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Pro-Life This Week October 4, 2024

Action Alert

Register Now for Rosary Coast to Coast on Sunday, October 6

This October, devoted Catholics of all ages across North America are uniting in prayer. Many will meet face to face in familiar locations. Others can participate in spirit. You are invited to join in this extraordinary movement of prayer that is designed to mobilize and energize multigenerational groups of children and families.

The 2024 Rosary Coast to Coast will take place on Sunday, October 6. Start organizing rosary rallies and register them here. The rallies are encouraged to be in public places: along coasts and borders, at state capitols, in parks, on beaches, along busy streets, and outside churches and shrines.

Rosary Coast to Coast will be anchored by the National Rosary Rally in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Plan to join together across the country in praying the Glorious Mysteries of the rosary simultaneously at 4 pm Eastern, 3 pm Central, 2 pm Mountain, 1 pm Pacific, noon Alaska, and 10 am Hawaii.

REGISTER ONLINE FOR FREE for the live-stream National Eucharistic Procession, National Rosary Rally, and Rosary Coast to Coast taking place on Sunday October 6 in Washington, DC.

Week in Review

ALL Ramps Up Efforts to Encourage Catholics to Vote for Life in Their States

With elections right around the corner, American Life League is ramping up efforts to raise awareness among Catholic voters in states with abortion ballot initiatives. 

Ten states will feature ballot measures that seek to enshrine abortion into their state constitution this November.

ALL has developed FREE materials with detailed and thoroughly researched information on WHAT each state’s ballot measure says and WHY Catholics have the obligation to vote against them.

Please download and distribute our FREE drop cards and/or flyers in your community. 

Little lives are at stake this November!

Charity Watchlist Update: Beloved Charity Earns New Red Rating for Association with Planned Parenthood

ALL’s research department recently reviewed the American Heart Association, a charity that previously received a “green” rating on ALL’s Charity Watchlist due to its stance against utilizing human embryos and fetal tissue in the research it funds. However, ALL recently uncovered that AHA no longer deserves pro-lifers’ support due to its partnership with Planned Parenthood in 2023 and promotion of LGBTQ+ lifestyles.

Just last year, the American Heart Association’s community impact coordinator provided a grant to a Planned Parenthood in Roanoke, Virginia, to establish a self-measured blood pressure program at that facility. Planned Parenthood of Roanokecurrently offers abortions, contraception, and “gender-affirming care.” 

This is what AHA’s blog said about its collaboration with Planned Parenthood last year:

Over the past year, Planned Parenthood (PP) South Atlantic has provided reproductive health services, STI testing and treatment, cancer screenings, gender-affirming care, all while expanding to include primary care services. PP serves all community members, regardless of insurance status. In Fall 2022, PP implemented the Target:BP Measuring BP Accurately training and skills testing into their annual competencies and staff orientation. Continuing their collaboration, the American Heart Association supported PP South Atlantic in developing a self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) initiative to enhance partnering with patients to achieve hypertension control.

The blog goes on to say that the American Heart Association would work to expand this program to Planned Parenthood’s Charlottesville facility. When asked by ALL if it had a relationship with Planned Parenthood, the American Heart Association said that it currently does not have a relationship with the abortion organization but that it “regularly works with public and community healthcare clinics across the country.” When asked if they would work with Planned Parenthood again, AHA did not reply.

Additionally, the American Heart Association also encourages people to embrace and support LGBTQ+ ideologies and lifestyles. Currently, the website provides a glossary of LGBTQ+ terminology for visitors to the website. A video recorded in 2020 by the Association’s current CEO, Nancy Brown, shows that the Association encourages raising awareness for members of the LGBTQ+ community affected with heart issues and healthcare inequities by attending PRIDE events and discussions during PRIDE month. 

Due to these findings and lack of response, ALL has moved AHA’s previous green rating to red on the Watchlist. To read the full report, please click here.

ALL in the News

Last week, ALL’s new report garnered an influx of media attention, including ALL’s Katie Brown featured as a guest on EWTN’s Pro-Life Weekly. Written media included two articles from The Washington Stand, the first linked here and the second here. More media attention came from stories in The Christian Post, Live Action, The Daily Signal, National Catholic Register, Catholic Vote, The Washington Times, Catholic World Report, LifeSiteNews, Pregnancy Help News, and SRN News.

The Christan Post wrote an article about STOPP’s recent press release highlighting several of Planned Parenthood’s obscene sex-ed programs across the nation. 

Susan Ciancio, editor of Celebrate Life Magazine and director of the Culture of Life Studies Program—ALL’s pre-K-12 pro-life education program—wrote an article about Respect Life Month and CLSP’s Pro-Life Essay Contest for kids that is happening now through November 4. Tell all kids! She also wrote an article (published in LifeSiteNews) about a new movie on Boys Town founder Fr. Flanagan. The movie will show in select theaters on Tuesday, October 8. We encourage you to go out and support this awesome movie!

Twice a week, Judie’s commentaries are distributed to an expansive media list. The list contains over 100 media outlets such as Fox News, The Federalist, Breitbart, and The Daily Caller, among others. Judie’s commentaries are each featured on the front page of ALL.org. 

Pro-Life Education

Culture of Life Studies Program

Blessed Carlo Acutis: Extraordinary in the Ordinary teaches high school students about the short yet impactful life of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a youth who used his exceptional computer skills to create a website cataloging the Catholic Church’s approved Eucharistic miracles. Carlo is a beautiful example of how living an ordinary life can become extraordinary because of faith, love of Jesus in the Eucharist, and generosity toward others. This one-day lesson reinforces students’ understanding of and faith in the True Presence of the Eucharist, it teaches students that holiness can and should be attained through ordinary things, and it guides students as they seek to live a holy life and build a culture that respects all people. ORDER HERE

ALL’s Education Materials

Abortion: Why Should I Care? Every abortion takes the life of an innocent child and directly impacts the mom, the dad, and many others. This brochure expertly explains how abortion directly impacts young people especially and presents a passionate case for youth to take a stand for life. SHOP NOW

Pro-Life Social Media

‘Absolutely Vile’: Abortion Writer Hit with Backlash for Offering Hurricane Victims . . . Abortions

Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff to Barack Obama, famously said, “Never led a crisis go to waste.” This rule of thumb gives progressives the opportunity to take advantage of the suffering whenever tragedy strikes. For Marxists, that means using a natural disaster to feign altruism.

An independent “journalist” and abortion advocate announced on her X account that she has put together a list of aid organizations to assist victims of Hurricane Helene. But most hurricane victims in North Carolina are out of luck because these organizations only help a specific clientele—homosexuals and expectant mothers.

When rural folks have no food, water, or electricity, crazed feminists are there to give them birth control and abortions.