Last Toledo Abortion Clinic Ordered CLOSED

By now, many of you have read the great news that Capital Care Network of Toledo has moved one step closer to closure! Moments ago, we sent out a press release detailing yesterday’s ruling that the last abortion clinic in Toledo be closed. Please find the story from the Dispatch and the story from the Bladecopied below.

Many of you, like us, have been following the closure of this clinic for many months. Many have been praying for its closure for years. And now it’s on the cusp of being closed once and for all.

Please know that Ohio Right to Life is at the front of advocating for the closure of this clinic. As Mike says in both stories from the Columbus Dispatch and the Toledo Blade, the decision to close down CCN puts women’s health and safety ahead of politics.

We are eager to see CCN held accountable for operating illegally for the last year. Most importantly, we are eager to see lives saved in Northwest Ohio!

While we anticipate that CCN will make an appeal to remain open, we will continue to point out the absurdity of letting this clinic operate outside of Ohio law and ensure that it is closed once and for all.

With you for Life,

Katie McCann

Katherine McCann

Public Relations Manager

Ohio Right to Life

88 East Broad Street, Suite 620

Columbus, Ohio 43215

614/547-0099, ext. 304

www.ohiolife.org

Toledo’s last abortion clinic moves step closer to closure

Toledo’s only remaining abortion clinic moved a step closer to being shut down by the state yesterday.

An Ohio Department of Health hearing examiner ruled that the Capital Care Network’s facility cannot use the University of Michigan hospital 52 miles away for its legally required transfer agreement with a “local” hospital. The decision unveiled yesterday to revoke the clinic’s license upheld two decisions by former Health Director Ted Wymyslo and now will be considered by Lance D. Himes, the department’s acting director.

Read the Ohio Department of Health decision (PDF)

“We applaud the hearing examiner’s decision, which puts women’s health and patient safety ahead of politics,” said Michael Gonidakis, executive director of Ohio Right to Life. “No state regulator or reasonable person would permit an out-of-state hospital to contract with an Ohio abortion clinic to provide backup services. It’s absurd that this abortion clinic would even make such a request. Sadly, it appears that the clinic will put profits ahead of patient safety and attempt to delay and stall through litigation.”

Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, called the health department’s action part of a “regulatory witch hunt.”

“This ruling is no surprise, given that (Gov. John) Kasich wrote these regulations to close abortion clinics,” she said. “Transfer agreements have nothing to do with patient safety. The real threat to women’s health will come if Kasich succeeds in closing the last abortion clinic in Toledo, because women will still need access to abortion in Toledo and could resort to drastic measures.”

Besides failing the legal requirement for a “local” hospital, the clinic’s pact with the medical center in Ann Arbor, Mich., is illegal under Ohio law “because it does not specify an appropriate procedure for the safe and immediate transfer of patients from the facility to a local hospital when medical care, beyond the care that can be provided at the ambulatory-care facility, is necessary, including when emergency situations occur or medical complications arise,” hearing examiner William J. Kepko said.

Clinic officials said the Jan. 20 agreement with the University of Michigan hospital would require them to use medical helicopters based about an hour away in Licking County.

Transfer agreements are required of all ambulatory surgical facilities, not just abortion clinics. The Capital Care facility had an agreement with the University of Toledo hospital, but public hospitals were barred from entering into such pacts under a law signed last year by Kasich. After the Toledo hospital ended its contract last summer, the abortion clinic operated for nearly six months without any transfer agreement.

Toledo’s other abortion clinic, the Center for Choice, closed its doors last year because it could not come up with a valid transfer agreement after operating without one for more than three years.

drowland@dispatch.com

TOLEDO FACILITY

Abortion provider’s Mich. deal not local

6/17/2014

BY JIM PROVANCE BLADE

COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF

COLUMBUS — A state hearing examiner has recommended that Toledo’s last

abortion provider, Capital Care Network, be closed because it lacks a valid

emergency-care agreement with a local hospital as required by Ohio law.

William J. Kepko, the hearing examiner for the Ohio Department of Health, wrote in a

decision released by the Department of Health on Monday that the state’s decision to

revoke the clinic’s license as an ambulatory surgical center was valid.

The final decision now lies with the interim director, Lance Himes, who served as legal counsel to the former director, Dr. Ted

Wymyslo, when he issued his original license revocation order on Aug. 2, 2013.

“Capital Care’s written transfer agreement with the University of Michigan on behalf of the University of Michigan Health System,

located in the state of Michigan, 52 miles from Capital Care, is not a local hospital as required by [state law],” Mr. Kepko wrote.

“The use of the 30-minute availability rule by the Director of the Ohio Department of Health when evaluating Capital Care’s

transfer agreement with UMHS is reasonable and consistent with [state law], requiring the transfer agreement to be with a local

hospital.”

The clinic’s Cincinnati attorney, Jennifer Branch, could not be reached for comment. But she has already indicated an appeal would

be filed should Mr. Himes agree with the recommendation and again issue an order revoking Capital Care’s operating license.

She used the March hearing before Mr. Kepko to lay the groundwork for a constitutional challenge.

The two-year state budget passed last year cemented in law what had previously been an administrative rule within the health

department requiring ambulatory surgical centers to have agreements with hospitals to transfer patients if complications arise.

Lawmakers then went a step further by requiring that agreement to be with a “local” hospital without defining what that meant.

The University of Toledo Medical Center chose not to renew its agreement with Capital Care as of July 31, 2013. The budget later

prohibited public hospitals like UTMC, the former Medical College of Ohio, from entering into such agreements.

The clinic struggled for months to find someone willing to take its place before inking a deal with UMHS. The agreement with the

Ann Harbor hospital, however, stated it would not be responsible for transportation of patients.

The clinic’s owner, Terrie Hubbard, testified that in a true emergency she would call 911 to have the patient transferred to a Toledo

hospital, which would have to treat the patient under federal law regardless of whether a transfer agreement was in place.

In the event of a complication not considered life-threatening, Ms. Hubbard said she would hire a helicopter to fly the patient to

Ann Arbor.

Mr. Kepko found that to be unreliable and determined, in his decision time-stamped on Thursday, that the clinic has been without a

valid transfer agreement for nearly a year.

“This ruling is no surprise given that [Gov. John] Kasich wrote these regulations to close abortion clinics,” said Kellie Copeland,

NARAL Ohio executive director. “The transfer agreements don’t have anything to do with patient safety. They have everything to

do with closing abortion clinics.

“The real tragedy is if they are successful in closing the last abortion clinic in Toledo,” she said. “Women still need access to

abortion, and women may resort to drastic measures.”

Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis, who worked to have the transfer agreement language added to the state budget,

applauded what he characterized as a “common-sense” decision.

“We believe this decision puts women’s health and safety ahead of politics, concluding that a hospital in another state does not

meet the requirements that our state requires,” he said. “It would have been a first-of-a-kind decision if he’d ruled otherwise.”

He noted, however, that the clinic is likely to remain open for some time as the appeal works its way through the federal courts.

Contact Jim Provance at: jprovance@theblade.com or 614-221-0496.

Pornography Consuming Our Children

By Luke Gilkerson

This training article was a collaborative effort between Luke Gilkerson from Covenant Eyes and the VIRTUS® Programs Associate Director, Crispin Ketelhut. 

Never before in the history of telecommunications media in the United States has so much indecent (and obscene) material been so easily accessible by so many minors in so many American homes with so few restrictions.

—U.S. Department of Justice¹

Does this sound applicable to our current culture? It was actually a warning from a U.S. Justice Department memo from 1996, even before wireless broadband, smart phones and tablets.

Reality 

The statistics of today are frightening.

The largest consumers of Internet pornography are children between the ages of 12-17. More than half of boys and a third of girls have seen pornography before their teenage years. Thirty-five percent of young teenage boys (13-14 years old) say that they have seen pornography “more times than I can count.” By the age of 18, more than nine out of 10 boys, and six out of 10 girls have seen pornography online.² Pornography also contributes to the sexual trafficking of minors, as victims become part of the pool of videos and images circulated online.³ There are also grave neurological effects. As one can imagine, viewing graphic and degrading material can negatively impact a person’s thinking in profound ways. This is even truer when a person’s brain is still in its most formative stages-as is the case with teens and preteens.⁴

Perhaps most sobering of all is the fact that children who have seen pornography, even inadvertently, are more likely to be sexually abused by a peer or adult.⁵

As is denoted in the pastoral letter of Bought With A Price, pornography has spread like a plague through our culture, affecting the souls of men, women and children, and victimizing the most vulnerable among us.⁶ There is a plethora of evidence that pornography and sexualized material influence moral values, sexual activity and sexual attitudes toward sexual violence. And it is not going away. 

The Haven of Secrecy

Through TV, movies, wireless communication and the Internet, we find ourselves with almost unlimited access to pornography. There is also the heightened sense of secrecy involved in using pornography, which is why researchers believe it has become even more widespread. Many call this the “Online Disinhibition Effect.” Safely behind the anonymity of a computer screen or smartphone, people feel freer to do, say, and experience what runs against their values in the “real world.”⁷ This is especially true for children and teens.

A Comprehensive Solution: Communication and Accountability

The best defense against allowing pornography to reach our children is to stop it before it begins, or to address it immediately. Whether we are parents or caring adults, we need to train children to become responsible Internet users. Below are some tips on how to foster a healthy environment of online accountability and communication in the home and other environments:

• Discussion: One of the best tools is communication. Dr. Patricia Greenfield from UCLA has spent decades studying the impact of sexual media on the mind. Her words to parents are noteworthy: “A warm and communicative parent-child relationship is the most important non-technical means that parents can use to deal with the challenges of the sexualized media environment.” Adults should be willing and open to discussing the websites family members visit and have regular conversations about the sexual messages communicated online. For a helpful guide, consider viewing UNFILTERED: Equipping Parents for an Ongoing Conversation About Internet Pornography, a recorded parent workshop that addresses how to have this conversation.

• Establish expectations, such as the location of Internet usage: Internet use in the home should always take place in a common area, such as a family room, and not in the privacy of a bedroom. Technology controls should be a routine part of media use through computers and smart phones, exhibited and modeled by all persons within the family, including the adults.

• Use technology to your advantage: Have you given much thought as to how many Internet-enabled devices are in your home or ministry environment? Take stock and make use of the technology that is available to have control over the devices children use to access the Internet. This is also true for the adults who monitor devices used in public settings, such as a school.
• Create a review system: Are you aware that teens spend an average of five hours a day online and often remove the evidence trail of visited websites? A recent survey from McAfee showed that 53 percent of teens have cleared browser history to hide Internet activity from their parents and 46 percent of teens have minimized a browser window to hide online activity (and only 17-18 percent of parents are aware teens do this).⁸ Parents need to be able to have informed discussions about Internet habits, which includes the good and the bad. This means regularly looking at the sites children visit-and having a system that will account for the sites children erase.
• Install accountability and filtering software: Install a comprehensive control software suite that includes both accountability and filtering. It is not enough to simply have content filters for computers. Internet filters are important tools for preventing inadvertent exposure to pornography, but the ultimate goal is to raise young men and women who will hold themselves accountable and be their own watchdogs online. If you conduct an online search, you will find several software options on the market (including Covenant Eyes) with filtering capability to block objectionable websites, and accountability services to monitor and email regular reports of questionable websites, searches, and information accessed by each user. It can be as strict or flexible as you determine is necessary and reduces some of the challenges of managing all the technological aspects of controlling access.

This is a battle worth fighting. As caring adults, it is our privilege and responsibility to protect children from access to pornography, which begins with communication and is fortified by a prudential control of media available within the home and throughout our ministry.

References

¹U.S. Department of Justice. Post Hearing Memorandum of Points and Authorities, at I, ACLU v. Reno, 929 F. Supp. 824 (1996)

²Covenant Eyes. Pornography Statistics: Annual Report 2014. Accessed from the Internet March 19, 2014. http://www.covenanteyes.com/pornstats/?utm_campaign=Virtus&utm_content=catholic&utm_medium=web&utm_source=article

³Shared Hope International. The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children (2009). Accessed from the Internet March 19, 2014. http://sharedhope.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/SHI_National_Report_on_DMST_2009.pdf 

⁴Covenant Eyes. The Porn Circuit. Accessed from the Internet March 19, 2014. http://www.covenanteyes.com/science-of-porn-addiction-ebook/?utm_campaign=Virtus&utm_content=catholic&utm_medium=web&utm_source=article 

⁵Covenant Eyes. Pornography Statistics: Annual Report 2014.

⁶Most Rev. Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of Arlington. Bought With A Price. (2014) Accessed from the Internet March 19, 2014. http://www.arlingtondiocese.org/purity/pastoral_letter.aspx

⁷John Suler. The Psychology of Cyberspace: The Online Disinhibition Effect. Accessed from the Internet March 19, 2014. http://truecenterpublishing.com/psycyber/disinhibit.html

⁸McAfee. The Digital Divide: How the Online Behavior of Teens is Getting Past Parents. (2012) Accessed from the Internet March 19, 2014. http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/misc/digital-divide-study.pdf

Right to Life of Northeast Ohio

The answer to a crisis pregnancy is to eliminate the crisis

Dear Friend:

     As technology and more have increased our productivity and knowledge, we tend to assume that we are all a lot smarter.   That may be true, but that doesn’t always mean we think or act smarter! Socrates said:   “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser”.  That is entirely true, especially when it comes to those who promote abortion.

     A few days ago a letter to the editor was printed in the Akron Beacon Journal where the writer compared abortion to the prohibition. He said that if abortion were to be made illegal, then deaths would increase from “back alley abortions”, and hoped that “rationality will return to our wonderful country and the anti-abortionists will see the harm they are afflicting on fellow citizens.” I don’t know about you, but there can be no comparison between the death of a human being and the production of alcohol!

      This is scare tactic widely used by uninformed individuals who try and convince the public that if abortion was illegal, then deaths from illegal abortions would increase.  This “coat hanger” theory is based on false premises and is far from the truth.  In countries where abortion has been made illegal, like Chile, studies conclusively show that outlawing abortion is remarkably effective at reducing the number of abortions that take place in a country, including clandestine ones, and that there is absolutely no link between making abortion illegal and an increase in the number of deaths from clandestine abortions.

     What the letter writer failed to recognize, which is even more significant, is that LEGAL abortions have been responsible for taking the lives of more 56 million children since 1973.  It is a scientific fact that life begins at conception.  No amount of rationalization can change this fact, and no “coat hanger” theory of harming women can change the fact that lives of 56 million children and their descendants were deliberately terminated.

     The answer to a crisis pregnancy is to eliminate the crisis, and not the child.  We should be improving our morals and values regarding sex rather than letting a mother kill her child as birth control.

     I sent in a response to this letter, but who know whether or not it will be published. Unfortunately, our work goes on…

For Life,

June 13, 2014   Brain Death

June 10, 2014

Dear Mary,

The late Cardinal John O’Connor wrote those words in July 1990.

I’ve sent them to you because they capsulize the reason you are such a fierce pro-life warrior.  You recognize that abortion is an “unspeakable crime” against humanity.  You understand that the child who suffers such excruciating pain during an abortion is your brother or sister.

You further understand that, due to its diabolical nature, abortion is destroying the very soul of America and corrupting our entire culture.

That’s why you work so tirelessly and so faithfully in the Lord’s pro-life vineyard.  It’s why you are so dedicated to helping our work here at Priests for Life prosper.

And it’s why I sent you this most urgent of appeals for help.

In light of your longstanding partnership with Priests for Life and the fact that we work side by side to end America’s abortion holocaust:

I need you to CLICK HERE and make the largest contribution you can to Priests for Life!

Here’s why.

You and Priests for Life have a golden opportunity to deal a crushing blow to the abortion industry.

But we can’t take full advantage of the moment without an immediate infusion of money.

With the summer now fully upon us and the economy in a shambles funds here at Priests for Life are at an all-time low.  But I’ve never been one to hold back on a project when the Hand of God is so clearly involved in it, as is the case today.

That’s why I’m coming to you with so much urgency and why I’m asking you to consider making a contribution to Priests for Life.

To do so, simply CLICK HERE and follow the instructions.

The gift you make to Priests for Life today will allow us to launch a special project that goes to the heart of our mission and is the very reason for our existence.

It’s also one of the reasons you chose to join the Priests for Life family in the first place.  Namely:

To TRAIN priests and deacons on how to be dynamic preachers of the Gospel of Life, rouse our fellow Catholics from their slumber, prod them into joining us on the front lines of the fight, and help us end the injustice of legalized abortion-on-demand in America.

The name of the program that will do this specialized pro-life training is:

The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute for the Pro-Life Training of the Clergy

As you know, it was the late Cardinal O’Connor who ordained me to the priesthood in 1988.  Five years later, in 1993, he released me to work full-time to train and mobilize the clergy in the defense of life.  He told me that, in his opinion, there was no work in the pro-life movement that was more timely or more important.

Blessed Mother Teresa certainly seemed to agree with Cardinal O’Connor.  In a note she sent back in 1995 she wrote:

[Priests for Life] needs many members to educate and encourage all the priests and deacons who must all work together to stop the terrible war against unborn children.  Often priests and deacons do not know what to say or do to educate their people about the terrible evil of abortion.  I am praying that those who joined Priests for Life will be able to strengthen and support those priests and deacons who feel unable to lead their people in the struggle against abortion.

As you can tell, Mother Teresa was speaking directly to you when she sent me her note.

You are one of the “many members” Mother spoke about.  You give your all so that Priests for Life can do work you know is important, namely: “To educate and encourage all the priests and deacons.”

From the day you decided to work with Priests for Life to end the crime of abortion in America, you began to “strengthen and support those priests and deacons who feel unable to lead their people in the struggle against abortion.”

You’ve been a faithful member of the Priests for Life family ever since.

That’s why I’m writing to you as I am today.

And why I’m confident you will take ownership of The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute and help make it the hammer which the People of Life will use to crush the abortion industry and bring us closer to the day when we make abortion, not merely illegal, but unthinkable.

That is one of your primary objectives as a disciple of Christ.

It is also the reason Priests for Life exists.

And The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute is going to play a key role in helping both of us fulfill the mission God has called us to.  Two of the many things that the John Cardinal O’Connor Institute will do are:

1. Send out our priests and Pastoral Associates to dioceses all across the country where they will stay for an extended period to: (1) Help train priests and deacons on how to effectively preach the Gospel of Life.  And (2) Meet with local activists and help them carry out their pro-life work.

2. Bring priests and deacons here to our headquarters in Staten Island and train them on how to preach the Gospel of Life, energize the People of Life and get them actively involved in the fight to end abortion.

Based on the depth of your commitment to our work here at Priests for Life and the pro-life movement in general, I’m sure this is music to your ears.

Having a program like this has been a vision of mine for many years.

But it was only during meetings I had with Mary Ward-Donegan, the late Cardinal O’Connor’s sister, that the vision began to take shape in my mind.  Mary was very excited during our meetings and has written a note encouraging you to support this vital new Priests for Life program.  You can click here to read her note.

Well, after many months of hard work and countless hours of planning, The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute is ready to begin its work.

But in order to do so, I need your immediate financial help.

Please CLICK HERE and do as much as you can.

Your gift is urgently needed because the Most Reverend Michael Sheridan, the Bishop of Colorado Springs, has invited Priests for Life to his diocese after I described to him the kind of visits we would like our priests to make for multi-parish events.  Many other dioceses will follow as well as we continue to offer a plan for thorough pro-life immersion.  We’ve confirmed the following dates and parishes with Bishop Sheridan:

July 19/20: Corpus Christi Church

July 26/27:  St. Mark Church

Aug. 23/24: St. Gabriel the Archangel Church

Fr. Denis Wilde, OSA, will be our point man in Colorado Springs, and he will not only preach in those parishes but also visit many other parishes during the week and will meet with priests, deacons, pro-life leaders and activists.  But we need your help in order to get him there … and keep him there as long as the mission lasts.

Father’s work in Colorado Springs will be our “beta test” for this particular dimension of the Institute.  Looking to the future, the goal is to include other members of the Pastoral team so that every diocese in the country is immersed in pro-life training.  These Pastoral Team members include:

Fr. Victor Salomón – Born in Venezuela, Fr. Victor is part of the Hermandad de Sacerdotes Operarios Diocesanos (Diocesan Laborer Priests) and the Director of Priests for Life’s Hispanic Outreach mission.

Janet Morana – Janet is the Executive Director of Priests for Life, Co-Founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, Co-host of EWTN’s “Catholic View for Woman” and the author of “Recall Abortion.”

Dr. Alveda King – Alveda is the niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., a minister of the Gospel, civil rights activist and the fulltime Director of African American Outreach at Priests for Life.

Kevin Burke – Kevin is a co-founder of Rachel’s Vineyard, which is Priests for Life’s post-abortion healing ministry.

Bryan Kemper – Bryan is the fulltime Director of Priests for Life’s Youth Outreach ministry, called Stand True Ministries.  Bryan works year-round to bring the energy of America’s youth into the pro-life movement.

Beginning in Colorado Springs – and working in full cooperation and union with other bishops – we will go about the necessary work of making every Catholic diocese in the United States

An ABORTION-FREE Diocese!

We are doing this because of what Dr. Bernard Nathanson told me after he converted to the pro-life movement.  His words haunt me to this day.  He said that he and his pro-abortion colleagues in the 1960s and 70s …

“… would never have gotten away with what we did if you (the clergy) had been united, purposeful, and strong.”

That’s why the work of The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute is so vital to our fight to end legalized abortion in America.  Through it:

You and Priests for Life will help the clergy in the United States become UNITED, PURPOSEFUL and STRONG!

And it all begins today with you today.  That’s because the cost just to send Fr. Wilde to Colorado Springs will run into the thousands of dollars:

Round-trip coach airfare:   $600
2-week car rental:  $300
Gasoline:   $200
14 days lodging:  $560
Meals:     $420

Total travel budget:  $2,080

There are 195 dioceses in the country.  If we are to send Father Denis or one of our Pastoral Associates to each and every one, it will cost Priests for Life $405,990.

Now we don’t need all of that money right now.

But we do need a hefty portion of it, and that for three critical reasons:

1. We have a significant presence in the Philadelphia Archdiocese and, with Archbishop Chaput’s permission, Fr. Wilde is reaching out to the pastors to arrange for parish visits.

2. Once word gets out of what we are doing in Colorado Springs and Philadelphia, I know for a fact that we will receive dozens and dozens of invitations from other bishops to come into their dioceses and assist them in stirring the flames of love for the unborn.

3. We are finalizing the details to do pro-life training sessions with the Fraternity of Priests.  I’ll let you know once the actual date for this John Cardinal O’Connor Institute session is set.

Bottom line:

The potential for The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute to play a leading role in our mutual ambition to crush the abortion industry is boundless.

But in order for it to fulfill its mission, the Institute must be fully funded.

Which again is why I’ve sent you this urgent email and my request that you CLICK HERE and make as large a contribution as you can.

Priests for Life is underwriting the entire expense of The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute.  No diocese will be charged or asked to reimburse so much as a single penny for any of the costs we incur when we send anyone to their dioceses.

We’re making that pledge so as to make it as easy as possible for any bishop to invite us to conduct a John Cardinal O’Connor Institute training session in their diocese.

However, the only way I can fulfill that offer to the bishops is if you and your fellow Priests for Life family members:

a) Recognize the tremendous value of The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute.  And …

b) Take on the burden of providing Priests for Life with the funds needed to make The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute possible.

I’m absolutely certain of the first condition.

And based on the loyalty and generosity you have shown when it comes to supporting Priests for Life, I am confident of the second condition as well.

Which again is why I’m so confident you will CLICK HERE and help with as large a gift as you give Priests for Life today.

Cardinal O’Connor, Blessed Mother Teresa and Dr. Nathanson all knew that the end of abortion will only happen when the clergy in America is UNITED, PURPOSEFUL and STRONG. 

The sole mission and purpose of The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute is to make that happen.

And with your help today – and through the grace of God – we will use the Institute to make every diocese in America an ABORTION-FREE DIOCESE.  Once we accomplish that, we will crush the abortion industry and end the slaughter of the youngest members of our human family.

That said, please take a moment right now to:

CLICK HERE and take ownership of The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute.

I cannot recall being as excited about a Priests for Life program as I am about The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute.  I pray that you share my enthusiasm and will take ownership of this project so that we can end America’s abortion holocaust once and for all.

Thank you.

I look forward to hearing from you in the next few days.  In the meantime, know that I am praying for you and will remember you at each Mass I offer (as will Fr. Denis, Fr. Salomón and all the priests of Priests for Life).  May God bless you.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director
Priests for Life and Gospel of Life Ministries

P.S. As you can tell by the tone of my email, I’m really counting on you to CLICK HERE and help make The John Cardinal O’Connor Institute a smashing success.  But I’m not the only one.  The late Cardinal O’Connor’s sister, Mary Ward-Donegan, is counting on you as well.  That’s why she wrote the note I told you about in this email.  She more than anyone knows just how desperately her brother wanted to win victory over abortion.  He was an outspoken champion for life.  And with your help today, we will mold and form more bishops and priests to be as passionate in their preaching of the Gospel of Life as was the late John Cardinal O’Conner.  If you haven’t already done so, you can click here to read Mary’s note.
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