Students for Life at NYU

Some good news

2006-07-06T20:31:00.000-04:00

Through The Waffling Anglican, "Man Speaks After 20-Year Coma"

2006-02-15T14:17:00.000-05:00

Hey guys, I just went to a Susan B. Anthony list at Princeton, sponsored by Princeton Pro-Life. It was mostly about fundraising and political stuff, which CCL's not too involved in, buuuuut if you're interested in the info I can run off some photocopies or whatnot.

2006-01-30T16:30:00.000-05:00

Hi-ho, everyone! Here's a little post-March about-March update from your friendly Ave Maria University Students for Life liason! Jenni and I met up at the CUA campus on Sunday, 22 January (a dark day in history, let me tell you!) and did pro-life-ish things, like go to the noon Mass with Fr. Benedict Groeschel (absolutely amazing homily!) and see the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center. Since I was with the Ave group and Jenni was with the ACL peeps, we didn't see each other until the very end of the March itself on Monday, but on my end, the 33rd Annual March for Life absolutely rocked! Even though it was a bit shorter than usual due to construction.

As a shameless plug for myself, read about my experiences on my own, personal-type blog, "Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam," at http://avemaria.motime.com. The entry is that for Sunday, 29 January 2006, entitled "IV Sunday in OT/St. Francis de Sales."

Enjoy, my dear friends!

2006-01-20T16:36:00.000-05:00

March for Life!

I'm heading down to DC tonight for the American Collegians for Life annual conference (you can still register here!) and the March for Life on Monday. If you're going to be there too, give me a ring and we'll meet up! Please pray for all the marchers this weekend, if you get a chance. I have bad memories of DC -- the last time I was there, I got spit on, cursed at, screamed at, and was probably given the bird about 1,138 times by "open-minded liberals." Cough. In contrast to the angry, foaming-at-the-mouth atmosphere of the "March for Women's Lives," the March for Life traditionally never calls for iron barred gates along the marching route... nor do the pro-lifers scream at counter-protesters who sometimes line the sidewalks. I'm just hoping if there are any counter-protesters, they'll act like human beings ... and refrain from spitting.

Hope to see you there!

2005-12-06T18:29:00.000-05:00

Can't Get Enough Kreeft

If you're like me, you know that Dr. Peter Kreeft is one of the greatest living philosophers on the planet. And "...I know from experience, dude," because I have him twice a day on Tuesdays and Thursdays. His lectures, particularly for his C.S. Lewis class, are life-altering. Yes, yes, I know, you're seething with envious rage.

Anywho, now you can enjoy the dry humor and expansive genius that is Peter Kreeft from the comfort of your own cell (er.. dorm room!), without having to pay any tuition to Boston College and without the pressure of his infamous multiple choice tests (seriously, his tests are hard as heck, and I friggin hated the SATs).

So, run, don't walk, to www.peterkreeft.com and check out his audio section. If you missed the very successful Boston College Pro-Life conference, you can even hear everything Kreeft said by listening to his lecture on the philosophical case against abortion. Of course, I recommend everything on his website, but his lectures on How to Win the Culture War, Sex in Heaven, Aquinas and the Angels, and Divine Truth - The Heart's Deepest Longing are particularly stirring. He also has a whole slew of C.S. Lewis commenteries, and a fantastic lecture on ten insights into evil from Lord of the Rings.

Go! Be sanctified! Seriously, listening to his lectures is more helpful, enlightening, and spiritually refreshing than any "hip, college-ized" student-campus-rock-concert-Mass hogwash.

p.s. A little fairie prods me to note, for the record, it's pronounced "Krayft" not "Kreeeeeft" or "Krehft."

2005-10-14T18:46:00.000-04:00

Come Visit Me!

And we'll go to the Boston College Pro-Life Conference together! It'll be great! You'll be able to see my genius of a philosophy professor, Peter Kreeft, as the keynote speaker!

Then I will buy you icecream.

And maybe a pony.

The point is, you should come! Alex -- book a flight now! Bring your girlfriend! We'll paint Davis Square with red pro-life roses and hassle the liberals in Harvard Yard. It'll be a riot. New Yorkers, take the Fung Wah. It won't blow up, I promise -- I took it just last weekend and here I am, in O'Neill Library, tapping out my desperate plea.

Seriously, though, if you'd like to come to the BC Pro-Life Conference, as anyone and everyone is more than welcome, please send me an e-mail. I'll even provide you with a place to sleep, free of charge! Though, we might have to forget about the pony, then...

2005-10-14T18:29:00.000-04:00

Greatest. Comment. Ever.

In response to the American Girl scandal, some anonymous robot has some pretty intelligent things to bring to the table. For instance:

Help me Dude, I'm lost. I was searching for Elvis and somehow ended up in your blog, but you know I'm sure I saw Elvis in the supermarket yesterday.

No honest really, he was right there in front of me, next to the steaks singing "Love me Tender".

He said to me (his lip was only slightly curled) "Boy, you need to get yourself a shiny, new plasmatv to go with that blue suede sofa of yours.

But Elvis said I, In the Ghetto nobody has a plasma tv .

Dude I'm All Shook Up said Elvis. I think I'll have me another cheeseburger then I'm gonna go home and ask Michael Jackson to come round and watch that waaaay cool surfing scene in Apocalypse Now on my new plasma tv .

And then he just walked out of the supermarket singing. . . "You give me love and consolation, You give me strength to carry on

"Strange day or what? :-)

So illuminating!

I think this might have to go into my profile or something -- by far the most creative robot comment I've seen. Bravo!

2005-10-12T19:47:00.000-04:00

I Always Knew Samantha Had Something Up Her Sleeve...

Email from the Pro-Life Action League. This is messed up. I never liked American Girl, anyway. Too girly. This is interesting, though. And a $50,000 donation is a pretty big deal. Better tell my mom to stop buying those stupid "Samantha's Christmas Gingerbread House" kits for my sister (SUCH a waste of money! Why not make an edible, *human sized* gingerbread house?!).

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Dear Pro-Life Friend,

Last month we had to picket my old high school for inviting a pro-abortion politician to speak at an alumnae function. Now it looks like next month we may have to picket on of my little girls' favorite spots in downtown Chicago, the American Girl Place.

Thanks to a tip from a pro-life mom, we learned that American Girl's "I Can" self-esteem campaign is linked to Girls Inc., a group with a distinctly anti-family agenda. The program involves a pledge, which is innocent enough, and the purchase of an "I Can" bracelet.

The bracelets cost $1, of which 70¢ goes to Girls Inc., along with a $50,000 donation from American Girl. What's so bad about Girls Inc.? For starters, they support abortion. In their own word: "Girls Incorporated supports a woman's freedom of choice, a constitutional right established by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 in Roe vs. Wade." (Source: http://www.girlsinc.com/ic/page.php?id=4.3.4)

They also condone lesbianism, actively lobby against abstinence-only sex-ed programs, and demand access to birth control for girls. We're calling on parents, grandparents and other family members to call and write American Girl Company President Ellen L. Brothers to sever all links to Girls Inc. immediately:

Ellen L. Brothers, President
American Girl
8400 Fairway Place
Middleton, WI 53562
Tel: 1-800-845-0005
Fax: 608-828-4790
E-Mail: ellen.brothers@americangirl.com

We hope American Girl will realize that their association with Girls Inc. tarnishes their wholesome image, and that we will not have call for a boycott of their products or picket their retail stores in Chicago or New York. But if we have to, that's what we'll do.

For more links on Girls Inc. and the American Girl "I Can" campaign, see our home page: http://prolifeaction.org

Yours for Life,
Eric J. Scheidler
Communications Director
Pro-Life Action League
http://www.prolifeaction.org/

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2005-10-02T23:21:00.000-04:00

Update

Hey all, I've updated the sidebar a bit to include Slant Point.com, the Boston College Pro-Life Society's website, and a few other links that might be of interest. Went to the Massachusetts Citizens for Life Respect Life Walk today with a bunch of pro-life college students from all over Boston -- a terrific event! We are thinking about putting together a Cemetery of the Innocents here at BC, sometime next spring. I figured, if we're going to do it here, I could help you guys get in touch with the people who supply the materials, in case you wanted to put the Cemetery together at NYU as well. There are, of course, several problems with doing this at NYU, a major one being ... a lack of ... space. Perhaps the Kimmel Center might serve as a place for some kind of display venue... Anyway, it's an idea worth kicking around, and hopefully I can help out with the practical aspect, since we're doing it in Boston anyway.

I certainly miss Thursday nights at the Catholic Center, all you Newmanites.

Alex, does the Pro-Life club at Ave Maria have a website? Put it in the sidebar!

David, you mentioned another college's pro-life club wanted us to update their website on our sidebar. Which one was it?

That's all for now -- more soon.

God bless,
Jenni

2005-10-01T22:27:00.000-04:00

Dudes! Look! NYU Students for Life is on the blogroll of SlantPoint.com! Awesome! Thanks, Slant Point!

2005-09-16T15:04:00.000-04:00

An update coming late in time...from Floriday!

This weekend, 16-18 September, is time for the Annual Florida Statewide Respect Life Conference (www.dovrespectlife.org). It's being hosted by my adopted Diocese, the Diocese of Venice here, and the main topic for consideration is the 10th anniversary of H.H. Pope John Paul II's encyclical, Humanae Vitae regarding the dignity of human life. Should be a lot of fun.

In other Ave Maria Students for Life news, yesterday, 15 September, to commemorate the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, a group of roughly 70 students went to the local Planned Parenthood and held a prayerful protest throughout the day (in three separate shifts). While we didn't have the opportunity to talk to many of the patrons of the business, we got an awful lot of praying done. This is the 32nd year Planned Parenthood's been in Collier County, and we're pushing headlong to close this center. Pray for us that we may be successful in this effort!

Also, I'm reprising my position here at the SFL as the Assistant to the Chairman. Lot of fun, that.

Bye now, and God love you!

2005-08-05T08:15:00.000-04:00

Hey guys, are we ready to start planning for the new year?

2005-01-05T22:40:00.000-05:00

Medical Student Being Failed at University of Manitoba for Not Providing Abortion Option

WINNIPEG, March 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A medical student in his last year at the University of Manitoba Medical School will be denied his degree for his unwillingness to partake in any abortion-related activity. The Christian student, who wishes to remain unnamed, received a failing grade in an Obstetrics and Gynecology portion of his program for refusing to perform or refer for any abortive procedure. Three separate appeals to the Medical School have all failed to correct the matter.

Carolee Neufeld, a friend of the family who is has been issuing calls for prayer and taking correspondence told LifeSiteNews.com that the failure stands despite the fact that the student has high grades in every area of study and strong words of affirmation from clinical supervisors.

The failing grade was first challenged on October 31 last year, two subsequent appeals to the Medical School have also failed to reverse the failing grade. The last challenge was on March 3, 2004 when the student appeared before the highest-level appeal committee within the Faculty of Medicine. The student learned of the rejection of his latest plea last Friday.

The student is considering his next moves. The next level of appeal would be to the senate of the University of Manitoba. He is being supported by several pro-life doctors in Manitoba, who are concerned about the university's intolerance.

CJOB Radio News in Winnipeg covered the story briefly today. Dr. Brian Magwood Associate Dean at the Faculty of Medicine told CJOB that university policy states that students are obligated to tell patients about all treatment options which fall within the medical standard of care.

One of the doctors supporting the student, Winnipeg physician, Dr. Frederick Ross told CJOB many doctors swore to protect human life "from the moment of conception" when they took the Hippocratic Oath. Dr. Ross called on the University of Manitoba to give room to people of conscience.

Prayers are requested for the student and his family as they proceed with their case and for the stress and hardship the situation has caused.

Messages of support for the student and his family can be sent to:
livingfree@mts.net

To express your concerns to the University of Manitoba
Dr. Brian K.E. Hennen
University of Manitoba
Dean, Faculty of Medicine
753 McDermot Ave., Room A101
WINNIPEG MB R3E 0W3
Phone: 204-789-3485
Fax: (204) 789-3928
E-mail: bhennen@ms.umanitoba.ca

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2004-12-08T15:28:00.000-05:00

Hey Everyone!

Just an announcement - the Respect Life Group at Fordham University will be hosting Ben Stein on Tuesday, April 5th.

I hope you guys can be there.

Brian

2004-11-10T00:33:00.000-05:00

LifeSite News Special Report - Wednesday November 10, 2004 Abortion-Pushing UN Committee Must be Held Accountable

GENEVA, November 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) "Pro-life leaders worldwide are saying, "enough is enough" regarding the abortion push and other radical social engineering being imposed on the world via the United Nations.

LifeSiteNews.com spoke with pro-life leaders in various countries today, all of whom were outraged that the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) urged Poland to liberalize abortion laws, and implement sex-ed, contraception and gay rights programs. (see LifeSiteNews.com coverage http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/nov/041109a.html )

The same committee also urged Morocco to decriminalize abortion last week. Moreover the UNHRC has a history of promoting abortion and acting as an unofficial implementing agent for the nefarious anti-people and racist International Planned Parenthood.

In March this year the committee told Colombia that denying abortion in rape cases was an "outrage". The UNHRC abortion push is longstanding. In July 2000, the committee expressed concern over Ireland?s restrictive abortion legislation, and in July 2001 the committee urged Guatemala to loosen its abortion law. (see below for references)

Some pro-life leaders are encouraging citizens of the countries represented on the UNHRC to engage in local political actions to stop any of these unaccountable nationals from participating in United Nation?s attempts to force sovereign nations to accept abortion and gay rights.

Until only recently, UN delegates and other representatives have often been able to act and speak with impunity at critical UN meetings against the wishes of their own people and even without any awareness from most legislators in their nations about what they are proposing at the UN.

Part of the reason for this extreme independence is that much of what is said and decided at UN meetings is not regularly reported or critiqued in the local media of UN member countries. As well, the general public and even most elected officials view the world body and its workings as being far beyond their competence or, very naively, not related to their local affairs.

Hence, scheming national government leaders, working quietly with non-accountable UN bureaucrats and delegates, have frequently supported or allowed the initiation of world mandated policies that would never be accepted in their own nations.

Pro-life, pro-family lobbyists at the UN have frustratingly learned that few people outside the UN, with the exception of powerful special interests such as Planned Parenthood, are paying close attention to UN shenanigans or questioning who should be sent there and what representatives have been saying on their nations? behalf.

Despite the fact that the United States has, since Bush?s first election, usually been a strong defender of traditional morality, the United States representative on the UNHRC, Ruth Wedgewood, did not absent herself from the committee?s attempt to force Poland to legalize abortion. Wedgewood"s action is all the more concerning since US legislation forbids American funds to support organizations that promote abortion. The US provides the lion?s share of funds to the United Nations.

The Canadian representative on the Committee, Max Yalden will also have to answer for his actions, Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSiteNew.com. While the Canadian Liberal party leadership is known for its fondness for abortion and gay rights, partisan politics pushed through the United Nations should nonetheless be taboo, he said.

Latin American leaders were surprised to see representatives from their pro-life countries pushing Poland to allow abortion. Panama?s Alfredo Castillero Hoyos, Colombia?s Rafael Rivas Posada, and Argentina?s Hipolito Solari-Yrigoyen all sit on the 18-member UN committee.

Most surprisingly, Malta, one of only six countries in the world which prohibits all abortion, had a representative on the UN committee - Franco Depasquale. UN committees will almost certainly place the tiny, principled European nation on its hit list in the near future. No exceptions can be allowed to the New World Order of abortion and other de-population measures.

Lech Kowalewski, spokesman for the Polish Federation of Pro-life Movements told LifeSiteNews.com yesterday that the committee?s action was an "attack on the sovereignty of Poland." Kowalewski is concerned that the UN report may influence the Polish government to adopt a pro-abortion bill which is under consideration (See LifeSiteNews.com coverage of the bill http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/oct/04101802.html )

The complete list of UNHRC members and their country of origin follows:

Abdelfattah Amor (Tunisia)
Nisuke Ando (Japan)
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati (India)
Alfredo Castillero Hoyos (Panama)
Christine Chanet (France)
Franco Depasquale (Malta)
Maurice Glele-Ahanhanzo (Benin)
Walter Kalin (Switzerland)
Ahmed Tawfik Khalil (Egypt)
Rajsoomer Lallah (Mauritius)
Rafael Rivas Posada (Colombia)
Sir Nigel Rodley (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Martin Scheinin (Finland); Ivan Shearer (Australia)
Hipolito Solari-Yrigoyen (Argentina)
Ruth Wedgwood (United States of America)
Roman Wieruszewski (Poland)
Maxwell Yalden (Canada).

Related LifeSiteNews.com reports:
United Nations Tells Morocco to Decriminalize Abortion
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/nov/04111002.html
United Nations Orders Guatemala To Loosen Abortion Law
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/jul/01073102.html
United Nations Tells Colombia Denying Abortion in Rape Cases is an "Outrage"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/mar/04031701.html
UN Committee Asks About Abortion And Homosexuality In Ireland
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2000/jul/00071704.htm

2004-10-07T08:57:00.000-04:00

One for Jenni

2004-09-27T09:43:00.000-04:00

Nobody's posted in a while, so . . . here's an article from lifenews.com about the upcoming election.

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President Bush-John Kerry Contest Could Decide Abortion for 30 Yearsby Steven ErteltAugust 10, 2004[LifeNews.com Note: Steven Ertelt is the Editor and CEO of LifeNews.com. The following editorial is a follow-up to the Pro-Life Advocates: Vote for President Bush opinion piece that summarizes President Bush's pro-life record.]Every election year, there's always talk about the importance of the upcoming election in terms of its impact on abortion policy. There's no doubt, each election is considerably important.

However, this time around, the stakes are higher than ever before. Here's why: The next president will have the power to determine whether abortion will remain legal for the next 30 years.

In 1973, the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion by a 7-2 vote. The current court backs abortion by a 6-3 margin.

The next president could appoint as many as four new Supreme Court justices and elevate one of the high court's members to the Chief Justice position.

This will be an exchange of power and a turnover of membership on the court like never seen before.

For those of us concerned about the nightmarish travesty of abortion, this is a shift that could have enormous potential or set the pro-life community up for decades of more heartache.
Associate Judges Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who back abortion, and pro-life Chief Justice William Rehnquist are all considered likely retirees over the next few years.

President Bush has a strong record thus far of appointing pro-life judges to key federal court positions. Should he be re-elected and replace each of those four judges with pro-life advocates in the mold of Thomas or Antonin Scalia, the current 6-3 pro-abortion margin shifts to a 6-3 position in favor of overturning Roe.

Even if one of those judges turns out to be another O'Connor or Souter, defying the pro-life expectations placed on them during their nominations, a 5-4 margin against Roe still gives the pro-life community its first legitimate opportunity to protect the lives of unborn children since the early 1990s.

However, if John Kerry is elected president, and he replaces those four judges with abortion supporters, that will take the court back to the 7-2 position in favor of abortion that it had in 1973.

In other words, the pro-life movement will be right back where it started in its effort to stop abortion. We will have made no progress in more than three decades in terms of changing the makeup of the Supreme Court, if John Kerry is elected.

Furthermore, those four new judges will be lifetime appointees. They will be younger than the current members of the court and could have as many as 20 to 30 years or more of their career ahead of them.

Consider that the last four judges to leave the Supreme Court served there for decades.
Harry Blackmun, the author of Roe, and Thurgood Marshall served on the high court for 24 years. Byron White, who dissented with Rehnquist in Roe, served 31 years, and William Brennan retired after 34 years on the bench.

Whether the next four judges are pro-abortion or pro-life, several presidential terms would come and go before their likely retirement. The pro-life community would either have a fair chance to turn back Roe or no hope at all.

Pro-life voters need to keep in mind this election year that if John Kerry is elected, Roe will almost assuredly be preserved and abortion will probably remain legal for decades. That means every vote for Kerry and every vote not cast for President Bush (i.e., for a third-party candidate or by citizens who abstain from voting) is a vote to keep abortion legal for as many as thirty years.

If we truly want to see Roe thrown in the trash heap of history right next to the Dred Scott decision, we can't let that happen.

It is up to you to elect a pro-life president this November. It is up to you to re-elect President Bush. Women and unborn children are counting on you.

2004-09-13T20:04:00.000-04:00

Friends-

Just a quick word from your friendly Ave Maria University Students For Life liason here in sunny Florida: A remarkable idea was made known to me two weeks ago, at the first meeting of the AMU SFL of the academic year that I wanted to pass along. Every Saturday, a group of SFLers here get in cars and University vans to drive the 45 minutes to Fort Myers, where there is an abortion clinic (there's a Planned Parenthood office in Naples here, but they only offer instructional materials on abortions, not the actual services, so are of a lesser priority for protesting and pray-ins). However, and this is the interesting twist, half of the students actually go to the site to pray and some participate in the sidewalk counseling (to some success, recently, I might add, so thank God!), but the other half of the group, or rather those who don't feel comfortable actually being at the clinic, remain here on campus in our Adoration Chapel before the Blessed Sacrament exposed making intercession and doing other spiritual warfare stuff (Divine Mercy chaplets, rosaries, litanies, and other things).

Now, I know this probably doesn't appeal to our non-Catholic brethren, but for those of us who believe in the Real Presence, doesn't this just make so much sense?! I mean, it's kind of like what the contemplatives do, praying to bring down graces and other such from Heaven on the work. Kind of fighting on more than one front. Which is always a good thing. So, there you go.

Also, I just have to say how remarkable and great it is to see all the Respect Life license plates around campus, and the "Pro-Life" bumper stickers and (perhaps most importantly, as far as the short term goes) the "Bush-Cheney '04" bumper stickers. I know, though, that it could be easy for me to fall into the trap of thinking there isn't a potential crisis on the horizon, being here. So, in an effort to keep me in touch with 'the world,' feel free to burst my optimistic, Spirit-inspired bubble at any time with grim, hard statistics.

And see if you can't get a copy of the Reverend Dr. Charles Swindoll's 1990 book, The Sanctity of Life. It's an easy read, along the lines of Rev. Ensor's Answering the Call. There's a great chapter on the Plea for Morality too, re. sexual purity. Teehee...maybe you could discuss it at a meeting. Then again, it's kinda anti-contraceptive (which it should be!) and I know how the NYU SFL has been unwilling to come down on one side or the other of that particular fence.

This post is too long; it's done now! 'Bye now, and God love you!

2004-08-29T18:15:00.000-04:00

Just wondering what y'all thought about the lovely little chaos going on in Manhattan, as well as the efforts of Republican mayors past and present to trip over themselves in their support of homosexuality, abortion, stem-cell research, and all that fun stuff. Fascinating really.

2004-08-20T13:13:00.000-04:00

Planned Parenthood - Racist?

And I don't mean in their unequalled support of abortion for minorities. Apparently, Planned Parenthood has recently come under attack by its own employees for being run by "Caucasian women" who use racist slurs on their own African-American male coworkers!

In one sworn affidavit, an African-American employee said a female manager with Planned Parenthood looked directly at him and called him a "nigger."

"I am African and was shocked by her cultural insensitivity," the employee wrote in his affidavit and asked not to be identified.

I'm sure Margaret Sanger would be proud.

You can read about it here. http://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/august/0820_planned_parenthood_racist.shtml

2004-08-11T04:24:00.000-04:00

More...

Hey cool dudes. I finally cracked and used the free web space we lame AOL-ers get to make a little pro-life page. I'll make it cool and pretty eventually, but for now it remains pathetic. You can witness the craziness here: Musings of a Pro-Life Catholic Nutjob. So... give me ideas, people. What should i use this thing for? Maybe i can post Brian's flyers there or something. Tell me what you think. And yes, i know, i stink at all things html.

2004-08-10T01:38:00.000-04:00

I'm tired and don't feel like re-writing some of this so...

I'm just re-posting the dialogue that took place in the comments section of one of the previous posts so it's easy to see and out in the open, as it includes some info about ectopic pregnancies, and the very small number of abortions that fall under the "rape, incest, life of the mother" category so often cited by pro-choicers (their march, while ridiculously titled, was called "the March for Women's Lives", after all).

Thanks for the comments, people!

Vanessa said...

Republicans have been doing the same thing forever. Cheney recently visited Oregon and protesters couldn't get within several blocks of him. You have the right to have a different opinion, but that does not mean politicians will ever see you picketing.

Did you know that there are a lot of babies who are born at full term, who still die. Doctors label them stillborn. You want something to get mad about, get mad that babies who are wanted, and loved, die at an alarming rate in this country and we are silent about them. I wish the pro life community would raise a fuss about that.
3:24 AM

Brian said...

Hey Vanessa, Ontop of free speech, our First Amendment Rights include:

1.) Petition the government.
2.) Meet and assemble peaceably.

If that's not the definition of picketing, I dunno what is. So our 1st Amendment Rights really were caged, girl.
10:36 AM

Jenni said...

Please look at some of the pictures posted of that cage and let me know if the experience you described was as reminiscent of a concentration camp as that -- obviously, space must be made *somewhere* for protesters to go, and often getting your message read by those who need it is often unfeasible. But, to have such a space under a construction site, with guards looking down at you and barbed wire on the fence? I don't see how that can possible compare -- and come on, if the Republicans made a "zone" such as this for their protesters, the Dems would throw such a crapfit it would all over the news for weeks. Any party that engages in such blatantly police-state behavior ought to be disbanded. I am pointing out one of the most extreme cases i've ever seen, here. Perhaps you have heard of this (doubtful), although this is also a good read about the incident, or even more horrific, this act of feminazi violence. I've been protesting these people since i was eight years old, and i know -- they are notorious for their intolerance of outside opinion, *especially* the pro-life message (even their very own Democrats for Life were completely shut out of the DNC). Read the stories above -- esp. the one about the college student literally dragged away from a public event by insane, intolerant, violent Kerry supporters. She was surrounded and dragged over gravel -- not by cops, but by Kerry-ites. Her feet were bleeding afterwards. Doesn't that strike you as just a tad insane? Absolutely nothing was done by Kerry or anyone in his campaign, and i am still wondering what happened to the media regarding this story. Maybe they were eating lunch...

I personally experienced much the same attitude when i was nearly assaulted at the "March for Women's Lies" in April, after being spit on, told my mother should've aborted me, given orders to kill myself at NYU's Bobst Library, flipped off by eighty year old women, and screamed at for a full four hours by hundreds of thousands of "open-minded" liberals. Not one person wanted to engage in any sort of thoughtful discussion (nor have they when i set up my pro-life tables and fetal models in the middle of Washington Square), or even just be respectful or courteous -- they just wanted to hate, and i have never seen such intense hatred targeted at such calm, prayerfully protesting individuals in my *entire life*. This is the hypocrisy i am pointing out, and i condemn this behavior on all sides, as i'm sure you do too. But you must admit that there is far more tolerance for "pro-choice" Republicans than there is for pro-life Democrats, who are basically unrecognized and shunned by their own party.

Finally, i assume you mean babies who die of natural causes after birth (though stillbirths are awful too). This is horrible, and so unfortunate. These deaths are not, however, induced by force*, and can only be brought to a minimum with medical advancements. Abortion is murder induced on a child because of convenience** -- forced stillbirth, forced miscarriage, whatever you want to call it. The fact is, someone willingly performs the act of murder, as opposed to death unfortunately, but naturally, occurring. See the difference?

*Although, some evidence suggests that stillbirths are more likely to occur when a woman has had past abortions.

**2% of all abortions are a result of "rape, incest, life of the mother" situations. By the way, what is normally referred to as "life of the mother" abortions is usually called an ectopic pregnancy, when the child will die and kill the mother as a result, and therefore needs to be removed -- it's a very rare, but very sad complication that is clearly a necessary procedure to save the mother from death by internal bleeding. Again, this is extremely rare, making up about 2% of all abortions. We are fighting against the other 98%, in which children die when it is not medically necessary, but only because the mother feels she has no other choice than abortion.

2004-08-09T03:13:00.000-04:00

The "Free Speech" Zone...

The following few posts contain a lot of info on what happened to the Operation Witness protesters at the Democratic National Convention last week. As many of you know, i was all ready to go ... and actually on my way ... when my car unfortunately broke down. This, is what i missed: (and i still can't believe it ... i thought the only solid vocab dems use more than 50,000 times a conversation was "free speech" ... little did i realize that "free speech" to democrats means barbed wire and armed guards when you don't agree with their so-called "liberal" opinions).

Correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't see how this situation could possibly be liberating ...

Pro-Lifers' Cries Squelched During DNC in Boston
More Photos from the DNC
Gan Golan of nyc.indymedia.org describes the "free speech zone" -- Read this. It's sick. Also read the Associated Press article in the comment section.
Pictures of the "Free Speech" Pen -- Not only is the very idea of this zone a complete smack in the face to freedom, the place looks kind of.. well... dangerous! It's basically under a pile of construction work. How sweet. Who are the fascists, now? Tell me again?
Rick Klein of the Boston Globe weighs in, February 2004
Judge upholds "free speech zone" but permits march on FleetCenter -- Please explain to me why you "need" such a zone in Boston, meanwhile no such preparations are being made in New York?

I just want to point out that, while I saw some coverage of anti-war, workers union protests on the news during the DNC, i saw absolutely nothing about anti-Kerry, pro-life demonstrations at all. The pro-lifers weren't even allowed to be present for the media, or the delegates, at the start of the convention, as they were relegated to their "cage" blocks away from the FleetCenter. I could be wrong. Maybe the issue was covered on the news. But i highly doubt it. Compare the amount of anti-Kerry vs. pro-Kerry coverage at the DNC (and don't tell me "the anti-Kerry side just didn't show" because they did -- you just didn't see them on TV) to the amount of anti-Bush vs. pro-Bush coverage at the upcoming RNC, and then try to tell me that "there is no liberal media bias" with a straight face. Go ahead. I dare you.

I love 1984... but i don't want to see it realized. This "free speech" cage is a complete attack on our right to speak our minds and spread our message.

So, please, pro-lifers, V-O-T-E!

2004-08-09T02:54:00.000-04:00

Fellow Operation Witness pro-lifers sent to the pen for speaking their minds...

2004-08-09T02:48:00.000-04:00

Check out the outrage at www.societyfortruthandjustice.com. Can you believe these are the people who claim to be the "open-minded", party of "plurality"? They should amend that a bit (nay, a lot), because apparently if you want to disagree with them they stick you in a "free speech zone" complete with barbed wire and police guards, away from the press, delegates, and the entire convention. Way to go, dems. You really showed us how wonderfully diverse your party is this time.

2004-08-09T02:28:00.000-04:00

We've got pictures!

Just making sure this new photo-hosting thingamajigger works..

Anti-abortion activist Jennifer Login of Manhattan watches abortion-rights advocates walk past during a march in Washington April 25, 2004. The March for Women's Lives organizers estimated that more than 500,000 people participated in the march and rally that was held in the National Mall. (Ricky Flores / The Journal News )

2004-08-03T23:59:00.000-04:00

From the American Collegians for Life

It is with great excitement that I send you this announcement concerning the 2005 American Collegians for Life Student Leadership Conference and the 2005 March for Life. The ACL Conference will be on Saturday, January 22 and Sunday January 23. It is tentatively set to be held at the George Washington University in DC. The 2005 March for Life will take place on Monday, January 24.

Why am I sending you this information so early? So that you can start planning early to attend both the Conference and the March. Many schools have student activity funds which will pay for part or all conference related fees and travel. You should look into it as soon as you return to school in September. Also, see if you can find local businesses, church organizations, or alumni who might be willing to help send members of your pro-life group to the March and Conference. The Conference is the best way to meet other pro-life college students from across the country, share your experiences, and learn effective activism techniques.

Our Conference Director, Adam Drexler, will be sending out an announcement in a few weeks concerning the opening of registration. At that time a preliminary schedule will also be posted. We have an awesome conference in the works and details will begin to go up soon at www.prolifestudents.com. Keep up the great work on your campuses and enjoy the rest of the summer!

For life,

Michael Sciscenti
President
American Collegians for Life
www.prolifestudents.com

PS - Be sure to update your group's contact info in our National Directory, http://www.aclife.org/networking/directory.html.

Visit our web site at http://www.aclife.org for the latest developments at ACL.

2004-08-03T23:48:00.000-04:00

Old news, but i'm posting it anyway...

Because everyone knows the New York Times sucks... click here to read the whole report (though the first item of this article makes my blood boil. Grrr..Pataki...)

3. New York Times Discovers Its Liberal Bias

Just about anybody who reads the New York Times knows that it is a bastion of liberalism, an allegation the Times has denied -- up until July 25, that is, when its staff ombudsman suddenly jumped the reservation and admitted that the Times really is a liberal newspaper.

Daniel Okrent, a self-described liberal Democrat and the Times' "Public Editor" (they don't want to admit they needed an ombudsman after the Jason Blair scandal erupted), let loose with a ringing declaration that the Times doesn't merely lean to the left - it is left.

"Is the New York Times a liberal newspaper?" he asked. "Of course it is."

Before taking off on an extended summer hiatus, Okrent cited chapter and verse to back his assertion, noting, for example, that the Times editorial page is "so thoroughly saturated in liberal theology that when it occasionally strays from that point of view the shocked yelps from the left overwhelm even the ceaseless rumble of disapproval from the right."

Promising to examine the Times' record in covering this election when he returns, he zeroed in on the hot social issues that divide liberals and conservatives -- "gay rights, gun control, abortion and environmental regulation, among others. And if you think The Times plays it down the middle on any of them, you've been reading the paper with your eyes closed."

The Times' coverage, he writes, is based on its views, which are solidly New York-Northeastern urban liberal and which are at odds with the views of Middle America. "But if you're examining the paper's coverage of these subjects from a perspective that is neither urban nor Northeastern nor culturally seen-it-all; if you are among the groups The Times treats as strange objects to be examined on a laboratory slide [devout Catholics, gun owners, Orthodox Jews, Texans]; if your value system wouldn't wear well on a composite New York Times journalist, then a walk through this paper can make you feel you're traveling in a strange and forbidding world."

Okrent takes a tour through the various sections of the Times, and finds lots of evidence for the paper's far left slant on the social issues.

While the editorial page is solidly liberal, he found a meager attempt to provide balance on the op-ed page, where there are "seven opinionated columnists, only two of whom could be classified as conservative (and, even then, of the conservative subspecies that supports legalization of gay unions and, in the case of William Safire, opposes some central provisions of the Patriot Act)."

In the Sunday magazine, he finds that "the culture-wars applause-o-meter chronically points left while on the Arts & Leisure front page every week, columnist Frank Rich slices up President Bush, Mel Gibson, John Ashcroft and other paladins of the right in prose as uncompromising as Paul Krugman's or Maureen Dowd's." The culture pages, he adds, "often feature forms of art, dance or theater that may pass for normal (or at least tolerable) in New York but might be pretty shocking in other places.

The Sunday Styles section, he reports, features not only gay wedding announcements but also "downtown sex clubs and T-shirts bearing the slogan, 'I'm afraid of Americans.'" The Times "presents the social and cultural aspects of same-sex marriage in a tone that approaches cheerleading," Okrent charged.

The sports pages report on the findings of racial-equity reformer Richard Lapchick, which have been appearing in the sports pages for decades. ("Since when is diversity a sport?" one reader complained).
The front page of the Metro section has featured a long piece best described by its subhead, "Cross-Dressers Gladly Pay to Get in Touch with Their Feminine Side."

Okrent writes that his boss, Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., doesn't think this walk through The Times is a tour of liberalism. "He prefers to call the paper's viewpoint "urban." He says that the tumultuous, polyglot metropolitan environment the Times occupies means "We're less easily shocked" and that the paper reflects "a value system that recognizes the power of flexibility."

Sulzberger is right, he says, explaining that "living in New York makes a lot of people think that way, and a lot of people who think that way find their way to New York (me, for one). The Times has chosen to be an unashamed product of the city whose name it bears, a condition magnified by the been-there-done-that irony afflicting too many journalists."

Given the paper's unshakable devotion to the reigning liberal ideology of New York, Okrent concludes that "readers with a different worldview will find The Times an alien beast."

Unfortunately, in America's heartland the Times is an alien beast.

2004-08-01T12:29:00.000-04:00

New blogs in the links section...

Thanks to Jon Cipriani for allowing us to link his Conservative Contrarian blog to our site, and for linking us up as well. He also gave me the address of another blog to check out, The Dawn Patrol. Both great places for pro-life information, campaign news, Kerry bashing, and the like. Enjoy.

p.s. i'm also trying to change the format a bit, so expect some confusion in the next few days, as the html may get a bit wacky. If you have a suggestion for a template, email me at leiasolo8@aol.com

2004-07-24T18:16:00.000-04:00

Heya y'all!

I'm goin' to spend this week working on some more flyer ideas. What I'm thinking about right now is doin' something about being "forced to choose." We could start with a feminist quote, some picture, and some expression like "What is it that forced you to choose?"

Le'me know if you've got ideas, pictures, points or comments!! Abusive boyfriends, careers and academics, financial pressures are all things we can hit with this one!

*sigh* It sucks that our modern gods still demand bloody human sacrifice.

2004-07-20T19:59:00.000-04:00

And here are the links to the posters. Please comment. Note: these are PDF files.

Known.pdf

Smile.pdf

Speachless.pdf

2004-07-19T21:34:00.000-04:00

Guys,

Brian has a few new posters out. I've emailed him about posting them here for comments. Think it's a good idea?

2004-07-17T04:58:00.000-04:00

This disturbs me to the core...

From the Religious Freedom Coalition.

ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL SERMON JAILS PASTOR
A Swedish pastor has been sentenced to one month in jail for preaching in a sermon that homosexuality is a sin. See WAND article. For many years I have been fighting against "hate crimes" legislation in the United States which I refer to as "thought crimes" legislation and this is why. The pastor was jailed for preaching what the Word of God says is true. The jailing of the preacher has wide spread support in Sweden where the public believes that laws against people being "offended" take precedence over free speech. I reported in my June 18th Update that a bill similar to that in Sweden had passed the Senate by a vote of 65 to 33, with many cowardly Republicans voting for the Democrat legislation to ban free speech if it offends homosexuals. Make no mistake ... if these thought crimes laws go into effect pastors will be jailed in this nation for preaching the uncensored Word of God. Pray that this kind of hate filled, anti-American, anti-free speech legislation never becomes law.

And for the record, here is that June 18th update since you're probably too lazy to look it up on the link:

"HATE" CRIMES
Senator Ted Kennedy has had his great "Hate Crimes" victory in the Senate. With the help of Republican Senators Gordon Smith (R-OR) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) the Senate added to the Defense Appropriations Bill an amendment to make thinking or saying bad things about homosexuals a crime. Many cowardly Republican Senators voted with Kennedy to give the amendment an overwhelming victory of 65 to 33. Make no mistake, this is a despicable attack on free speech. Senator Kennedy wants to be able to jail anyone who disagrees with his left-wing agenda and this is the first step down the road to abolishing the First Amendment to the Constitution. Fortunately the House of Representatives has some spine and will defend the Constitution. When the House and Senate versions of the Defense Appropriations bill go to conference committee to resolve differences the House, conferees will spike Kennedy's "Hate Crimes" Amendment which had no place in the bill to start with. House leadership has assured me that the Kennedy Amendment will never see the light of day.

2004-07-17T04:29:00.000-04:00

Wow...

I can't believe how much this picture has circulated, but here's another article about our June 16th protest, using the Reuters snapshot. w00t, as they say.
http://www.the-mirror.org/PDFs/062504all.pdf

Also... (though totally unrelated)... http://www.dur.ac.uk/martin.ward/gkc/books/#BIBLIOGRAPHIES has every work of Chesterton's available at the click of a button. Awesome, no?

2004-07-17T04:12:00.000-04:00

New Oxford Review...

Some bone-chilling Sanger quotes:
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/2000/sep00/brenttzeringue.html

A bit old, and you've probably already read it, but i think it's relevant considering there are governments that will now put you in jail for collecting and discussing biblical quotations against homosexuality...
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/1998-99/jul99/davidjpeterson.html

Also, just found this. It's the NYU Republicans' Live Journal. Discuss amongst yourselves...
http://www.livejournal.com/community/nyu_republicans/

2004-07-17T03:53:00.000-04:00

Some incredibly interesting stuff from http://www.lifenews.com...

I thought these deserved a look:

John Kerry Sponsors "Clone and Kill" Legislation Pro-Lifers Oppose
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Senator John Kerry has attached his name to a "clone and kill" bill that pro-life organizations oppose because it allows scientists to clone unborn children only to be killed to obtain their stem cells for use in research. Some have called the legislation a ban on human cloning. Though it prohibits the grisly practice for reproductive purposes, the legislation allows the "clone and kill" practice for research. Kerry's cosponsorship of the legislation comes at an interesting time. He has joined other lawmakers and some in the research community who are putting intense pressure on President Bush to reverse his August 2001 policy prohibiting federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Kerry has been using the issue to paint Bush as a religious extremist and claims his pro-life views prevent patients with various diseases from obtaining potentially beneficial treatments that scientists may someday derive from embryonic stem cells. That may explain why Kerry suddenly signed on to legislation that has been sitting for over a year and isn't expected to receive a Senate vote anytime soon.
http://www.lifenews.com/bio384.html

Petition: Democrats, Republicans Should Acknowledge Abortion Hurts Women
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A coalition of groups that help women who suffer from post-abortion problems has drawn up a petition for Republican and Democratic leaders imploring them to recognize the negative effects of abortion. They want both political parties to adopt language in their platforms that encourages post-abortion counseling programs and research of abortion-related complications. "Approximately 30 million American women have had one or more abortions," states the petition. "But neither major political party has acknowledged their unique experiences and concerns. These 30 million women, and millions more who empathize with them, represent a growing contingency of disenfranchised voters." The petition is addressed to Republican party chairman Edward Gillespie and Democratic party chairman Terry McAuliffe. Citing the "Forced Abortions in America" report by the Elliot Institute, the petition states that 30 to 60 percent of women who have an abortion felt pressured to do so, and most women who undergo an abortion procedure are faced with at least one negative physical or psychological reaction.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat649.html

2004-07-12T15:09:00.000-04:00

Jenni,

Are you in some Randal Terry promo literature holding up a sign about Kerry? I was looking through my mail and I could swear it was you.

2004-07-05T01:13:00.000-04:00

Hey hey hey! The "deny pro-abort politicians like coughcoughJohnKerrycoughcough the Holy Eucharist" debate has gotten even more interesting! A canon lawyer in the Archdiocese of Boston, MA, has filed a canonical lawsuit with the Chancery Office of the Archdiocese against one Senator John Forbes Kerry, with the intent of a public declaration of the Senator's latae sententiae excommunication, as well as a redress of the scandal he has caused by improperly and sacrilegiously receiving the Eucharist. You can view the 18-page complaint brief at www.defide.com, or download it in .PDF format from www.defide.com/complaint1.pdf.

It's frightening to read the section listing all of Sen. Kerry's pro-abort standings and his voting records for the past few years. Anyway, it makes for interesting reading, if nothing else!

Pax, all!

2004-07-02T13:39:00.000-04:00

Wish i could've gone to this so badly...

President Bush Defends His Pro-Life Record, Encourages Advocates
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a video address to over 1,000 people attending the National Right to Life convention, President Bush commended pro-life advocates for their hard work defending human life and touted the pro-life accomplishments of his administration. "You believe as I do that every person, however frail of vulnerable, is a blessing and has a place and a purpose in this world," the president said. "We must stand for an America where every life counts and every life matters." Bush discussed the legislation he has signed during his administration. The Born Alive Infants Protection Act, the first pro-life law passed since the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed unlimited abortions, requires medical personnel to provide babies who survive botched abortions attempts with normal medical care. Bush also codified the first federal ban on any type of abortion procedures when he signed into law a Congressional ban on partial-birth abortions. The Bush record on abortion and pro-life issues pleases NRLC president Dr. Wanda Franz, a psychology professor at West Virginia University. "President Bush has corrected the inexcusable acts of his predecessor," Franz told the crowd. "These legislative successes demonstrate how far we have come since the earliest days of the Right to Life movement."
http://www.lifenews.com/nat611.html

2004-07-02T02:51:00.000-04:00

From Life News...

British Figures Show Abortion Targets Teenage Girls

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Teenagers in England, and London in particular, continue to undergo abortions at an alarming rate, according to the latest statistical research. The figures show that more than three dozen girls under the age of 14 had abortions in a single year in London. Across Great Britain, more than 35,000 teenagers had abortions in 2002. One in ten of them was under the age of 16. In London, the problem appears to be particularly acute. More than 7,500 teenagers underwent abortions in London in 2002. More than 630 of them were under age 16. The figures have raised new questions about the effectiveness of the government's sex education program. Critics of the program say that the multi-million-pound campaign to reduce teen pregnancy is simply not working. “Teenage pregnancy--apart from the rare cases where the young person is married--is usually problematic, but aborting the child only causes a much bigger problem,” said Paul Danon of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. “Not only is innocent human life lost, but the girls then have to live with the psychological aftermath of abortion. Society's priority shouldn't be easier abortion--or easier availability of morning-after pills which can cause abortion--but help and support for all pregnant women and girls,” Danon said.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat609.html

2004-06-29T01:19:00.000-04:00

"I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; furthermore, I will not give to a woman an instrument to produce abortion." (ancient Hippocratic Oath)

from abortionismurder.org

2004-06-19T01:35:00.000-04:00

More mwahahahahaha-ing

Hopefully i can get these pictures to show up. Anyway, here are the html links regardless, re the press conference/protest Chris and i attended at St. Patrick's last Wednesday:

New York Sun
Reuters

I can't find the NJ Star Ledger article online but we got in there too. More to come as i find them.

2004-05-27T23:41:00.000-04:00

His America Fest. Check it out you guys. I'm helping to organize. Come if you can! I'll drive you!

2004-05-20T02:07:00.000-04:00

And now for some more facts...

The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama. Judge Moore was recently sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. He has been stripped of his judgeship and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in Alabama.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

America the Beautiful,
or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride;
I'm glad they'll never see.

Babies piled in dumpsters,
Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty,
your house is on the sand.

Our children wander aimlessly
poisoned by cocaine,
Choosing to indulge their lusts,
when God has said abstain.

From sea to shining sea,
our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God's love
and a need to always pray.

We've kept God in our temples,
how callous we have grown.
When earth is but His footstool,
and Heaven is His throne.

We've voted in a government
that's rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges
who throw reason out the door,

Too soft to place a killer
in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby
before he leaves the womb.

You think that God's not angry,
that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait
before His judgment comes?

How are we to face our God,
from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do,
but stem this evil tide?

If we who are His children,
will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face
and mend our evil way:

Then God will hear from Heaven
and forgive us of our sins,
He'll heal our sickly land
and those who live within.

But, America the Beautiful,
if you don't - then you will see,
A sad but Holy God
withdraw His hand from Thee.

2004-05-17T23:27:00.000-04:00

My friends! I'm home safely and soundly, and just thought I'd draw your attention to a letter penned 16 days ago by His Excellency, Bishop Sheridan of Colorado Springs, Colorado. It's long, so I'm putting the link here rather than reprinting the entire text. Suffice it to say that it seems we're getting even more Bishops hopping on the Catholic bandwagon, while some seem still hopelessly stuck in the permissive past. God bless you all, and I hope everything is going fantabulously well with you. To follow, the hyperlink!
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=46467

To Jesus through Mary,
Alex

2004-05-10T23:14:00.000-04:00

I would like to wish a fond farewell to all those who will not be returning next year. Your presence will be sorely missed.

I got dibs on anything you leave behind, BTW.

2004-05-09T15:55:00.000-04:00

Hip, Hip, Hurrah! and all that for the WHO being wrong. Again. Er-hemm. Anywho, I found this intriguing website while watching EWTN this morning at 4:30 or so. The URL is http://standupgirl.com/index_main.html and it's a site for young women who have unexpectedly pregnant to come, share their stories, read about others who have gone before, and seek and receive support with their situations. I don't know if we can utilize this in some way, but it mightn't be a bad idea.

Also, Priests For Life have a "Face The Truth" campaign wherein 10 or 12 people line the sidewalks of areas of high traffic (pedestrian and automotive) with huge posters with images of the fetus, of aborted babies, and also of healthy newborns in an attempt to get people to "face the truth" of what abortion does to children. It was done with great success on Central Park South not too long ago (you know, by 5th Ave. and that hideous statue of General Sherman...). There's info on the project at www.priestsforlife.org and there's a link to the Face the Truth campaign.

God bless,
Alex

2004-05-06T16:47:00.000-04:00

Nice.

Now some actual facts:

AIDS victims in 1987: Philippines 135 / Thailand 112

In 1991 the WHO predicted the Philippines would have 80,000 to 90,000 cases and Thailand 60,000 to 80,000 AIDS victims.

Thailand promoted the use of condoms in massive campaigns where Catholic Philippines promoted 'Abstinence' and 'Be faithful'.

The prognosis of the WHO was wrong for both countries:

1999: Philippines 1,005 / Thailand 755,000 AIDS victims

Source: British Medical Journal, volume 328, April 10th 2004

source

2004-05-06T10:19:00.002-04:00

Mwahahahahahahahaha. From the Journal News. Isn't it too funny that out of 401 NYU Students (400 of whom were supposedly "Voices for Choice") the one Student for Life gets to be in the paper? More updates soon. Live long and prosper.

2004-04-23T00:17:00.000-04:00

WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The American Center
for Law and Justice filed a suit Tuesday against the Secretary of the
Interior and the National Park Service after the government revoked a
permit issued to pro-life organizations to display pro-life signs in
Washington, D.C. this upcoming weekend - to counter the pro-abortion
message expected to be delivered at the upcoming March for Freedom of
Choice.

"The National Park Service maintains the sidewalks along the National Mall
but it does not own them, and it cannot, barring exceptional
circumstances, deny to citizens the right to use them for the purpose of
expressing their views on important issues of the day," said James M.
Henderson, Sr., ACLJ Senior Counsel.

The ACLJ filed the suit on behalf of Reverend Patrick Mahoney and his
pro-life organization the Christian Defense Coalition along with Brandi
Swindell who heads up Generation Life - an Idaho-based organization of
young Christian, pro-life activists.

The dispute resulted when the National Park Service announced that it was
revoking a permit for a demonstration, obtained by Mahoney, because his
pro-life message would conflict with the anticipated large scale,
so-called "March for Women's Lives" on April 25. Until the permit was
revoked, Mahoney had planned for up to 24 people to assemble and display
pro-life signs on sidewalks adjacent to the National Mall, where
pro-abortion groups are scheduled to meet this Sunday. Last Friday, the
National Park Service notified Mahoney and Swindell and told them their
permit had been revoked.

"It is very troubling that the Park Service has crushed and trampled the
First Amendment by denying our right to peacefully demonstrate on public
sidewalks," Mahoney said. "It is our hope that the courts will stand
against this kind of censorship and affirm our right to peacefully
articulate our views in the public square."

Campaign Life Coalition National President Jim Hughes, who is in
Washington this week, said that all the network television stations there
are "beating the drum" for the March this Sunday. "It's appalling," Hughes
said. "It's like paid advertising."

2004-04-08T17:39:00.000-04:00

Random Notes... Just to Keep Track of Things

Sorry for lack of Minutes awesomeness. This is just a quick list of some things to keep in mind -- add anything i forget.

- Vito Aiudo is coming to talk about the pro-life argument from a Biblical standpoint on Wed, April 21st. Not sure on the time, though. Brian, 6:45 or 7:00 would be nice for us Rosary folk, and no, we're not changing it. :P

- Tabling on April 21st to publicize Vito's talk and attract new membership. A big thing i think we all learned at LifeFest is the importance of emphasizing what Chris Slattery has always said -- "before we make abortion illegal, we must make it unnecessary." I think offering an outlet for people to actively help expectant mothers who think they have "no other choice" than to get an abortion would definitely help improve membership, and is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of the pro-life cause because we can actually save lives that way. Anyway, here's what we'll need for the tabling event:
-Tape
-Scissors
-Pens
-String
-Paperweights (?)
-Table cloth
-The many brochures we have
-Blown up sonogram pictures
-Pictures of Ben Stein, Patricia Heaton, Miss NJ, Miss America, etc..
-A large sign for the front of the table with a sonogram related image/logo/picture(perhaps that beautiful "she's a child, not a choice" picture), with the club's name on it
-Fliers for Vito's talk (we have to talk about what we're putting on it..)
-An informational flier on the club itself, with a blurb on who we are, what we do, contact information, etc.
-Informational pamphlets/photo copies of the work Dave, Alex, Antonella, and Brian were putting together
-More? There's always more, so please post your comments.

- We need to email these people, since we spoke with them at LifeFest:
-John Margand
-Sr. Mary Grace
-Sr. Guadalupe
-Priests for Life
-The Adoption Lady who said we could get Ms. NJ to come speak for us for free (!)
-Chris Slattery, regarding a talk this semester
-Feminists for Life
-Anyone else?

And here's what we need to email them about:
-Materials/supplemental pro-life pamphlets, books, models, fliers, posters, stickers, balloons, etc.
-Networking and contacting other organizations that we could help and vice versa
-Getting speakers to come to the campus
-Organizing street counseling sessions/tabling events
-Just to let them know we exist, and get out our contact information

-Saturday, April 24th. Rossy from Expectant Mother Care asked me if we wanted to fill in for her at Fordham University where she was supposed to give a Pro-Life talk/workshop on the Right to Life that day. She can't make it, and wants to know if we're interested. Brian can't be there that day, but how about the rest of you? We can present it together and it might be a great way to network with other Pro-Life organizations.

-Sunday, April 25th is Operation Witness in Washington D.C. Anyone interested? I might be going, and if so i'm taking the Chinatown bus early that morning, getting there about noon. Chris Slattery will be there along with a whole bunch of people from the Priests for Life, Feminists for Life, American Collegians for Life, American Life League, ..etc. It's going to be a rough time since this is a counter-march to the March for 44,000 Infant Deaths, so if you have the guts, come join me.

- April 27th is National Pro-Life T-shirt day. So if you have one, wear it. If you don't, but you have a nice Catholic/Christian shirt, wear that. If you're not religious, you can buy the official shirt (it's beautiful!) at www.all.org. E-mail shirtday@rockforlife.org for more information, or call at 540-659-4171. If you don't have fliers for your dorm, let me know, i'll give them to you on Wednesday.

- If you're free on Fridays and would like to come with me to the Expectant Mother Care office in the South Bronx, let me know, and we can figure out a place to meet on campus or i can give you directions and meet up with you there. You'll learn how to counsel young men and women about abortion procedures, general information, and get them the help they need if any sort of pre-natal care is necessary. It's a wonderful organization and the people who work there saves countless lives every day ... i'm even thinking about making fliers to advertise this since it's such a great volunteer opportunity. If you know anyone who is pro-life, is a good people person, and would like to be officially trained, direct them to www.expectantmothercare.org and give them my email address (LeiaSolo8@aol.com). Oh, and regarding this Friday, if the women at Expectant Mother Care haven't handed out all the easter baskets we made them, you can help hand those out as well. I know tomorrow's Good Friday so that might not work for a lot of people, but next week or any time you have open would be absolutely fine.

Can't think of anything else at the moment but post anything i forgot. God bless!

-- Jenni

2004-03-26T00:50:00.000-05:00

Good news:

Dear Feminist for Life,

Thank you for encouraging your senators to support the Unborn Victims of
Violence Actalso known as Laci and Conners Lawand to oppose both the
Feinstein and Murray amendments.

On March 25, 2004, the Senate passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act by
a vote of 61-38. The President has promised to sign the bill.

Women and men overwhelmingly support the Unborn Victims of Violence Act
(UVVA), which recognizes an unborn child as a legal victim when the child
is injured or killed during the commission of a federal crime of violence
against a pregnant woman.

As you know, Sens. Feinstein and Murray proposed amendments, which were
designed to kill, or at least vitiate, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

Sen. Feinsteins amendment refused to recognize that crimes of violence
against a pregnant woman have two victims. The Feinstein alternative
failed by a vote of 49-50.

Sen. Murrays long and burdensome requirements would have mired the UVVA
and rendered it ineffective. The Murray Amendment needed 60 votes to waive
a budget point of order to proceed, but failed by a vote of 46-53.

It was an honor to testify on your behalf before the U.S. House Judiciary
Constitution Subcommittee in support of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act
(http://www.feministsforlife.org/news/serrinuvva.htm).

Please accept my heartfelt thanks for making sure your Senators and
Representatives knew that you supported this important legislation.

Together we will continue our work to protect both women and children from
all forms of violence.

For women, for life,

Serrin M. Foster
President

2004-03-25T18:41:00.000-05:00

Happy Feast of the Annunciation!

Minutes coming soon. Operation Easter Bunny under way. Slattery's taking the baskets to his South Bronx center and i'm going to meet him there tomorrow at 1pm. They close at 5 or 6 so if you're available after that please, please, come. Let me know if you're coming so i can give you directions.

2004-03-24T01:43:00.000-05:00

E-mail to the list was as follows:

Hey guys,

We'll be holding a meeting tomorrow (3/24) on the 9th floor of the Kimmel
Center at 6:30pm. I am terribly sorry for the short notice, but, we are hoping to kick off a project called "Operation Easter Bunny" tomorrow in which students prepare Easter basket care packages for expecting mothers and their unborn children. Tomorrow, we will be putting together the care packages and decorating Easter baskets in order to hand them out to mothers in need on Friday, March 26th, at the Expectant Mothercare Pregnancy Crisis Center in Brooklyn and the South Bronx.

If you can make it, that would be absolutely wonderful because we could
really use the help. If you have some art/craft supplies on hand, it'd be
great if you could bring them along.

The more items, supplies, and baskets we have, the more gifts we will be
able to make for the near 4,000 mothers Expectant Mothercare helps every
year. We're hoping to put together at least 30 - 50 Easter baskets to
surprise the mothers who come into the center on Friday with an Easter gift.
If you have any spare time and a little extra change, and would like to
pick up a few items at the dollar store or supermarket to put in the
baskets, that would be fantastic.

We need: Easter baskets, decorations (pastel/easter wrapping paper,
stickers, fake green stuffing-grass, colored cellophane, etc.), candy,
rattles, diapers, infant outfits, baby calendars, pacifiers, toys, books,
and anything else you can think of... it's completely up to you.

I'm going buy some Easter baskets and various items, but we need everyone's help to make this work. Just five dollars spent at the dollar store would help tremendously. If you'd like to come on Friday to help give out the
baskets please contact us and we'll set up a place to meet on campus before
leaving for the Center. Again, apologies for the short notice, and thank
you so, so much if you are able to help in any capacity.

Have a great week!

Thanks again.

2004-03-09T20:40:00.000-05:00

It's settled.

Tomorrow the Grad Students aren't holding a meeting in the apartment where we usually have Newman. So, we'll be in there most likely, and i will either have a VHS of Life is Beautiful or a portable DVD player handy along with the DVD. I MIGHT be about ten minutes late though, since my class ends at 6:10, regularly (i might get out early tomorrow). So. At any rate.

Life is Beautiful.
6pm.
Thompson Center.
Pizza.

Woohoo!

See you guys tomorrow.

2004-03-07T23:36:00.000-05:00

Dave, good idea. Tomorrow after my 9:30am class i'll stop by the Catholic Center and try to find Father John to ask him about that. Also, i'll email everyone i can the fliers i'm in the process of making for the event -- if you could print them out at either the Tisch Hall computer lab or the 3rd North one (maybe like, 20 or 30 copies) and put them in your dorms/around campus/in the Silver Center/etc that would be a great help. I'll be doing the same!

God bless,
Jenni

2004-03-07T21:46:00.000-05:00

Ah, I think those Catholic law students may be meeting in there in your specified time, hence the difficulty involved. Which would mean that you would be in the other room across where we were doing Newman before we got our regular room back, and I think that only has a VCR, though I could be wrong. Maybe someone could check tomorrow/steal the DVD from the living room and put it in the other room?

2004-03-07T13:51:00.000-05:00

Never fear Alex...

I *think* the Thompson Center living room where we have Newman (which is where i thought we might watch it) has a DVD player in it. Is that correct?

2004-03-07T12:34:00.000-05:00

Oh no! My Blockbuster-card-carrying friend and I went to the ol' Video Rental Store last night (Saturday) and to our horror! discovered not only that "Life Is Beautiful" was rented out, but that they only have it in DVD format! No need to panic; we've got a little time to brainstorm and figure this out...I hope! I'd put this out to the list, but I don't know what the address is...durr!

2004-03-05T18:36:00.000-05:00

Mini Pro-Life Victory!

Yes, well...I noticed yesterday as I was walking down our stairwell that some person/persons/or creature had violently removed one of those nifty new flyer-posters we got at the last meeting. You know, the one with the precious little girl and the caption "Is this the face of the Enemy?" He/She/It had folded it and left it lying sadly upon the floor! Well, I promptly righted our sad little friend, and the same thing has not happened a second time! Yay! Maybe they got bored tearing down pictures of cute little babies, who knows? Maybe they'll also tire of killing cute little babies, too. Maybe...

2004-03-02T09:45:00.000-05:00

By the way...

Woohoo!!

PRO-LIFE VICTORY -- House Passes Unborn Victims of Violence Act: Next Step, The Senate Vote
February 26, 2004
Today the House passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act by a measure of 254 to 163. This much needed fetal homicide legislation would recognize unborn children as victims when they are injured or killed during the commission of a federal crime.

The Bush Administration strongly supports the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and encouraged Members to promptly pass the H.R. 1997 in a statement released yesterday.

The bipartisan vote included all of the pro-life female Members of the House of Representatives: Marsha Blackburn (TN); Barbara Cubin (WY); Jo Ann Davis (VA); Jo Ann Emerson (MO); Katherine Harris (FL); Melissa Hart (PA) (the sponsor of the Act); Candice Miller (MI); Marilyn Musgrave (CO); Sue Myrick (NC); Anne Northup (KY); Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL).

The House also defeated a "single-victim" substitute, which would have only increased the penalties for a crime where an unborn child was hurt or killed, but would not have recognized that child as the second victim.

"This bill says it like it is: there are two victims when an expectant mother and her unborn child are hurt," said Jennifer Bingham, Executive Director of the Susan B. Anthony List. Click Here to view the SBA List complete Press Release.

The next and most difficult step in enacting this bill, also known as Laci and Conner's Law, will be passing it through the Senate. The SBA List has generated over 140,000 letters and petitions on this issue, but we cannot stop there. Click Here to send a letter to your Senators to ask them to support of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

Click Here to learn more about the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

http://www.sba-list.org/

2004-03-02T01:05:00.000-05:00

Whew! Okay, the Long-Awaited-Minutes *cough*...

Sorry, this weekend was, how to say, insane. Anyway, what we discussed at the last Students for Life Meeting, as well as Thursday night after Newman:

- On Wednesday evening we mainly discussed what debate approach we are going to employ for the upcoming Voices for Choice debate. John suggested making a Ciceronian debate model, while I suggested we cover the debate topic by topic, including all aspects of our argument -- moral/philosophic, scientific, legal. Will and John discussed this extensively after the meeting as well, and will debrief us as to their conclusions at the next meeting.

- We also discussed what speakers we are going to use and where. I have made up a list of all potential speakers, and we are thinking of perhaps writing a couple of speeches and holding auditions to see where to place speakers in the line-up. Additionally, we discussed who should moderate the debate, and the presidents of both the College Republicans (Omar) and College Democrats (Michael) popped up as possibilities.

- Everyone will speak. I hope. Even audience members can ask questions, so we will assign all attending members (if they wish) a question to ask (or you can come up with your own) so that even if you are not a speaker you will have a chance to participate.

- If you have any friends from on-campus Christian organizations please urge them to attend. Even better if they want to help out. Some that spring to mind are the Campus Crusaders for Christ, Pax Christi, members of Newman, and even though the College Republicans don't really fit in here, i'm sure many are pro-life and would attend if invited. As a matter of fact, i will create small flyer-like invitations in a few weeks so you can just hand them to people you think might be interested.

- Dave Casavis, treasurer of the Metropolitan Republican Club, who i met by chance Thursday evening in the basement of Tisch Hall, has offered us the use of his clubhouse facilities on the upper east side if necessary for meetings. The Metropolitan Republican Club meets on Sunday afternoons at 3pm on 122 East 83rd Street, and hosts 10 dollar dinner socials the first Thursday of every month along with a bunch of other less frequent events. Apparently we can meet whenever we want. Why am i telling you all this. Well, check out the website and you'll discover the Metropolitan Republican Club was started in 1902 by Teddy Roosevelt. Okay, interesting, but so what? If our club wants to attempt to make a local legislative difference, these guys might be able to teach us how to do just that. They host campaign classes throughout the year, have sent people to Congress, the House, and have helped members campaign locally in the state of New York as well. Just a thought, anyway, but it could be worthwhile. Perhaps this is only appealing to me because of my dreams of becoming a "professional pro-life lobbyist," however, it might appeal to you guys as well, so, i share.

- We need to contact the Voices for Choice to settle on a date, folks to moderate, mechanics of the debate, etc.

- Roses? In order to get across the core of the pro-life message even more strongly, what do you think about passing out roses at the end of the debate to people in the audience as they leave, with numbers of local pregnancy crisis centers and adoption agencies attached on a little card? I mean, there are going to be people in the audience who have had abortions/might be thinking about it/etc, so this would be a good chance to at least arm them with *some* sort of pro-life information, as it is unlikely that they will get it from...*coughahemgag* NYU...

- Speaking of which.... we *need* to contact NYU health services and find out how we can petition them to change their policies regarding the way they advise pregnant students. As far as i know, it's either drop out or have an abortion. If anything, we should at least give them pro-life pamphlets with alternative pro-life options to give to questioning students (along with information about our club), as i am *sure* they won't get anything like that otherwise. What do you think?

- Maternity Drive. Thanks so much to Dave and Alex for commenting on the maternity drive, and i agree -- i think a dorm by dorm approach will have the best results, and i definitely think we could get most dorms to participate, as well as Newman. Will, perhaps you can let Becca know about this and she could announce it at the next Newman meeting?

- A thought for publicity. Do you think it would be a good idea if we wrote a short announcement for Father John to read at Mass, just to let the congregation know that we exist? I can print up some sign up sheets and we can place them in the lobby at the 6pm Mass with a couple representatives in case people want to sign up afterwards. Just a thought.

- As always, there's more. I'll sift through my notes tomorrow and post the rest. I have websites for you to check out, to help you gather your thoughts for the debate, and a bunch of great pictures.

God save the Queen,

Jenni

2004-02-29T15:45:00.000-05:00

David speaks the truth regarding an Army of Orcs for the Dark Lord, Sauron. But I get ahead of myself. I had completely forgotten the fact that many of us are indeed in University Housing and many of the Newman reg'lars are as well. If there could be a bit of recruitment, I see no difficulty in placing collection bins in the lobbies of nigh-all the dormitories! Mwahahaha! We'd just have to draft a proposal, I imagine, to the managers of each hall, which ought not be terribly difficult. For extra-special added protection, we could place the collection bins in obvious-but-not-too-terribly-accessible-to-outside-people places, so as to safeguard the contents from the Evil One, who no doubt would try to steal them. Vive la...well, Vie!

2004-02-26T15:28:00.000-05:00

Hey, thought re the maternity drive. We have a fairly wide distribution of people in their various dorms geographically speaking, and I don't think someone from say Coral would mind going to U-Hall to drop something off. So perhaps getting a couple of properly-placed Newmanites to help out would be almost as effective as, say, breeding an army of orcs.

Sorry, Two Towers DVD close at hand. Hope to see y'all tonite.

David

2004-02-25T23:14:00.000-05:00

Alex had a thought re. the maternity drive, as well as the Hospital maternity ward idea. Forthwith, Alex's ideas!

1) It may not be a bad idea to set up multiple collection sites for the drive. Perhaps work with security in Kimmel for something down in the lobby as well as...ish, another site maybe not on Washington Square, just so as to make it even easier for people to help, you know? This would of course entail more work on our part: checking on more than one collection site, etc., but if it's feasible, I think it's worth it. Having boxes in all the dorms might be a little much for us unless we dramatically increase our manpower somehow...like having a hostile takeover of, say, the Campus Crusaders.

2) St. Vincent's Hospital and the University go waaaaay back to before the time of the founding of the President's C-Team, even. Sr. Patricia...somebody...is in charge of volunteer services at the Hospital, and she's the one we should talk to, methinks. I'm sure she'd be very glad to coordinate with us, given the goal of our mission and all.

Sorry I missed the meeting tonight! I was at the Catholic Centre almost all day, distributing ashes and serving at Masses and whatnot, and I didn't leave there until a quarter past seven. Sooo tired. Anyhow, let me know through the list or this blogging wonder how it went, won't you? Many thanks!

To Jesus through Mary (John Paul liked this one as a boy),
Alex

2004-02-20T19:40:00.000-05:00

The (Very Short) E-board Meeting, etc...

Glad you guys have found the blog. Feel free to post information you find, ideas you have, links, etc.

Stuff we talked about (formally called "The Minutes"):

- Possible upcoming speakers include a pro-life doctor ("Dr. Bobby"), a minister (Vito Aiudo - did i spell that right?), and some NYU professors (Mark D'Young, perhaps Stoller, etc). Do you guys think we could get Slattery? I've sent an e-mail to Margand, asking him for assistance on finding pro-life rose stickers, local pro-life groups in the area, etc.

- Next week's meeting will be spent preparing for the debate with the Voices for Choice. I thought working on a power-point or projector presentation would be helpful. Also perhaps getting some models of a baby in the womb at different stages of growth (i have an 11 week plastic model, but there are more that we could get..if you think this is a good idea).

- I know i've probably said this so many times it's ridiculous, however, Saturdays from 8am - noon Father Benedict Groeschel's Franciscan Brothers of the Renewal hold a prayer-rally in front of an abortion clinic on 30th St. and Park Avenue. We sing hymns, pray the Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Way of the Cross, etc, and if you wish you can assist the Friars in handing out information packets (with listings of alternative Pro-Life clinics in the City) to people on the street. Brian, would you be opposed to me making fliers about this weekly event (or even mailing the list-serve about it, maybe?) to put up around campus in case there are others who might want to come but don't know about it?

Alex thought of the wonderful idea that the getting-up-early aspect of this could be a good Lenten sacrifice.

- A banner. We should probably get one, and make NYU pay for it too. Brian, do you know how this is done, and which copy store makes them?

- A maternity drive. This very-positive-thing-that-nobody-in-his-right-mind-could-possibly-oppose would definitely help students find out about the club, since we could even contact our advisor to send out emails about this -- i'm sure she wouldn't have a problem with something so community-service oriented. Anyway, i think we should try to do this even *this* semester, perhaps in mid-March. How would it work though? Would we set up a place on campus where people could drop stuff on one day, or put boxes in all the dorms for people to leave? What do you think? Is this even a good idea?

- Contacting other Christian groups (such as the Campus Crusaders for Christ) to get the word out about the club, since we are losing a lot of members next semester and need to expand.

- Suicide hotline. I think this is a great idea, and we should probably contact a local hotline/campus hotline, even, and let them know our group would like to help out. Then we could post some stuff about how if anyone would like to volunteer, they can do it through our club, thereby getting the word out about the club to even more people. Woohoo!

- Volunteering in a hospital? I had this very out there idea that we need to get people into hospitals, into maternity wards, to actually *see* how beautiful it is when life is allowed to flourish. If we could get people to help out on weekends at say, a maternity ward or something, we might be able to get those people (many of whom may have never even held a newborn child) a closer glimpse at sonograms, infants, the expression on a mother's face when she gets to hold her child for the first time...well, it could do a lot of evangelizing. I don't know. This is not a thoroughly thought-out, well-conceived plan, and might be better left to next semester.

- Franciscans are the best. 'Nuff said.

- E-board meetings. As far as i can tell, they're scheduled for Thursdays, 7pm in the Catholic Center. John, you were in a hurry last time, is this time no good for you or was that a one time thing? Also, Rachel, can you get out of CR meetings or is it too important that you be there?

- There's more. I think. But i can't remember. Please post what you think, ideas, yeas or nays, All That Jazz (just finished watching Chicago...).

God Bless,

--Jenni

"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda. Who is also the best.

2004-02-20T10:45:00.000-05:00

Like Brian, I too am giving a shout out, but not to m'homies, as I've not really got any...I'm on the blogging whosywhatsit now, so watch out world!

2004-02-20T00:27:00.000-05:00

Hey y'all!! I just wanted to give a quick shout out to m'homies!! YeeeOOU!!

2004-02-15T06:13:00.000-05:00

Okay, added some links, though you may have to click on the archive link to view them. Strange. Still working on images...

2004-02-14T15:26:00.000-05:00

Trying this out...

Okay, so now you decide. Yea or nay? I'll be posting some links and announcement information soon.