The following comes from a Jan. 9 email from Life Legal Defense Foundation.
Tuesday, January 6th, as the new Congress got underway, Representatives Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) reintroduced the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36). The act is designed to protect the unborn from the sixth month of conception. It was previously passed by the House in the previous Congress by a vote of 228-196, but has not yet been considered by the Senate.
From Congressman Blackburn:
“We have a moral obligation to end dangerous late-term abortions in order to protect women and these precious babies from criminals like Kermit Gosnell and others who prey on the most vulnerable in our society…The United States is one of the few remaining countries in the world that allows abortion after 20 weeks. That is why today we renew our efforts to protect the lives of babies and their mothers with the introduction of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Rep. Franks and I have been a good team moving this legislation through the House as we continue to lead the fight to ensure the unborn are provided the same protections that all human life deserves.”
From Congressman Franks:
“More than 18,000 ‘very late term’ abortions are performed every year on perfectly healthy unborn babies in America. These are innocent and defenseless children who can not only feel pain, but who can survive outside of the womb in most cases, and who are tortuously killed without even basic anesthesia. Many of them cry and scream as they die, but because it is amniotic fluid going over their vocal cords instead of air, we don’t hear them. Late term Abortion in America has its defenders, but no true or principled defense. The Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act seeks to afford basic protection to mothers and their unborn babies entering the sixth month of gestation. I would just deeply encourage all interested parties, including fair-minded reporters, to simply read this bill. It is one all humane Americans can support if they understand it for themselves. Throughout America’s history, the hearts of the American people have been moved with compassion when they discover a theretofore hidden class of victims, once they grasp both the humanity of the victims and the inhumanity of what is being done to them. America is on the cusp of another such realization.”
Action Item: Contact your Member of Congress and ask them to support the H.R. 36.
Human development at 8 weeks and 2 days:
” Script: Touching the embryo elicits squinting, jaw movement, grasping motions, and toe pointing. ”
https://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=47
9 weeks and 3 days:
” Script: The fetus can also grasp an object, move the head forward and back, open and close the jaw, move the tongue, sigh, and stretch.
Nerve receptors in the face, the palms of the hands, and the soles of the feet can sense light touch.
In response to a light touch on the sole of the foot,” the fetus will bend the hip and knee and may curl the toes. ”
https://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=53
Pass on “ENDOWMENT for HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ”
https://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=44
Contact your HOUSE and SENATE Representatives – Support HR 36.
State Bishop’s Conferences and the USCCB should be front and center on this one.
The prolife movement needs some new leaderhip; a marketing mind that will unify the fragmentation and duplication that wastes millions of dollars and millions of man hours; all of which diminishes our potential strength!. Then we spend many more millions attacking the branches of the abortion Horror Tree by not concentrating on taking a united axe to the root where the core of it its power is. We continue to pass laws that the courts reverse! We all know that a pre-born zygote, embryo, fetus, baby are persons and allow an incoherent U. S. Supreme Court to shape our culture and to sentence millions of our pre-born Americn citizens to a violent death (ultra terriorism). The U. S. Supreme Court should be on a HOT SEAT until they’ve corrected the bloodshed and chaos they’ve created! Americans should be in an uproar to force a reversal! Why is General Motors spending millions to repair the damage they created by flaws in their cars? The Roe v. Wade, and Doe v. Bolton decisions of 1973 were incoherent and evil. They were stupidity concocted in answer to the pressure from the pro-abortion forces and the unprofessional mainstream medis who have ho respect for human life or for the legacy our Forefathers gave us; a deadly silly Supreme Court cancelled that protection by bending the Constitution out of shape. God forgive us! We will NOT be a great nation again untill we end our barbaric suicide!
Charles, a couple points here: I don’t know a lot about the structure of the pro-life movement. You might be right. But i wouldn’t be so quick to trash-talk it either: progress happens sometimes in haphazard ways, and it is remarkable that while the country has become much more liberal in issues like same sex marriage, the death penalty, and gun control, it has become more conservative on abortion and birth control. So something must be going right for those movements. There are two things that hurt it, for sure: One is violence or threats of violence against abortion clinic employees and the other is mismanagement of resources or abuse of trust by leaders as seems to be happenning with the current leader of Priests for Life. It might also be that intimidating clients is backfiring. Beyond that, the Supreme Court will only change its course if there is a Constitutional Amendment. Roe is settled law, as the Catholic Chief Justice reminded the Senate committee that confirmed him.
The leader of the “Priests for Life” is above reproach. The organization has had CLEAN AUDITS by professionals for years.
Just like evil Cardinal Mahony tried to take over EWTN from Mother Angelica years back, Cardinal Timothy Dolan merely wants to get his hands on the donations to “Priests for Life”.
When Dolan has clean hands by
managing his NY Churches so they are financially sound and will not have to close,
and stops causing scandals including being a Grand Poobah in the 2015 St. Pat’s Parade which is going to promote the gay sexual lifestyle for the first time,
and his silly grinning political pictures with politicians who support abortion and his big fat ego,
then and only then will Dolan earn the right to criticize anyone.
Until then he is ignorable.
I respect the OFFICE of Cardinal, but not the man Dolan.
As Jesus said: take the log out of your own eye PRIOR to taking the splinter out of your brother’s. Mt 7:5; Lk 6:42.
YFC, because you support homosexual acts and lifestyle, you take a swipe at Faithful Catholics and organizations, in order to lift up people like Dolan who will be marching with homosexual activists in NY on March 17th which will be televised.
Btw “Priests for LIfe” is not the leadership of the Catholic Church, it was just your opportunity to build up Dolan, by tearing down a good Priest.
Paul,
Well written!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
I don’t care for Abp. Dolan either, but PFL definitely needs to be shuttered and disbanded and is a discredit to the pro-life movement. I think you probably are misunderstanding what it means to have a “clean” audit. A clean audit doesn’t mean that everything the organization is doing is above board, it simply means that the financial statements adequately reflect what the organization is actually doing. In the case of PFL, most of the money is spent on Fr. Pavone’s and Janet Morana’s lavish lifestyles or to hire crony consultants. Money has been siphoned away from PFL and spent on Fr. Pavone’s various non-Catholic entities without informing donors what their money is actually funding. If you look at their financial statements, this is represented by “loans” that will never be paid back because the entities aren’t viable and the money has already been spent. It’s all in the financial statements.
Dave N, please provide official links for ALL of your accusations against PLF.
Not interested in your “personal suppositions” on what each line actually means.
We all must demand truth and proof when there is potential defamation.
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! This is why we love her. You go girl!