Tuesday, August 14, 2012

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

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Not having Nellie Gray at future Marches for Life in Washington will be a strange experience. In many ways she WAS the March for Life. At the same time there was no personal ambition or ego whatever in her that I could ever tell regarding all that she had accomplished.

I remember so often calling the March for Life office and it would be Nellie who answered the phone. She was at ease and totally natural with anyone, from the president of the United States to the most ordinary pro-lifer.

Nellie was personal commitment personified. She was an always consistent, no nonsense advocate of “no exceptions, no compromise” when it came to the lives of the preborn. But she was also respectful of all pro-lifers and dedicated to fostering unity in the movement.

I was with Nellie and other pro-lifers at a meeting in Washington just a month ago. She did her best to attend all such meetings, even the one right after she fell and injured herself on the March for Life stage. She arrived bandaged up and bruised and did not think anything at all unusual about being at the meeting.

Nellie Gray was an exceptional warrior for life - totally genuine. We should all thank God for the gift of her life and her dedication. Please read the four stories about Nellie Gray. I think they are necessary reading. Check out some of the photographs I was privileged to take of Nellie over the past few years in one of the stories. I am going to really miss that wonderful woman as will very many others.

Steve Jalsevac
LifeSiteNews

* Nellie Gray’s last email to me - Fr. Frank Pavone
* This is my body - John-Henry Westen

‘Shining light’: politicians, pro-life leaders mourn passing of Nellie Gray, March for Life founder

Thaddeus Baklinski Tue Aug 14 14:29 EST Abortion

House Speaker John Beohner tweeted this morning that he is "Deeply saddened by the death of Nellie Gray, an indefatigable defender of human life."

Nellie Gray at the 2009 March for Life Rose Dinner

BREAKING: U.S. March for Life founder Nellie Gray passes away

John Jalsevac Tue Aug 14 12:43 EST Abortion

"She has left a tremendous legacy and she will be greatly missed," said Jim Hughes of Campaign Life Coalition.

Prosecutors: Death at ‘house of horrors’ abortion clinic not accidental

Ben Johnson Tue Aug 14 17:06 EST Abortion

One of Kermit Gosnell's ill-trained staff said she realized, “I can kill this lady.”

Kermit Gosnell presided over an empire of misfortune, prosec

APA to eliminate gender identity disorder, replace with ‘gender dysphoria’

Meaghen Hale Tue Aug 14 16:26 EST Homosexuality

One former APA president told LifeSiteNews he believes the change is motivated by politics rather than science.

Democratic platform calls 32 states ‘discriminatory,’ supports ENDA

Ben Johnson Tue Aug 14 16:21 EST Homosexuality

Together, the states represent 358 electoral votes, far more than the 270 needed for election.

Refuse invite from ‘bigoted’ Catholic Church, Rainbow Sash activists tell Obama

Kathleen Gilbert Tue Aug 14 13:55 EST Abortion

The Rainbow Sash Movement said Obama should refuse the invite, "as a sign that he will oppose bigotry wherever it raises its ugly head."

Vimeo kowtows to gay sex offender, deletes conservative news outlet’s videos

Peter Baklinski Tue Aug 14 14:58 EST Homosexuality

Adam Flanders, a gay activist with a history of threatening pro-family organizations with legal action, had complained to Vimeo about the videos.

More British women aborting their children over financial worries, say UK doctors

Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Tue Aug 14 16:02 EST Abortion

In response, one pro-life leader questioned the very idea of the "perfect" economic condition in which to have children.

Louder than the ‘Silent Scream’: the deafening silence of our pulpits

Rolley Haggard Tue Aug 14 12:11 EST Opinion

Actions, they say, speak louder than words. But here, in this thing, we are letting silence speak louder still.

Marketing Natural Family Planning: promoting persons over industry

Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. Tue Aug 14 11:42 EST Opinion

The sale of contraceptives is a multi-billion dollar business worldwide, so how do we sell this free, safe and effective alternative?

Growing up with two moms: the untold story

Robert Oscar Lopez Tue Aug 14 11:17 EST Opinion

The children of same-sex couples have a tough road ahead of them—I know, because I have been there.

Not empowering, just destructive

Fr. Shenan Boquet Tue Aug 14 10:58 EST Opinion

Governments are now using force to compel citizens to pay for contraceptives against their will, and in some countries force is used to compel women to use them.

What motivated Nellie Gray?

Fr. Frank Pavone Tue Aug 14 09:45 EST Opinion

The reality of the holocaust made a profound impression upon her, as did the Nuremburg Trials, to which she often referred in explaining her pro-life position.


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