We are all familiar with the power of ultrasound images have to save lives.

Now we have a tool far more powerful than ultrasound. It is called embryoscopy. Though rarely used, this procedure has yielded powerful video footage of the unborn child. A tiny camera is placed up against the amniotic sac to yield full color video of the child from about four to twelve weeks old.

A video containing this footage has been made which has such strong medical, secular credentials that it has won eleven awards and been endorsed by National Geographic. Now Priests for Life is distributing this video within the pro-life community and seeks to get it into all the churches, pregnancy centers, and schools across America. Find out more at priestsforlife.org.

–Fr. Frank

Both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ran key stories recently about abortion in the African American community. They mentioned a billboard campaign arising out of Georgia that asserts that Black babies are an endangered species, because abortion is killing them at a disproportionate level. This is a verifiable fact, because while African Americans comprise about 13 per cent of the population, over a third of the abortions are performed on African American women.

The work of Dr Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life, and the studies outlined in a video called Maafa 21 show beyond a doubt the connections between the abortion industry and a deliberate eugenic effort to rid society of blacks. The black community is awakening to this tragedy, and getting more involved in the pro-life movement.

–Fr. Frank

Lent teaches us the meaning of love. Jesus endures his passion and crucifixion for each of us, giving himself away that we might have life.

Abortion, on the other hand, is the opposite of love, because it takes life.
Love says, “I sacrifice myself for the good of the other person.”
Abortion says, “I sacrifice the other person for the good of myself.”

Strangely, the same words are used in both cases. Supporters of abortion say, “This is my body, I can do what I want.” Jesus says, “This is my body, given up for you.” The same words are spoken from opposite ends of the universe, with totally opposite results. Let us resolve to live those words as Jesus did, giving ourselves away for the good of others, born and unborn.

–Fr. Frank

In John’s Gospel, we read the story of the man born blind. He receives his sight, and then gets the spiritual eyesight to know that Jesus is Lord. The Pharisees, instead, insist on remaining blind about Jesus, even though the evidence of his power is staring them in the face.

So it is today with those who support abortion. In spite of clear and present evidence about who this child is, and how violent abortion is, some refuse to see. That is why, along with presenting the evidence, we pray that they may have open hearts to receive that evidence.

The same openness of heart that enables one to believe in Jesus enables one to welcome the truth about the unborn child. But if we miss who the child is, we’ve really missed Jesus too.

–Fr. Frank

In chapter four of John’s Gospel, Jesus tells the Samaritan woman at the well that he will give her water which will become an eternal spring of life within her. He urges her, in fact, to ask for it, and then shows her that the gift of life also requires a way of life marked by repenting of all that is evil.

This passage again affirms that Jesus is Life, and that all the efforts of his ministry and the ministry of the Church are about giving life. It also affirms that proclaiming life and proclaiming repentance go hand in hand. As we invite the world to the eternal life of Jesus, let’s not be afraid to challenge the world to repent of all those actions that destroy life, starting with abortion.

–Fr. Frank

Lent is a time to pray for the catechumens of the Church, that is, those who are preparing to be baptized at Easter. They are preparing to accept the life of the Risen Christ into their souls and bodies. They are preparing to leave their sins in the tomb and rise to newness of life.
When they are baptized at the Easter vigil, the rest of us will renew the vows of our baptism. In these vows, we reject the empty promises of the devil.

One of those empty promises is abortion.

How easily people are deceived that the choice of death somehow solves a problem. Even more deceptive is the idea that another person’s abortion, though wrong, is none of our business. But whenever someone’s choice destroys someone else’s life, that’s everyone’s business. Let’s renew our resolve to speak up for the children.

–Fr. Frank

A growing number of states have introduced bills or ballot measures declaring the unborn child to be a person. In some places, there is strong support for these measures both in the legislature and among the people. Declaring personhood for the unborn is, of course, an ultimate goal for the pro-life movement. After all, the unborn are in fact persons, and that fact must be recognized. The Roe v. Wade decision recognized that if the unborn are persons, the case for legal abortion collapses.

Many will think that the political climate does not make passage of these measures realistic. They are entitled to their opinion and can make their case. But at the same time, nobody should try to stop a movement of conscience to protect the most basic right that we all have.

–Fr. Frank

In many states, abortionists come in from a different state in order to perform the procedure. One of the ways to reduce or eliminate abortion in a state, therefore, is for the legislature to pass a law that says that abortions done in that state must be done by a doctor who resides within the state. Let’s make it as difficult as possible for them to do business.

The fact that so many have to travel across state lines is, of course, a good sign. It shows a turn off in the medical community to doing this procedure. Whatever doctors may think about abortions, their view of abortionists is uniformly negative. Long live the stigma! It is a stigma that the pro-choice propaganda machine has never been able to erase.

–Fr. Frank