Hey Guys,
I'm thrilled to announce a new part of my blog. I'm going to be vlogging once a week to discuss news that challenges our faith and morals today. If you have something you would like to hear talked about feel free Tweet me or post on my Facebook wall.
Link to the video if it isnt' working for you.
P.S. dont' worry I won't be holding a pen next time that clicks. I just realized how annoying this habit is lol.
For the dignity of the Born and Unborn,
Timmerie
Last year, 16 year old, Alyssa Marie contacted me via Facebook asking for help! She was seeking information to show her friends about how unhealthy it is to be taking the pill. She was really worried about her friends and wanted to help as her Catholic faith compels her to do so. I worked with her to show her friends scientific information about severe health risks in taking the pill.
A couple months later I was coordinating with youth groups at Walk for Life in San Francisco and this sweet and strong girl came up and introduced herself! I met Alyssa’s parents and they shared how proud they were of her for being so strong in her faith and pro-life position (and at such a young age). Then they told me their story which Alyssa has now written just for this blog:
My parents got married in 1992 and two years later they were soon to be expecting a baby. At a check-up, my parents went to see the genetics doctor to see if the pregnancy would go along smoothly. The genetics doctor tested their blood and noticed that they both had a rare blood disorder that could affect the baby. It was called Alpha Thalassemia.
Across the world today there are a number of prominent people who are sacrificing all they have for what they believe is right. Just two examples are Chen Guangcheng and Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani.
Chen Guangcheng has been all over the news over the last few weeks since his escape from nearly two years of house arrest that immediately followed serving four years in prison. All for exposing violent forced abortion and forced sterilization in China under the One Child Policy. (Read more about Chen)
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is facing death sentence for his Christian faith and because he will not accept Islam as his religion. (Read more about Pastor Youcef)
The Unites States has the ability to remove Chen from China along with family and friends, but they’re holding out. The U.S. also has the ability for our Senate to demand the release of Pastor Youcef, yet we haven’t. Yes, the situations are more complicated than that, but we’re talking about the life and death of human beings.
You and I have the ability to write and call to congress imploring them to stand for human rights and what is right. Through phone calls, emails, and social media we can not only do something ourselves; we can encourage others to do the same.
Pastor Youcef and Chen are giving up their freedom to defend and stand for what they know is right. They’re loving their God and His people more than themselves. All we have to do is spend a few minutes to help them out.
Shall we help or shall we be silent? It baffles me that there will be people that will turn their backs and walk away when it only takes a couple minutes. These men along with many others across the world will be martyrs if we don’t do something.
For the Dignity of the Born and Unborn,
Timmerie
Chen Guangcheng, blind opponent of forced abortion and sterilization, escaped 19 month house arrest by Chinese official on April 22. Many of you already know about Cheng as he has been all over the news the last days, and some of people have been following this heroic man’s story other the years.
Brief Background: Chen Guangcheng was sentenced to four years in prison after having exposed China’s ‘family planning’ work of forced abortions and non-voluntary sterilizations. Chen exposed that over 130,000 FORCED abortions and sterilizations took place in Linyi County in 2005 alone (this is just ONE county in all of China) and he shared how men and women were brutally treated to accomplish ‘family planning’. Chen served four years in prison, was released in 2010 and subsequently placed under house arrest with his family. Since then, Chen and his family have been victims of extreme torture, isolation, while medical attention has been withheld (read about some of the horrific torture).
Chen’s home was surrounded by 22 guards at all times and the village was sealed by even more guards. Chen had no communication with the outside world and he and his family were severely wounded from torture by Chinese officials. Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, who has worked closely with helping Chen and his family the last couple of years, shared a little of Chen’s escape. A young woman named He Peirong, who has headed up the movement to free Chen in China, assisted Chen in his escape.
This video of Gloria Purvis speaking shows the HHS Mandate of contraception, sterilization, and abortion inducing drugs from a woman's perspective and points out how demeaning the mandate is to a woman's dignity.
The video has fantastic points that should be discussed and emphasiszed when addressing the HHS Mandate. Please comment sharing what stood out to your or whatever your thoughts might be.
Let's talk! Please share your thoughts.
For the Dignity of the Born and Unborn,
Timmerie
Yesterday the Senate Public Safety Committee passed SB 1338 which would allow for non-doctors (i.e. midwives, nurses, and physician assistants) to perform abortions (read more here). The bill was passed by majority with Democrat party approval and Republicans voting no.
Thursday April 26, the Senate Business and Professions Committee will vote to move forward this legislation. If passed out of the Senate and made law this would be a mass expansion of abortion in California. This bill would not only open the door for the taking of many more innocent lives, but would put women at risk by not having a doctor on location in places like Planned Parenthood clinics.
This bill does not have the unborn nor women’s safety in mind. We must take immediate action to save the voiceless and protect women. The following steps will only take a few minutes.
Action: Contact Senate Business and Professions Committee Members and ask:
“Please vote no on SB 1338. Women deserve better than relegating their medical care to subordinate health care workers.”
3:30 p.m. Update - NARAL is clogging Senate phone with repreat callers. Please sign email petition to stop non-doctors frm performing abortion http://ht.ly/awk63 repost!
4:00 p.m. Update - There are two Catholics currently sitting on the Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee, which is scheduled to hear Senate Bill 1338. As Roman Catholics, these two committee members are called to respect the dignity of every human life from conception to natural death. Please call or email Juan Vargas and Gloria Negrete McLeod to let them know that both as California Citizens and as fellow Catholics you oppose SB 1338 and are asking them to do the same. Please use the following message:
"As California Citizens and as fellow Catholic, I oppose SB 1338 and are asking you do do the same. Please vote no on SB 1338. Women deserve better than relegating their medical care to subordinate health care workers."
For the Dignity of the Born and Unborn,
Timmerie
We will not be good men who do nothing.
My cousin recently had a baby and this was on the back of her midwives’ jacket.
Tuesday the California Senate’s Economic Development Committee intends to vote on SB 1338 which, if passed, would allow midwives, nurses, and physician assistants to perform first trimester abortions.
Midwives who help bring life into the world would be the same women who could keep a child from taking its first breath.
The California legislature has been attempting to legalize non-doctor, midlevel practitioners’ ability to perform abortions for many years. If SB 1338 were legalized this would create a mass abortion expansion that would allow abortions to be performed in places that otherwise did not have an abortionist available for the procedure. Planned Parenthood, other abortion clinics, and many more hospitals would be able to further put women at risk by exposing them to the risky surgical procedure without the supervision of a doctor.
After years of performing abortions All Woman New Woman abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama has closed. The closure of this clinic has been a long battle for the pro-life movement in Birmingham including years of perseverance in the face of battling rights to stand on the public sidewalk in front of the abortion clinic. Last week the clinic closed after two more women this year were rushed to the emergency room due to unsafe procedures that violated health codes.
Last year I flew to Birmingham and participated in a series of prayer vigils in front of All Woman New Woman to help re-establish sidewalk counseling and witness in front of the clinic. For seventeen years, pro-lifers were scared away from having a presence on the clinic sidewalk due to a federal court injunction which prohibited four peaceful sidewalk counselors/prayer warriors from standing in front of the clinic.
A few weeks ago in mass, after reading the most atrocious ad published in the New York Times It’s Time to Quit the Catholic Church to us during a homily, Father Charles (a Norbertine priest) said that a bishop told him a few years ago something along the lines of ‘I will die peacefully in bed. My successor will die in prison. And his successor will die a martyr.’
While some people may believe this is an exaggeration, I do believe now is a time when people of faith will have to make the decision between apathy and truth, and the truth will not be an easy thing to stand for. I could make a list of severe threats and attacks of our faith, but I will not drag this on that long.
Friday March 23 at noon, thousands of people gathered at over 140 locations across the country for the Stand Up for Religious Freedom rallies in opposition to the HHS mandate. I took in the beautiful ocean view as we were about to start our rally in San Diego. Once the rally began, I delivered the invocation prayer and then shared how this threat on religious liberty will affect the future generations if we do not take action. A number of energetic and inspirational speakers, including our new coadjutor Bishop Flores, rallied over 2,000 attendees. Read more
