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Erie Echo Newsletter: May Issue Online

The May issue of the Erie Echo, our traditional print newsletter, is available online. Please have a look! The newsletter will also be in the mail by April 13.

This issue contains information about candidates running in the upcoming Pennsylvania primary election on May 19 as well as information about a number of upcoming local pro-life events including: Erie March for Life on May 2, Pennsylvania March for Life Bus Trip on September 21, Life Run 5K/10K & Fun Walk on October 10, and the People for Life Education Fun Fall Dinner on October 23. There is even some preliminary information about our road trip to the next Washington, DC March for Life on January 22, 2027.

Newsletter Mailing Volunteers

There will be plenty of work for newsletter mailing volunteers next weekend. In case you would like to give us a hand, here is the work schedule.

Friday, April 10 - 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday, April 11 - 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday, April 12 - 11 a.m. to (at the latest) 7 p.m.

If you have a few hours to spare, or just an hour, come to People for Life headquarters, 1625 W. 26th St., Erie at your convenience during the specified times. But call first, (814) 882-1333 to make sure the project is proceeding as planned.

Erie March for Life: Saturday, May 2

Please plan now to support the Erie March for Life on May 2. Congressman Mike Kelly and state Representative Brad Roae will be there. So should you.

We would like everyone to assemble in Perry Square at 10:45 a.m. to get organized, so the March can begin promptly at 11 a.m.

Read more about the Erie March for Life on PeopleforLife.org and in the May online issue of the Erie Echo newsletter.

If you are on Facebook, please share the event on your profile and use it to send personal invitations to all your friends.

Please also use the Erie March for Life poster, available in PDF and JPG (for social media) formats. Copies are also available at People for Life headquarters. Smaller half-page handouts are available, too.

There is a special Facebook profile for the Erie March for Life. You can find and follow it at facebook.com/eriemarchforlife.

2nd Doctorate for Past Breakfast Speaker

This article was intended for the Erie Echo newsletter, but we ran out of room.

Those who attended the 2024 Pro-Life Breakfast will fondly remember our Special Guest Speaker Professor Sherif Girgis. With his wife in her last few weeks of pregnancy and not feeling well and a snow storm approaching, Sherif had to cancel his trip to Erie at the last minute. But with some help from Grise Audio Visual, he was able to speak to our guests via Zoom.

Sherif brilliantly analyzed the recent 2022 Dobbs decision and its implications for the future of the pro-life cause. He also talked about how he presents the case against abortion to liberal-minded, pro-choice college students by appealing to themes such as expanding the social safety net, fighting discrimination, and securing justice for the weak and marginalized, while making the case for the moral worth of unborn human beings by appealing to science and the students’ natural inclination toward the ideal of human equality.

At the time, Sherif was teaching at the Notre Dame Law School and working toward a doctorate in Philosophy from Princeton. We recently learned that Sherif successfully defended his doctoral dissertation this March. There is a Ph.D. as well as a J.D. after his name now. Wonderful news for the pro-life cause!