"Let us not grow tired of doing good, for in due time we shall reap our harvest, if we do not give up." (Galatians 6: 9)
Please bring your prayers to the sidewalk this week! (Beautiful weather is in the forecast for this week.)
OPEN HOURS
Monday, 5/19 - 100% filled; Praise God!
Tuesday, 5/20 - Only 44% filled on this Abortion Day! 1 needed at 10a; 1 needed at 11a; 1 needed at 12p; 1 needed at 1p; 2 needed at 2p; 2 needed at 3p; and 1 needed at 4p.
Wednesday, 5/21 - Only 45% filled on this Abortion Day! 1 needed at 8a; 2 needed at 9a; 1 needed at 12p; 1 needed at 1p; 1 needed at 2p; 1 needed at 3p; 2 needed at 4p and 2 needed at 5p.
Thursday, 5/22 - Just 70% filled; 1 needed at 4p and 2 needed at 5p.
Friday, 5/23 - Just 50% filled; 1 needed at 1p and 1 needed at 2p.
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/
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Griswold v. Connecticut anniversary prayer vigil and event will be held outside of Planned Parenthood on Thursday, June 5 and 11a.m.
Brief history on the birth control pill and Griswold v. Connecticut (fromthepillkills.org/history.php):
"1912:Radical feminist Margaret Sanger conceives of a "magic pill" contraceptive. Sanger later founded the American Birth Control League, which eventually became the Planned Parenthood Federation.
1930:On August 15, the Lambeth Conference (a periodic meeting of the Anglican Church's bishops) approves the use of contraceptives. This was a radical departure from the constant Christian tradition of considering contraception immoral. After 1930, other Protestant denominations begin to allow contraception. On December 31, Pope Pius XI issues the encyclical Casti Connubii (Of Chaste Marriage), which, among other things, reaffirms the Catholic Church's constant teaching against contraception and abortion.
1951:Sanger obtains a Planned Parenthood grant for Dr. Gregory Pincus, a biologist, to research hormonal contraceptives, but the funding soon runs out. Earlier, Pincus had shocked the public by his in vitro fertilization of rabbits.
1953: Sanger convinces Katharine McCormick, a radical feminist and wealthy philanthropist, to fund the pill research project and Pincus continues his research.
1954: Pincus and Dr. John Rock, a Catholic ob-gyn who violates Church teachings by advocating contraception, begin human trials of the pill. To bypass Massachusetts's anti-birth control laws, they claim the study is about infertility. Fifty female infertility patients volunteer to participate in the study, but the pill is also given to 12 female and 16 male psychiatric patients without their direct consent.
1955: The pill is proven to prevent ovulation in all 50 women. Pincus presents the findings at the Fifth Annual International Planned Parenthood League conference in Tokyo, Japan and Rock does the same at the Laurentian Conference on Endocrinology in Canada. The news that a birth control pill has been developed then spreads rapidly among scientists.
1956: Large-scale human clinical trials of the pill begin, to gain approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Pincus chooses Puerto Rico as the location because it provides a large pool of poor, uneducated women who can be easily monitored. The local doctor in charge of the study tells Pincus that the pill causes "too many side reactions to be generally acceptable." However, Pincus and Rock dismiss her findings and do not investigate what causes the side effects, nor do they investigate the cause of death for three women who die during the trials.
1957: The FDA approves usage of the pill to treat severe menstrual disorders and requires that its packaging include a warning that it will prevent ovulation.
1960: The pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle obtains FDA approval to sell the pill as a contraceptive, despite the FDA's initial misgivings about its long-term safety. It becomes the first FDA-approved drug to be given to healthy patients for long-term use and for social purposes.
1961: Dr. C. Lee Buxton, Yale Medical School's OB-GYN department chairman, and Estelle Griswold, executive director of Planned Parenthood, open four Planned Parenthood clinics in Connecticut, where the use of birth control is illegal. They are arrested and the Griswold v. Connecticut case begins to work its way through the court system.
1962: Serious side effects from the pill, such as blood clots and heart attacks, begin to be publicized. Searle receives reports of 132 blood clots, 11 of which were terminal, but denies that they are caused by the pill.
1965: The U.S. Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut by overturning the law prohibiting the use of birth control, thereby decriminalizing poison in the form of the pill."
It is no surprise the Planned Parenthood was behind the creation and legalization of the birth control pill.
Come out to learn more about Griswold v. Connecticut and the devastating and often deadly effects of the birth control pill so you can bring an awareness of what you learn to others.
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Pro-Life Teen Retreat
June 14, 2014 - 9:15a-6p - Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 5250 Justin Road, La Crosse
Join Pro-Life Wisconsin youth for a fun day of education, networking with other pro-life youth, prayer, and spiritual strengthening! Recommended age range 14-17.
Register online at www.ProLifeWisconsin.org or call 262-796-1111.
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Prayer to the Virgin Mary (from Priests for Life)
O Mary, Mother of Jesus and Mother of us all, we turn to you today as the one who said "Yes" to Life. "You will conceive and bear a Son," the angel told you. Despite the surprise and the uncertainty about how this could be, you said yes.
"Be it done unto me according to your word."
Mary, we pray today for all mothers who are afraid to be mothers. We pray for those who feel threatened and overwhelmed by their pregnancy. Intercede for them, that God may give them the grace to say yes and the courage to go on. May they have the grace to reject the false solution of abortion. May they say with you, "Be it done unto me according to your word." May they experience the help of Christian people, and know the peace that comes from doing God's will.
Amen.
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