LIFE Lines for LOVE

A Child Will Show the Way

2011-12-25T12:04:00.000-08:00

Love came down at Christmas,

love all lovely, love divine,

love was born at Christmas,

stars and angels gave the sign.

~Christina Rossetti

A Heroine on Many Levels

2010-08-11T15:30:00.000-07:00

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life actress, Patricia Neal, died at age 84 on Sunday. She had been suffering from lung cancer and was surrounded by her family at her home in Massachusetts. Neal is best known for her Oscar-winning portrayal of a housekeeper in the 1963 movie, Hud, with Paul Newman.
She is also very well known for her valiant recuperation from a series of strokes which she suffered while pregnant in 1965. She was in a coma for 21 days. The Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, situated in Neal's hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee, is also award-winning for its care for people recovering from strokes and spinal cord and brain injuries.
The actress herself described her life as a Greek tragedy, in some measure. She had 5 children with her husband, Roald Dahl. The first, Olivia, died of measles at age seven. Another, Theo, was severely injured when his baby carriage was hit by a car. After thirty years of marriage and the survival from her strokes, Neal was divorced from Dahl after discovering his affair with a friend.
However, Neal said that her only regret in life was aborting a child when the actress was 21 years old.
Her lover (and co-star) Gary Cooper had persuaded her to have the abortion, as he was still married and had a daughter with his wife. That daughter, Maria Cooper, famously spat on Neal to show her displeasure that Neal had interfered with the marriage of the Coopers. However, later, the wife and daughter reconciled with Neal.
Maria Cooper is credited with helping Neal return to Catholicism. And, despite her hatred of the affair, Maria Cooper is said to have complained to Neal that the aborted child was the only sibling Maria Cooper would ever have and that she wished that the child had been given life.
Patricia Neal openly admired fellow actress Ingrid Bergman, who gave birth out of wedlock to a son by Roberto Rossellini, and was therefore denounced by the United States Senate. Neal said that Bergman had "guts" and that Neal wished that she had had the guts also to carry her baby to birth.
Joshua Mercer of Catholic Vote Action, noted Neal's death and her pro-life views in later life.
"Neal stood out against the grain of Hollywood by calling for the defense of unborn life. It was learned from her own mistakes," he said. "Neal appeared as a guest on The View and spoke gently about how abortion creates anguish and sorrow. She often said simply but powerfully: 'Don't make my mistake. Let your baby live.'"
"I had the chance to hear her speak about six or seven years ago and I can say without any hesitation that everyone in the room was moved by her testimony," Mercer continued.
Even the New York Times noted her abortion regrets in its obituary:
During her affair with Cooper, she became pregnant. She had an abortion and according to her 1988 autobiography, “As I Am,” (written with Richard DeNeut), she cried herself to sleep for 30 years afterward. “If I had only one thing to do over in my life,” she wrote, “I would have that baby.”

Massachusetts Offers "Choose Life" Tag

2010-06-12T07:55:00.000-07:00

The Choose Life license plate in Massachusetts will be available at the Registry of Motor Vehicles at the end of June, 2010 for an additional $40. Funds generated by Massachusetts' Choose Life specialty license plate will assist women with the expenses of a full term pregnancy-such as medical bills, temporary housing, transportation, utility bills, food, maternity clothing, and similar expenses of infants. Funds will be distributed to qualified not-for-profit agencies within Massachusetts that do not counsel in or refer for abortion.

Support Mother Teresa Stamp

2010-02-26T17:35:00.000-08:00

Go to this link to sign a petition supporting the Postmaster General's decision to issue a Mother Teresa stamp in the face of a campaign of opposition:

http://www.paramountcommunication.com/newsletters/catholicVote/petition/petition.aspx?ref=122579663&select=47812

Celebrate Family ~ Celebrate Life

2010-02-07T16:21:00.000-08:00

View the controversial CBS Super Bowl ad with Pam and Tim Tebow. Makes you wonder what the "pro-choice" crowd is so afraid of . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BIOTItUwvk

Tell CBS to Air the Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad

2010-01-30T08:29:00.000-08:00

Let CBS know that you support their decision to air the Tim Tebow commercial!

Pro-abortion groups have launched a massive campaign to stop CBS from airing a pro-life Super Bowl ad featuring Heisman Trophy Winner Tim Tebow and his mother.

Remember the Super Bowl ad that was rejected by NBC last year? It featured Barack Obama's mother who was an unmarried, pregnant teen carrying a bi-racial child who chose LIFE.

America loves football AND life! The Super Bowl has always been a celebration of human teamwork and excellence, enjoyed by family and friends. Celebrate family. Celebrate life. Tell CBS to air the ad!

Go to this link and click on Tim Tebow's picture:

http://www.catholicvote.org/index.php?/site/homepage/

The Spirit of Christmas is LOVE

2009-12-18T13:59:00.000-08:00

The imagery of Love from the Christmas story is the image of Mary seeing and holding Jesus for the first time. The recognition from Mother to child and child to mother is a deep, deep love that cannot be described in words. In this picture, we have only an inkling of the Love of God for us as we accept the gift of the Christ and hold it in our uncertain grasp. As Mary and Joseph watched their child with loving care, so are we tenderly and lovingly watched and protected by the Divine Father~Mother within us and around us.

CLOSE YOUR EYES. Know that each breath is a representation of God's love. In the same way our breath moves in and out of our bodies nourishing and refreshing us, so God’s love is feeding and renewing our souls. Like the love of a mother for a child, God’s love is not something we can see or measure. But God’s Love is evident when we look around. It’s in a smile, a touch, a hug. We are the givers and receivers of God’s Love . . . . Know that God’s Love lives in you and all around you. And know that in our most challenging times, we can always lean our head on the bosom of the Divine Mother and rest in her tender, her comforting, her loving embrace. Author Unknown

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2009-11-23T13:36:00.000-08:00

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2009-11-15T19:04:00.000-08:00

Meet Dr. Alveda C. King, niece of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and advocate for Life. Visit her page on Priests for Life at their website, http://priestsforlife.org/staff/alvedaking.htm
and on her website: http://www.kingforamerica.com/ .

The Mother

2009-10-30T10:10:00.000-07:00

By Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
from "A Street in Bronzeville"

Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,
The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,
The singers and workers that never handled the air.
You will never neglect or beat
Them, or silence or buy with a sweet.
You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh,
Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye.

I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim
killed children.
I have contracted. I have eased
My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.
I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized
Your luck
And your lives from your unfinished reach,
If I stole your births and your names,
Your straight baby tears and your games,
Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages,
aches, and your deaths,
If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths,
Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.
Though why should I whine,
Whine that the crime was other than mine?--
Since anyhow you are dead.
Or rather, or instead,
You were never made.
But that too, I am afraid,
Is faulty: oh, what shall I say, how is the truth to be said?
You were born, you had a body, you died.
It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.

Believe me, I loved you all.
Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you
All.

Real Stories ~ Real People

2009-10-24T09:01:00.000-07:00

40 Days for Life is a movement dedicated to saving lives, healing the wounds of abortion, and changing hearts across our land. Watch this video to meet some of the loving people involved in this effort.

http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=447

Snowflake Babies

2009-09-19T15:13:00.000-07:00

Snowflake Babies are babies and children who were fertilized in vitro and then cryo-preserved, or "frozen," as embryos for storage until they were allowed to be implanted in a mother and then born, often through embryo adoption. There are now 134 such children living, the first being Hannah, born in 1998. Nightlight Christian Adoptions began an embryo adoption program in 1997 in an effort to help more than 400,000 frozen embryos realize their ultimate purpose ~LIFE~ while sharing the hope of a child with an infertile couple. Multi-ethnic embryos also await adoption. Picture: Two Snowflake Babies

2009-09-06T18:01:00.000-07:00

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

And before you were born I consecrated you.

~Jeremiah 1:5~

2009-09-06T17:40:00.000-07:00

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die

so that you may live as you wish.

~Mother Teresa~