Atlanta, GA – Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., commented today on a new Guttmacher Institute study that shows that in states where Medicaid pays for abortions, more poor women have abortions.

“The Guttmacher report is really just another study that confirms the obvious – subsidized abortion means more abortions,” said Dr. King. “My medical insurance paid for my ‘legal abortion’ in 1973. My ‘free’ abortion, in turn, made it all too easy for me to be an unsuspecting victim of population control.”

“The President says that he wants fewer abortions yet he’s now trying to compel the public to pay for abortions in the District of Columbia,” added Dr. King. “Killing babies and hurting women will not strengthen our communities. I explain this situation in the new film available at MAAFA21.com.”

“If President Obama and Congress want to help women, please let them hear from women like myself who have suffered pain and grief from ‘free’ abortions,” said Dr. King. “Congress needs to reverse the President’s proposal for DC abortion funding and do it now. Babies’ lives and women’s health are at stake.”

The Michigan Attorney General recently imposed a fine on one of the state’s abortionists, due to the death of a woman who went to him for the procedure. The abortion clinic staff failed to call for an ambulance when the patient experienced complications, and she was deprived of oxygen for an extended time. The abortionist did not contest the fine. The complaint found the abortionist guilty of “negligence,” “incompetence,” and lacking in “good moral character.” Lacking in good moral character? What a surprise! If your conscience is so seared that you think it’s right to kill a baby with your own hands, then failing to call an ambulance is not hard to do. Women are still being killed by botched abortions, except it’s not in the back alleys – it’s in the legal clinics.

–Fr. Frank

Judges are not supposed to be politicians - their personal views on policy shouldn’t matter, because they are put on the bench to judge impartially according to the Constitution and the laws. They are not supposed to create public policy, and therefore their positions on issues shouldn’t matter.

Yet abortion is more than an issue. The protection of life is the very purpose of judges, courts, and governments. Part of being qualified as a judge, therefore, is to embrace that purpose, and to understand that the right to life is exactly what our Declaration of Independence says it is - unalienable.

Some 82 percent of Americans don’t want a Supreme Court Justice who would support late-term abortion . That does not just reflect their views on abortion. It reflects their views on what being a Justice means.

–Fr. Frank

The Christian Faith advances through testimony. Jesus gives testimony to the Father; the apostles give testimony to the Resurrection; Paul gives testimony to his conversion; Augustine gives testimony in his Confessions; you and I give and receive the testimony of how Jesus changes the lives he enters. That is why the Silent No More Awareness Campaign is so powerful and necessary. Men and women wounded by abortion and then healed are speaking out about the lie of abortion and the power of Jesus. They are giving testimony to why life must be protected. The power of their testimony is calling many to repentance and healing. If you feel called to give a testimony about your abortion, or know someone else who does, contact us at priestsforlife.org.

–Fr. Frank

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Date: July 6, 2009
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Staten Island, NY - Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, today urged the House Appropriations Committee to approve an amendment to the Financial Services Appropriations Bill that would continue the restriction on taxpayer funding of abortions in the District of Columbia.

“Forcing taxpayers to fund abortions is wrong anytime; to do it in the midst of a budget crisis is inconceivable,” said Fr. Pavone. “Passing Congressmen Tiahrt and Davis’s rider to restore the Dornan Amendment will bring much needed sanity to the appropriations process and save over 1,000 lives a year.”

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Staten Island, NY - Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, issued the following comment in response to the Ohio Supreme Court’s refusal to make redacted medical records available in a case of alleged failure to report child abuse.

“It’s hypocritical for the Ohio Supreme Court to be concerned about the privacy of girls receiving abortions at Planned Parenthood when, by keeping the redacted, anonymous records secret, it is in fact protecting the privacy of older men who abuse underage teens. The Court, by its decision, is enabling and perpetuating injustice.”

Our Priests for Life headquarters is within easy driving distance of the Statue of Liberty in New York. This statue is a strong symbol of the welcome our nation has given to people from around the world. Fittingly, engraved on the base of this monumental statue are the words from Emma Lazarus’s poem, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

As we prepare for the celebration of Independence Day, let’s remind ourselves and others that this welcome can make no sense if we are afraid to welcome the children in the womb. America is a haven for those escaping oppression in far-off lands. Why should it be land where we oppress the unborn by the violence of abortion?

-Fr. Frank

As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day, we should reflect on what our Founding Fathers did when they established this nation. Their concept of liberty was rooted in dependence upon God. The Founders held that it is only when God is seen as the source of our right to life can that right be secure from tyrranical governments who would threaten it. That is why the Declaration of Independence says that the right to life is bestowed by the Creator, and that governments exist to secure that right.

Can anything be more American than to work to restore this foundation of our government, and to secure the right to life? Let us be fearless and unashamed to say we are pro-life, and to teach others that our American independence demands it.

–Fr. Frank

The Year of the Priest has begun, and Priests for Life is preparing a massive spiritual bouquet for the priests of the nation. Please visit priestsforlife.org to offer your prayers, rosaries, holy hours, chaplets, masses and sacrifices for priests. We will put this spiritual bouquet together and present it to all the priests in the Fall. We also invite you to tell us about some of your favorite priest stories, and how priests have blessed your life. Visit priests for life dot org and join our spiritual bouquet for priests. In particular, let’s pray that they may have courage to teach and preach about abortion with clarity, compassion, and effectiveness. When a priest does this, thousands of people will be mobilized for the cause of life.

–Fr. Frank

On June 29 the Church honors the apostles Peter and Paul. We pray that we will be faithful to the teaching and grace handed down from the apostles. At the heart of that faith “that comes to us from the apostles” is the teaching on the sanctity of life. The fact that God cares for human life is the basis of all he does for us; the fact that he has entrusted us to the care of each other is the basis for all we do for each other.

Peter and Paul had relied on the Lord to sustain them in many battles. That true of the Church throughout the ages. Yet “the gates of hell will not prevail.” These words apply well to the battles to defend a culture of life against a culture of death.

–Fr. Frank