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Pro-Life This Week November 22, 2024

Week in Review

Biden Quietly Gives the Medal of Freedom to Former Planned Parenthood President 

This week it was quietly announced that Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood president Cecil Richards. Richards served as the president of Planned Parenthood from 2006 to 2018. 

According to The Washington Times, the ceremony was not listed on Biden’s public schedule, nor was his decision to award the medal to Richards publicly announced until after the presentation. Members of the media were not invited to watch the ceremony, which was not live streamed on the White House website.

This is highly unusual for this type of ceremony, but given Richards’ history with abortion giant Planned Parenthood, it seems they wanted to sweep the presentation under the rug. 

This move from the Biden administration almost seems like a symbolic capstone on the most pro-abortion presidential administration in our nation’s history. 

As reported in ALL’s latest report, Biden’s FDA made it a priority to allow the dangerous abortion pill to be sent via mail from unknown websites often coming from Mexico. They funneled billions of dollars to Planned Parenthood in taxpayer funding. And for the first time in decades, Americans witnessed a major rise in abortion rates.

It has become crystal clear that Biden and his team have made abortion their number one priority, even bestowing it with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. 

ALL encourages all Americans to pray for the current president’s conversion and for our president-elect to uphold pro-life values for all stages of life. 

STOPP Action Item Update: Deaf School Hosts Event with Planned Parenthood

On August 21, 2024, STOPP reported that Planned Parenthood of Delaware created a video series containing sexually perverse “education” specifically geared toward middle and high schoolers who are deaf. Planned Parenthood of Delaware then announced it would contact all the deaf schools for middle and high school students throughout the US to implement these videos into their curriculum. STOPP asked our faithful supporters to join us in writing letters to these schools and asking them to reject Planned Parenthood’s radical sex education video series. 

After months of little-to-no response from these schools, STOPP’s research department discovered through a recent social media post that Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will be participating in an event hosted at one of the deaf schools STOPP contacted months ago. 

St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf in Brooklyn, NY, is hosting a “Turkey, Fixins, and Resource Fair” this Saturday, November 23. Despite its namesake, St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf is no longer a religiously affiliated institution. 

This Saturday’s event is put on by District 35’s councilwoman, Crystal Hudson. Hudson herself proclaims that she is a “proud supporter of Planned Parenthood” and has received endorsements from Planned Parenthood of Greater New York. So it should be no surprise that Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will sponsor the fair as well. Not only is PPGNY sponsoring the fair, but it announced on X that it will be there to “distribute safe sex kits & more.”

According to another local website, the event is supposed to be family-friendly with one of the sponsors “distributing books for school-aged kids.”

This leads to two questions: 1) Why would the school host such an event in its building? 2) Does the school have a relationship with Planned Parenthood, especially regarding sex education?

Action Item: Please join STOPP in contacting St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf and voicing concern over Planned Parenthood’s participation in this event on the school’s premises. We also urge the school to reject Planned Parenthood’s sex education program and any partnerships with the abortion giant going forward.

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 featured on LifeSiteNews this week. She also wrote an article about the importance of pro-life education and how easy it is to implement at home with CLSP.

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

Advent is a time of anticipation as we wait and grow in excitement for the birth of our Savior. CLSP now has three daily (and easily downloadable) reflection booklets for you and your family. Read them aloud or alone to make this an incredibly wondrous Advent! Each is just $1.99!

New this year is The Mysteries of Advent, which follows the 20 mysteries of the rosary to help you and your family grow closer to Jesus and His mother. 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. ORDER HERE

Awaiting the Gift of Christ: Walking with the Saints This Advent will walk you through Advent with the stories of some amazing saints and with teaching from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Each day, we introduce a concept from the Catechism, provide a short bio on a saint, and include a reflection of how that saint lived his or her life according to Church teaching. We then offer a way for you to use that saint’s example to build a culture of life in your home or community and end with a short prayer. ORDER HERE

Waiting for Christ with Joyful Anticipation: Reflecting on Christ’s Love This Advent offers a joyful Bible verse that speaks of the anticipation of Christ. We include a short reflection to help you ponder God’s words. We then highlight a special saint and explain how you can use that saint’s example to build a culture of life in your own homes and communities. Finally, we end with a fun activity you can do as a family that will help bring out the joy of the season. ORDER HERE

ALL’s Education Materials

Prayer is a powerful way to clear a pregnant mother’s heart and mind of the lies and distortions put forth by abortion proponents. In the spirit of Archbishop Sheen’s beloved prayer for children in danger of being aborted, we introduce this prayer for mothers who are being offered abortion as a “solution” to their unexpected pregnancy. SHOP NOW

Pro-Life Social Media

‘Absolutely Disgusting’: Biden Awards Abortion CEO Medal of Freedom

You can’t be Catholic and give awards to abortion CEOs.   

Unless you’re Joe Biden.

Then you’ll pretty much do anything that violates Catholic teaching, because no bishop will admit that Biden has excommunicated himself for officiating a gay wedding, signing an executive order that secures access to killing preborn children, and defending the genital mutilation of born children.This week, Joe Biden awarded former abortion CEO Cecile Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing Richards’ work to “advance women’s reproductive rights.” That’s abortion-speak for protecting mothers’ access to kill her preborn children.  

“. . . advance women’s reproductive rights and equality, and mobilize Americans to exercise their power to vote, she has carved an inspiring legacy.”

A legacy of running the nation’s largest abortion business is “inspiring” according to Biden. Does he even fear God’s judgment?

You can’t be Catholic and authorize another world war, either.