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Dear Friends,
The mission of the Westchester-Putnam Right to Life Committee is to promote the common good and general welfare of the people of Westchester and Putnam through the advancement of reverence for human life by:
• Reaffirming the principle that all human beings are created equal and are endowed at creation with certain fundamental rights, among which is the right to life;
• Advocating the right to life of dependent and helpless human beings including the unborn child;
• Promoting civic, political and social reforms designed to ensure both the right to life and human dignity of dependent and helpless human beings;
• To engage in all lawful activities in furtherance of such purposes.
We typically meet the first Saturday of each month at 10am in the rectory basement of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church. For more information, please contact Gerald Yeung at (914) 837-7008.
On Saturday, September 12, 2020, pro-life Americans throughout the country gathered at the gravesites of aborted babies and other memorial sites dedicated in their honor for the seventh annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children.Solemn vigils were held at these sites to commemorate the more than 60 million children who have lost their lives to legal abortion since 1973, and to remind our society of the humanity of the unborn child. One of these memorial services was held locally at the Guardian Angels plot of Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne.
The ceremony consisted of prayers, hymns, Scripture readings and reflection, a testimonial by Theresa Bonopartis (founder of the post-abortion healing ministry known as Lumina), and a gravesite blessing.
38 participants gathered to remember the victims of abortion and to pray for a final end to this injustice in our land.
A big thank you to the 30+ hardy pro-lifers who braved the cold this morning for our fantastic kickoff rally!! Your energy and passion was so heartwarming!! We heard how 40 Days for Life is working to re-sensitize our society to the horrors of abortion, the pre-eminent social justice issue of our time, and win hearts and minds on the sidewalk. We heard beautiful testimonies of conversions and babies saved. You can view pictures and footage of the event on our Facebook page:
The campaign begins this Wednesday, February 26, and lasts through Sunday, April 5. You can participate first and foremost through prayer and fasting, as the battle against death and destruction is primarily a spiritual one. We would like to have a peaceful prayer presence on the sidewalk in front of the White Plains Planned Parenthood (175 Tarrytown Road) each day of the campaign from 7am to 7pm. Please sign up at 40daysforlife.com/white-plains or by contacting Elizabeth Lambert, our Vigil Coordinator, at (914) 826-3219 or elizabethlambert50@gmail.com.Remember: Planned Parenthood themselves tell us that a single volunteer praying on the sidewalk can cause abortion appointment cancellation rates to increase up to 75%!! You can save a life just by being there.By God's grace, we look forward to another life-saving 40 Days campaign. May God bless you all, especially during these 40 Days for Life and 40 days of Lent.Yours for life,Gerald, Elizabeth, Lucy, Liz, Sarah and Génesis40 Days for Life White Plains Leadership Team
Dear Friends,I hope you all had a chance to participate in this year's historic March for Life in some way. The Westchester-Putnam Right to Life Committee sponsored a bus from Port Chester to the 47th March for Life and many of our Parishioners participated. We arrived early to join Cardinal Timothy Dolan and other pilgrims from New York for Holy Mass at St. Patrick’s Church in Washington DC. The weather was again mild this year and the turnout was perhaps the biggest ever.
The pro-lifers gathered all got a tremendous shot in the arm when President Donald J. Trump attended the March for Life in person, the first sitting US President ever to do so, and addressed the wildly enthusiastic and appreciative crowd. His appearance meant so much to the pro-life movement and gave us real hope that Roe vs. Wade will be overturned one day soon, especially in light of the way President Trump has transformed the federal judiciary in three short years.
"Life Empowers: Pro-Life is Pro-Woman" was the theme of this year’s March for Life, in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment of the Constitution which guarantees women the right to vote. “Courageous suffragists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who fought for women’s right to vote, also opposed abortion. Pro-lifers should be inspired by the early suffragists who understood the true dignity of women, and that every person, born and unborn, deserves equal rights and protections under the law,” said Jeanne Mancini, President of the March for Life. “The success of the suffragists in achieving a guaranteed right to vote for women gives us hope that one day all persons, born and unborn, will be guaranteed the right to life.”
As we look ahead, I’d like to remind you about 40 Days for Life White Plains, which consists of 40 consecutive days of prayer and peaceful vigil at the Planned Parenthood Center in White Plains (Greenburgh); the campaign starts on Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2020. We also plan to send buses to the International Gift of Life Walk in New York City on March 25 and the March for Life New York in Albany on May 18 respectively. Please contact me at (914) 837-7008 or broger8@gmail.com if you would like to help with any of these events or need more information.
Yours for life,
Gerald
Gerald Yeung
Westchester-Putnam Right to Life Committee