I love the pro-life movement and hate leaving my house, so I am all ears when someone tells me about ways to offer my support from the comfort of my couch. This leaves me very excited to help promote the Unite for Life webcast next Tuesday (May 17). The event, which will be broadcast at 8pm in each time zone in the U.S., will feature an interview with Abby Johnson in which she sheds new light on how her desire to help women led her first to Planned Parenthood, and eventually to the pro-life movement. I’m also interested to hear from the special guests, since they’re all people who are truly on the front lines of the battle for life, including:
- Dr. Peggy Hartshorn, President of Heartbeat International
- Tom Glessner, Founder and President of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA)
- Melinda Delahoyde, President of Care Net
- Lola French, CEO of the Canadian Association of Pregnancy Support Services
The event is expected to last about an hour, and is free to attend (they just ask you to register so that they know who’s in the room, so to speak). Best of all, proceeds from the donations will go directly to featured pregnancy care centers across the U.S. and Canada.
The organizers are asking the pro-life online world to help them get the word out about this great event. If you’d like to help, you can:
- Tell your friends on Facebook and Twitter about it
- Use the #uniteforlife hashtag
- Add a banner to your blog or website (available at the bottom of this page)
- Starting this Friday and continuing through Tuesday, May 17, use the graphic on this page as your Facebook profile image
Also, don’t forget to follow the #uniteforlife hashtag during the event to hear everyone’s thoughts as they watch the webcast. It promises to be a fun evening for a great cause. Hope to “see” you there!
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As soon as I read the tagline, “I love the pro-life movement and hate leaving my house” on Facebook, I knew this was a post by Jennifer Fulwiler. Your pro-life, pro-hermit sentiments are well known!
Thanks so much for the promotion! This will be a gr8 webcast to help save babies….
Yes, a webcast to save babies. Let’s participate and make ourselves feel good, but please don’t anyone notice that the budget proposal being speaheaded by Boehner and Ryan (two “faithful” Catholics) is going to lead to more abortions in the U.S. Their “solution” to the economic crisis is as anti-life as Obama’s pro-abortion stance.
Cutting funding from Democratic sacred cows like PP are the first obvious step to stopping abortions. The other is education - this article as an example.
If you’re impling that their econonmic policies will lead to more abortions, well that’s quite the leap. Even if it ended up that way, it’s all about intent. Boener and Ryan want to cut down on abortions, which is why they go after the 800 lb. gorilla in the room.
However, the goal of folks like Pelosi(also “Catholic”), Kennedy (was Catholic), Reed, and all the other so called “Catholic” Democrats has always been more pointed and intentional—to increase abortions, the termination of “unwanted”,unborn children. That’s why they want PP funded with tax dollars at any cost and will even shut down the government to protect it.
Thanks for this info - I will spread the word!
Catholic, while cutting funding from PP may be a good thing, cutting funding from all the other programs that help poor women make better decisions when they are faced with an unplanned pregnancy, isn’t. Also, this isn’t only about cutting funding. The Repub budget being proposed by Boehner and Ryan (also Catholics) will make the poor people poorer. It is a very un-Catholic budget when looked at through the lens of Catholic social teaching. And it has been demonstrated that there is a definite correlation between poverty and abortion. Folks in the pro-life movement need to start looking at the broader picture.
I don’t always agree with Ray A when he comments on other blogs here, but I do think he’s right about this topic. I am proud to be a Catholic Republican and hate it when the libs say you can’t be both! But the budget they are proposing will make things a lot more difficult for those of us who help the poor. I am also a proud Vincentian. Here’s an article that shows what I mean.
“Up to 44M more uninsured under GOP budget”
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MEDICAID_CUTS?SITE=WVEC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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