Lumina - a ray of light after abortion

How Much Jail Time

Here is the article I promised. This was in response to a NEWSWEEK article written a while back. 

How Much Jail Time for Women who Have Had an Abortion?…For some, Life

 I am a post abortive woman, and personally, I am tired of the pro abortion side telling me what I should feel. They continue to put great effort into denying the negative impact of abortion stating the pro life side has created this ploy, instead of acknowledging it is the women themselves who are speaking out because of their suffering.

 Now, the National Institute for Reproductive Health, a pro abortion group, is making the “centerpiece of a national conversation”, how much time should she do? Another scare tactic to make people fear that their mothers, sisters, or friends, will end up in jail if they have an abortion.

 Abortion may not be illegal now, but to answer the question, many of us already do life. Countless women live in the prison of anxiety, panic, depression and even suicidal ideation because of abortion. Yet, instead of showing concern about those who suffer, in the past year much time and effort has been given to debunking the claims that abortion hurts women. We have seen article after article claim there is no such thing as post abortion stress. It is ridiculous and a great disservice to women.

 Personally, I believe most Americans agree. By now, many have personally experienced this suffering in sisters, wives, friends, and daughters who have had abortions. They have encountered first hand, the devastation abortion has caused in lives once happy, and relationships once healthy, now imprisoned by despair, anger, bitterness and grief.

 Try as the pro abortion side might to discredit our voices, people know the truth, and so do they or they would not be trying to silence us or think of other ways to make people feel guilty for not supporting abortion.

 Jill June, president of Planned Parenthood,Iowa, (another pro abortion group), says people are not connecting the dots when it comes to making abortion illegal and criminal penalties of abortion. Ms. June obviously is not connecting the dots to the harm abortion has caused in the lives of countless women.  But wait, I forgot, Ms. June and others say we do not feel those things.

 How much time should women do? The truth is, the chances of abortion becoming illegal are very slight and just another fear tactic of the abortion industry. You have to wonder, why the deafening silence from them when women die in our country from”safe legal” abortion. Nor do you hear their outcry when an abortionist maims a woman leaving her unable to havefuture children. Yet, their voices are loud and clear when it comes to lies, instilling fear and trying to silence those of us who are speaking out about abortions devastation in our lives. Just goes to show, that like the lies that made Roe vs. Wade the law of the land, nothing much has changed. The good news is people are learning the truth for themselves from the women they know who are suffering.

 

 

Pilgrimage

Fr Conrad and I are still hoping to lead the Pilgrimage to Medjugore in March.
If Our Lady wants it she will make sure it happens in spite of spite the economy.

Here is an interview with the seer Vicka

"...the Madonna is here among us to save our souls, truly. She did not come in order to boss us "do this, do that or else"... she is here to occupy herself with our souls, she says that she is the Mother of everyone and loves everyone, "you do not know how much I love you; if you knew you would cry for joy". We are still a long way away from her joy... you understand? All those little things, simple things, she always gives hope. And then you read her face which she shows you: it is so sad! but she gives you so much joy! she lifts you up, she gives you strength! And this is so encouraging."
Read the entire interview here:
 http://holy.harmoniae.com/medj_eng_interview_vicka_dic2008.htm

Sign up for the pilgrimage here:
http://www.pilgrimages.com/frosterhaut/

Feminist for Life

They have the right idea....truly caring for women.
Very powerful videos...The first may be hard to hear as a post abortive person. I know it was hard for me having had a saline abortion myself, however, I am glad through this woman my son has a voice...my son is human. I can see how hard the truth still is for her, When I was listening to her I wanted to say "but you do not know why your mom di dthis...maybe she did not have a choice"

Not that that is an excuse there is not excuse...but there is forgiveness

what courage...I am keeping her in my prayers....and her mom...and all those touched by abortion

http://www.feministsforlife.org/video/index.htm?n=1

Technical Trouble

We are currently having technical difficulities. There is some kind of short in our lines. Verizon was suppose to fix it but it is 3 days now and it is still not resolved. Our phones and web are affected, so I can only access email from home, we can however receive calls..thank goodness since I would not want to see those looking for help not to be able to reach us.

Please say a prayer this is resolved today

How Much Time

http://www.howmuchtime.org/

Thank to Jill Stanek for the link above. The site  is such a bunch of lies and garbage it is almost not worth responding too except to say it continues to amaze me that this stuff is out there and not one pro aboriton site has a thing about women injured or killed from so called "safe legal abortions".

I wrote an article when this issue first came up..I have it at work and will post it MOnday....

Proud of Good Counsel

I am so proud of Good Counsel for standing up an canceling a fundraiser to be held at the Clarion hotel in NJ after hearing about their deal with The cherry Hill Woman Center.

Read about it here:  http://www.lifenews.com/state3568.html

Fordham

A great letter to Fordham University by some friends in response to their bestowing the Fordham Stein Ethics prize on Supreme Justice Bryer.

Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J.
Office of the President
Fordham University
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, New York, 10458

 

William Michael Treanor

Dean and Paul Fuller Chair of Law

Fordham University Law School

140 West 62nd Street

New York, New York 10023

 

 

Dear Reverend McShane and Dean Treanor: 

 

I write you as Advocate for the Agnus Dei Knights of Columbus Council and on behalf of the Council's Pro-Life Committee, the Council Officers and its membership to state our opposition to Fordham’s decision to bestow the 2008 Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize upon United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on October 29, 2008. Please accept these comments in the spirit of charity with which they are intended.

 

Our Council is located in the Belmont section of the Bronx in the heart of the Fordham community.  Part of our mission as Knights is to promote the culture of life in our community and to give material and spiritual support to the many pro-life apostolates that work so hard to advance the culture of life and serve women in crisis.  Given our pro-life mission and interest in promoting the culture of life at Fordham and throughout the Bronx, we offer this statement opposing the honor being given to Justice Breyer.

 

We take no issue with Justice Breyer’s intelligence, scholarship or personal integrity.  However, with respect to the foundational issue of our time, abortion, he is in direct and violent conflict with the moral truths of the Catholic Church.  The honor that Fordham intends to bestow upon Justice Breyer does not promote the culture of life and should therefore be rescinded.  In the event that Fordham does not rescind the honor, the Fordham leadership should on October 29, 2008 make an unequivocal statement of its commitment to the legal protection of human life from the moment of conception until natural death.

 

In 2004 in Catholics in Political Life, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops declared:

 

• The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.

 

 As you know in Stenberg v. Carhart, Justice Breyer wrote the opinion for the Supreme Court legitimizing partial birth abortion, a procedure where the body of the baby is born alive and while the baby’s head remains in utero, its skull is then torn, perforated and crushed and then finally a suction used to remove the brains of the baby.  Notably on the question of ethics, Justice Kennedy, in dissent, noted inter alia that American Medical Association publications describe the partial birth abortion procedure at issue in Stenberg as ethically wrong. 

 

In considering our opposition to the honor being bestowed upon Justice Breyer we thought it would be instructive to compare the Fordham statements regarding Justice Breyer and the Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize with just two recent statements of United States Bishops regarding the Church’s moral teaching on abortion.

 

On August 8, 2008, Fordham University announced that United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer had been selected to receive the 2008 Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize.  Fordham stated as follows: “This national honor, bestowed by Fordham Law’s Stein Center for Law and Ethics, recognizes one individual each year whose work, according to the prize's charter, ‘exemplifies outstanding standards of professional conduct, promotes the advancement of justice, and brings credit to the profession by emphasizing in the public mind the contributions of lawyers to our society and to our democratic system of government.’”

 

The statement continued as follows:  "Justice Breyer has devoted his life to the public good,” said William Michael Treanor, dean of Fordham Law. “He was a brilliant, influential, and path-breaking scholar. His government service before taking the bench was of the highest quality. As a jurist, his opinions have been marked by thoughtfulness, balance, rigor, and a commitment to justice and liberty. He has been an eloquent and forceful champion of judicial integrity, as we saw this spring when he participated in a forum on judicial independence at Fordham Law together with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.  In every facet of his extraordinary career, he has embodied the great ideals of the Fordham-Stein Prize, and he is a superb honoree."

 

With respect to the honor due our public servants, our own Bishop, His Excellency Cardinal Edward Egan stated: “We are blessed in the 21st century with crystal-clear photographs and action films of the living realities within their pregnant mothers.  No one with the slightest measure of integrity or honor could fail to know what these marvelous beings manifestly, clearly, and obviously are, as they smile and wave into the world outside the womb.”  With respect to justice and ethics, His Excellency continued:  “in simplest terms, they are human beings with an inalienable right to live, a right that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is bound to defend at all costs for the most basic of ethical reasons. They are not parts of their mothers, and what they are depends not at all upon the opinions of theologians of any faith. Anyone who dares to defend that they may be legitimately killed because another human being “chooses” to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name.”  Justice Breyer has the same ethical duty as Speaker Pelosi.  In Stenberg, Justice Breyer chose to legitimize the killing of the helpless and the innocent; a Catholic institution, particularly a Catholic institution with the responsibility of educating young men and women, should not honor such killing.

 

With respect to devotion to the public good, His Excellency Francis Cardinal George of Chicago has taught very clearly that the Church’s teaching on the culture of life “has consequences for those charged with caring for the common good, those who hold public office. The unborn child, who is alive and is a member of the human family, cannot defend himself or herself. Good law defends the defenseless. Our present laws permit unborn children to be privately killed. Laws that place unborn children outside the protection of law destroy both the children killed and the common good, which is the controlling principle of Catholic social teaching. One cannot favor the legal status quo on abortion and also be working for the common good.”  Accordingly, contrary to the Fordham statement, legitimizing partial birth abortion does not reflect devotion to the public good.

 

For all these reasons it is difficult to comprehend how Justice Breyer has embodied the fundamental moral principles of the Catholic church and the great ideals of Fordham and the Jesuit tradition.

 

We also note that in Gonzalez v. Carhart, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 2001 Fordham Stein-Ethics prize honoree, in dissent, joined by Justice Breyer, summarily denied the reality of post-abortion trauma dismissing it as an “anti-abortion shibboleth.”   On the contrary, the voices of these men and women are real.  http://www.abortionchangesyou.com/.  Our Council stands by and pledges our continued support for post-abortion apostolates such as the Sisters of Life Entering Canaan and Good Counsel Homes Lumina/Hope & Healing After Abortion.  We ask that Fordham also pledge its support for these wonderful apostolates and the “abortion changes you” outreach campaign.

 

Accordingly, in the spirit of charity, we respectfully request that the Fordham leadership rescind the honor that Fordham proposes to bestow upon Justice Breyer and that Fordham make a clear and unequivocal statement of its commitment to the culture of life and the legal protection of human life from the moment of conception until natural death.  Please know that the Agnus Dei Council is always available to assist the Fordham community with the advancement of the culture of life and the civilization of love at Fordham and throughout the community.  Please feel free to call upon us.

 

 

Sincerely yours,

 

 

James T. De Silva, Esq.

Advocate

Agnus Dei

Knights of Columbus Council #12361

627 East 187th Street

Bronx, New York 10458

 

Edward T. Mechmann, Esq.

Chairman

Pro-Life Committee

 

Anthony Ignacio

Grand Knight

 

Joel Greenbaum

Deputy Grand Knight

 

Guy Lyons

Chancellor

 

Frank Kolovic

Financial Secretary

 

Dan Marengo

Treasurer

 

Angel Rivera

Recording Secretary 

12 year olds to get abortion drugs without parental consent

I must confess this infuriates me...what does a 12 year old girl know about the consequences of abortion? How can any group think this is ok? My heart breaks for these children (and that is what they are) ....

London, October 20: In a decision laced with controversy right from the beginning, school girls of 12 years and above would now be getting tablets for abortions at home, without needing parental consent, the anti-abortion MPs having abandoned their fight.

Suspecting that any more resistance would lead to only further controversy, those against the abortion drugs for pre teeners have decided to keep low and adopt a wait and watch policy, lest all the efforts go waste for nothing. Read the rest here http://www.themedguru.com/articles/12_year_olds_to_get_abortion_drugs_without_parental_consent-86114952.html

Autism Linked to Abortion

Interesting article that I am sure will never hit mainstream
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/328968356.html

Good Counsel & Lumina

Some people may wonder why Good Counsel Homes http://www.goodcounselhomes.org/  has Lumina, a post abortive program that refers those suffering from a past abortion to the help they need in order to heal. After all, Good Counsel houses homeless pregnant women who are seeking help in having their unborn children.

 As true as this is, a number of the women have also experienced abortion, and while many may not venture to deal with the pain that it has caused in their lives, there are those who do want to look, and there are those whose current emotions and actions are impacted by their past abortions.

 Lumina also does trainings for clergy, staff, professional therapists and lay people to educate about post abortion. The importance of the Good Counsel staff having a knowledge of post abortion stress is invaluable. In fact it has been key in turning abortion minded women around.

 Post abortion trauma manifests itself in many different ways. Understanding the dynamics helps the staff minister to the moms in ways they may not otherwise do by making them aware of why there may be certain behaviors.

 Abortion makes women much more vulnerable to repeat abortions, much more likely to feel they are not deserving of a child, and prone to host of other dynamics including feeling of being  “worthless”, “unforgivable”, and “abandoned”. We cannot change the past but we can help to mold the future.

 We can care for each individual soul, not only because we want them to give life to their unborn children, but because we manifest Christ’s love them and see their innate value and dignity as children of God, something too many in their lives have not done because of their own wounds.

 Post abortion may be just one of many issues these women are dealing with, but it is an important one. Through the caring staff of Good Counsel, these women can be loved into the arms of Him who is Love, where they will learn their worth and  gain the courage and knowledge to change their lives.

of course, Luminas work goes far beyond Good Counsel as we reach out to all those suffering from a past abortion in the hope of getting them the help they need to heal.

Please keep Good Counsel and Lumina in your prayers as we strive to continue to be instruments of Gods mercy to others, both before and after abortion