tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60938014967499895362024-03-13T07:06:16.415-04:00First State for LIFEThe official blog of Delaware Right to LifeJessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-90654940656660712432014-01-09T13:28:00.000-05:002014-01-09T13:43:14.416-05:00Abortion "doctor" Timothy Liveright gets lenient punishment: DRTL press release<div class="MsoNormal">
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Contact: Nicole Collins<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Wilmington, Delaware, January 8, 2014</b> – The Delaware
Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline has shown a callous disregard for the
public health and safety by letting Dr. Timothy Liveright get away with a
nominal fine and a letter of reprimand.
The Board is remiss in its decision, playing abortion politics, and
further endangering women’s lives by allowing a butcher like Liveright to walk
away with no significant consequences for his horrific behavior.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Liveright was deemed
a “clear and immediate danger to the public,” by the Attorney General’s office
last year after an investigation into the Planned Parenthood clinic where he
worked, sparked by the complaints of former employees. Liveright himself admitted to sexual harassment
and numerous instances of misconduct.
According to the three former employees who testified at two legislative
hearings in 2013, they witnessed a laundry list of offenses by Liveright at the
clinic, including unsafe and unsanitary practices that put women’s health and
lives at risk. During early 2013,
Liveright was responsible for five medical emergencies from botched abortions
in a period of six weeks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To dismiss such egregious transgressions is an affront not
only to the medical profession, but to the women harmed by Liveright, and the
integrity of those who sought to do the right thing in reporting his
misconduct. Where will he strike next?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nicole Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122722437550845049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-42346284230532040302013-08-02T08:20:00.000-04:002013-08-02T08:20:11.030-04:00Planned Parenthood of Delaware Under Fire: Second Legislative Hearing, July 30, 2013.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"></span></span><br />
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<em style="color: #0000ee; font-size: 18px;">"I would urge anyone who has had an STD test at Planned Parenthood to see an outside physician. If she is positive, I would urge her to seek justice. </em></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><em><br />I would urge any woman who has had an abortion at Planned Parenthood to find out if she is Rh negative. If she is, I would urge her to go to an outside physician to determine if she missed her RhoGAM shot. If she has, I would urge her to seek justice.<br /><br /> I would urge any woman who has a colposcopy at Planned Parenthood to get a colposcopy outside of Planned Parenthood. If she has cervical cancer, I would urge her to seek justice.<br /><br /> Planned Parenthood of Delaware abused its employees and its patients. … [They] should be held accountable for their neglectful conduct that has put women in unnecessary danger."</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">Melody Meanor delivered this message to a packed room at the Chase Center on the Riverfront at the second legislative hearing featuring <span style="color: #0000ee;">Planned Parenthood of Delaware (PPDE) whistle blowers</span>, held on July 30, 2013. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">Ms. Meanor is a former Manager of Planning Services at PPDE. She joined fellow whistle blowers Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich and Joyce Vasikonis in telling a shocked public <span style="color: #0000ee;">how Planned Parenthood's obsession with bottom-line profits lead to disaster </span>-- a disaster that both PPDE and the State of Delaware continues to downplay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #0000ee;">Audible sighs and groans came from the audience</span> as the three former Planned Parenthood employees painted a picture of slipshod greed that included:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">· Not informing patients of 200 <span style="color: #0000ee;">STD tests that had come back positive</span>for chlamydia, gonorrhea, or both. Chlamydia and gonorrhea are both contagious leaving patients who were not informed of positive results vulnerable to spreading the diseases. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">· Improper filing and reporting of 87 colposcopies of women who had had an irregular pap smears. By not properly filing results in patient charts and reporting them to patients, patients with irregular pap smears were <span style="color: #0000ee;">put at risk that cervical cancer would not be detected</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">· The siphoning off of personnel and resources from the non-abortion services to meet increased demand on the more lucrative abortion side. This included <span style="color: #0000ee;">using untrained health care assistants to perform tasks that put them at risk for transfer of and infection by blood-borne pathogens</span>. "For example, the suction equipment at Planned Parenthood that was used during abortions was supposed to be cleaned by Health Care Assistants. I personally saw the Health Care Assistants cleaning the blood and body fluids from the suction equipment without using universal precautions such as goggles or even a face shield. This put the employees at serious risk of contracting a blood borne pathogen." - Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">· <span style="color: #0000ee;">Delaying informing Rh negative mothers of the need to take RhoGAM injections to prevent danger to mother and child</span> in future pregnancies until patients were on the surgical table. Untrained health care assistants then delivered the news that a $120 injection, payable on the spot, was added to the already-paid cost of the abortion. Women who said they could not pay were marked as "Rejecting RhoGAM injections" although untrained health care assistants were not qualified to explain the importance of the injection to future health, and although this information could have been given before the surgical abortion was performed. But if a young woman walked out of the abortion clinic to seek additional funds, perhaps she would not return?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">· Not informing the State of Delaware when PPDE administrators discovered <span style="color: #0000ee;">one of their abortionists performing late-night, illegal abortions</span>. "It is also of great concern to Ms. Vasikonis that Dr. Meyers has also failed to report substandard and unprofessional conduct by yet another Planned Parenthood of Delaware doctor, to wit: Dr. Eric Schaff. Specifically, Dr. Meyers informed Ms. Vasikonis that, during a 2008 inspection of Planned Parenthood of Delaware by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, she (Dr. Meyers) discovered that Dr. Schaff, Dr. Meyers' predecessor as the Planned Parenthood of Delaware medical director, <span style="color: #0000ee;">was performing illegal and inappropriate after-hours abortions at the Planned Parenthood of Delaware facility and was not using any Planned Parenthood of Delaware medical staff to support these illegal, after-hours abortions. .</span>.. While this conduct evidently occurred in 2008, a date prior to the time Ms. Vasikonis was employed at PPDE, Dr. Meyers informed Ms. Vasikonis of these matters and advised her that, while Dr. Schaff had been fired by Planned Parenthood of Delaware, <span style="color: #0000ee;"><strong><em>no report had been made to the Delaware Division of Professional Regulation or any other Delaware authority</em></strong>." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">· Superficial and hurried "options counseling". Ms. Mitchell-Werbrichs had testified at the previous hearing that <span style="color: #0000ee;">abortion counseling at Planned Parenthood was "a joke"</span>. Ms. Meanor added: "Abortions were a significant source of revenue at Planned Parenthood of Delaware. And, unfortunately, in several ways,<span style="color: #0000ee;">Planned Parenthood of Delaware treated abortion much more as a business transaction</span> than as a service to clients. ... Planned Parenthood would rush through properly explaining the pros and cons of receiving an abortion, which can result in pushing women towards making the life changing decision to have an abortion. When counseling, I took time with the patient and made sure she really wanted the abortion. Gloria Johnson criticized me for this practice contending it took too much time."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><em>"I would urge anyone who has had an STD test at Planned Parenthood to see an outside physician. If she is positive, I would urge her to seek justice.<br /><br />I would urge any woman who has had an abortion at Planned Parenthood to find out if she is Rh negative. If she is, I would urge her to go to an outside physician to determine if she missed her RhoGAM shot. If she has, I would urge her to seek justice.<br /><br /> I would advise any woman who has a colposcopy at Planned Parenthood to get a colposcopy outside of Planned Parenthood. If she has cervical cancer, I would urge her to seek justice."</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #ff2a1a;"><strong><u>Delaware Right to Life urges all pro-life advocates to take this message to heart, and also to take it to the streets. In particular, think about the young people you know -- your daughters and sons, granddaughters and grandsons -- and initiate discussions with them about Planned Parenthood of Delaware. Our young folk are immersed in the world and know what goes on -- ask them if they have a friend who has been getting health care from Planned Parenthood of Delaware. </u></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #ff2a1a;"><strong><u>If so, advise them to encourage their friends to get re-checked for STDs, by a non-PPDE doctor. If they have had an abortion, encourage them to get checked to see if they are Rh negative and to see if they have received the necessary RhoGAM injections. Gently advise them to come forward, if they have suffered any irregularities at the hands of Planned Parenthood of Delaware.</u></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">For video clips of each witness at the hearing, see <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=66378083&msgid=655778&act=DXGH&c=519526&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dmzt8u-LC34w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzt8u-LC34w</a></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13102269817327933240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-62089551380339605352013-05-02T13:46:00.001-04:002013-05-02T13:46:25.288-04:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today, we want to share with you (Priests for Life's) Fr. Pavone's statement with regards to the Gosnell Trial, while we await the final verdict. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please, read and share. But most importantly, <i><u><span style="color: red;">PRAY</span></u></i> for justice for all the unborn babies killed by abortion at the hands of Gosnell ... and for an end to abortion in America. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gosnell is not the exception ... but the norm in the abortion industry.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">http://www.priestsforlife.org/blog/index.php/statement-of-fr-frank-pavone-as-we-await-verdict-in-gosnell-trial</span><br />
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Having sat in the Gosnell courtroom and followed this drama from the beginning, <a href="http://www.priestsforlife.org/blog/index.php/i-am" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="I am">I am</a> confident in saying that there is no outcome to the Gosnell case that is not sad and tragic. What is beyond dispute is that Dr. Kermit Gosnell has been deeply involved in an industry that is the most destructive and unregulated surgical industry in the nation, namely, the abortion industry. What is beyond dispute is that he killed babies, whether the circumstances qualify that killing as murder under the law or not. What is beyond dispute is that his facility — which is supposed to be serving women — has in fact harmed them. And what is beyond dispute is that babies continue to be killed and women continue to be killed and harmed in hundreds of abortion facilities across the nation.</div>
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a) Abortion, even when carried out legally, is an act of violence against a living, human child. As medical textbooks verify, the procedure dismembers and decapitates those children. America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion, and this trial is the first time many are seeing it for what it is. The arguments in court were not about whether Dr. Gosnell killed babies. The arguments, rather, were about whether the methods and timing of that killing were within the bounds of the law. But they are still babies and it is still violent killing. Having made a request to the Medical Examiner in Philadelphia, I hope to obtain the bodies of the babies killed in Gosnell’s clinic and retrieved when the clinic was raided. Priests for Life wants to conduct a public funeral and burial for these children, so that the public can honor and reverence them, above and beyond any legal dispute about whether their killing was justified.</div>
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b) Making abortion legal has not made it safe. When <a href="http://www.priestsforlife.org/blog/index.php/roe-vs-wade" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="Roe vs. Wade">Roe vs. Wade</a> was handed down, all that happened to back-alley abortionists is that they took their name plate off the back door and put it on the front door. They reformed neither their methods nor their morals. The abortion industry remains the most unregulated and dangerous surgical industry in America. It does not serve women; it harms and kills them. Organizations like the one I run — Priests for Life — have been sounding the alarm for decades about how legal abortion clinics and their staff violate basic norms of medical practice and law in countless ways. Sad to say, nothing we have heard in the Gosnell trial has been new.</div>
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c) A practical corollary of these facts is that it is time to begin reforming public policy on abortion in ways that most pro-life and pro-choice people can agree on. For instance, large majorities of Americans favor bans on late-term abortion. Why should public policy continue to permit it in the second and third trimesters, on healthy babies of healthy mothers? Strong and swift public support and legislative action should occur in regard, for instance, to those laws that have already been passed in several states banning abortion after 20 weeks because of the ability of the child in the womb at that point to feel pain.</div>
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d) Moreover, clinic regulation laws, already in effect in many states, need to be enforced where they are in place, strengthened in their provisions, and introduced and passed where they do not yet exist. Few if any people would oppose measures that decrease the likelihood of conditions like those reported about Gosnell’s clinic. As the book<i>Lime 5 </i>outlines, there should be a “Contract with American Women” by which we all agree — and implement legislatively — that for however much longer abortion remains legal, it be conducted only in ways that maximize the safety of the woman. For instance, untrained staff should not be allowed to treat patients; emergency medical equipment should be on hand and standard protocols implemented to handle emergencies; women’s rights to sue and recover damages should be strengthened if they are harmed by abortion malpractice.</div>
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Having dealt with the abortion issue full time for over twenty years, I am fully confident in saying that Dr. Gosnell is not the exception; he is the norm. But it’s time for Americans to work across the pro-life-pro-choice divide to make him the exception.</div>
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e) Finally, we would do well to listen to the voices of those who know abortion from the inside: the growing and ever more vocal ranks of the women and men who have lost children to abortion. They testify, often as participants in the <i><a href="http://www.priestsforlife.org/blog/index.php/silent-no-more-awareness-campaign" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="Silent No More Awareness Campaign">Silent No More Awareness Campaign</a>, </i>that abortion did not solve their problems, but only created new ones. Together, they are saying that ultimately, our nation must <i>recall</i>abortion — that is, remember its damaging effects, and withdraw it from the market, just as we recall products or services — including medical services — that prove harmful to those who make use of them. Using the insights in the recently published book <i>Recall Abortion </i>(by Janet Morana), this is a moment for the American public to express their conviction that women, their children, and our whole society deserve better solutions than abortion, and that the government should stop permitting a procedure that has brought so much devastation. To this end, you can sign the <i>Recall Abortion</i>petition at <i>RecallAbortion.com.</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13102269817327933240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-76887515077838923832013-04-19T13:18:00.002-04:002013-04-19T13:18:47.310-04:00The Gosnell trial in real life - notes from our Vice President<i>DRTL vice president, David Williams, attended the Gosnell trial last week, <a href="http://firststateforlife.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-first-hand-account-at-gosnell-trial.html">as you read here</a>. He attended for a second time yesterday. These are his notes:</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, I am back on the “slow train to Philly” but at least now I know
what to expect. I made the 8:51
departure and hope to be in the courtroom by 10 AM. It is Thursday, April 18. I read in the paper
this morning that the prosecution will call one or two more witnesses and then
rest its case. So, I am anticipating a
short day, with the normal three day weekend this trial has been taking, on the
horizon. I have missed a lot of
compelling testimony since I am only able to make weekly trips. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10:08: I arrive and Court is already in session. There are many more
representatives of the press today. I
count 36 people who have come to watch the proceedings and estimate about half
are reporters or court artists. Reuters,
Fox News, The Wilmington News Journal and some young ladies from CNSNews.com
are among the group. There are still 16
jurors in the box.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Defense is wrapping up a cross examination of Lisa Dungee, a client
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The witness, Natalie Tursi, testifies that she “has been a good friend
of Eileen O'Neill for 6 or 7 years and had met her through Eileen’s brother,
another good friend. Tursi states that
on March 9, 2010 she arrives at O’Neill’s house where four agents (detectives)
are already on the scene. She recalls
one agent, Huff, questioning O'Neill at first in a conversational manner but
then his tone becomes more aggressive. She says that Eileen O'Neill, seemed
nervous and apprehensive and asked, “am I under investigation?”. Tursi went on to say that Detective Huff
stated, “Do you want to practice medicine, get your license, you’ll be a
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cross examination of Natalie Tursi by the prosecution: You state that
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tursi: We were boyfriend and girlfriend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">D.A.: Aren’t you in fact living with this brother, Paul White in
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her face, that she had previously testified for O'Neill who was trying to get
her medical license in Delaware. She
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The D.A. establishes that she was arrested by the Feds and pled guilty
to conspire to distribute controlled substances. Her sentence of probation is contingent on
her cooperation in this case. After
completing a nine month course to become a medical assistant, Kareema Cross was
trained to staff the front desk, take vital signs and do blood work. She
started working for Kermit Gosnell for 10 dollars an hour in August 2005
performing these tasks. Her employment
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Some months later after
receiving “a couple of minutes” training Kareema started doing ultra sounds and
assisting in procedures, helping with abortions.</b> While initially working from 8:30 AM until
5:30 PM, at times she would work until 3:30 the next morning, 19 hour shifts.
Although never certified Ms. Cross began injecting patients with medications. <b>She testified that she and other
uncertified staff would sedate patients and leave them in an upstairs room with
no monitoring machines and sporadic visits.</b>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The mothers would be given cytotec to dilate the cervix to ease the
passage of a baby during the abortion.
This drug would often cause the baby to precipitate (a euphemism for “to
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kareema Cross testified that she
saw one baby that precipitated in the toilet and was still alive. She described the baby as swimming in the
toilet, attempting to get out. A coworker
came in and slit the baby’s neck in front of it’s mother. When Gosnell arrived
he measured the baby’s feet and said it was 24.5 weeks old. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cross: Yes, over 10 times<b>. I saw
one baby, his chest going up and down, Linda pulled his hand up and the baby
moved his arm back by himself. He was
breathing for 10 to 20 minutes before Linda Williams snipped the back of the
his neck.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cross<b>: If I did an ultra sound
and determined the baby was over 24 weeks along I would call Kermit Gosnell who
would redo the ultra sound and proclaim it to be 24.5 weeks.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cross: <b>The women would come from
all over, Virginia.... Gosnell said he
had connections. Sometimes patients
would stay overnight in the empty facility the day before the abortion.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kareema Cross: Yes, she had the largest baby I ever saw. He precipitated while she was asleep. Gosnell put the baby in a shoe container
(called that because of it’s similar size). <b>“The baby was breathing and it’s arms and legs were hanging over the
sides of the box, then he came together. He fit himself into the box.” At this point Kareema demonstrates how the
baby closed his arms to fit into the box.
“Gosnell cut the baby’s neck. He
was left in the box overnight in the office until the janitor complained the
next day.”</b> Gosnell used his joke
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white patients and those that appeared to have money differently. He talked to them, spent time with them. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cross: I was pregnant in 2009 and Gosnell tried to talk me into an
abortion. “You are going to school. How
can you work here being pregnant?” Kareema gave birth to that child but had an
abortion another time <b>“at another
clinic, his was too filthy.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the break Andree Seu Peterson of “World Magazine” told me that
on the Monday following the release of the “empty press seats” photo the judge
admonished the media for abusing their cell phone privilege. No photos are allowed in the courtroom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mullane was the main cause of shaming the mainstream press into covering the
trial. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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observation that some on the jury laugh and smile. I don’t know if it is nerves or a disregard
for what they are seeing unfold. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I also find it interesting that some of the most horrific things Kermit
Gosnell has done are perfectly legal in our country. Killing the baby with
drugs or suctioning out the contents of its brain while it is still in the
mother’s womb is common practice in the abortion industry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cross Examination by the Defense attorney McMahon: He repeats all of
the introductory facts concerning Kareema Cross confusing some of them. I notice his hacking and coughing that has
plagued him throughout the trial is still an issue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nicole Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122722437550845049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-15030768143742286472013-04-18T12:36:00.001-04:002013-04-18T12:40:58.778-04:00<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">Fellow lifers ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">The following is a story from our Dover, 40 Days for Life leader, Donna Latteri:</span><br />
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" ... To my beloved pastors and Deacons:</div>
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When will WE do something about our Planned Parenthood here in Dover? What are your suggestions on more that we can do? Flushing babies down the toilet after taking RU486 is very common here. It's a mind set.</div>
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Unsafe conditions and un-sterilized instruments put women at risk daily. </div>
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I spoke with a young father yesterday at the clinic who was outside the door. </div>
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I asked him if he would use a dentist that didn't sterilize his instruments. Of course he said he would NOT because he could get a disease. </div>
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I asked if he thought flushing babies down toilets was acceptable practice today. He did NOT feel it was. </div>
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I showed him how Margaret Sanger's vision was to eliminate the minorities and how abortion is the largest threat on their race. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-67177401292810384352013-04-14T12:33:00.000-04:002013-04-14T12:33:09.093-04:00The next Gosnell? Planned Parenthood of Delaware benefits from being in bed with State of Delaware and News JournalGuess who is the public face of the DHSS Division of Public Health in
the matter of the State of Delaware's pending investigation of Planned
Parenthood of Delaware? Only the ex-PR Director of Planned Parenthood of
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Parenthood revealing Gosnell-like conditions (guerneys with bloody drainage
from last patient, unsterile instruments) at 625 Shipley St, the News Journal
-- premiere newspaper in Delaware -- maintained its silence. No comment whatsoever
on the shocking allegations revealed by a Philadelphia television station after
the News Journal ignored attempts by the whistle-blowing nurses to give them
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Does the News Journal mention the allegations of filthy conditions and
a "meat market style of assembly line abortions" that abc6 reported
on? Nope. Does it mention $5000 in fines paid by PPDE in 2012 for OSHA
violations including dirty needles and untrained staff handling contagious
materials? Nope! Does it mention 22 staffers quit or fired since 2012? Nope,
nope, and nope! What does it tell the people of Delaware? <o:p></o:p></div>
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This sterling piece of journalism says that the new CEO of Planned
Parenthood, Ruth Lytle-Barnaby, has suspended in-office abortions (surgery) in
order to train new staff.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Can you say travesty? No mention of the abc6 report, no mention of the
allegations of filth and worse by the nurses who worked at PP, NOTHING. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To cap it off, the article cites DHSS representative Emily Knearl about
Public Health's oversight of Planned Parenthood. and just who is Ms Knearl??
Only the former PR Director of Planned Parenthood of Delaware who worked at the
625 Shipley St clinic until last year! <o:p></o:p></div>
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representing the Public Health division that's investigating PP!<o:p></o:p></div>
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You can't make this stuff up! Not only is the State of DE in bed with
Planned Parenthood, it looks like the News Journal is in bed with both!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Rae Stabosz is a volunteer for Delaware Right to Life. Her attack while <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/17/video-catholic-grandmother-assaulted-while-praying-outside-planned-parenthood/">filming ambulances at Planned Parenthood in Wilmington</a> has led to a media firestorm, and an effort to expose this facility as the "next Gosnell", as abortion clinic regulations in Delaware are non-existent. Rae is a contributor at First State for Life and blogs at <a href="http://raeblog.blogspot.com/">Confessions of a Cooperator</a>.</i></div>
Nicole Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122722437550845049noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-55293084365268793842013-04-12T13:25:00.000-04:002013-04-12T13:30:15.522-04:00A first-hand account at the Gosnell trial (since the media won't tell you about it)<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<i>DRTL Vice President, David Williams, attended the Kermit Gosnell trial
in Philadelphia this morning. Since you
won't hear the story from the mainstream media, here is his first-hand account
of the horror he heard and witnessed while in the stands:</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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I am on the train now informed that the 33 minute ride to Philadelphia
will take one hour. Is the Conductor
yanking my chain? No, we stop 16 times
and this will be my last train ride. We
travel through very seedy sections of towns, some I never knew existed. Trash is strewn along the banks of the train
tracks. I feel like I am riding through
a city dump. Finally, we arrive at
Suburban Station. After stumbling
through the city streets like the tourist hick I am, I finally enter the Court
room at 10:37 AM. There are still 16
jurors of the 17 Moira and I saw on our first day attending the Gosnell Trial. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ashly Baldwin is on the stand and testifies that she had only received
a few minutes training, as a 17 year old High School student, before she was
giving anesthesia to patients. </b> My notes
include a quote from her, <b>"the babies flinched and went into the waste
bin." She went on to say that "Gosnell would have her push down on
the mother's stomachs and the baby would come out in pieces, sometimes the
mother would be awake."
"Gosnell kept jars of feet and hands which he claimed would be
picked up by schools for research."</b>
Ashly (I saw no "e" on
the chart) said she never saw anyone pick up the jars for research. <b>She saw the baby in the infamous picture
breathing, his chest moving. Gosnell did
not require the 24 hour consent forms required by Pennsylvania law. He backdated them.</b> He also would have Ashly call someone named
Vicki in Delaware to get funding for Delaware patients. <b>Gosnell fabricated
Delaware addresses for Pennsylvania patients in order to obtain this
funding.</b> Lunch Break 11:40.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I met John Mullane of "Greater Philadelphia Media", who
apparently took my picture. He shared
that he is very pro-life and that his (uncle?) is John Stanton who has been in
the pro-life movement in Delaware County since the 60's. I also met Andree' Seu Peterson from
"World Magazine", a very pleasant Christian lady who files a daily
report. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also while at lunch, I located the short route to Suburban Station,
very close to the Court House. I didn't
need to wander the city earlier had I been aware of it's proximity. <b>I spoke to an old ABC photographer I met on
the street and asked him why the News Media is not covering the sensational
trial of a mass murderer. He said:
"women are now editors and are more interested in doing reports on breast
cancer or stories about kittens than reporting the news." He went on to
say they cover opening day and the verdict, leaving the rest to low paid
internet watchers. I pressed him about a
media bias and he agreed that was part of it. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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After lunch I cornered the D.A. and told him that we in the pro-life
community are praying for his success.
He said, "thank you, I appreciate that."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Andree' from "World Magazine" told me that at lunch in the
Reading Terminal she found dollar bills on the floor and thought of purchasing
something but decided instead to ask the Lord who she should give the money
to. She walked outside, saw a man with
no legs, and said "The Lord gave me this money to give to you." He replied, "thank you Jesus and then
said, "thanks to you also." <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>While waiting for the jury to return I noticed the African American
guard who escorted Gosnell back in, helping him to his seat, and twice patting
him on the back as they smiled pleasantly at each other. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Trial finally resumes at 1:25 PM.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cross examination of Ashly Baldwin.
McMahon, still hacking and coughing as he was last week, begins. Ashly Baldwin states that her mother had also
worked for Gosnell. <b>McMahon stresses that
"her own mother brought her to work there." (Implying, it must have
been a nice place).</b> Ashly started
working there in September of 2006 on a study release program from school. <b>From other sources I believe she was 15 at
this time</b>. Her job was comforting girls
and cleaning up. McMahon keeps hammering
away about Gosnell's mentoring of Ashly.
Ashly goes on to say that she "had to step up and do more because
the staff was leaving." <b>When speaking of her ultra sound use McMahon used
the word fetus once and then said "to see the size of the baby."</b> His coughing and hacking interrupts every
third of fourth sentence. Baldwin's
mother left Gosnell's clinic at some time to tend to Ashly's ailing
grandmother. <b>McMahon says to Ashly,
"you wouldn't work in a place that kills or hurts children or babies would
you?" Ashly replies, "its not my nature to work in a place that kills
children but it was my job."</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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McMahon calls them babies again.
<b>"You indicated that you would see babies precipitated in the
toilets. You don't know the age of these children that had precipitated, did
you?" </b> He then asked, did you see
repeat customers who would come back year after year? Ashly said, "they came back all the
time, even in the same year." <o:p></o:p></div>
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McMahon: <b>"The baby that made the noise, the baby in the basin
balled up in the fetal position made a movement shrugging his shoulders." </b> Again, he said baby, child, baby. The second baby you witnessed made a quick
arm thrust. McMahon was trying to
convince the jury that these were dead baby muscle spasms as Gosnell
insisted. He asked Ashly if she accepted
this premise. She said,
"somewhat."<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ashly tells McMahon she told her mother a joke Gosnell made that the
baby could have walked her home. She
repeated this twice more, unsolicited.</b> McMahon
closed with a statement that Gosnell used Digoxin to stop the heart so the baby
won't be born alive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b> The D.A.: You
were confused because the doctor said the babies would be dead but they were
breathing, alive? Ashly replied,
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2:25: Ashly's testimony ends.
There seems to have been a time constraint which caused some
consternation between the D.A. and the Defense.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During the break Andree' asked me do I think the pro-life community
would think it better if Gosnell is convicted and the public is able to wash
their hands of this mess or better that he walks and the public has to contend
with the horror of what they have wrought.
I mull this good question for just a second and reply, <b>"he is the
devil and he has to pay."</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Erlene Tina Baldwin,
Ashly's mother, takes the stand. She has
already pled guilty and is awaiting sentencing, pending her cooperation for,
Corrupt organization, Conspiracy to corrupt organization, two felonies and the
corruption of the morals of a minor, a misdemeanor. Also a federal rap for narcotics. 80 years maximum sentence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Erlene testifies that
"Thompson Institute" placed her at Gosnell's clinic for an
"externship," as opposed to an internship in 2002. <b>She had studied one year to become a medical
assistant.</b> Erlene Baldwin works for
Gosnell until 2010 when her mother takes ill.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2:55: I have to leave to catch the slow moving train home as I am
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April 11, 2013<o:p></o:p></div>
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David Williams<o:p></o:p></div>
Nicole Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122722437550845049noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-60434293527273797252013-03-25T12:15:00.000-04:002013-03-25T12:15:27.342-04:00Calling for Wilmington's Planned Parenthood Investigation (and closure).<br />
Please, watch!<br />
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Delaware Right to Life officials call for an investigation and eventual closing of the Planned Parenthood on Shipley Street, in Wilmington, DE, as members have witnessed three patients being taken by ambulance from the clinic in just over a month’s time.<br />
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<a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130321/NEWS/303210054/Anti-abortion-group-calls-Planned-Parenthood-investigation">http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130321/NEWS/303210054/Anti-abortion-group-calls-Planned-Parenthood-investigation</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-29222640758169189532012-10-07T13:35:00.003-04:002012-10-07T13:37:46.032-04:00Planned Bullyhood: A Book Review<br />
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“Planned Bullyhood,” Karen Handel’s clear-eyed analysis of
the Susan G. Komen for the Cure funding battle with Planned Parenthood, is
vindication for all pro-lifers who already know that Planned Parenthood is a
deceptive, vicious organization. Handel,
former Senior Vice President of Komen, just had to learn it the hard way. Her book, released in early September, has
been met with – wait for it – deafening silence from the media. Well-written and compelling from beginning to
end, it presents a tale of two organizations, both ostensibly concerned about
women’s health, who ultimately go to war with one another. Komen, unwilling to fight and unsure of their
message, is no match for Planned Parenthood, who enlist the media, politicians,
and vocal feminists to bully the breast health organization into
submission. <br />
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Handel, an intelligent, capable woman whose many career
successes – both in business and politics – positioned her perfectly to manage
Komen’s public policy team, joined the organization in late 2010 after a
bruising run for governor in Georgia. Her experience in the Georgia legislature as
Secretary of State established her as a git-r-done kind of woman, a problem
solver who liked challenges. Komen would
be the biggest challenge of her life.<br />
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The foundation sought someone to tighten and clarify the
quality of grants given out to organizations so that all would be going
directly towards helping women affected by breast cancer or helping to prevent
the disease. The concern with Planned
Parenthood, who had been receiving grants from Komen affiliates for two
decades, was that the organization should have already been disqualified as a
grantee due to their lack of direct services (“pass-through” grants whereby
money is given for services provided not by the grantee, but by an organization
they refer clients to) and the fact that they were under investigation for fraud
in multiple states. Changing the grant
strategy to reflect this new focus was an agreed-upon tactic of Komen’s
higher-ups, specifically Founder and CEO, Nancy Brinker, and President
Elizabeth Thompson. Other players, such
as Mollie Williams, managing director of community health and overseer of
nearly $100 million community grant portfolio, Leslie Aun, vice-president of
communications, and Katrina McGhee, executive vice-president of marketing,
would emerge as either hostile or phlegmatic and confused, to the point Handel
wondered whose side they were on.<br />
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That Planned Parenthood had been a thorn in Komen’s side for
years is an eye-opener. Komen feared
losing support from Catholic organizations who objected to grants going to the
nation’s largest abortion provider. They
also wanted to be free of the controversies associated with Planned Parenthood
– multiple investigations into its policies that supported child predators, sex
traffickers, sex selective abortions, and misuse of government funds. Komen had a pre-existing policy that halted
grants when an organization was under investigation. Handel’s suggested strategy, to hammer away
at the need to direct funds where they could do the most good for women, was a
no-brainer. She warned of mentioning
Planned Parenthood specifically, saying numerous organizations would be
affected by the new policy.
Unfortunately for her, vacillations over this policy, as well as leaks
to the press suggesting Planned Parenthood would be targeted by Komen’s new
policy led to a firestorm.<br />
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If any of you missed that particular brouhaha, shut my
mouth. Planned Parenthood’s collective
screeching was heard the world over, with CEO Cecile Richards repeating the lie
ad nauseum that millions of women would be denied important services should
Komen cut off Planned Parenthood’s funding.
Among those services trumpeted by Richards were mammograms, something NO
Planned Parenthood facility is equipped to do.
The funding she so feared losing amounted to $700,000, a drop in the
bucket of Planned Parenthood’s annual intake of $1 BILLION, more than half
derived from U.S. taxpayers. What’s
interesting is to read this through Handel’s eyes. With every betrayal by Komen staff, every lie
by Planned Parenthood, and every complicit move by the media, we the readers
see the scales falling. Unfortunately,
she ends up as the sacrificial lamb of both organizations; but wiser,
definitely wiser. <br />
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It’s incredibly gratifying to read Handel’s summation of
Planned Parenthood’s reason for being:
“Planned Parenthood is about politics as much as it is about abortion
and reproductive health. Specifically,
Planned Parenthood’s politics is about money – government funding, actually,
because without the government funds, Planned Parenthood would be forced to
pursue a different revenue model. The
rhetoric on health, and especially women, is a smoke screen to hide its
underlying political agenda – ensuring the continued flow of nearly $1.5 million
a day in government funding and to elect pro-Planned Parenthood policy makers
who, in turn, work tirelessly to keep the cash flowing.” Here’s someone in the public arena, not
affiliated with any pro-life group, who finally gets it.<br />
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It’s also gratifying to read through the end notes and see
whom she has cited for all the dirty facts about Planned Parenthood. It gives credence to LifeNews (specifically
Steve Ertelt), Jill Stanek, and Lila Rose of LiveAction as some of the ONLY
news outlets who are reporting on Planned Parenthood’s numerous and egregious
deceptions. Her omission on the
abortion/contraception-breast cancer link is disappointing, given that it is a
chief complaint by pro-lifers against most breast cancer organizations,
including Komen. <br />
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Through the brutal treatment by Planned Parenthood, Komen is
nonetheless revealed as an organization whose leaders are <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6093801496749989536" name="_GoBack"></a>indecisive,
with no clear vision of what their organization stands for. They might have ridden out the storm, stared
down the bully, and emerged victorious. That’s what Handel suggested.<br />
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--<br />
Moira Sheridan<br />
Secretary, Delaware Right to Life</div>
Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-35869927284717417282012-10-01T10:16:00.003-04:002012-10-01T10:16:39.011-04:00Protesting Planned Parenthood: "There are too many people in the world. They should die!"<br />
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<span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span">Hi Everyone,</span></div>
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<span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span">I wanted to share with you all about Friday night..</span></div>
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<span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><b>It was a life changing experience for me in my work in the pro-life movement. </b></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><a href="" rel="nofollow" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Friday night</a> about 12 of us protested Planned Parenthood of Delaware's annual chocolate festival fundraiser. This was the first time I had protested at such an event. And truly, I was scared to go. I didn't know what to expect and was frightened at the thought of being close to people who could support such evil. I found myself making excuses that afternoon of why I couldn't go. </span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span">Thank God I offered it up to the Blessed Mother. She gave me strength! I went, and I remember on first sight of fellow pro-lifers and my friends (especially Moira and Dave) already lined up with signs at the entrance of PP's venue, I was filled with courage and conviction and even excitement. We were bringing truth with our witness!</span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span">We had signs showing various financial facts -<b> " PP of Delaware made $2.4M from abortion services in 2012" etc. We also had a beautiful, large sign of the baby in the womb at 8 weeks of conception. </b></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span">We were asked why we were there by one attendee. In his words, "you're not going to change anybody's minds!" </span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><b><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span">"Maybe not," we answered, "but we're showing you the truth of what you're supporting. We're making you uncomfortable." </span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span></b><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span">Quick synopsis of happenings that night.. We were told WE should have been aborted by a man. One woman, after approaching us and speaking very softly trying to explain that PP offered many services for women, not just abortion, and being refuted by us with the hard facts, walked away and when she got to the door turned, clenched her fists, and screamed (this is not exaggerated):<b> "There are too many people in the world!! They SHOULD die!"</b> Others made classless comments and crude gestures. </span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span">Finally, the most powerful observation for me that night was I noticed the uber-wealthy status of the attendees to the gala: Porsche, Audi & Volvo SUVs, Mercedes, BMWs - a continuous stream of luxury cars pulling into the parking lot. (Though you should have seen their faces fall while pulling in as they realized what our signs stated.) And I thought of the disparity between the transparent wealth of those funding PP and the transparent poverty of the girls/women utilizing PP's services. Just the contrast of the women walking in Friday night drenched in diamonds wearing beautiful designer dresses with their husbands escorting them vs. the young girl limping out of PP after having an abortion, a haunted look in her eyes - all alone, with only a folder and a lifetime of regret and sadness after having made a tragic decision she can never take back. Perhaps a boyfriend leaning on a wall smoking a cigarette is the only support she has.</span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="yiv804402373Apple-style-span">My other observation was the average age of the gala attendees was 75 years. Really. People old enough to know better, sometimes even walking in with canes and walkers, hobbled over, paying money and eating chocolate to enable the slaughter of little babies, of our youngest generation. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">I am writing this before leaving to go to </span><span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1348753603_0" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Planned Parenthood</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> on Day 2 of the Fall 2012 40 Days for Life campaign against abortion. I wanted to be more diligent in documenting our prayer vigil this time around. Yesterday was a beautiful day, both weather-wise and participant wise. Today the skies are cloudy and an hour ago it was pouring rain. I am not looking forward to going out in this, so I thought I'd cheer myself up by posting some pix from yesterday's event.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Most of these are posed photos. Only a few of them show us at prayer, but prayer was the heart of yesterday's vigil. It is the heart of every vigil. We had one woman who had never been to a 40 Days vigil before, and was apprehensive. She had come with her husband on days that the Knights of Columbus pray and vigil outside of PP, so she was not completely new to sidewalk witness and public prayer. Still, she felt nervous but believed that the Lord was calling her to be more visible in her witness to the goodness of life and the intrinsic evil of abortion, So she came. And prayed. And will return.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">We talked to a lot of folks passing-by today, and to some of the clients going in to Planned Parenthood, One of the pix above shows Pat Radell, our Fearless Leader, explaining the Our Lady of Guadalupe image to a gentleman who stopped by to query its meaning, and snap his own photos of it. Brother James, an artist working at Creative Vision Factory, stopped to offer first encouragement, and then prayer. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">And then there was L. L. is a thin, pale, freckled 15 year old who came yesterday to Planned Parenthood for a pregnancy test. Julie talked to her about going to Birthright for a free pregnancy test, and she thought that was a good idea so I drove her.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">I didn't think so, but I asked instead why it was so important to her to find out immediately - had she had unprotected sex and was she extremely worried?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">"No, I want to be pregnant. I hope the test is positive." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Her story came out in pieces. She was 15, until recently she had resided in a state mental facility, she was a ward of the state, she had run away from her mother and she wanted to prove that she could be a better mother than her own, who had told her, "You should never have been born." She was lonely, had nobody to depend on but her boyfriend, who was excited about becoming a father and who had asked her to marry him. She had been with him for 3 weeks, but knew him growing up. He is 21. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Pray for L., please. She believes that a baby is just what she needs in her life, and was very upset when the pregnancy test came up negative. She is going to keep in touch with the good folks at Birthright, and she and I exchanged information. She just wants something to turn out right for her, she says. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Pray that she stays in touch, that she finds the resources she needs to make it through a tough, impetuous adolescence. That her case worker is both compassionate and wise. That she navigate the streets of loneliness and find shelter for her body, mind and heart. That she will look out for herself, and be looked out for, safely. She is stubborn (self-admittedly) and is tired of everyone telling her what to do. Isn't that true of all 15 year olds? Pray that she not be lost in the shuffle, and that we act properly as Christ for her, respecting her freedom while offering her connections to support systems that will help. </span><br />
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<br />Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-21935963430050310092012-06-19T13:37:00.003-04:002012-06-19T13:37:27.480-04:00A new graphic from Delaware Right to Life!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-78706681026212883862012-06-11T14:30:00.001-04:002012-06-11T14:31:26.671-04:00New Billboard, New Logo!!!Be on the look out for our new billboard scattered throughout New Castle County!!!<br />
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I felt that something was a little off. Nothing was wrong, but something wasn’t right. How neat it was that I knew she was special before I even met her…</em></p><div id="attachment_11519" class="wp-caption alignright" style="font-style: normal; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(193, 203, 219); border-right-color: rgb(193, 203, 219); border-bottom-color: rgb(193, 203, 219); border-left-color: rgb(193, 203, 219); border-image: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; float: right; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; width: 235px; "><img class="size-medium wp-image-11519 " title="riley!" src="http://liveaction.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/riley-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em; background-repeat: repeat repeat; ">Meet Riley!</p></div><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>Jennifer peaks her head into the living room where her three daughters are playing house.</strong>Sarah and Jaimee giggle as they push their little six month old sister, Riley, around in a carriage that is supposed to be for their baby dolls. Riley simply smiles at all the attention. “Mom, come look at Riley!” they suddenly exclaim, “she is smiling!” From the doorway, Jennifer can’t help but smile herself at the scene. In her eyes it is nothing less than picture perfect. Her children are right where they should be… with her. But, if some people had it their way Riley wouldn’t be here. Why? She has Down- Syndrome; Trisomy 21 to be exact. Which somehow labels her as less deserving of life by many in today’s society. What a loss for them. They have no idea of the joy that comes from having a child with “special needs”, but Jennifer does.</p><div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><strong>This is her story…</strong></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>We tried for nine months straight, after just having a miscarriage two months prior. Then, it happened. I knew I was pregnant because of the dreams I was having. I’m a very vivid dreamer and I find out many things in my dreams. On December 23, 2010 at 12:30 AM, I got out of bed to use the bathroom. I then decided to take a pregnancy test, because I was a few days late. <span id="more-11518"></span>It was such a methodical routine: pee cup, pee, dip, wait, negative, smile, try again. Nine months of that routine resulted in thirty tests bought in that time span. Yea, I tested a lot! This time was different, though. Even though there was a faint line, I threw it out because I had had so many negatives in the past. I had grown accustomed to being disappointed. Then, I thought, “Let’s take a look at that again.. just in case”. I can still see my hand reaching back into the garbage can to retrieve it. There it was. Positive. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I stood in the bathroom looking at it from every angle for at least fifteen minutes. I kept saying to myself, “It doesn’t matter how faint a line is. A line is a line!” Best Christmas present ever!</em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>Fast forward to my fourteenth week of pregnancy where an ultrasound detected my placenta was low and they needed to watch it. If it didn’t move I was told I would have to have a c-section. As they were monitoring my placenta monthly they found “soft markers”, which can be an indication that the baby could be born with Down- Syndrome. (Both non Down- Syndrome and Down -Syndrome babies can have these markers). Immediately, I responded with, “They are going to go away.” And they did.</em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>After my doctor informed me I had those markers, I had blood work done to see if I was “high risk” for Downs. It turned out I was, so the doctor took the liberty of informing me that I still had time to kill her. Are you kidding me?! I’m twenty-two weeks along and I have THE RIGHT to kill my baby? Who gives me that right? Needless to say I couldn’t even find words to say back to him at first; then I almost vomited. My response is what you can imagine if you know me. To this day it makes me sick that I had the choice to end my child’s life because she might have Down- Syndrome. I shouldn’t have that right <span style="text-decoration: underline; ">no matter what the case is. </span></em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>Along the way people would tell me that I needed to read about Down Syndrome and all the “bad things” that go along with it, to prepare myself. NO! I was prepared. Negativity was NOT in my plan for Riley. </em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>On Monday, August 15<sup>th</sup>, 2011, I was thirty-six weeks and six days along when an ultrasound detected that my amniotic fluid was pretty low. Riley was likely to come that day! I told my husband, Brett, who was still at work, to wait for my call just in case they decided it was not time yet. </em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; text-align: center; "><em>But, no, it was happening! I called Brett and the nurse prepped me for the surgery.</em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>The trip to the OR seemed like it took forever, but we finally got there. Instantly, about five different people started working on me at once. (The spinal was WAY different than the two epidurals I had with my other two girls). I was strapped and drugged when Brett came in. Slice, cut, pull and she was here!!!</em><em></em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>I do not remember being wheeled back to my recovery room because I was so heavily drugged. I DO remember, though, my poor husband coming into the room crying. The NICU head doctor had just informed him Riley had Downs. Brett had forgotten that I was at “high risk”. Apparently, he was admiring Riley through the glass as they were bathing her. The doctor came up to Brett and said “ You’re aware of her condition right?” I was so upset the doctor did this to my husband. That’s how you tell someone? In an abrupt and cold manner, while they are not with their spouse? I remember being mad and certainly distressed for Brett’s sake, but I told him he had to try to stop crying. Our two young daughters were going to be coming in and I didn’t want to worry them. Yet amidst all of this confusion, I just sat there smiling. As I looked down at my precious baby I couldn’t see anything different about her at all. She was perfect from head to toe. Then, they took her from me.</em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>“She’s not eating”, they told me. Well no kidding! She was just born, tired and wanted her MOTHER. I kept begging the nurse to tell the doctor to bring her back to me so I can feed her. The doctor who knocked my husband through the floor would not bring me my child. That darn spinal took hours to wear off, so I couldn’t drag myself down there to get her myself. I had delivered Riley at 5:25 PM and it wasn’t until after 2:00 am that a nurse took compassion on me and brought me Riley.</em><em></em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>At 10:00 AM they heard a murmur in Riley’s heart and said it could be a hole. They stood there telling me how Downs children are known to have heart defects. (blah blah blah) “ Not listening, I’m not listening ”After crying for about 45 seconds I pulled myself together and told them she is going to be just fine. Well, later that day around 6:00 PM I was informed that the tests showed a normal murmur. Her heart was fine.</em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>The next morning they took her from me again. This time she was admitted to the NICU, because she hadn’t truly pooped yet. My mother-in-law was with me at the time and we walked down to the NICU together to see what was going on. Once again they began telling me how some infants born with Down- Syndrome have bowl problems and that she may need an operation if she didn’t poop soon. If this operation had to take place, it would be weeks before we could really start to feed her. After hearing this, my tears started to flow. Yet, I refused to believe what they were telling me. “I can’t hear you” I said to myself, “It’s all rainbows and butterflies”. I looked up at them and said that she was not going to need an operation. Two hours later, she pooped! Riley still needed to stay in the NICU until we went home with her, but I was able to start feeding her about twelve hours later. </em><em></em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>The next few days were a blur. They were filled with countless hours spend in the NICU trying to get Riley to drink some breast milk so she could go home. I remember the nervous looks on everyone’s faces during those days; but I just smiled and knew that all would be fine. I was so excited to have a child with Downs, and I made sure everyone knew it!</em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>I told doctors, nurses, friends and random people who I passed in the hospital. Didn’t matter if they wanted to listen or not, I told them anyway! You should have seen all the doctors’ faces when I would talk to them. It was like I was consoling THEM! It was great! They didn’t know how to react to me. Everything they had to say about Down- Syndrome was negative. So, with every one of their negatives I came back with at least 3 positives. It felt so empowering. I was like a rainbow on steroids!</em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>After six days, Riley was finally able to come home. I will never forget where I was when I got the call. If anybody was to ask me if I have ever won anything, my answer would be yes. I won the lottery the day Riley was able to come home. Having to leave the hospital without my baby was the hardest thing I ever had to do in my entire life. </em><em></em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>As we were being discharged a doctor told us that they had received the chromosome blood work back. With this scared look on his face he confirmed that Riley did in fact have Trisomy 21. My immediate reaction was a great big “YES!” with a fist pull down through the air. I can still see the doctor’s face. At first he thought I was confused and misunderstood him. Oh no, he was the one confused, not me. He and my husband both looked at me a little funny, but hey I’m used to that.</em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em><img class="size-medium wp-image-11557 aligncenter" title="big smile riley" src="http://liveaction.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/big-smile-riley-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; " /></em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>Riley is now six months old and she is the happiest baby I have ever known. She has defied all the books and the people that said she would be “delayed”. My daughter is right on track. She does physical therapy, speech therapy and a little massage therapy throughout the week. (Her physical therapist is continuously amazed by her and can’t believe she has Down-Syndrome) Riley loves music, swinging in her swing and being talked to. But, she absolutely detests baths! She also has two awesome big sisters who take such good care of her. I couldn’t be a more proud mother.</em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><em>So, if you are blessed to have been chosen to have a baby with “UP” Syndrome, or you know someone who has… SMILE! It’s the best thing that will ever happen to you. It’s a shame that our society and doctors are blind to this. Oh well, Riley will open their eyes!</em></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; ">Jennifer has started a support group on Facebook for all who have been touched by children with special needs. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/236490966425902/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(67, 157, 231); ">Check it out and join the movement!</a></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><br /></p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><i>-Jessica Ferraro</i></p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "><i>Jessica is the Media Coordinator for Delaware Right to Life</i></p></div>Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-85740547489411337222012-01-12T09:31:00.004-05:002012-01-12T09:42:08.440-05:00January Marches for Life<div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="line-height: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="line-height: 14px;"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326376717278629" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); line-height: normal; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(253, 255, 221); "><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="color: rgb(199, 145, 8); "><span ><b>The Wilmington March for Life </b>will be held on Friday January, 20th from 12:00pm to 1:00pm, beginning at Rodney Square in Wilmington. Delaware Right to Life will provide signs for the event. We ask that participants maintain a peaceful presence during the march. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Janet Grayson.</span></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(253, 255, 221); "><strong style="font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-size: 25px; "><span > </span></span></strong></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="line-height: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="line-height: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="line-height: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="line-height: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 24px; font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(199, 145, 8); background-color: rgb(253, 255, 221); font-weight: bold; ">The March for Life in Washington, D.C.</strong><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(199, 145, 8); background-color: rgb(253, 255, 221); "> is fast approaching and Delaware Right to Life has reserved a bus for the event! The march will be held on Monday, January 23rd, 2012. We will be departing from the Christiana Mall Bus Depot at 10:00 am that morning, and returning by 8:00pm. The cost is $25 per person, $50 per family and $10 per student. </span><strong style="font-size: 24px; font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(199, 145, 8); background-color: rgb(253, 255, 221); font-weight: bold; ">Reservations are being taken by Janet Grayson</strong><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(199, 145, 8); background-color: rgb(253, 255, 221); ">. You may contact her by email at </span><a href="mailto:randjgrayson@hotmail.com" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:randjgrayson@hotmail.com" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 24px; font-family: georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(253, 255, 221); color: rgb(0, 0, 254); outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span id="lw_1326379094_3" class="yshortcuts">randjgrayson@hotmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(199, 145, 8); background-color: rgb(253, 255, 221); "> , or by phone, 302-661-1877. Please mail your payment to the address below:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(199, 145, 8); background-color: rgb(253, 255, 221); "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(253, 255, 221); "><div><span style="font-size: 25px; "><span style="color: rgb(199, 145, 8); "><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; "><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 25px; "><span style="color: rgb(199, 145, 8); "><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; "><span><span style="font-size: 20px; ">Janet Grayson</span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1326379094_4"><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 25px; "><span style="color: rgb(199, 145, 8); "><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; "><span><span style="font-size: 20px; ">603 S. Broom St.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 25px; "><span style="color: rgb(199, 145, 8); "><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; "><span><span style="font-size: 20px; ">Wilmington, DE 19805</span></span></span></span></span></div></span></div></div>Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-46829321286967036812012-01-08T17:28:00.002-05:002012-01-08T17:31:41.011-05:00Lila Rose to speak at St. Thomas More Academy<p class="yiv1187442154MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span >St. Thomas More Academy in Magnolia, Del. will be hosting a Pro-Life guest speaker on Thursday evening, <b>January 26</b>. The speaker, Lila Rose, is the founder of LiveAction and has received national attention for her eye-opening investigations into Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.</span></span></p><p class="yiv1187442154MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span > </span></span></p><p class="yiv1187442154MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span >The schedule time for the speaking engagement is <b>7pm on Thursday, January 26, 2012</b>. St. Thomas More Academy is asking for a <b>donation of $10 for each person attending</b> that evening. Light snacks and refreshments will be available. More details will follow.</span></span></p><p class="yiv1187442154MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span > </span></span></p><p class="yiv1187442154MsoNormal" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326058464028426" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326058464028425" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span >This is part of the school’s commitment to the Pro-Life cause and is being held during the week of the March for Life (which is scheduled for Jan. 23). St. Thomas More Academy is located on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1326060744_0">133 Thomas More Drive in Magnolia, Delaware</span>.</span></span></p>Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-90852973792786437402011-12-12T09:55:00.000-05:002011-12-12T09:56:12.548-05:00Can You Hear Them?<div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align: left;">Can You Hear Them?</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align: left;">by Elyssa Issel</p> <span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">for Cab Calloway’s Poetry Slam</span></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">Can you hear them?</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">I can’t get them out of my head.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">I cannot escape those silent wails of the unknown who plead for deliverance.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">I cannot escape the jabbering souls of those who are deaf to the cruelty which they inflict.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">What joyfulness is left for those yet to come?</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">When the sun brings forth the warmth we desire, it comes out as a winter’s wind, consuming the hearts of all it passes. </p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">Yet none can feel the chill on their hands, even those hands that carry with them destruction and grief. </p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">Cries are lost to the unending shadows, and we walk forward still…as THEY bathe in empty basins and sing silent songs of longing…longing for life in the sunshine of summer.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">But summertime NEVER comes and OH… what earth we stand on; decrepit and brown.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">Mouths whisper words of comfort with poisoned breath, the heavens look down with shame on the advanced race of evil we have become.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">Because in the sight of the brightest star, this is the blackest hole, ripping all life in our grasp to shreds and corrupting all good to the crushed sense of despair we constantly renew.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">AND…my dear, hopeful future may I say you are looking pale.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">A strange sadness twists your expression, what haunts your taunted gaze; could it be the ground that quakes beneath our feet, but NO, it’s sorrow for the lost, the gone, the murdered that held your hand so tight.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">The most innocent smiles have faded from view and I can hear them leaving; leaving in powerful gusts to sit on heaven’s knee and weep for the home they had naught to create, because the CHOICE WAS A LIFE THAT NEVER COULD BLOOM.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">And in my ears rings the music of what laughter could have been. </p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">CAN YOU HEAR THEM, BECAUSE I CANNOT GET THEM OUT OF MY HEAD!</p></div>Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-32628962138404680092011-12-08T10:23:00.002-05:002011-12-08T10:48:12.060-05:00Stories from the sidewalk...<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Dear Friends,</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Praying and vigiling at </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323356961_0" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Planned Parenthood</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> goes on throughout the year, and are particularly appropriate at Advent, when we prepare our hearts for the coming of the Lord.</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Friday is surgical abortion day at </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323356961_1" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">625 Shipley St. in Wilmington</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">. Each Friday, from 8:30-11:00 am or so, we gather to pray and to hand out information about alternatives to abortion. Come and join us, if you are looking for a way to deepen your experience of discipleship. </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We have discovered that the sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood is like the </span><i style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">agora </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">where St. Paul and the other apostles met with the people of the Roman Empire and the Greek city-states to tell them the good news of Jesus Christ. Every Friday, we encounter men, women and children from the Wilmington community and enter into the most unexpected conversations.</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">When we first started praying outside of Planned Parenthood, we thought it was all about the abortions. We have come to discover that God makes all sorts of opportunities for us to become involved in the life of the city. </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The last couple of Fridays have been very light in terms of women going into PP. Praise God for that! I like to think, and I hope and pray it is true, that our faithful prayer for the mothers and their unborn children is making a difference. I like to think that our prayers are helping widen the doors, the windows, and the cracks in people's hearts and minds that will allow the Holy Spirit to come in and make a transformative difference in a crisis pregnancy situation. Please continue to pray with us at home.</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Last week a young man walked by as we were praying the rosary. He looked at us, looked at the sign that said "Re-think Abortion", and asked, "What are you all doing out here praying?"</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We told him we were praying for an end to abortion. He said, "Yeah, I hear you! That's a good prayer!" </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">He asked, "Are you all from the same church?" </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We said we were all Catholics, but we came from different parishes. He said he was new to Wilmington and was looking for a church. We told him that some of us were going to St. Peter's Cathedral at 11:00 for a holy hour, followed by Mass, and asked him if he'd like to join us. He said he wasn't sure he could make it, but could we maybe pray for him right then and there?</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">So we gathered in a circle, asked his name (John), and prayed for John. We asked that the Holy Spirit would help him find a church, that the Lord would bless his life in this new city, and give him the graces necessary for his life at this time and place. </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Then we all hugged John, and he walked away praising God. </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The Planned Parenthood escorts and the Wilmington police officer hired by PP for security looked on. I hope and pray that when they observe us engaged in ways that don't automatically trigger their animosity (as our engagement with their clients do), they may recognize that we are just ordinary people. Weird, perhaps they will think, for praying in public, but we hope they see that we are sincere and unaffected. Too many people never see ordinary Christians in ordinary acts of ministry to one another. </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">I love our Friday time spent in the agora of Wilmington. We'll be there tomorrow. Hope to see some new or familiar faces.</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Blessings, </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Rae</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">---</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i>Rae Stabosz, a member of 40 Days for Life's Committee in Delaware</i></span></div>Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-73706598405955802242011-10-13T13:50:00.002-04:002011-10-13T13:54:01.788-04:00The Pink Link<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTf25rCx8o8qSnMyyELSd4LDAaL8haAgO7ofM3x7GeFEmvZ3wqyMw" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">Every October, the nation turns pink.<span> </span>Friends and neighbors wear pink ribbons, NFL players wear pink shoes.<span> </span>Even the White House reflects pink flood lights onto its exterior in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">We in the Catholic community also know October as Respect Life Month.<span> </span>It seems these two life-saving efforts should go hand-in-hand right?<span> </span>Not so fast.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">In general, the color pink raises awareness for breast cancer – a worthy cause.<span> </span>But the biggest beneficiary of pink-related events is Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s largest breast cancer charity.<span> </span>Some of you might even support Komen in your charitable giving.<span> </span>And why not?<span> </span>Breast cancer is a tragic disease that far too many women battle every year in the U.S. <span> </span>It’s a worthy cause to support.<span> </span>Unfortunately, just not through Komen.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">Why “unfortunately?” <span> </span>Komen financially supports the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood (PP).<span> </span>How can that be?<span> </span>Why would a life-affirming organization like Komen financially support a death-peddling organization like PP?<span> </span>Komen refutes the claim that they directly support abortion, but let me give you the details.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">According to the Bioethics Defense Fund (bdfund.org) Komen has a policy of explicitly allowing its state affiliates to give monetary grants to abortion providing facilities. <span> </span>Not all state affiliates give grants to PP using the 75% of the funds that they raise in a state. However, each state affiliate must forward at least 25% of funds raised in their state to the Komen National office. These funds are under the discretion of a board that refuses to disassociate itself from PP, thus the money goes into a pool to be potentially distributed to PP.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">Komen gave over $3 million to PP between 2003 and 2008 (though the amount is insignificant).<span> </span>So why does Komen give funds to an abortion giant?<span> </span>They claim they give the money as grants for breast exams.<span> </span>There are two problems with this claim.<span> </span>Number 1: It doesn’t matter what you give money to PP for.<span> </span>The dollars are fungible and it just frees up money for them to use on abortions and other operating costs to keep their doors open.<span> </span>Number 2: PP is a level 1 breast center.<span> </span>It is only allowed to perform manual exams.<span> </span>Despite its implications - it DOES NOT PROVIDE MAMMOGRAMS!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">Desperate following the House of Representatives’ recent vote to defund the organization, PP CEO Cecile Richards used the claim that the organization should continue to receive federal funding based on their breast health services.<span> </span>“If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are going to lose their health care access, not to abortion services, to basic family planning – you know, mammograms, cancer screenings, cervical cancer,” she said.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">But the truth is that PP does NOT provide breast exams.<span> </span>They simply provide <i>referrals</i> for breast exams – the same type of referral you can get from you primary care doctor, urgent care center, free clinic or GYN.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek did some research and found that not a single PP in America performs mammograms.<span> </span>PP’s own website says, “Ask your local health care provider, health department, or staff at your local Planned Parenthood center about <b>where you can get</b> a mammogram in your area.”<span> </span>[emphasis mine]</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">Aside from the fact that PP does not provide mammograms, Komen continues to ignore the ominous fact that abortion is the #1 avoidable cause of the very disease they’re fighting.<span> </span>It doesn’t make sense that they’re financially abetting an organization that contributes to the tragic rise in breast cancer.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">From the Abortion/Breast Cancer Coalition (abortionbreastcancer.com):</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">“The breasts grow considerably during pregnancy while under the influence of high levels of the hormone estrogen, a known carcinogen. Estrogen causes the woman's normal and cancer-vulnerable breast lobules to multiply. If she has an abortion, she's left with more places for cancers to start in her breasts. If she has a baby, then other pregnancy hormones mature her breast lobules into cancer-resistant lobules during the last months of pregnancy. She's left with more cancer-resistant tissue than she had before she became pregnant.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">It’s heartbreaking that an otherwise very worthy organization could negate all of the good work that they do by funding an organization that exterminates 332,278 unborn children per year.<span> </span>And this is a fact that, as Christians, we <i>cannot ignore</i>.<span> </span>We cannot overlook the evil that is perpetuated through this partnership by using the false justification that we’re doing a “greater good” by funding breast cancer research.<span> </span>In this situation, there is no greater good.<span> </span>The ends do not justify the means.<span> </span>The murder of over 300,000 innocents does not justify a few mammogram referrals.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">Fortunately there are alternative organizations that do beneficial work for the same cause through morally acceptable means.<span> </span>If you’re currently a Komen supporter and would like to divert your funds to an ethical breast cancer research organization, please consider the National Breast Cancer Foundation (nationalbreastcancer.org) and the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute (bcpinstitute.org).<span> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">Also, please keep in mind that Susan G. Komen for the Cure is far from the only disease-research organization that funds morally objectionable groups.<span> </span>Many well-known disease advocate groups support Planned Parenthood as well as embryonic stem cell research.<span> </span>Just to name a few: The American Cancer Society (including Relay for Life), Alzheimer’s Association, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association and American Lung Association<a name="_GoBack"></a>.<span> </span>For a comprehensive list of organizations, their positions on life issues, and alternative options, please visit www.all.org/charities.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal">-- <i>Nicole Collins, President of Delaware Right to Life</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><i><br /></i></p></div>Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-79365018735944243042011-10-13T09:51:00.002-04:002011-10-13T09:59:00.184-04:00Stories from the sidewalk...<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><span >The Fall 40 Days for Life Vigil for fall is in full swing -- Monday is Day 6. This time, the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318513787_1">Wilmington</span> 40 Days team is concentrating not so much in our own ability to fill the schedule for forty days, but relying rather on the Holy Spirit to recruit as we dedicate our time to prayer and vigiling. We are seeing the fruits already. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318513787_2">Friday at 1:00pm</span> as we got ready to leave Planned Parenthood for the day, we had only two people signed up for the following day. But Saturday, 21 people showed up to pray and vigil in witness to the value of unborn human life!</span></div><div><span ></span> </div><div><span >We made a long line at the edge of the sidewalk, and prayed and sang from booklets assembled by Pat Radell just 24 hours before the vigil began. The booklets help focus our attention on prayer, song, and the peaceful, prayerful presence that we want to bring to our efforts for the unborn babies and their mothers.</span></div><div><span ></span> </div><div><span >We saw tears <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318513787_3">on Saturday</span>. A woman and her 14-year-old daughter came out of Planned Parenthood looking distraught. The woman was in tears. I approached her as gently as possible and asked if I could help. She said that her daughter was five months pregnant and that Planned Parenthood couldn't do anything to "get rid of it." They had given her a referral number, but she was hoping that this could all be settled today.</span></div><div><span ></span> </div><div><span >I spent about 20 minutes with them, offering encouragement and help for the young lady to carry her baby to term. I won't try to describe the conversation - it was heartbreaking all around. They are Christians, who attend church, but didn't think their pastor could help. We prayed together, asking the Lord's grace and help. I felt a growing sense of helplessness as the older woman kept repeating, "She's only 14. I don't want her to ruin her life." Adoption was not an option, she said, -- "I don't want people looking down on her."</span></div><div><span ><br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >=== UPDATE ====</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >I am writing this from the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1318513787_4">Elsmere Library</span>, in route from Wilmington to my physical therapy appointment, and wanting to get this message out before I get back to my own computer at home.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Lawanda is the name of the woman whose 14-year old daughter is 5 months pregnant. We were at prayer this morning in front of Planned Parenthood when to our surprise, Lawanda returned, but looking for us! She hoped she would find us there, and asked if I had the information about adoption that I had talked about! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >I offered to take her on the spot to A Door of Hope, but she had errands to run and her daughter was not with her. I confess that I was rattled, and perhaps the Enemy was clouding my mind a bit, because I couldn't find any of the excellent information that I carry with me, and Lawanda's gentleman driver seemed impatient. I told her how very glad I was to see her. I said she had been very much on my heart all weekend and that I had been praying for her and her daughter. Her eyes filled with tears and she seemed genuinely touched, and thanked me. I gave her two brochures, neither of which was my "prime" material, but both of which had phone numbers that could help. I gave her my card, and urged her to call the numbers on the brochures, and to call me if she had any difficulty finding the help she needed.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Please offer prayers for Lawanda, her daughter, and the child that is five months in the womb and growing every minute as her mom, grandmom and family discern what to do. All of us 40 Days vigilers prayed, right there on the sidewalk, agreeing to ask the Father in Jesus' name for the life of that child, that He send grace and hope to the child's grandmother, and the child's mother -- who is only in middle school! -- to find the courage to give the beautiful gift of life to that growing child.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Pray with us, please.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >-<i>Rae Stabosz and the 40 Days for Life Wilmington Vigilers</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i><br /></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i><a href="http://www.40daysforlife.com/wilmington/">http://www.40daysforlife.com/wilmington/</a></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" >If you would like to get involved with 40 Days for Life here in Delaware please check out their website.</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" >For any questions or concerns you may have email Pat Radell at patradell@yahoo.com</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" >Look for more Stories from the Sidewalk coming soon!!</span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i> </i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><span ></span> </div></span></div>Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-29105641001115192782011-10-03T09:24:00.007-04:002011-10-04T08:24:11.682-04:00Mission Accomplished. Delaware Right to Life Interviews Maria Cahill~ Miss Delaware 2011<div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:.5in"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: FrankRuehl"><br />Miss Delaware to Speak at Delaware Right to Life Annual Banquet on Tuesday, October 11<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NsjHdlc7l94/Tom77bt6wPI/AAAAAAAAAEU/DiimZzXOdYg/s1600/300778_2472598813703_1214377166_33092877_893687171_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 245px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NsjHdlc7l94/Tom77bt6wPI/AAAAAAAAAEU/DiimZzXOdYg/s320/300778_2472598813703_1214377166_33092877_893687171_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659261036494766322" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Maria Cahill is not your typical Miss Delaware. Underneath the glittery dresses, and beautiful smile is a girl who is down-to- earth, motivated and hard core. Maria is determined to refine the “pageant girl image” by proving that your favorite meal can be a Big Mac from McDonald’s (don’t forget the large fry!), and you don’t have to think twice before playing video games with your brothers . She could care less if she broke a nail; but most importantly she could care less what people think of the principles she stands for and the causes she is passionate about. Where is the golden rule that if you are a young, beautiful, confident woman in the spotlight you must either conceal your conservative values or pump your fist high for “women’s rights”. Well, it’s her body, her choice, and she has chosen to stand for life. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Maria Cahill who is the second oldest of seven kids, has always been passionate about the pro-life movement.<span> </span>“It came from growing up in a household where the value of life was respected no matter what the case.<span> </span>I became even more involved when I met women that were contemplating abortion.<span> </span>Seeing the pain in their eyes and hearing them talk about the fact that they believed that there was no other way out was heart wrenching; and honestly made me want to make a difference”. <span> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Standing firm amidst today’s opposition is not an easy task, though. Shocking right? No, but one would hope that in a society that promotes the “liberation of women”, a young woman would be free to speak her mind on one of the biggest controversies that has enveloped her generation. “Thinking of the lives that will be lost, and how these children have not had the opportunity to make a name for themselves”, only compels her even more to be a voice for voiceless, when so many are trying to shut her up. <span> </span>“One of my mottos is, “it is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not””. In turn, she hopes to use her crown “to draw attention to the things that [she] is passionate about” and inspire others who may be holding back from getting involved in the pro-life movement. “Stick up for what you believe in, no matter what the case.” </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Maria is proud to be a voice for a movement that she has stood for all her life, and honored that the Miss Delaware organization would give her the opportunity to publically share her beliefs. “I have heard that because I am in the public eye, I have no right to speak about the pro-life movement.<span> </span>I feel the total opposite.<span> </span>There is a crown on my head for a reason. I am trying to save innocent lives and if it takes a crown for people to maybe consider this issue a little further, then my mission has been accomplished.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i>-Jessica Ferraro<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i>Media Coordinator for Delaware Right to Life<o:p></o:p></i></p></div>Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-56732759714437188562011-09-09T09:14:00.003-04:002011-09-09T09:19:21.689-04:00Groundbreaking study confirms link between abortion and mental health problems.<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span>Planned Parenthood and abortion providers deny and ignore what abortion does to a woman's heart and mind. They spend millions of tax payer dollars each year to promote abortion as good and even necessary for women. As a result, women suffer and do not receive any post abortion services whatsoever. If Planned Parenthood were really about the health of women, don't you think they would be interested in helping those who suffer after an abortion? No, because recognizing what abortion is and what it does to a woman emotionally and offering post abortion help would completely discredit Planned Parenthood's position. Is it any wonder why abortion advocates have denied and ignored this pain, since the very beginning?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span> </span></div><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1315573834658134" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">Well, that's all about to change</strong>.</span><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1315573834658133"> A study published on Thursday by Great Britain's prestigious Royal College of Psychiatrists concludes that women who have had an abortion have an 81% greater chance of subsequent mental health problems. The groundbreaking study combines the results of 20 studies conducted over 14 years in six countries involving 877,181 women. The dramatic results confirm that post abortive women are: </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span> </span> </div><ul style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; display: block; "><li style="display: list-item; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">37% more likely to suffer depression,</li><li style="display: list-item; ">110% more likely to engage in higher alcohol use, and </li><li style="display: list-item; ">155% more likely to engage in suicidal behavior </li></ul></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b>Read the study click here--> </b></span> <a href="http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/199/3/180.short">http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/199/3/180.short</a></div><div>------</div><div><br /></div><div>Delaware Family Policy Council</div><div>www.DelawareFamilies.org</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div align="left" style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><br /></b></div></span></div>Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-2587342192537866202011-09-08T21:02:00.001-04:002011-09-08T21:04:25.122-04:00Rehobeth Planned Parenthood CLOSED<div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="yiv485830840abody">The Rehoboth Beach office of Planned Parenthood in the Mid-way Shopping Center closed abruptly Sept. 1.<br /><br />Emily Knearl, vice president of public affairs for Planned Parent-hood of Delaware, said the center closed because it was not serving enough patients.<br /><br />She said Planned Parenthood has informed patients it would close and provided a list of providers patients can now go to.<br /><br />The Rehoboth facility provid-ed birth control services, emer-gency contraception, HIV test-ing, pregnancy and STD testing and hepatitis vaccines, among other services. Abortion services were not provided.<br /><br />Carrie Keane, a midwife with Bayside Health Association who also worked part- time at the Re-hoboth Planned Parenthood fa-cility, said the facility faced finan-cial problems. The Rehoboth fa-cility did not have a clinician on staff. She said patient records are</span><span class="yiv485830840abody">being transferred to the Dover and Newark off ices. All patients at the Rehoboth facility can go to either of those two offices to continue care.<br /><br />Keane said Planned Parent-hood was looking at possibly finding another location in Sus-sex County, one with lower rent that was already suitable as a clinic so that the organization</span><span class="yiv485830840abody"> would continue to have a pres-ence here.<br /><br />Knearl said, ' Planned Parent-hood is saddened by the closure and hopes to offer sexual and re-productive health services again in Sussex County. In the interim, Planned Parenthood will contin-ue to serve Sussex County with a variety of education classes and community outreach.”</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="yiv485830840abody" >-----</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="yiv485830840abody"><b>By Ryan Mavity</b></span><span class="yiv485830840abody"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i>Cape Gazette </i></span></span></div>Jessica Ferrarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15345415423805076112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093801496749989536.post-77360104401686676142011-09-04T13:15:00.000-04:002011-09-04T13:15:51.675-04:00The UK can take some lessons from usHere's <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100102706/a-beginners-guide-to-banning-abortion-from-the-usa/#.Tl9-I-GvFUY.mailto">a truly uplifting article</a> from the UK on how they can take some lessons from the US on reducing and banning abortion. I guess it's hard to recognize sometimes how much progress the pro-life movement is actually making (especially hard to realize from the state of Delaware!) but we truly are making a difference!Nicole Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122722437550845049noreply@blogger.com0