Issue No.195 December, 2019 Dianne Machesney, Editor 412-366-7869 A Monthly Publication of the Neighbors North Pro-Life Committee Court Rules Pittsburgh Can’t Stop Pro-Life People From Saving Babies Outside Abortion Clinic The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled Friday, October 18, that Pittsburgh’s censorship zones ordinance can’t be used to muzzle the free speech of pro-life sidewalk counselors. Rather than strike down the ordinance, the court reinterpreted it so that it no longer applies to such counseling. In its latest opinion in Bruni v. City of Pittsburgh, the 3rd Circuit wrote, “the Ordinance, as properly interpreted, does not extend to sidewalk counseling—or any other calm and peaceful one-on- one conversations….” Under the ordinance, no one may “knowingly congregate, patrol, picket or demonstrate in a zone extending 15 feet from any entrance to the hospital or health care facility” that the city designates. Health care facilities broadly and vaguely include any “establishment providing therapeutic, preventative, corrective, healing and health-building treatment services on an out-patient basis by physicians, dentists and other practitioners.” Nonetheless, the 3rd Circuit said this language does not and cannot apply to pro-life sidewalk counselors. https://www.lifenews.com/2019/10/18/court-rules-pittsburgh-cant-stop -pro-life-people-from-saving-babies-outside-abortion-clinic/ Mother Teresa Sister Released After 15 Months in Prison Without Trial for Facilitating Adoption After fifteen months in jail, Sister Concelia Baxla, a Mother Teresa Sister from Jharkhand, India, has been released on bail. She used to work in one of the order’s many orphanages. Last year, she was arrested on charges of human trafficking because one of the co-workers allegedly took money for facilitating an adoption. Those charges were subsequently dropped but Sr. Concelia remained imprisoned. While all others involved in the case were granted bail swiftly, Sr. Concelia’s appeal was rejected multiple times. “Nobody should be persecuted because of their faith. We are thankful that Sister Concelia has been granted bail after more than a year in prison pending trial. While others were released sooner, it seems that Sr. Concelia was punished for symbolic reasons due to her faith and her position as a member of the Missionaries of Charity,” said Tehmina Arora, Director of ADF India. Christians regularly become victims of systematic mob attacks in India with more than 200 incidents recorded so far this year. The attacks often take a similar shape and rarely receive any police attention. A mob will arrive at a prayer meeting or Christian gathering, shout abuse and harassment, and beat up those in attendance including women and children. Then, the pastors or priests are usually arrested by the police under false allegations of forced conversions. https://www.lifenews.com/2019/09/30/mother-teresa-sister- released-after-15-months-in-prison-without-trial-for-facilitating-adoption/ March for Life 2020 Theme: ‘Life Empowers, Pro-Life is Pro-Woman’ The March for Life Education and Defense Fund announced the theme for the 2020 March for Life, which takes place on Jan. 24. The theme is "Life Empowers, Pro-Life is Pro- Woman." March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said the upcoming march will seek to "evoke confidence rather than fear" about unplanned pregnancy and motherhood, and advocate for community support for unexpected pregnancies. The March for Life, which has occurred every year since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, involves tens of thousands of pro-life activists from all over the country who first listen to speakers on the National Mall and then march along Constitution Avenue, up Capitol Hill, and then rally in front of the Supreme Court. https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/kharen-martinez-murcia/march-life- 2020-theme-life-empowers-pro-life-pro-woman Virginia Couple Adopts After Their Photo Urging Moms Not to Have Abortion Went Viral We believe as Christians that we are called to love and care for orphans,” Sarah Thomas told Fox News recently. Soon after the post went viral, the Thomas’ agreed to adopt a child, This child won’t be the first entering their family through adopƟon. “God has given us a heart for the fatherless and 3 years into our marriage we were convicted of our selfishness in waiƟng for children and obeyed God’s calling to become foster parents,” Sarah Thomas said. The Thomas family – who have a 1-year-old biological son – have also adopted Kayden, 3, through foster care. They described him as a “blessing and such a joy.” The couple also has been very busy helping connect many pregnant women to local adoption agencies. They said many women who have contacted them want to choose adoption over abortion – but they just don’t know where to go. https://www.lifenews.com/2019/10/25/couple-adopts-after-their-photo -urging-moms-not-to-have-abortion-went-viral/
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Issue No.195 December, 2019
Dianne Machesney, Editor 412-366-7869 A Monthly Publication of the
Neighbors North Pro-Life Committee
Court Rules Pittsburgh Can’t Stop Pro-Life People From Saving Babies Outside
Abortion Clinic
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled Friday, October 18, that Pittsburgh’s censorship zones ordinance can’t be used to muzzle the free speech of pro-life sidewalk counselors. Rather than strike down the ordinance, the court reinterpreted it so that it no longer applies to such counseling. In its latest opinion in Bruni v. City of Pittsburgh, the 3rd Circuit wrote, “the Ordinance, as properly interpreted, does not extend to sidewalk counseling—or any other calm and peaceful one-on-one conversations….” Under the ordinance, no one may “knowingly congregate, patrol, picket or demonstrate in a zone extending 15 feet from any entrance to the hospital or health care facility” that the city designates. Health care facilities broadly and vaguely include any “establishment providing therapeutic, preventative, corrective, healing and health-building treatment services on an out-patient basis by physicians, dentists and other practitioners.” Nonetheless, the 3rd Circuit said this language does not and cannot apply to pro-life sidewalk counselors. https://www.lifenews.com/2019/10/18/court-rules-pittsburgh-cant-stop-pro-life-people-from-saving-babies-outside-abortion-clinic/
Mother Teresa Sister Released After 15 Months in Prison Without Trial for Facilitating Adoption After fifteen months in jail, Sister Concelia Baxla, a Mother Teresa Sister from Jharkhand, India, has been released on bail. She used to work in one of the order’s many orphanages. Last year, she was arrested on
charges of human trafficking because one of the co-workers allegedly took money for facilitating an adoption. Those charges were subsequently dropped but Sr. Concelia remained imprisoned. While all others involved in the case were granted bail swiftly, Sr. Concelia’s appeal was rejected multiple times. “Nobody should be persecuted because of their faith. We are thankful that Sister Concelia has been granted bail after more than a year in prison pending trial. While others were released sooner, it seems that Sr. Concelia was punished for symbolic reasons due to her faith and her position as a member of the Missionaries of Charity,” said Tehmina Arora, Director of ADF India. Christians regularly become victims of systematic mob attacks in India with more than 200 incidents recorded so far this year. The attacks often take a similar shape and rarely receive any police attention. A mob will arrive at a prayer meeting or Christian gathering, shout abuse and harassment, and beat up those in attendance including women and children. Then, the pastors or priests are usually arrested by the police under false allegations of forced conversions. https://www.lifenews.com/2019/09/30/mother-teresa-sister-released-after-15-months-in-prison-without-trial-for-facilitating-adoption/
March for Life 2020 Theme: ‘Life Empowers, Pro-Life is Pro-Woman’
The March for Life Education and Defense Fund announced the theme for the 2020 March for Life, which takes place on Jan. 24. The theme is "Life Empowers, Pro-Life is Pro-Woman." March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said the upcoming march will seek to "evoke confidence rather than fear" about unplanned pregnancy and motherhood, and advocate for community support for unexpected pregnancies. The March for Life, which has occurred every year since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, involves tens of thousands of pro-life activists from all over the country who first listen to speakers on the National Mall and then march along Constitution Avenue, up Capitol Hill, and then rally in front of the Supreme Court. https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/kharen-martinez-murcia/march-life-2020-theme-life-empowers-pro-life-pro-woman
Virginia Couple Adopts After Their Photo Urging Moms Not to Have Abortion Went
Viral
We believe as Christians that we are called to love and care for orphans,” Sarah Thomas told Fox News recently. Soon after the post went viral, the Thomas’ agreed to adopt a child,
This child won’t be the first entering their family through adop on. “God has given us a heart for the fatherless and 3 years into our marriage we were convicted of our selfishness in wai ng for children and obeyed God’s calling to become foster parents,” Sarah Thomas said. The Thomas family – who have a 1-year-old biological son – have also adopted Kayden, 3, through foster care. They described him as a “blessing and such a joy.” The couple also has been very busy helping connect many pregnant women to local adoption agencies. They said many women who have contacted them want to choose adoption over abortion – but they just don’t know where to go. https://www.lifenews.com/2019/10/25/couple-adopts-after-their-photo-urging-moms-not-to-have-abortion-went-viral/
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PROJECT MUSTARD SEED
CLIF BAR
Operations: beverages (alcoholic: Clif Family Winery & Farm, nonalcoholic: Clif Shot, Hydration Electrolyte Drink, Recovery Protein Drink, Shot Energy Gel), foods
(cooking: olive oil, snacks: Blocks Energy Chews, Builder’s Bar, Clif C, Clif Kid, Crunch, Kit’s Organic, Luna Bar, Mojo Bar, ZBaR). Please write to: Mr. Gary Erickson Owner & Co-CEO Clif Bar & Company, Inc. 1451 66th Street Emeryville, CA 94608
www.clifbar.com Clif Bar has been on The Boycott List since 2005 and we last wrote to them in September 2015
Tell him to stop funding Planned Parenthood
Our Lady of LeLeche is Elevated to National Shrine by US
Bishops
Bishop Felipe Estévez of St. Augustine, Florida announced October 11 that the Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche has been elevated to a national shrine by the U.S. bishops’ conference. The shrine is located at the Nombre de Dios Mission in St. Augustine, founded in 1587. It is America’s oldest Marian shrine. It is dedicated to the nursing Mother of God and is a site of pilgrimage particularly for those hoping to become pregnant or to have a safe delivery. www.ncregister.com/daily-news/our-lady-of-la-leche-is-elevated-to-national-shrine-by-us-bishops?_
Administration shifts family planning funds from Planned Parenthood to other providers
The White House says it has reallocated $34 million in federal funds given up by Planned Parenthood and other providers that did not want to comply with new abortion restrictions on a federal family planning program. The money will instead go to 50 grantees that decided to remain in the Title X family planning grant program, which funds birth control and other reproductive health services for millions of low-income women and men. The Department of Health and Human Services said Monday reallocating the money would help fill “service gaps left by the grantees that chose to leave the Title X program rather than comply with the law.” The funding was awarded to grantees in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Pennsylvania, and other states. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/463725-trump-administration-reallocates-family-planning-funding-from-planned
PROPER BURIALS
The House has introduced a bill that would require burial or cremation of the remains of unborn children after abortions. The chief sponsor of the legislation is Rep. Jackie Walorski, representing South Bend, Indiana, the city where the late Ulrich Klopfer ran an abortion facility for decades. In September, police discovered the remains of 2,245 unborn children in Klopfer's house and another 165 in the trunk of his car. Unfortunately the bill is not expected to pass the Senate. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/south-bend-republican-introduces-fetal-burial-bill-following-discovery-that-abortion-doctor-hoarded-remains
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled 6-0 that a print shop owner does not have to print messages that violate his deeply-held religious beliefs. In 2012, Blaine Adamson politely declined a request to print shirts for the Lexington
Gay Pride Festival, and referred the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization to another printer willing to print the shirts. The GLSO filed a complaint against Adamson's business.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ky-supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-print-shop-owner-who-refused-to-print-messages-violating-his-beliefs
Major Media Coverage Normalizes Polyamory
CBSN, the digital streaming arm of CBS News, aired an hour-long special on “consensual non-monogamy” Sunday night. The network also lamented the “legal hurdles in non-monogamous relationships.” But CBS isn't an aberration. ABC News, The Daily Beast, and The New York Times have all recently promoted polyamory or openly non-monogamous relationships. The Times in August published a feature piece titled “Polyamory Works for Them,” describing monogamy as “a curious stalwart” and that more and more young people are rejecting its “blandness.” ABC News delved into actor Nico Tortorella’s polyamorous lifestyle in an Oct. 24 article that said the actor’s open marriage is “redefining what it means to be ‘husband and wife.’” https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/29/major-media-coverage-normalizes-polyamory/
Groups call for end to use of aborted fetal tissue in animal research
A collection of pro-life groups Oct. 22 called for an end to the use of aborted fetal tissue in animal research. Although the current administration banned the practice in June for federal research at the National Institutes of Health, the group White Coat Waste Project said research continues in 31 different states with research dates not expiring until 2023 or even later, with some projects having open-ended deadlines. Anthony Bellotti, president and founder of the White Coat Waste Project, said the trade in aborted fetal tissue supports a $100-million-a-year industry. “If you’re an animal lover, you’re opposed to this. If you’re pro-life or pro-choice, you’re opposed to this. If you’re Republican or Democrat, you’re opposed to this,” he added. http://catholicphilly.com/2019/10/news/national-news/groups-call-for-end-to-use-of-aborted-fetal-tissue-in-animal-research/?mc_cid=fde6efed0c&mc_eid=e63415b1b8
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