(Prolifer)ations 10-13-09
by intern Heather B.
Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs…
The City Council passed the Bubble Zone ordinance [on October 7] by a vote of 28-13. It will go into effect November 17 unless Mayor Daley vetoes it.
We are especially excited about how Maafa 21 is opening doors for us into areas where the pro-life message has seldom been heard and often unwelcomed. Liberal “peace and justice” groups are starting to have Maafa 21 showings on college campuses. And some “Afro-Centric” groups who are not necessarily Christian and have generally been disinterested in the abortion issue, are now actively promoting [the film].
Maafa 21 is a project integrating media technologies with a powerful message about the tragedy and victimization suffered by many minority members behind the doors of abortion clinics.
Dodd knows firsthand the importance of providing young mothers with the educational resources they need, which initiated her involvement with Room at the Inn, a pregnancy resource facility in Charlotte, NC, where she lives with her daughter. Room at the Inn “hopes to build the nation’s first campus-based maternity and after-care residence for pregnant college students.” Dodd states:
The great unique thing about our project is that it’s nonpartisan, it’s an initiative that everyone can support… Pro-life or pro-choice, if we want women to feel that they have a choice, this is where we can all agree.
The lack of resources is a huge cause of abortion. If women feel that they don’t have the emotional resources, the financial resources, the educational resources [that they need to choose to give birth], we can focus on giving them that choice.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
B.O. goes green.
After careful analysis by its handwriting experts the FBI crime lab has narrowed the field down to two possible suspects.
Jesse Jackson or Hillary Clinton.
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Yellow letters in the snow would have been a little more considerate of the owner of the golf course and the duffers who golf there.
The original punch line was Hillary Clinton’s handwriting and Jesse Jackson’s DNA.
The obvious product of the ‘vast left hand conspiracy’.
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Mary-Louise Kurey, Director of the Archdiocese of Chicago Respect Life Office, has written an excellent Letter to the Editor regarding the Chicago Bubble Zone ordinance and the misrepresentations of sidewalk counselor activities which led to the ordinance being passed. The letter was published October 9, 2009.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/chi091009kurey_briefs,0,951278.story
The phone has been ringing off the hook at Mayor Daly’s office. Now they have a Press 1 For Yes & 2 For No survey to handle the volume, I guess. Still, it’s going to take ALOT of calls–probably weeks of this–to tear down the Berlin Wall of machine politics in Chicago.
Hooray for Mark Crutcher, author of Lime 5, for his film, Maafa! It’s really impressing alot of people outside of Pro-life.
I saw Lacy Dodd & her daughter at Notre Dame on commencement day on the South Quad. She gave an impressive talk, and her daughter is quite a beautiful princess–a real home run for the pro-life cause!
When we were working on Lime 5, I opened an envelope full of death certificates a researcher had sent. They were death certificates for women who had died from abortions in Illinios. I’d long known about these deaths; all I needed to do with these death certificates was check for any details other reports had not included.
For some reason, as I leafed through the death certificates, my eye was drawn to the box marked “Race.”
My co-worker, Mona, walked past my office a few minutes later and found me with my head down on my desk, crying. She asked what was wrong, and I shoved the fistful of death certificates at her.
“Look at these, Mona,” I told her. “They’re all Black women. We’re never going to be able to get anybody to care.”
The traction Maafa21 seems to be gaining in the Black community gives me a glimmer of hope.