New York, New York

Well, a lot going on around here.

• Monday we have the funeral for Bernard Nathanson, which is open to the public.

             Here are the details: 10am, St Parick's Cathedral celebrated by Archbishop Timothy Dolan

 

• The city council is planning on a vote on Bill #371 at their full Council Meeting at Emigrant Savings Bank at 49-51 Chambers St in NYC  on March 2, 2010.

For these upcoming 4 1/2 days, we are committing ourselves to a non stop massive phonathon.  Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning, we will be calling on our supporters in the 5 Boroughs of NYC asking them to follow the EMC ACTION Plan and contact 5 city council members each day and make appointments to meet a City Council member in their office to ask them to vote against Bill #371.

• We will rally For the Life Centers in the memory of Bernard Nathanson on Wednesday.  We will rally at the Trinity Church at 12:15 PM on Wednesday, March 2.  Trinity Church is at the corner of Wall St and Broadway.  We will march to Emigrant Savings Bank at 49-51 Chambers St., where, at 12:45 PM people who cannot meet us at 12:15 PM can meet there.

 

• Lots of controversy over the NYC billboard up on So Ho. I find it interesting that media say the billboard targets African Americans while they deny abortion and Planned Parenthood do. The statistics/facts prove the fact that 60% of abortions in NYC are on African American and Hispanic women and that PP founder Margaret Sanger was a racist.

 

• Great press release by Senator Diaz:

 

For Immediate Release

February 23, 2011

The Truth about Genocide by New York State Senator Reverend Ruben Diaz   This weekend I read an article online “Caution should be used when using the word 'genocide” which gives short shrift to blatant examples of genocide. The author left out reference to the history of abortion and the fact that Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger was a proud racist and advocate of genocide by abortion. Genocide is an ugly term used to define the evil, deliberate and systemic approach to the eradication of an ethnically, racially or religiously identifiable group. The UN’s definition of genocide includes “measures intended to prevent births within the group”. 49 percent of New York City’s Hispanic pregnancies are aborted every year.  59 percent of New York City’s Black pregnancies are aborted every year.  These statistics are staggering, and it is nothing less than responsible to use the term genocide to define what is happening to our children’s lives. Perhaps some prefer to reserve the term genocide for circumstances like the systematic slaughter of ethnic groups as seen in Armenia, Rwanda and Cambodia’s killing fields. Nevertheless, the evil behind this term can also apply to the victims of the Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments on Black men whose lives were eliminated without the use of bullets or machetes, but with the insidious use of medical practitioners.  And it also applies to the institution of abortion in the US, fulfilling Margaret Sanger’s goal to reduce Blacks and other "unworthy" lives in this country. As part of her “Negro Project” and other such programs, she hoped that “(S)uch a plan would ... reduce the birthrate among the diseased, the sickly, the poverty stricken and anti-social classes, elements unable to provide for themselves, and the burden of which we are all forced to carry.” While pro-abortion advocates will fall back on the changing legal definitions of what is a person, Margaret Sanger had no problem heading off the problem before these unborn Black and unborn “socially undesirable” lives started being born, started going to schools and started living in our communities. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is on record stating: "I can remember the days when Jesse Jackson was pro-life, and he went across the country calling abortion genocide….I personally believe that any leader, especially African-American leaders -- and I can say this because I'm African-American -- should be compelled to remember the days of slavery and to remember their responsibility toward the children we call the unborn. They are real people too, and they actually have civil rights." Like the growing number of pro-life Democrats, I will not be silent about genocide against Hispanic and Black children in New York City or anywhere in the US.  I welcome all to join us in this effort. *** (Senator Reverend Ruben Diaz represents the 32nd Senatorial District in New York State, which covers a large section of the South Bronx.  He serves as Chair of the New York State Senate Puerto Rican and Latino Caucus.  He also continues to serve as an Advisory Board Member of Democrats for Life-New York.)

• So, as you can see, we are very busy here in NY!

Most importantly, pray for us..especially for our sibling day March 5^th!