active, to discontinue sex or have fewer partners and are no less likely to use a condom.

According to Huber “Parents favor the abstinence approach because they recognize that it is much more than a ‘just say no’ approach. SRA abstinence education reaches youth where they live and addresses issues they are concerned about. Parents don’t want their children to have a false sense of security from those who equate ‘safe sex’ with a condom or who make teen sex seem inevitable and risk-free. Parents want the best health outcomes for their children, so it is no surprise that they favor sexual risk avoidance programs.”

Although    most political analysts declare this budget even more “dead on arrival” than previous ones, NAEA calls on Congress to ignore the President’s sex education policy recommendations and instead choose the common sense position of supporting SRA abstinence programs and the positive results they are achieving among youth.

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

(CNSNews.com) – Calling the Obama administration “the most tone deaf to religious liberty issues in recent memory,” Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput warned that religious freedom in the U.S. is “at risk,” and that “the more government mandates evil action, the more likely civil disobedience becomes.”

Last February, Chaput urged his fellow prelates to take the “right action…whatever the cost” regarding the Health and Human Services’ contraceptive mandate, which requires nearly all insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act to pay for sterilization, contraceptives, and abortion-inducing drugs.

Due to “an unfriendly political class” and believers’ own apathy, Chaput told CNSNews.com, “government pressure on religious communities has clearly increased.” Which is why, he says, that religious freedom must not be taken for granted, but be “vigorously defended” in the nation’s courts and state houses.

CNSNews.com: Gen. [William] Boykin (Ret.)  recently said that ‘Given our nation’s history as a country formed in large part by communities fleeing religious persecution, the principle of religious freedom has long stood as a core national ideal, enshrined in the Bill of Rights and guaranteed to all Americans.’ Do you think that this ‘core national ideal’ is now at risk?

Archbishop Chaput: “I think President Obama’s recent prayer breakfast comments about religious freedom were interesting but also curious, because in practice, the people who staff his administration have been the most tone deaf to religious liberty issues in recent memory. There’s a very odd disconnect in praising religious freedom while the Justice Department goes after the Little Sisters of the Poor.

"So yes, religious freedom is one of our core national ideals, and yes, it’s at risk from two sources: an unfriendly political class, and our own distracted attention and indifference."

CNSNews.com: Are Christians being persecuted for their beliefs in the U.S.?

Archbishop Chaput: “'Persecuted' is a big word. We’re not in Pakistan or North Korea. But it would be very unwise to ignore the implications of government coercion like the HHS mandate, or the misuse of the IRS, or political and judicial attacks on the nature of marriage.

"Government pressure on religious communities has clearly increased in our country in recent years. The United States has no magic immunity attached to its liberties. The Constitution, as great as it is, is still just a piece of paper unless people vigorously protect their rights.

"For religious believers, that means defending their faith in the courts and legislatures. It also means living their faith with joy and conviction, publicly as well as privately."

CNSNews.com: What should Catholics do in the face of government mandates that would force them to act against key tenets of the Faith?

Archbishop Chaput: "Catholics have a duty to respect legitimate authority and pray for our political leaders, whether we personally care for them or not. The Church seeks to cooperate with public officials because we’re a community of citizens as well as believers.

“But there are limits, and the more that government mandates evil actions, the more likely civil disobedience becomes,” Chaput added.

Ken Gioffre
President
Marian Management Services

Abortion and The Heart Cases: I Am Not The Rapist’s Child | LifeNews.com

This article gives a good insight into how abortion providers twist the language to meet their pro-abortion position.



Abortion and The Heart Cases: I Am Not The Rapist’s Child | LifeNews.com:



'via Blog this'

The statement at the end of this article by Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) says it all about why they establish their Health Care (abortion) facilities in poor neighborhoods, especially Black and Hispanic . 

Abortion is not Health Care. 

Abortion results in one dead baby and one emotionally damaged mother. She was a mother of a live unborn baby when she walked into Planned Parenthood. Now she is the mother of a dead baby killed by Planned Parenthood. 

Abortion is Planned Parenthood's  program of "stopping ALL reproduction" when there is not economic means of providing care. 

On the life side of this issue, poverty is NEVER a justifiable reason to kill an innocent unborn child. As PP knows, there are hundreds of Adoption organizations willing to accept these innocent babies.

Planned Parenthood counselors convince these poor women that it would be better for them to have an abortion than try to raise the child as a single parent, or put this burden on their parents.  

There are numerous Pregnancy Care homes for mothers to go and live, receiving pre-natal care and post natal care after they have their babies. 99% of these mothers CHOOSE to keep their babies. In these homes they receive all the love and assistance they need to continue their lives after the arrival of their baby. 

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“We who advocate Birth Control, on the other hand, lay all our emphasis upon stopping not only the reproduction of the unfit but upon stopping all reproduction when there is not economic means of providing proper care…” 

–Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control and Racial Betterment” from Birth Control Review, Feb 1919, pg 11

THE HOW AND WHY OF ROE'S RADICAL MANDATE - Catholic League

THE HOW AND WHY OF ROE'S RADICAL MANDATE - Catholic League

THE HOW AND WHY OF ROE’S RADICAL MANDATE

Catalyst January/February Issue 2014, Book Review

RICK HINSHAW

Clarke D. Forsythe, Abuse of Discretion: The Inside Story of Roe v. Wade (New York: Encounter Books, 2013)

With his extensive background in law, Clarke Forsythe, senior counsel at Americans United for Life, seems the ideal author for a detailed overview of Roe v. Wade. In Abuse of Discretion, he does not disappoint, providing a comprehensive account of how and why the Supreme Court justices used Roe — and its often overlooked but equally significant companion case, Doe v. Bolton — to impose a radical pro-abortion mandate on the entire nation.

Through what he describes as “a quarter-century of research” – research that included examination of the papers of eight of the nine justices who decided Roe – Forsythe analyzes Roe and its impact, 40 years later, in the process confirming what many pro-life activists knew instinctively at the time:

•  that the ruling was far more sweeping, and radical, than claimed by media and Court members themselves;
• that it resulted not from a comprehensive, reasoned analysis of facts, but from an ideological agenda pushed by the Court’s most activist members;
• that the justices misused, misunderstood and misrepresented pertinent facts in a range of critically relevant areas, from the history of abortion laws, to medical data and developments, to public opinion regarding abortion;
• that instead of a careful, balanced study of empirical data from various perspectives, the justices relied almost exclusively on advocacy pieces produced by pro-abortion activists;
• that the social crises the justices believed legal abortion would help alleviate – poverty, child abuse, out-of-wedlock pregnancies – would grow worse in ensuing decades.

Most disturbing is the justices’ – especially Justices William O. Douglas and William J. Brennan, Jr. – manipulation of the judicial process to bring about their fore-ordained result: a nationwide mandate legalizing abortion.

This is telegraphed in Brennan’s communication to Douglas, in December 1971, that the “right to privacy” Brennan was then positing in a contraception case would prove “useful” later in the abortion cases.

“Brennan knew well the tactic of ‘burying bones’ – secreting language in one opinion to be dug up and put to use in another one down the road,” Forsythe quotes Brennan’s former law clerk Edward Lazarus. In this case, Lazarus explained, “Brennan slipped into Eisenstadt (the contraception case) the tendentious statement explicitly linking privacy to the decision whether to have an abortion.”

Even the targeting of Roe and Doe — “cases without any factual record addressing the legal, historical, or medical questions involving abortion” — as vehicles to transform the nation’s abortion laws was part of this manipulation. The Court had agreed to hear these cases, Forsythe explains, notto address the broad issue of abortion laws, but only to clarify a recent ruling, unrelated to abortion, involving federal jurisdiction to intervene in state criminal proceedings.

Douglas and Brennan, however – “as evidenced by … phone and written exchanges” between them – wanted “to find the best way to get around” such procedural and jurisdictional issues, so they could use Roe and Doe to advance their pro-abortion agenda. And as Forsythe makes clear, the absence of a trial record bearing on legal, historical and medical factors – a record which other pending abortion cases did have – would better serve that goal, allowing the justices to substitute pro-abortion advocacy papers for true evidentiary documents.

For example, the justices seemed to take at face value pro-abortion claims that prior to the 19th century abortion was not a crime, and that the purpose of 19th century laws against abortion was solely to protect the mother, not the child in utero.

Forsythe documents – dating back to 1200 A.D. – that English common law and American laws based on it have historically restricted abortion to protect unborn children. As for 19th century American laws, he points out, “The Justices did not have to speculate” because “as one legal scholar has summarized the data, there were ‘thirty-one decisions from seventeen jurisdictions expressly affirming that their nineteenth century statutes were intended to protect unborn human life, and twenty-seven other decisions from seventeen additional jurisdictions strongly implying the same.’” Forsythe also effectively debunks the related claim that restrictive abortion laws “criminalize women,” noting that historically such laws have treated women as “the second victim of abortion.”

Ignoring all this, “the Justices relied almost exclusively on the historical revisionism in two articles by Professor Cyril Means” who was general counsel to the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL).

The justices also accepted wildly exaggerated claims regarding the numbers of deaths resulting from illegal abortions – dismissed even by some pro-abortion leaders as “unmitigated nonsense” (Christopher Teitze, statistician for the Population Council); and the “mantra” adopted by Justice Harry Blackmun that legal abortion “is safer than childbirth.” In making this assertion, Forsythe observes, Blackmun and Douglas cited a total of only seven medical sources: three papers by prominent abortion activist Teitze; another by a leader of the International Planned Parenthood Federation of London; a letter-to-the-editor from a Czech doctor; and two reports, woefully lacking in reliable empirical data, purporting to prove the assertion through the abortion experiences within the Soviet bloc and New York’s less than one year of legalized abortion. Forsythe notes contradictory sources that the justices ignored, showing little interest in true data about the dangers to women posed by legal abortion.

Forsythe illustrates the sloppiness of the Court’s reasoning with a rather remarkable quote from Blackmun’s ruling, as he stumbles through the assertion that abortion is safer than childbirth:

On page 149, Blackmun states that “Mortality rates for women undergoing early abortions, where the procedure is legal, appear to be as low or lower than the rates of normal childbirth.” Fourteen pages later, Blackmun writes of the “now-established medical fact” that, “until the end of the first trimester mortality in abortion may be less than mortality in normal child birth.”

So, as Forsythe points out, “The ‘appear to be’ on page 149 becomes an ‘established medical fact’ on page 163″; but then Blackmun “immediately qualifies the ‘established medical fact’” with a “may be.” Yet “despite the contradiction in this paragraph, the mantra was taken to be fact by the Justices.”

Relying on such one-sided “data,” the justices arrived at Brennan’s and Douglas’s ultimate goal – overturning the abortion laws of all 50 states. They did so by guiding Justice Blackmun, once he was assigned to write the majority opinion, away from his much more moderate initial inclinations (he had originally found the Georgia statute challenged in Doe – which allowed abortion only in cases of fetal deformity, rape and incest, or to protect the mother’s life and health – to be “perfectly workable”).

 Roe and Doe mandated legalized abortion for any reason, at any time of gestation.  While pro-life activists recognized this immediately, the Court – with enthusiastic media cooperation – promulgated a widely-accepted myth that they had legalized only “early” abortions – a myth that, as Forsythe notes, still has many Americans today claiming to be in favor of Roe, while also voicing support for many abortion restrictions that Roe has disallowed.  Much of the public still does not know how extreme the ruling was.

Forsythe lays it out clearly: Roe held that in the first trimester, the only restriction a state may impose is that abortions be done by a licensed physician. The state interest in protecting fetal life during the second trimester is undermined by the Court holding that “viability” – when the child can survive outside the womb (usually not before the end of the second trimester) – is the “turning point” when the state may provide some protection for the child. And in Doe, the Court included a “health of the mother exception” so broad – and subject to the sole medical judgment of the abortion provider – that it renders even third trimester restrictions meaningless. (Forsythe notes how the justices, buying into the slogan that “an abortion should be between a woman and her doctor,” did not foresee the explosion of an abortion industry in which the vast majority of women seeking abortions go not to their personal physician, but to strangers, abortionists who do not know them or their medical history.)

Forsythe also challenges the perception that Americans are “polarized” over the abortion issue. He refutes the conventional wisdom – clearly accepted by the Roe justices – that the nation at that time was moving inexorably toward widespread public support for reform or repeal of laws protecting the unborn.  While 13 states had legislated some reforms between 1967 and 1970, he notes, most had only moderately liberalized their laws, and none had gone as far as the Supreme Court did in allowing abortion at any time for any reason. Then in 1971, not one additional state passed legislation loosening prohibitions on abortion. And in 1972 voters in Michigan and North Dakota overwhelmingly defeated referendum proposals to legalize abortion, while New York’s elected state representatives voted to repeal its liberalized abortion law — which was only sustained by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller’s veto. The trend seemed to be shifting away from the brief flurry of liberalized state abortion laws, as the nation began to take a closer look at the reality of abortion and life before birth.

In the ensuing four decades, dramatic advances in medical technology have further enhanced public knowledge of pre-born human life, and further united Americans in what surveys increasingly show is a widespread national discomfort with unlimited abortion. Our “polarization,” Forsythe shows, is notbetween the vast majority of Americans, but between that vast majority and a Supreme Court that continues to mandate legal abortion at any time for any reason.

Some pro-lifers will be unhappy with Forsythe’s concluding vision of a post-Roe America in which, with the issue returned to the states and the people therein, there might result a wide variety of abortion laws: some states “might maintain abortion-on-demand as under Roe,” others “might prohibit abortion except to save the life of the mother,” and the majority will probably keep abortion legal, but with tighter time limits and more restrictions than Roe.

 Abuse of Discretion is a work of analysis, however, not advocacy. And while it reminds us that even should Roe be overturned, we will still have much work to do, there is great hope to be taken from Forsythe’s analysis. For he confirms what surveys consistently show: that the American people, profoundly uncomfortable with abortion at the time of Roe, are even more so now; and while they have not yet arrived at a consensus for securing full Constitutional protection for pre-born human life, they are much closer to that position than they have ever been to the Court’s mandate of legal abortion at any time, for any reason.

Rick Hinshaw is editor of The Long Island Catholic magazine.

Number of Babies Aborted in NYC Exceeds Capacity of Super Bowl Stadium - Leah Barkoukis

Number of Babies Aborted in NYC Exceeds Capacity of Super Bowl Stadium - Leah Barkoukis

New York has the second highest abortion rate in the country, and more African-American babies are aborted in New York City than are born alive.

In New York City alone, 83,750 babies were aborted in 2010, according to the CDC’s recent “Abortion Surveillance” report. To put the figure in perspective, CNS News’ Terence Jeffrey notes that that’s more than enough people to sell out the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey where the Super Bowl will be held this year, which fits 82,500 at capacity.

Jeffrey goes on:

 The 83,750 babies aborted in New York City in 2010, according to the CDC's annual "Abortion Surveillance," would also fill Madison Square Garden more than four times over. Madison Square Garden, according to its official website, has a capacity of 19,763 for a basketball game.

In New York state overall, abortionists terminated the lives of 115,724 unborn babies in 2010, according to the CDC report. That is more people than have ever attended any Super Bowl.

New York has the second highest abortion rate in the country, and more African-American babies are aborted in New York City than are born alive.

Downton Abbey story affirms pro-life values (spoiler) | Live Action News

It would be great if major network TV would stress more abstinence  for young adults until married than try to follow the Planned parenthood mentality of casual sex is ok if you use contraception. 

Planned parenthood has perverted and made promiscuous a whole generation and makes millions from the abortions they generate from failed contraception pills and condoms.





Downton Abbey story affirms pro-life values (spoiler) | Live Action News

National Black Prolife Coalition - Restoring Life, Family & Hope WE’VE BEEN GUTTMACHER’D! »

I will be attending the annual Martin Luther King Day community Ministerium in Lincolnia Bensalem. Every year I ask the pastors of the Black churches to attend the March for Life in D.C. but they always have an excuse. One member of their congregation did attend with me one year and he was dismayed that there were so few black people in attendance when proportionately more black babies are killed by abortion. Statistics don't lie.

National Black Prolife Coalition - Restoring Life, Family & Hope WE’VE BEEN GUTTMACHER’D! »

Novena of the Week: 9 Days for Life Novena

The following link provides all the information, i.e. prayers, fasting suggestions, etc.

Novena of the Week: 9 Days for Life Novena

Nigerian Woman Writes to Melinda Gates: We Don't Need Your Contraception - U.s. - Catholic Online

• By Obianuju Ekeocha
• 8/20/2012
• Teresa Tomeo (www.teresatomeo.com)

$4.6 billion dollars can indeed be your legacy to Africa and other poor parts of the world. But let it be a legacy that leads life, love and laughter into the world in need.

I see this $4.6 billion buying us misery. I see it buying us unfaithful husbands. I see it buying us streets devoid of the innocent chatter of children. I see it buying us disease and untimely death. I see it buying us a retirement without the tender loving care of our children.  Please Melinda, listen to the heart-felt cry of an African woman and mercifully channel your funds to pay for what we REALLY need.

Nigerian Woman Writes to Melinda Gates: We Don't Need Your Contraception - U.s. - Catholic Online