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Pro-Life This Week November 15, 2024

Week in Review

Christian Nonprofit Moves from Yellow to Green on Charity Watchlist

This week, ALL received communication from a spokesperson for the Christian charity CURE International. 

CURE International is a Christian nonprofit organization that operates a network of eight pediatric hospitals across Africa and the Philippines providing world-class surgical care and the love of Jesus to children living with treatable disabilities.

Previously, CURE had been rated yellow on ALL’s Charity Watchlist purely due to a lack of information on where the charity stood, if at all, on life issues. ALL had received CURE’s statement of faith, which expressed their commitment to Christian values in their work. 

We are pleased to announce that following more clarification from a CURE spokesperson, ALL moved the charity to the green section of our watchlist. 

“CURE International provides no-cost surgical treatment for children who are survivors of physical trauma or disabilities,” said a CURE spokesperson. “[CURE] does not treat adults, nor do they provide prenatal care, labor and delivery care, PICU care, maternal care, reproductive care, or general healthcare.”

“We are not in any way, shape, or form involved in anything related to women’s reproductive rights. . . . We are very pro-life in the sense that our hospital in Uganda treats children who would likely die without neurosurgical care,” they clarified further. 

ALL applauds CURE Int. for their commitment to true charity and Christian nonprofit work for children in need. 

To view CURE Int. and other green-rated charities, or for the full list, visit the Charity Watchlist here.

Virginia Rushes Anti-Life and Anti-Family Proposed Amendments Up to Virginia’s General Assembly Vote

In a rapid decision this week, Virginia’s House Privileges and Elections Committee advanced three proposed state constitutional amendments up to the General Assembly for a vote in 2025. And it did so within a matter of minutes. First, Democrats on the committee voted to advance HJ1, which seeks to enshrine a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom.” This proposed amendment includes the “right” to abortion in the first two trimesters, with exceptions of the “life or physical or mental health” of the mother all the way up through the third trimester.  

The second proposed amendment, HJ9, seeks to rewrite Virginia’s current provision on marriage from “only a union between one man and one woman” to a “right to marry” for all. Some of the new language proposed by the Committee states, “This Commonwealth and its political subdivisions shall recognize any lawful marriage between two parties and treat such marriages equally under the law, regardless of the sex [or] gender” (emphasis added). The last amendment, HJ 2, seeks to restore voting rights to felons who have served their sentences.

HJ1 is especially dangerous as it pushes Virginia closer to enshrining abortion-on-demand, which is sadly the law for several states in the US. In addition to the terrible prospect of increasing access to child-killing through abortion in Virginia, HJ9 also shows a disregard toward the family in society, the sacredness of marriage established by God, and God’s intentional design for man and woman as male and female. 

Virginia’s Catholic bishops—Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Arlington Diocese and Bishop Barry Knestout of the Richmond Diocese—issued a joint statement on the proposed amendments to be reviewed by the Assembly next year, highlighting the real threats to human life and the family if HJ1 and HJ9 are eventually approved and passed:

Adding a “right” to abortion in Virginia’s constitution would enshrine a fundamental tragedy, not a fundamental right. Alarmingly, this proposed policy appears to allow virtually unlimited abortion at any stage of pregnancy. We are especially concerned that this measure could quite possibly endanger Virginia’s parental consent law and its prohibition against partial-birth abortion, and may very well foreclose the possibility of any future measure to protect babies from abortion. Rather than further expanding our Commonwealth’s already very permissive abortion laws, we urge all lawmakers to work instead for policies that affirm the life and dignity of every mother and every child.

We also oppose the effort to remove the constitutional provision regarding marriage that Virginia voters approved in 2006. We affirm the dignity of every person, and we affirm too that marriage is exclusively the union of one man and one woman. Marriage was created by God with an original design and purpose that each of us is called to preserve and that predates any nation, religion or law.

ALL stands with Bishops Burbidge and Knestout in condemning these pro-abortion and anti-marriage proposals, and we will continue to monitor this story and provide updates and action items as they come. We cannot allow what happened last week, with the abortion and anti-family measures passing in seven states, to continue becoming law within our nation.

ALL in the News

ALL national director Katie Brown was a guest on The Regular Joe Show this week to discuss ALL’s abortion pill report and the fallout of the abortion pill. Listen to the show here.

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 on the rosary featured in Catholic World Report this week. Read the article here. She also wrote an article about CLSP’s new Advent reflection booklet entitled The Mysteries of Advent. Read the blog here.

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

The Mysteries of Advent: Our latest Advent reflection booklet follows the 20 mysteries of the rosary to help you and your family grow closer to Jesus and His mother this Advent season. Each day we explore and reflect upon a new mystery as we encourage you to picture yourself as a silent companion to Jesus and Mary. The entries for each mystery include a related Bible verse, an explanation, a reflection, a challenge, and a brief prayer. As you read, we hope that you can easily picture the love between mother and Son and the love Christ has for others and you, and we hope that this time of holy anticipation of the birth of our Lord and Savior puts you in the right frame of mind to receive Him joyfully. ORDER HERE

ALL’s Education Materials

Abortion: Why Should I Care? is an eye-opening brochure that explains how abortion directly impacts young people. In addition, it presents a passionate case for youth to take a stand for life. SHOP NOW

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Harris Voters Play ‘Abortion Access Skee-Ball’

Filings with the Federal Election Commission show the Harris campaign burning nearly a billion dollars in the failed attempt to elect Kamala Harris. Despite the insane amount of cash in Kamala’s war chest, reports indicate that the campaign is still $20 million in the hole.

What did all that money pay for besides media buys, hotel podcast sets, and Oprah’s production company? How about a New York “Kamala Harris Fashion Week Party” featuring abortion Skee-Ball and abortion Jenga?  

And to think . . . this insanity was 3 million votes away from winning.

And Chuck Shumer, too.

Imagine these people in charge of spending our tax dollars.

Voters chose a path to lower food prices, lower fuel prices, lower housing prices, stopping the southern border invasion, and pretty much preventing World War III and the annihilation of mankind, while Kamala’s campaign tried selling more murdered babies. 

Any wonder why Harris/Walz was a cataclysmic failure?