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January 11, 2009
Dear Fellow Parishioners,
As Catholic Americans, we are
being called to become more engaged in combating these evil attacks
against God’s sacred gift of human life, especially in abortion (legal
throughout all nine months), the heinous root evil
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR1RD2-fabA
www.DuraRealidad.com :“Its scrupulous
meanness has had catastrophic effects upon the unity and integrity of
the American republic…For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be
marginal. We will know that Garden,” (James Frances Cardinal Stafford,
Nov. 2008). Cardinal Stafford compared America’s future under
out-spoken abortion supporter, President Obama, to Jesus’ agony in the
garden, “On November 4, 2008, America suffered a cultural
earthquake…the hot, angry tears of betrayal…we now become one with
Jesus, sick because of love.” Jesus tells us,
“I came that they may have life and have it more
abundantly.” (John 10:10)
As one of the FREEDOM OF CHOICE
ACT (FOCA) co-sponsors, then Senator
Barack Obama promised the abortion lobby that this will be the first
piece of legislation he will sign into law as President. Under this
deceptive title, FOCA would
create a new federal right to
abortion and would repeal the Hyde Amendment
thus allowing unlimited federal tax
funding for abortions.
FOCA removes all the legal safeguards (“interferences”)
currently put in place in all 50 states since 1973…safeguards
that have helped reduce abortions to record lows.
It would
invalidate all laws
requiring:
“full disclosure to the patient” (ultrasound images of the unborn
child, details about pain inflicted on the baby, about long term
complications for the mother); parental notification for a minor
daughter seeking an abortion; waiting periods; restrictions based on
an unborn child’s viability; protection for doctors and nurses who
refuse to perform or assist in an abortion; protections for
religiously affiliated hospitals as well as public hospitals that
currently do not perform abortions (the head of obstetrics at a large
local Catholic hospital told me that they would be forced to close
under FOCA); exclusions for abortion coverage from health care plans
of federal employees. FOCA would overturn the federal law banning the
late term infanticide: partial-birth abortions.
Contact/meet with
your U.S. Senators and Representatives: urge them not only to
oppose FOCA but also to take leadership in their
opposition.
www.House.gov/writerep
www.Senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm
Pray.
God is good!
Jane Hoffman
St. Antoninus
Pro-Life, Pro-Family Committee
www.SaintAntoninus.org/organizations/prolife.htm
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March 1, 2009
Dear Fellow Parishioners,
A
7th grader speaks up, wins and wows the judges:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOR1wUqqvJS4&feature=channel-page
Using her as a young role model, we see she’s an articulate
witness to the urgency of re-establishing our God-given right to life.
Another role model,
Lila Rose is a college student at UCLA. She’s also a pro-life student
activist who founded and is president of Live Action which
spreads a pro life message to young people and conducts student-led
investigations the results of which are released through www.Live
Action Films.org Recent
investigations received national attention when they exposed racism
and patterns of sexual abuse cover-up at Planned Parenthood abortion
facilities. This college student has been a frequent guest on radio
and television programs, including The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity’s
America and The Laura Ingraham Show. This work has led to
criminal investigations of the abortion industry. FYI she’ll be the
keynote speaker April 23 at Pregnancy Center East’s Banquet for
Life.
Role models.
With Lent beginning, a retreat priest asks us to consider: “What does
it mean to be a disciple, a follower, of Jesus Christ?” Being
committed to Christ brings joys and challenges for each of us so we
ask ourselves, “Do I believe and trust Jesus words, His Church enough
to live by them?”
Using Our Blessed Mother as the “Number One Role Model Disciple”,
we are called to be faithful, fearless, proclaiming, joyful and
forgiving. For family discussion, consider ways that different
members/ages can be a follower of Jesus and a role model to others.
What specific steps can your family implement to bring about
the Gospel of Life and shed light onto the culture of death that is
promoting abortion, infanticide, euthanasia (recently legalized in two
states and federally repackaged in ‘rationed healthcare’). Truth is on
the march and it will not be stopped.
God is good!
Jane Hoffman
St. Antoninus
Pro-Life, Pro-Family Committee
www.SaintAntoninus.org/organizations/prolife.htm
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May 16, 2009
Dear Fellow Parishioners,
“It was the best times, it was the
worst of times” (C. Dickens). Using today’s gift of astonishing
technology, we just saw the vivid 4D video of our soon-to-be-born
grandchild. The best of times!
However, my expectant daughter,
her husband and my husband are graduates of Notre Dame. Like so many,
we are outraged, deeply saddened by the University’s decision to
confer an honorary law degree on abortion advocate President Obama as
their UND ’09 Commencement speaker. A direct violation of the U.S.
Bishops’ 2004 mandate in Catholics in Political Life:
‘The Catholic community and Catholic
institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our
fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors
or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.’ ”
www.CardinalNewmanSociety.org
Scandalous defiance. The mockery of what was Our Lady’s premier
university honoring someone who supports mutilating children (all 9
mos./all 50 states)! The worst of times!
Nearly 60 bishops, archbishops and
cardinals including Archbishop Pilarczyk have publicly led the
outcry. Now engaged are Catholics never before engaged in this
life/death battle. The best of times!
Archbishop Burke, Prefect of the
Vatican’s highest court, the Apostolic Signatura, called on
Catholics to “give an uncompromising witness” to the dignity of life
and sharply criticized Notre Dame. “Godless secularism and
relativism” underlie the Culture of Death.
He noted ND is “rightly the source of the greatest scandal…in
a culture marked by widespread, ingrained confusion about the most
fundamental teachings of the moral law, our Catholic schools and
universities must be beacons of truth and right conduct…if we as
individuals are not willing to accept the burdens” of the Catholic
witness to life, “we are not worthy of the name Catholic…a Catholic
institution, a Catholic university, cannot give honors to someone who
is a promoter of things that are opposed to the most fundamental
beliefs of Catholics. There’s an apostolic constitution, Ex corde
Ecclesiae, which sets forth the requirements for a university to
have the name Catholic. I think that Notre Dame has to either follow
those norms or say ‘We’re not a Catholic university anymore.”
ND’s honor comes on the heels of the
most anti-life actions of any American president: his expansion of tax
funding for abortions around the world ($585 million); allowing our
taxes for unlimited killing of human embryos for embryonic stem
cells; using taxes ($50 million) to now fund China’s forced one-child
policy with its forced abortions and sterilizations through UNFPA;
proposing rescinding a federal policy of conscience protections for
Catholic doctors, nurses and hospitals; and the grand daddy of them
all, advocates for the Freedom of Choice Act to rescind the last 37
years of pro life protection for moms, dads and their children.
Read
Mary Ann Glendon’s rejection letter
www.FirstThings.com/onthesquare/?p=1395 Support the
Sycamore Project at ND
www.projectsycamore.com and ND student effort in opposing Obama
www.NDResponse.com.
God is good!
Jane Hoffman
St. Antoninus
Pro-Life, Pro-Family Committee
www.SaintAntoninus.org/organizations/prolife.htm
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June 28, 2009
Dear Fellow Parishioners,
A seventh grade student, concerned that
he may be a father, told me, “Honestly I wouldn’t do anything until
she said she was ready.” This sad phrase is directly from
the marketing propaganda paid for and coined by Planned Parenthood
(PP) for the classrooms of America. “Most teen abortions start
when Planned Parenthood walks into a classroom.”(American Life League
www.ALL.org)
Advocates of the abortion industry,
these sellers of sexual promiscuity met last month at Miami University
(Oxford OH) under the guise of promoting tax-funded “sex-ed” in the
classroom. PP knows that most children, just like that young boy,
think that if it’s taught in school it must be true. So PP promotes a
stomach-turning “sex-ed” called It’s Perfectly Normal and its
predecessor Reducing the Risk (where immoral acts are their
recommended forms of ‘abstinence’). Marriage, the love of wife and
husband and God’s beautiful gift of sexuality are missing. Using
pornography and graphic language PP’s programs teach children as young
as PreK that anything sexual is perfectly normal – even PP’s $pecialty,
abortion (over $114,000,000/yr in profits). Thus, countless teens and
pre-teens are then losing their sexual innocence in the classroom and
many will later follow with a visit to Planned Parenthood’s abortion
facility to loose their preborn babies and to live wounded lives. As
the largest abortion chain, PP kills over 250,000 preborn children a
year.
Always with prayer,
join the full-scale national effort to close down PP using 3 key
objectives: 1. Eliminate all tax-funding…free tax $ is 33% of PP
budget. Stop the free $$ and PP will collapse. 2. Volunteer through
national grassroots crusade (www.ALL.org)
to end PP’s ruthless humanist assault on the hearts, minds and souls
of our children 3. Expand on-site volunteer programs to pray, witness
and pressure local businesses, churches, politicians and media “To
Save Our Children and Keep Planned Parenthood Away” from them and
out of our communities…learn more/get our yard sign
www.ProtectCincinnati.org
513-588-0148. With courage, prayer for right judgment, let’s do the
right thing! Our children are depending on us.
God is good!
Jane Hoffman
St. Antoninus
Pro-Life, Pro-Family Committee
www.SaintAntoninus.org/organizations/prolife.htm
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August 9, 2009
Dear Fellow Parishioners,
In all my years serving in pro life I
have never witnessed such a sweeping attempt to undermine the
sanctity of human life and to alter the landscape of our beautiful
nation from a land of the free…to a land of the controlled. Under
the guise of Health ‘Care’ massive changes in the very structure of
our democracy are at foot. Every voter in this nation needs to let
their voice be heard…now…this month as the House and the Senate recess
until Sept.
The “Health” bill should be scrapped
altogether: Riveted with moral, physical and ethical threats to
the unborn, the elderly, the infirm; imposing the “are you wanted”
mentality on the less-than-perfect among us; attacks on the rights of
conscience for our Catholic hospitals and medical personnel (Cardinal
George) … all these loom larger each passing day.
You and I want to DO something to stop
this Health Horrific Bill. Please call your representative’s and U.S.
Senators’ district offices and ask when and where they will be holding
town hall meetings. Express your opposition to any form of this
bill. Attend the meetings. Write to our local papers. It’s our
country and the future of our children and grandchildren…and
ourselves as we grow into our golden years.
Resources:
U.S. Senator
Sherrod Brown (D-OH) 202.224.2315 Senator George Voinovich (R-OH)
202.224.3353
www.senate.gov Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH) (202) 225-2216
www.house.gov
“We are facing
an enormous and dramatic clash between the culture of death and the
culture of life. We find ourselves in the midst of this conflict. We
are all involved and we all share in it, with the inescapable
responsibility of choosing to be unconditionally pro life” Pope JP
II “The Gospel of Life”.
God is good!
Jane Hoffman
St. Antoninus
Pro-Life, Pro-Family Committee
www.SaintAntoninus.org/organizations/prolife.htm
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September 27, 2009
Dear Fellow Parishioners,
Of course we
have a deeply shared concern to serve the poor and those in need.
However, there is a Trojan horse under the guise of Health 'Care'
bringing massive changes in the very structure of our democracy.
Every voter in this nation needs to let their voices be heard...now
and in the weeks ahead.
Since supporters
of the abortion industry are prevalent throughout the current
administration and in Congress, we must be vigilant in watching for
any efforts to encourage the abortion industry’s mentality that has
long underpinned abortion and the culture of death: “are you
wanted/are you ‘as valuable’”. Human life must be protected from
conception through natural death.
www.usccb.org
History
(Google pro life
Hyde Amendment)
has shown that America may see a Health "Shell Bill" pass with
many of our red life-flags seemingly removed to placate the dissenters
i.e. Pro life/pro family constituents.
Once
this gutted "Shell Bill" passes into law...then...the
regulations
appear
and all the offensive concerns are able to be but back:
abortions, ‘reimbursing’ e.g. Oregon's insurance companies and
individuals for euthanasia and assisted suicide, the abortion
industry’s dream of school-based health clinics (eight pages
currently), embryonic stem cell research, human cloning etc...cleverly
using semantics of
premiums
not tax money. The
'shell game' in full force.
To try and prevent this tragedy from occurring, American voters can
insist that legislators also
specifically
state
in the original bill
what may not be
included
otherwise it will be assumed to be included...and the follow-up
regulations later will implement it.
Honest or naive people may not think like this but voters know that
honest people have been hoodwinked for years by those who
do
think like this.
Continue to
pray. Americans now have a user-friendly way to make a big
impact: consider “helping make it happen” asap!
The Yellow Health
Postcard Campaign
utilize www.HealthPostcard.com Let
us not live with shoulda/woulda/coulda.
Health reform?
Yes. At the expense of the vulnerable and the future of our
children? No.
God is good!
Jane Hoffman
St. Antoninus
Pro-Life, Pro-Family Committee
www.SaintAntoninus.org/organizations/prolife.htm
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December 6, 2009
Dear Fellow Parishioners,
“Give the Gift of LIFE”
this Advent for Christmas! Our country’s present and future
generations…our fellow members of the Body of Christ…need us today
to stand in the breach for LIFE. Bold efforts to
institutionalize the Culture of Death continue. “Senate health
care bill is morally unacceptable” (USCCB)
CatholicNewsAgency.com/new.php?n=17788.
Update: Passage of a House pro
life amendment (supported by
Cong. Steve Driehaus and Jean Schmidt)
prohibits use of Federal funds for some abortions.
That’s good news, though sadly, NOT ALL preborn child killing is
prohibited; "to pay for any abortion or to cover any part of the costs
of any health plan that includes coverage of abortion" except in cases
of rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother. These exceptions
mean that someone who has been brutalized by the crime of rape or
incest can additionally be wounded by the violence of taking of her
child’s life; the innocent child, whose father is a criminal, is the
other victim in the crime but tragically may be killed.
www.FeministsforLife.org
Additionally, in
Catholic teaching and common sense, “danger to the life of the mother”
does not have to come up at all in the discussion: aborting a child
saves no one’s life. While abortion is always wrong, if the mother’s
life is in danger, every life-giving effort may of course be made,
along with efforts to protect the life of her child. With no intent
to actively harm the pre-born child, harm and death may still come
secondarily to the child in the course of trying to save the life of
the mother/the life of the child. The pivotal delineation is morally
no one may actively seek to actually kill the child in the misguided
attempt to save the mother and vice versa…no one may seek to actively
kill the mother to “save the child”.
Largely unnoticed, euthanasia and
assisted suicide coverage has not been explicitly prohibited
in any health bill. Just like abortion was ‘regulated in’ to federal
law before the Hyde Amendment stated some prohibition (over 300,000
children had already died…with our tax monies), these evils may loom
larger than all the abortion deaths. Currently legal in two states,
euthanasia and assisted suicide are not mentioned by name in the bills
though two of the authors of sections of the House bill were also
advocates for the Culture of Death in these states (Family Research
Council frc.com). Would coverage be
transported/mandated/’regulated in’ unless explicitly prohibited?
The pro life HealthPostcards.com
will be giving a second urgent appeal to legislators…updated
cards will be repeated after Masses the weekend before Christmas.
There are much
better ways to help protect the vulnerable and those in need that are
less life threatening and more cost saving to families than these
“health” bills. Pray.
God is good!
Jane Hoffman
St. Antoninus
Pro-Life, Pro-Family Committee
www.SaintAntoninus.org/organizations/prolife.htm
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