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October 15, 2018

 

Did the Gosnell Movie Shock You?

For those who attended the movie Gosnell: The Trial of Americas Biggest Serial Killer over the weekend, you can now hear the inside scoop about the movie from its co-producer Ann McElhinney herself at the 2018 Celebrate Life Banquet on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 6:00 PM at the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg,1150 Camp Hill Bypass, Camp Hill. Come hear about the creation of the film, and the efforts from the film industry and main stream media to prevent the story from being told!

Click here  to make your reservations before it sells out.

Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation

Executive Director Michael Ciccocioppo

and L.E.A.R.N. Assistant Director the Rev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr. at the Say So March to Philadelphia City Hall, October 7, 2018.

By Michael Ciccocioppo

Executive Director

Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation

[email protected]

It was another incredible march down Broad Street to Philadelphia City Hall on Sunday, October 7, 2018. I joined pro-life African-Americans of all ages, from children to seasoned citizens, to peacefully walk in solidarity as a visible public witness to the plight of preborn Black babies in the City of Brotherly Love, and across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the nation.

The clouds in the sky were a reminder that abortionists and their collaborators in the city of Philadelphia commit half of all the abortions in the entire state of Pennsylvania. They also reminded us that abortionists in the Keystone State perpetrate 42 percent of all their abortions on Black mothers, disproportionately creating a Black genocide in a state where African-American women only comprise eleven percent of all the women in the state.

These literal and figurative clouds did not create a sense of despondency among the marchers, 99 percent of whom were Black. Instead, we marched with a determination that we would expose the truth about the Black Genocide to people on this day who probably never knew about Margaret Sanger’s “ Negro Project ” in the early part of the last century. This was an endeavor by Sanger, the founder of what has become the largest abortion operation in Pennsylvania, the nation and the world. The objective of the program was to restrict, and many believe, to exterminate the Black population.

Citizens of Philadelphia, visitors and tourists on the streets and sidewalks learned about the Black Genocide from the signs the marchers carried, our chants and slogans. A favorite was the one where someone in the March yells, “If you love the babies,” and without skipping a beat everyone shouts together, “say so!”

Speeches and prayers were offered during the pro-life rally at City Hall. Speakers offered prayers for the mayor and city council that hopefully pricked their consciences about the actual destruction of so many innocent preborn babies in their city—especially preborn Black babies. Perhaps they might begin to comprehend the devastating effects that each abortion has on the family it visits. And maybe they will realize that when you teach young people that it is okay to kill helpless babies in their mother’s wombs, what they learn is that it is okay to kill each other on your city streets.

The Say So March began in Washington D.C. two decades ago, launched by the Life Education And Resource Network (L.E.A.R.N.). Under the leadership of the organization’s Assistant Director, the Reverend Clenard H. Childress, Jr., there have been annual Say So Marches in Newark, NJ, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. every autumn. Pastor Childress partners with local Black clergy to organize the Marches. In Philadelphia, the Rev. Dr. Herbert H. Lusk II offers his Greater Exodus Baptist Church for a pre-march worship service and a starting point for the Say So March.

Pastor Childress has done so much to bring the Black Genocide to light in Pennsylvania that the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, the state affiliate of National Right to Life, will honor him with the 2018 Pennsylvania Pro-Life Lifetime Achievement Award in Harrisburg on Thursday, October 18, 2018. We are so grateful for all he does to speak the truth about abortion and to expose the Black Genocide. Click here to learn more.

Attention Residents of Tioga, Eastern Potter and Western Bradford Counties

State Representative Clint Owlett, a Republican from Liberty, was elected to fill the unexpired term of pro-life lawmaker Matt Baker in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Owlett has a pro-life position and has been active in efforts to stop the expansion of abortion in Pennsylvania. Owlett also opposes the legalization of doctor-prescribed suicide in PA.

SPECIAL EVENTS

The Order of Malta, Lancaster Region will be making a special presentation-- Death on Demand: Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide. It will be held Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 7:00 PM at the Eden Resort and Conference Center: 222 Eden Road, Lancaster, 17601. It will feature Rev. Tad Pacholczyk, a bioethicist from the National Catholic Bioethics Center and Mr. Wesley Smith, an internationally recognized author, commentator, and legal consultant to the Patients' Rights Council. Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Executive Director Michael Ciccocioppo will give an update on the work of the Pennsylvania Coalition to Stop Doctor-prescribed suicide. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited, so register today at https://maltaevents.ticketleap.com/ptb/.

The Respect Life Committee of St. Anne Parish in Pittsburgh will be hosting Executive Director Michael Ciccocioppo for a talk on "The Humanity of the Preborn Child and the Diabolical Plan to Destroy Her" Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 7:30 PM in the St. Anne Parish Harkin's Hall, 400 Hoodridge Drive Castle Shannon, PA 15234. Everyone is invited.

Annual Pro-Life Prayer Breakfast: October 27, 2018 from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.--Citizens Concerned for Human Life of Cambria/Somerset will be holding their annual prayer breakfast at the Immaculate Conception Church Hall in New Germany PA. Guest speaker will be Mary Forr. Suggested donation for breakfast and speaker is $10. Please call to register in advance, 814-472-8584. 

Life Chain: October 28, 2018 at 1:00 P.M. Citizens Concerned for Human Life of Mifflin-Juniata will be holding a life chain at the old Courthouse ( (1 West Market Street, Lewistown) steps in Lewistown. There will be prayer, music, and a speaker from Crossroads Pregnancy Center. Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Education Director Matthew Wagner will be among those speaking. For more information, contact Mary Smith at 717-994-1941.

34 ^th  Annual Respect Life Banquet:   November 5, 2018 at 6:00 P.M.—Everyone is invited to this banquet hosted by Pennsylvanians for Human Life (PHL), the Wyoming Valley Chapter, at Genetti's Best Western, 77 East Market St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. David Bereit, co-founder of 40 Days for Life, will be the keynote speaker. Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Executive Director Michael Ciccocioppo will also present an update on the right to life movement in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For reservations, please mail $35 to: PHL, 31 Hanover Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702 (please include your phone number).

For more pro-life events in your area,  click here . For a complete list of chapters,  click here .

Live in Southeast PA? Contact SE Regional Coordinator Carla Ezell to find out more about joining a chapter in Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware, or Philadelphia County. You can reach Carla by e-mail at  [email protected] .

If you live in another part of the state and you'd like to get involved in a local chapter, contact Executive Director Michael Ciccocioppo at  [email protected]  or by phone at 717-541-0034.