Isaiah 54:1-5 “Sing o barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband says the Lord… For you maker is your first husband…”

At a recent African American Summit hosted by Care-Net, UNPLANNED Author Abby Johnson answered some tough questions about artificial birth control methods and abortion. Abby talked about her own infertility due to side affects of chemical birth control methods, as well as her abortions.

Abortion is often used as a means of birth control, and is in fact the ultimate form of birth control, resulting in the violent death of a baby who is snatched from the sanctuary of his or her mother’s womb. Barren women suffer these events in painful secrecy until the day comes when they can be silent no more and break the bonds of pain. Once the silence is broken and the healing comes, then victory follows.

Like Abby, I have suffered side effects from chemical birth control methods and my abortions. Read about how this barren, bitter and broken woman became blessed to be silent no more at “how can the dream survive if we murder the children?”

Wow! My friend DB told me to go and see the movie THE GRACE CARD, a must see. He was so right! Wow! From the beginning throughout, it was poignant, compelling, telling, enlightening, soul stirring, and I haven’t told you yet how I really feel about the movie (smile).

I won’t give the plot away, because you really need to see the movie. I will mention that my Uncle M. L. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) was quoted in the movie. From childhood, I grew up knowing that there is only one race on the planet, the “human” race. By Dad, A. D. and Uncle M. L. taught about the “World House” where a “Beloved Community” lived together in agape lovea and peace. The World House is right there in THE GRACE CARD. Please go and see it.

Once again, Christian movie makers have proven that people will go to the theaters to see wholesome movies! FACING THE GIANTS, FIREPROOF, and now GRACE CARD are the most recent on the list of must sees. Coming next is COURAGEOUS, make sure you see that too. Also, there are so many more, including those that are addressing the life issue.

Support these movies. Take your friends and family and your church and the whole neighborhood.

The Gainesville Care Center in Gainesville, GA is holding a fundraiser dinner on March 17, 2011 at 6:45 PM at the First Baptist Church Banquet Hall. So why am I bringing this up? Well, it’s because of the Keynote speaker, Kelly Wright.

Kelly Wright is the co-anchor of Fox News Channel’s “FOX and Friends Weekend.” And why is this such exciting news that I should be blogging about it? It’s important because of his testimony, his pro-life testimony, his testimony of his mother’s choice to choose life over abortion, even though he was conceived through rape.

Just the other night on Defending Life, a young woman gave her testimony of her struggle to find her natural mother after having been put up for adoption. When she found her biological mother, she found out that she was the product of a rape and that her mother did want to abort her but abortion was illegal at the time in her state. Now that their relationship has grown, the mother is now pro-life and is glad she did not have an abortion.

Both Kelly and the woman from the show now share their testimonies to tell the world that even though they were conceived in rape, their lives do matter.

Both of these cases illustrate that every human life, no matter how they were conceived, is precious and a gift from God.

There are many who feel that abortion is wrong but should be allowed in certain cases, incest and rape being two of them. But I say to you that the women have already been victims of one crime (incest or rape) that to further make them victims of another crime (although maybe not legally, certainly morally) would subject them to further pain and complications, as abortion is linked to many different complications.

Click on the links to read more on the subject and to read a testimony.

As our nation pauses to recommit itself to fulfilling the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we invite our fellow citizens to reflect on how that dream touches every human life. Dr. King taught that justice and equality need to be as wide-reaching as humanity itself. Nobody can be excluded from the Beloved Community. He taught that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

In his 1967 Christmas sermon, he pointed out the foundation of this vision:
“The next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. …Man is a child of God, made in His image, and therefore must be respected as such….And when we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won’t exploit people, we won’t trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won’t kill anybody.”

The work of building the Beloved Community is far from finished. In each age, it calls us to fight against poverty, discrimination, and violence in every form. And as human history unfolds, the forms that discrimination and violence take will evolve and change. Yet our commitment to overcome them must not change, and we must not shrink from the work of justice, no matter how unpopular it may become.

In our day, therefore, we cannot ignore the discrimination, injustice, and violence that are being inflicted on the youngest and smallest members of the human family, the children in the womb. Thousands of these children are killed every day in America by abortion, throughout all nine months of pregnancy.

We declare today that these children too are members of the Beloved Community, that our destiny is linked with theirs, and that therefore they deserve justice, equality, and protection.

And we can pursue that goal, no matter what ethnic, religious, or political affiliation we have. None of that has to change in order for us to embrace Dr. King’s affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. It simply means that in our efforts to set free the oppressed, we include the children in the womb.

We invite all people of good will to join us in the affirmation that children in the womb have equal rights and human dignity.

Dr. Alveda King
Director, African-American Outreach, Priests for Life
Niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mrs. Naomi Barber King
Wife of the late Rev. A.D. King (brother of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Rev. Derek King
Pastor
Indianapolis, Indiana
Nephew of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life

Priests for Life

Thursday, January 13, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Daniel Matejek
888-735-3448, ext. 251

STATEN ISLAND, NY – Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, will be the keynote speaker at Friday’s March for Life in Charlotte.

“The commitment of the Charlotte community to end abortion should serve as an example to the rest of the country,” said Father Pavone, who also will take part in this year’s Walk for Life in San Francisco on Jan. 22 and the March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24.

“In Charlotte, we will march despite the fact that some people tell us it’s none of our business. We will march because we know what our business is. Ours is the business of love. Ours is the business of justice. We can’t turn in the other direction and pretend that protecting the unborn is none of our business.”

The March will be preceded by a mass at 9 a.m. at St. Peter’s Church. The March itself will begin at noon at the corner of West Palmer and Church streets. For information, go to www.marchforlifecharlotte.org .

Since he took over as national director in 1993, Father Pavone has transformed Priests for Life into an internationally recognized organization that fights for the rights of unborn children, and of their mothers and fathers, and has become a family of ministries serving the Church worldwide. Priests for Life is the largest ministry in the Catholic Church working to end abortion and euthanasia.

Priests for Life empowers priests, seminarians, deacons and lay leaders to become more effective champions of life. Priests for Life also operates the world’s largest ministry for healing after abortion –Rachel’s’ Vineyard. In partnership with Anglicans for Life, Priests for Life also coordinates the worldwide Silent No More Awareness Campaign, whereby those who have been healed give public witness about how abortion hurt them.

Through its African-American Outreach and this year’s Freedom Rides for the Unborn, Priests for Life has helped light a fire in a community that is being decimated by abortion. Its Hispanic outreach is making dramatic inroads into the Latin American communities both in the United States and abroad. Priests for Life has a presence, and a voice, at the United Nations and throughout the world. Its newest satellite is in Vienna, Austria.

For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

Dear Friends !

Chris Slattery stood in the doorway between our past and our present and he opened the door to our future in our pro life movement.

Rev. Arnold Culbreath’s comment about the 3rd Wave of the pro life movement being composed of black and hispanic sidewalk counselor;
Fr. Richard Gill describing being on Bleecker St, in the village where 80% of the people there for abortion were black and hispanic and 100% of the deathscorts were white. He noted of the 4.3 million babied killed in NYC, 3.5 million were black and hispanic. He said, “Why is it PPFA targets black and hispanic… 100 years after the civil war ended.
Then he said, if we wanted an economic stimulus package, half the kids killed by abortion could be earning a living and paying taxes….

From Pastor Michael Faulkner from the New Horizon Church in Harlem, who set a our spiritual gears in motion in his opening prayers to Pastor Bill Devlin’s spontaneous response to prayer in praying for the elevation of Bishop Roderick Caesar. Sr Pastor of Bethel Gospel Tabernacle, to provide leadership for the organization and implementation of the 3rd Wave’s arrival as pro life activists on the streets, our Lord provided us great insight into God’s mighty grace being shed upon a down trodden people.

This sweet land of liberty is singing, Ray, from every mountainside, and, Ray, we heard and we saw and we embraced these vessels of God’s love and mercy.

For, Dr. Alveda King declarations “Human Life is a Civil Right” and “Abortion is a Civil Wrong” and “Abortion will end where it began…. in NYC” and her transcendent presence revealing God’s love and faith for a downtrodden people moved us and provide the spark of Christ’s own love deep in hearts of New Yorkers.

Holy God, Immortal God, Mighty God, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Ray, we see each other in the movement in the years ahead. God’s mighty grace has been shined upon a downtrodden people and they have been raised up to sing of His glory and write a new chapter in our salvation story!

Video of press conference regarding New York City abortion statistics.

Friends, please have a blessed weekend. There are quite a few weather reports, but the good news is always God is in charge! In just a few days, we will celebrate National March for Life Week and my uncle’s birthday. When remembering
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. remember that he loves Jesus and Jesus loves us. I wish that you will all do something blessed for someone this weekend, in fact, let’s make that a prayer. More to blog next week. Peace.