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Friday, July 03, 2009
Happy Birthday America!
New GA Home for Moms in Crisis ~ Urgent, Immediate Need for Help
Ephesus House is a beautiful, Spirit-filled home for moms here in GA. Following is a message sent out recently from their team ---
Friends for Life,
The Ephesus House, http://www.ephesushouse.org located in Gainesville, GA, committed to showing Mercy to women in crisis pregnancy by providing temporary housing assistance and pregnancy resources, NEEDS YOUR HELP!
We are in need of many things at the home. We are currently housing a mother who is 36 weeks pregnant and beginning on Monday we will accept a homeless mother with two young children into the home. If you could help in any way with any of the following items or a monetary donation to help purchase food, we would be eternally grateful. Items needed:
-baby crib
-toddler bed
-2 baby gates
-baby proofing items (locks & outlet plugs)
-food
We also have experienced difficulties with our air conditioning system in the upstairs. The compressor went out and we do not have the financial resources to replace it at this time. We are operating on window air units. If you or anyone that you know may be able to help us financially, please contact us. With the extreme temperatures that we are experiencing, the window units are working overtime. Can you please help??
Please also check our wish list on our webpage: http://www.ephesushouse.org
You may be able to help us with something from that list as well.
You may make a financial contribution on our website link, “contribute to life”.
We are also in need of men who can do some handy work. We need a hand railing installed on the stairs, the installation of 5 deadbolts, & painting and repairing the deck. Someone is at the home at all times, if you have any free time available, please give us a call.
Also, we are in need of volunteers. If you are interested in offering 4 hours of your time, please contact
Cara at 770-654-9418.
May God Bless you for your consideration of this request.
Blessings,
The Ephesus House Team
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Call for Life Today! - Friday, July 3rd
Friends of the unborn,
Today is the first Friday of the month and it’s time to call for life!
Go to http://callforlife.us for more information, like what to say and who to call. If we don’t speak for the unborn, who will?
For those of you who tuned in to the Organized for Life teleconference on Tuesday, you got an earful of how we are getting more and more energized! Organized for Life is a Pro-Life Unity and Pro-Life Witness project, a national campaign designed to:
> Rally pro-lifers and give them an outlet for their desire to get involved in more direct action.
> Persuade other Americans to become pro-life through a door-to-door community organizing campaign.
> Educate America on life issues like never before!
Go to the following link to hear the recording of this amazing teleconference which was hosted by David Bereit:
http://oflusa.com/index.php/site/comments/04_28_teleconference_recording/
To join in the Organized for Life effort go to http://oflusa.com or this link to sign up:
http://oflusa.com/index.php/site/comments/signup_and_get_organized_for_life_today/
The Prayer Pivot also starts right now, 12:00 am Eastern on the first Friday and goes through each time zone for 24 hours until 12:00 am Eastern Saturday. Pray for as long as you want for the unborn and let us know you’re out there. Go to http://prayerpivot.com for more information.
First Saturday following the first Friday - go to an abortion mill near you and pray or sidewalk counsel for the unborn. Since this is the 1st Saturday before Mother’s day, it’s also Mother’s Day at the Mills, so take your whole family, including your children, to the abortion mill and pray.
United we stand ~ Divided they die
Pass it on
Peter Shinn
President, Pro-Life Unity - http://www.prolifeunity.com
Founder, Monthly Call for Life - http://www.callforlife.us
Co-Founder Prayer Pivot for Life - http://www.prayerpivot.com
National Director, Organized for Life
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Group pushes for anti-abortion measure
HELENA — A Montana anti-abortion group launched a new campaign on Wednesday aimed at changing the state’s constitution to define “personhood” as all human beings “from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.”
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Happy 4th of July from Americans United for Life & The Yoests; The Founding Fathers
Charmaine sends this out to her AUL good-guy list,
It’s nearly Independence Day, and, here in the Yoest household, that means a road trip!
Friday afternoon, Jack and I are filling up our black Suburban and taking our ‘Penta-posse’—our five kids—to Charlottesville, VA, for our 14-year-old son John’s all-star baseball tournament. How wonderful to spend July 4th in a city steeped in American history near the University of Virginia (my alma mater!), which was founded by Thomas Jefferson just a few miles from his Monticello home.
John Yoest, age 14
[Pitched a no hitter on his JV team—as an 8th grader]
Photo Credit: Hannah Yoest
But although the calendar—and the heat index—says it’s July 4, in my heart it feels like late November.
Independence Day has always been a kind of early Thanksgiving for me. I think about the sacrifices made by the Founding Fathers and their families, and of the blood shed by patriots so that America could be free, and I am so very thankful to be able to raise my children in the greatest country in the world.
The Founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
In naming three inalienable rights as endowed by humanity’s Creator, the Declaration’s authors were recognizing something unique and beautiful about being human. Taken together, those rights enable all the goods necessary for human flourishing.
More than that, the order in which the Founders listed the rights carries special meaning; it reveals the way one right flows from another. The right to liberty—the freedom to thrive—flows from the right to life, and from that liberty flows the ability to seek the happiness that will give one’s life meaning and purpose.
I’m so honored to be working with the AUL team to further the understanding that the right to life enshrined in our Declaration extends to all humanity and includes the unborn.
The right to life is the foundation of all the freedoms we enjoy as Americans. This is what we must teach our children on this family holiday, so that they and their children and their children’s children may continue to live in a free country long after you and I have left this world.
Sweet Sixteen celebration.
My friend and AUL colleague Bob told me today about a wonderful Fourth of July tradition in his family. Every year, he and his wife host a barbecue that is highlighted by having one of the children present, usually his own daughter, read out loud the entire Declaration of Independence.
Jack and I like that idea so much that we are adopting this as a Yoest family tradition. I think we’ll have Helena, our 12-year-old who has a dramatic flair, read the Declaration of Independence before we watch the fireworks after John’s baseball game. If you’d like join us in that tradition, click here for a printable copy of the Declaration.
Wishing you and your family a happy and healthy Fourth,
Charmaine, and the Yoest family
P.S. On Monday, the AUL team will be back at the job of defending the right to life, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. For the latest news on President Obama’s high-court nominee, visit Sotomayor411.com. It’s a one-stop resource we’ve created to share in-depth background and analysis from our legal team on Judge Sotomayor, including detailed information on why she is worse on life issues than retiring Justice David Souter.
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Pro-Abortion Hispanic Group: Sotomayor Set Policy, Not Involved in Legal Briefs, by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, July 1, 2009,
“Although the Senate will have a significant amount of materials to wade through, Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, has seen enough to say Sotomayor is pro-abortion and worse than Justice David Souter, whom she would replace.
Yoest points out that, during Sotomayor’s time on the PRLDEF’s board, its efforts “included no less than six briefs in five abortion-related cases before the Supreme Court—pushing aggressively for an interpretation of abortion rights that would eliminate most or all state and federal abortion regulations while requiring state and federal funding of abortion.”
In two of the legal briefs, “the PRLDEF’s briefs took positions more extreme than those of Justice Souter, who joined with the court’s majority to uphold restrictions the fund wanted struck down,” Yoest added.
Ultimately, “Justice Sotomayor has never disavowed any of the PRLDEF’s briefs, which are packed with the kind of extreme rhetoric more typical of left-wing blogs than of serious legal documents.” “
U.S. appeals court upholds Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion, By Catholic News Service
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion is constitutional, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 6-5 decision June 24.
“The head of Americans United for Life, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case and assisted the state with the litigation, said the “ban protects not only the unborn, but also the health and welfare of women.”
“We are thrilled that the 4th Circuit followed clear U.S. Supreme Court precedent and upheld Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion - which is more accurately called partial-birth infanticide,” said Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO.
“It is a law that the vast majority of Americans are justified in supporting,” she said. Opponents of the ban are expected to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the appellate court’s decision.
The 2003 Virginia law makes it a felony to perform a partial-birth abortion, but it never went into effect because its constitutionality was challenged by a Richmond doctor who said the procedure can be necessary to protect the life of the mother. He also said the ban could prevent doctors from performing legal procedures for fear they would be prosecuted. “
From PA Pundits - International
“the relentless pursuit of common sense” - A Variety of Opinions From Various Writers -
“Only the pro-life group Americans United for Life has made a significant campaign against Sotomayor’s ascension to the high court, calling her record on abortion rights “worse than [current Justice David] Souter’s.” Still, the fight should pick up once Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings begin July 13.”
Jack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and Management Training of DC, LLC.
7 Planned Parenthood Facilities Close Their Doors Forever
This is one case where we have to celebrate the closing of doors due to a lack of business!
WND Article
But last week, Analinda Moreno, Planned Parenthood of El Paso's interim executive director, announced all seven of the organization's clinics in the El Paso area would permanently close today. She cited financial reasons.
"There were many factors that came into the decision," Moreno told the El Paso Times. "We knew eight days ago that there was just absolutely no other way other than to close."
Rita Diller, national director of the American Life League's Stop Planned Parenthood project, was encouraged by the closings, and sees them as part of a larger trend.
"We expect many more closures in the days to come as people become aware of Planned Parenthood's sex-crazed birth control and abortion business," Diller said in a statement. "One by one, with hard work and prayer, these facilities are closing down, no matter how entrenched Planned Parenthood may seem to be in a particular community."
Cya PP! I pray for many more of these in days to come.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Number of Wis. Abortions Drops for the 5th Year
The number of abortions performed in Wisconsin dropped slightly last year to its lowest level since the state began keeping records three decades ago, according to a state report released Tuesday.
The Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List Is Here!
The Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List is now on prolifeunity.com. There are 16 categories with over 250 sites, plus hundreds of addresses for pregnancy clinics, state Right To Life organizations, and much more. If you think a site should be added, please contact me at .
Adoption Resources
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University Pro-Life Organizations
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Harvard - Society For Law, Life, And Religion
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