St. Antoninus Pro-Life/Pro-Family Commission

St. Antoninus Pro-Life/Pro-Family Commission

How can teens make a difference and stand up for Life?

Federal Ban on Partial Birth Abortion "Thank You" Contact List

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January 29, 2012

January 29, 2011

Dear Fellow Parishioners,

I am painfully reminded at times of our need to examine the myths, lies, half-truths and okay, propaganda that surround all of us. Here’s just two.

I met a worried seventh grade boy and his ‘girlfriend’ (thankfully, her test was negative). He tearfully assured me he had listened to his health teacher: “Honestly, Mrs. Hoffman, I wouldn’t do anything until my girl friend said she was ready!” Two more casualties in the classroom of so-called Comprehensive Sex Ed (“instruction”). The actual teacher’s manual denigrates abstinence as “learning to live like a hermit (define if necessary)”. Showering together is fun. Also try hiding condoms on one another. Composing lists of every imaginable filthy word is part of a class project as is getting bike directions to their nearest family planning (PP) site. Most parents are not to be trusted.

Propaganda: Comprehensive Sex Ed makes sense since kids don’t need the Dark Ages of chastity education which doesn’t teach them what matters in today’s world. It’s okay if you consider yourself as pro-life even though you support this Comprehensive Sex; it doesn’t really damage children and their families.

Truth check: Comprehensive Sex Ed corrupts a minor; it is never pro life. Among other vital aspects, your PCE chastity education actually does discuss contraception, premarital sex and STDs…it just respectfully tells the truth about them. Students are empowered as they learn about the beauty of the gift of their sexuality and the joy of living a moral aka healthy life. Parents are supported in their God-given role as primary educators.

In a local university text book it clearly said that pro abortion individuals were the educated, broad-minded, true feminists. “Anti-choice” people are for the most part uneducated radicals who want women “barefoot and pregnant”.

Propaganda: if you support abortion “rights” you are a true feminist, intellectually and socially superior. You are correct in your advocacy of “choice” and anti-male agenda.

Truth Check: Founding mothers of feminism, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were pro life: neither children nor women should be treated as property. Radicals Margaret Sanger (PP) and Betty Friedan’s group later successfully usurped feminism by mandating abortion, by viewing most men as enemies and by seeking to end marriage. Thankfully, the Church teaches children are a precious God-given gift; celebrates the dignity of women and men with their similarities and differences; upholds marriage as a reflection of Christ’s love for His Church. Some of the fundamentals to being fully pro life. Theology of the Body, Feminists for Life; Domestic Tranquility (Carolyn Graglia).

God is good!

Jane Hoffman

St. Antoninus Pro-Life, Pro-Family Committee

www.SaintAntoninus.org/organizations/prolife.htm

RETURN TO TOP

HOW CAN TEENS MAKE A DIFFERENCE and STAND UP FOR LIFE?

1. www. RockforLife.org. Keep up with area Cincinnati teens and what they’re doing.

What will you do? Music…Activism…Education…Outreach

· “You will not silence our message,

You will not mock our God

You will stop killing our generation”

· Sign up to keep up/notified by email

2. Get educated…get your head where your heart is. Share with your family and friends

the interactive CD you’re receiving today: “Unmasking the Truth: abortion

information for today’s youth. God will work through you to serve others.

3. Be willing to speak up and to help a friend in need to make a life-giving decision:

one that everybody can live with…including the baby waiting-to-be-born.

4. Be more visibly pro life…wear the “Precious Feet” …on behalf of all your generation

who have lost their lives before they were even born. Shows baby’s feet at 10

weeks after conception.

5. Learn about abortion, euthanasia, infanticide, embryonic stem cell research, human

cloning…all are intrinsically (by their very nature) evil. Use the internet to spread

the TRUTH about these vital areas. READ!

6. Join together now…and after graduation…join pro-life groups on college campuses…

Join with other men and women in your community. Conduct fund raisers.

7. Witness for life and your faith…join tens of thousands of other teens and adults this

January for the MARCH FOR LIFE in Washington D.C. Sign up this week! Come

to the Lenten pro-life walk www.TheWayofLove.org here in Cincinnati. Join clergy

and other families each Saturday morning for praying the rosary/witnessing in front

of Planned Parenthood.

8. Volunteer your services at an area pregnancy center, at Right to Life of Greater

Cincinnati, at Tender Mercies outreach to those with mental illness, at your great

neighborhood Boys and Girls Clubs. Run a pro-life booth. Establish a memorial

stone to the preborn in a local cemetery. Get pro-life books into libraries.

9. In graduation ceremonies, include a remembrance of those who would have been

graduating but who were killed in abortion.

10. MOST IMPORTANTLY: PRAYER…Mass and the sacraments…Eucharist

Adoration…say the daily rosary…this is the spiritual battle of our times.

Web Sites with Pro-Life/Pro-Family Information
United States Council of Catholic Bishops - www.USCCB.org (click on Life Issues link)	Cincinnati Right to Life - www.cincinnatirighttolife.org. To subscribe to e-mail alerts go to mail@cincinnatirightolife.org with SUBSCRIBE in the Subject field. Need info: phone 513-728-7870 ext.207.
Priests for Life - www.priestsforlife.org	Physicians For Life - www.physiciansforlife.org
www.Vatican.va	www.HumanLifeInternational.com

Partial Birth Abortion Ban "Thank You" Contact List

1. Congressman Steve Chabot (Author and Prime Sponsor)

3003 Carew Tower

441 Vine St.

Cincinnati, OH 45202

(513) 684-2723 www.House.Gov/Chabot

2. Senator Rick Santorum has joined the Ethics and Public Policy center (was Sponsor in the United States Senate)

1015 15th St. NW, Ste. 900

Washington, DC 20005

Tel. 202-715-3495 Fax. 202-408-0632

http://www.eppc.org/scholars/scholarID.88/scholar.asp

He has also joined the law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC:

1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Suite 1200

Washington, DC 20006-4604

T 202.659.6600 F 202.659.6699

http://www.eckertseamans.com/directory/bios/santorum_rick.asp

3. President George W. Bush: signed the federal ban into United States law as well as supporting it in the courts.

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

4. United States Supreme Court: the majority supporting the ban are Chief Justice John Roberts, Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia

United States Supreme Court Building

One First Street NE

Washington, DC 20543

5. Congressman Chris Smith -- Co-Chairman of the Bipartisan Pro- Life Caucus

2373 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515

ph: (202) 225-3765 fax: (202) 225-7768

http://www.house.gov/chrissmith/

6. Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati...attention Board

1802 W. Galbraith

Cincinnati OH 45239

http://www.cincinnatirighttolife.org (513) 728-7870;

Dayton Right to Life www.Daytonlife.org (937) 461-3625

7. Ohio Right to Life....Mark Lally Esq.

2238 S. Hamilton Rd.

Suite 200

Columbus, OH 43232-4382

http://www.ohiolife.org

8. Judge Charles Canady - introduced earlier versions of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act when he was a member of Congress. He is now a judge with Florida's Second District Court of Appeals.

P.O. Box 327

Lakeland, Florida 33802

(863) 499-2290

http://www.2dca.org/judges/canady.htm

Note: For religious affiliations on the United States Supreme Court http://www.adherents.com/adh_sc.html