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The story of an abortion survivor
If this doesn’t move you, nothing will. Gianna Jessen:
And here is Gianna’s video testimony before the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on April
22, 1996:
My name is Gianna Jessen. I am 19 years of age. I am originally from California, but now reside in Franklin, Tennessee.
I am adopted. I have cerebral palsy. My biological mother was 17 years old and seven and one-half months pregnant when she
made the decision to have a saline abortion. I am the person she aborted. I lived instead of died.
This is one of the easiest 'NO' votes you can make.
Brothers
With the approval of our State Deputy, our Pro life Chairman, Joe Salini would like the following to be sent to your councils
and any others that you feel may be interested in taking part in this phone poll .
Details are below and are self explanatory.
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State Reports Director
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Knights of Columbus
This is one of the easiest 'NO' votes you can make.
You do not have to say anything to anyone.
If you do not approve of Dr. Morgentaler receiving the Order of Canada award kindly call this number:
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THE POPE ON THE ABORTION PILL
VATICAN CITY (Reuters)
Pharmacists must be allowed to refuse to supply drugs that cause abortion or euthanasia, Pope Benedict said on Monday, calling
on health professionals to be "conscientious objectors" against such practices.
The Pope told a convention of Roman Catholic pharmacists that part of their job was to help protect human life from conception
until natural death. The Church teaching that rules out any deliberate termination of pregnancy or euthanasia.
"It is not possible to anaesthetize the conscience, for example, when it comes to molecules whose aim is to stop an embryo
implanting or to cut short someone's life," the Pope said.
The so-called abortion pill, which is available in many European Union countries and has had regulatory approval in the United
States since 2000, has not been authorized in Italy.
The Vatican has criticized moves by some Italian politicians who favor the pill, which blocks the action of the hormone progesterone
that is needed to sustain a pregnancy.
The Pope told the international gathering that individual pharmacists could always choose not to prescribe such a drug.
"I invite your federation to consider conscientious objection which is a right that must be recognized for your profession
so you can avoid collaborating, directly or indirectly, in the supply of products which have clearly immoral aims, for example
abortion or euthanasia," he said.
We need to re-open the marriage issue for the sake of children whose rights were ignored in earlier discussions.
From the beginning the vast majority of marriages have resulted in naturally born children and the establishment of a families.
It is well established that this family setting is most successful in nu11uring confident and well-balanced children. We should
strive to ensure that every child receives the best possible beginning in life.
Every child has the right to have a mother and a father; the right to know their mother and father; and tile right to experience
their mother and their father. Children desire to know their heredity. There are sound psychological and medical reasons why
they should know tile people who contributed directly to their creation. As they grow they need both male and female models
that are significant to them to become properly adjusted to social life. In the common experience of most of us. there are
no models more important or influential than our mother and father.
In France, the government was wise enough to set up a Commission to look into the impact on children of any change in the
definition of marriage. In a report completed in January 2006. it stated:
The best interests of the child must prevail 0ver adult freedoms ,.. even including the lifestyle choice of parent "
For that reason it concluded by recommending that the definition of marriage be retained as the union of a woman and a man.
Neither our courts nor the House of Commons have paid sufficient attention to the needs of children as they are requested
to do in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children: In all actions concerning children. whether undertaken
by public or private social welfare institutions, administrative or legislative bodies the best interests of the child shall
be a primary consideration.
The essence of human rights is protecting the weak and disadvantaged against injustice. Children are entitled to our protection.
Please tell your Member of Parliament that you would like to have the question of the definition of marriage re-opened and
fully discussed.
ONTARIO CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS
Letters to MP's about the Marriage Issue
Parishioners are asked to write to their MP's requesting that they support the opening of the marriage issue for debate and
a free vote in the House of Commons.
Letters can be sent to any MP, postage free, at the following address:
Chris Charlton
House of Commons
Ottawa
ON KIA OA6
Model Letters
Letters should be polite, relatively short and make a clear request about the action you would like to see taken:
Dear (Name of MP)
I am writing to you to request that you support another debate on the definition of marriage.
When the definition was changed by Parliament in 2005, the vote in the House of Commons was not a free one. I and many others
felt that, on such an important issue, it was more important that MP's, after consultation with their constituents, follow
their consciences rather than party dictates.
For that reason alone, I feel that we need to try to ensure a more democratic process through another debate. Please vote
to reopen the debate on the nature of marriage.
I was very disappointed when Parliament changed the definition of marriage. I feel that very little attention was paid to
tile rights of children: their right to know both of their parents and, if at all possible, to live with them. I believe our
children are now referred to as the "legal" instead of the natural children of some persons. Recently, we have had a judge
rule that a child can have two mothers. Few of us foresaw such changes.
When the decision was made. tile majority of the Canadian public was opposed to it. With some of the situations which have
now developed, I feel that everyone would benefit by discussing the issue again.
I request you to vote that such a discussion take place and that Members of Parliament be allowed to vote freely in consultation
with their constituents.
I am writing to ask you to vote in favour of a new debate on the definition of marriage and to insist with your own party
that there be a free vote for MP's.
When the decision was made by Parliament to change the definition of marriage. many of us were convinced that the authentic
voice some MP's was not being heard. and even less so the voice of the Canadian people.
I believe that on an issue as fundamental as marriage, there should be a truly free vote for our elected representatives.
I would ask you to do what you can to achieve that.
Yours sincerely,
ON MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
A Letter from the Bishops of Ontario
Dear Catholic People of Ontario:
Rooted in human nature, the Sacred Scriptures and the teachings of the Church, marriage and family are the cornerstones of
our society, the natural environment in which most of us were raised and formed in faith and in humanity.
In our daily life, we see that in marriage:
*A man and a woman support and nurture each other.
*In the vast majority of cases, they have children.
*They rear their children in security and enable them to develop their God given talents.
*The married partners participate in God's plan for the world and contribute significantly to the good of the community.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (#1643) describes marriage in this way:
It aims at a deeply personal unity, a unity that, beyond union in one flesh, leads to forming one heart and soul; it demands
indissolubility and faithfulness in definitive mutual giving; and it is open to fertility.
All of these aspects of marriage are necessary. They are found in the unions of men and women in all civilizations in all
of recorded history. To take away any of these aspects from the definition of marriage is to end with something, which is
not marriage.
If you wish to see this fundamental part of our society preserved, the time has come to make your opinion known to your federal
and provincial representatives. We urge you to do so in your own way and in your own words.
The Ontario bishops have put the case for marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others to
the leaders of the provincial and federal governments.
Yours in Christ,
+Most Reverend A. Ambrozic
Archbishop of Toronto
+Most Reverend F. Colli
Bishop of Thunder Bay
+Most Reverend A. F. Tonnos
Bishop of Hamilton
+Most Reverend Anthony G. Meagher
Archbishop of Kingston
+Most Reverend Richard Smith
Bishop of Pembroke
+Most Reverend James Wingle
Bishop of St. Catharines
+Most Reverend Vincent Cadieux, o.m.i.
Bishop of Moosenee
+Most Reverend Marcel Gervais
Archbishop of Ottawa
+Most Reverend J. L. Doyle
Bishop of Peterborough
+Most Reverend Cornelius Pasichny, o.s.b.m.
Ukrainian Catholic Eparch of Toronto
+Most Reverend Jean-Louis Plouffe
Bishop of Sault Ste. Marie
+Most Reverend Paul-Andre Durocher
Bishop of Alexandra-Cornwall
+Most Reverend Andre Vailee, p.m.e.
Bishop of Hearst
+Most Reverend Paul Marchand
Bishop of Timmins
+Most Reverend Ronald P. Fabbro, C.S.B.
Bishop of London
+Most Reverend John Pazak, C.Ss.R.
Eparch for the Slovaks
Federal MP:
CHARLTON, Chris
(New Democratic Party) Parliamentary Address
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Telephone: (613) 995-9389
Fax: (613) 992-7802 Charlton.C@parl.gc.ca
Sophia Aggelonitis MPP
Ministry of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
1306 - 99 Wellesley St W, 1st Flr, Whitney Block
Toronto ON M7A 1W2
Tel : 416-325-0605
Fax : 416-325-0694
Constituency Address
Unit 2 - 952 Concession St
Hamilton ON L8V 1G2
Tel : 905-388-9734
Fax : 905-388-7862
Pope John Paul II proposes that individuals and communities add five new mysteries to the rosary in an apostolic letter issued
October 16. They are the mysteries of light and include Christ's Baptism in the Jordan; his self- revelation at the wedding
feast of Cana; his proclamation of the kingdom of God, with his call to conversion; his transfiguration and his institution
of the Eucharistic. The Holy Father believes the additions will help to "bring out fully the Christological depth of the Rosary."
Adding the five mysteries is left to people's discretion. The Pope says that in the five new mysteries "we contemplate important
aspects of the person of Christ as the definitive revelation of God…It is during the years of his public ministry that
the mystery of Christ is most evidently a mystery of light." The apostolic letter's title is "The Rosary of the Virgin Mary."
The letter announces a Year of the Rosary from October 2002 to October 2003.
The Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer," the Pope writes. "To recite the Rosary
is nothing other than to contemplate with Mary the face of Christ." The Pope says "the Rosary clearly belongs to the kind
of veneration of the Mother of God described by Vatican II. While the Rosary's repeated Hail Mary "is addressed directly to
Mary, it is to Jesus that the act of love is ultimately directed, with her and through her," the Pope writes. He says that
"the center of gravity in the Hail Mary, the hinge as it were, which joins its' two parts, is the name of Jesus." Calling
the Rosary, "the Marian prayer par excellence," the Pope adds, "yet when the Hail Mary is properly understood, we come to
see clearly that its Marian character is not opposed to its Christological character, but that it actually emphasizes and
increases it."
The Mysteries of Light, or
Luminous Mysteries.
1) The Baptism of Christ in the Jordan;
2) The wedding feast at Cana;
3) The announcement of the Kingdom;
4) The Transfiguration, and
5) The institution of the Eucharist.
What day do you pray them on?
Well, PJPII has suggested this new schedule:
