Abortion/Unborn Babies
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Public Education & Information
- Louisiana abortion statistics year-by-year
- Louisiana laws related to abortion
- Louisiana Black Advocates for Life
- Resources for Miscarriage/Early Infant Death
- SpeakHope in the greater New Orleans area
Meeting ideas
- Show one of our videos below & discuss it.
- Use the handout "What Can I Do To Help Stop Abortion" as a guide for a discussion & action for your group
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- Abortion Pill Reversal (for those who pray at abortion clinics locally)
- What Can I Do To Help Stop Abortion?
- Another Look at Abortion
- What To Do When a Friend Is Considering Abortion
- Healing within Marriage from an Abortion
Speakers' topics
Videos- Advocating for the Unborn & their Mothers on the Sidewalk in New Orleans
- 40 Days for Life in New Orleans
- I Lived on Parker Avenue
Vaccine Update (summer 2019)
Concerns have been rightfully raised regarding vaccines that are made of cells from aborted babies. The National Catholic Bioethics Center has compiled a helpful list of questions & answers to navigate this complicated situation...
National Catholic Bioethics Center FAQ on the Use of Vaccines
Also see the statement of the Pontifical Academy for Life for a listing of vaccines and their source
My Catholic Doctor provides an Immunization Schedule Minimizing Use of Abortion-Related Cell Lines
Sample letter to vaccine manufacturer objecting to use of vaccines from cell lines of aborted babies & requesting the use of ethically developed vaccines (courtesy of Dr. Elizabeth Abraham MD, MS and Mrs. Danielle Abril via My Catholic Doctor) -
Corporal works of mercy you can do...
- Join one of our groups that pray at our local abortion facility - See information on specific dates/groups in the weekly Respect Life Update (under Sidewalk Presence Ministries' Update)
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Consider helping Compassionate Burial for Indigent Babies (CBIB) with their 2020 burial costs of roughly $1600 to bury each baby. Any portion of the cost would be a welcome donation! CBIB has buried over 180 babies since its founding in 2007. They bury babies who were aborted, abandoned, & babies whose families are unable to cover the cost of their babies’ burials. Go here for more information. You may donate directly to CBIB here
- Join the annual March for Life in Washington DC & Louisiana March for Life South in Baton Rouge
- Collect diapers (especially sizes 4, 5, 6, & pull ups) for ACCESS Pregnancy
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Pastoral Care
Abortion Pill Reversal -- available locally
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Dr. Susan Caldwell (Metairie) 504-831-3117
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Dr. Bennie Nobles (Metairie) 504-883-3770
Pregnancy Help
ACCESS Pregnancy of Catholic Charities help for unplanned/troubled pregnancies
St. Vincent Maternity Clinic - Maternity health care for low- to moderate-income mothers through Catholic Charities
Woman’s New Life Clinic- Crisis pregnancy, post abortion counseling, well-woman GYN care, Creighton Model Natural Family Planning
SpeakHope in the greater New Orleans area
Safe Haven information - National Safe Haven Alliance
Safe Haven - Louisiana Department of Children & Family Services
Listing of local Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Prenatal Diagnosis
Be Not Afraid - an organization that provides comprehensive, practical, and peer-based support to parents experiencing a prenatal diagnosis and carrying to term.
For your parish to support parents in this difficult time... Supporting Families Who Receive a Prenatal Diagnosis
Resources for groups that pray at abortion facilities
Visit our Sidewalk Presence Ministry page for information & resources.
Miscarriage & Early Infant Death/Burial Information
Learn more at the Respect Life Office Pregnancy/Infant Loss Resources page
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Prayer & Worship
Spritual works of mercy you can join in praying...
Prayers
- Spiritual Adoption
- one struggling with a difficult prenatal diagnosis
- Rosary for Life
Memorial for the Unborn Prayer Service (January, St. Patrick #1 Cemetery)
Mother’s Day Rosary Crusade (May)- email Pam Richard or call 504-460-9360
40 Days for Life (September-October-November)- Learn about 40 Days for Life here.
- View the New Orleans calendar here.
- Sign up here for your day to pray at the New Orleans abortion facility.
- Email the Respect Life Office for Prayer Team sign ups.
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Advocacy
Information on the March for Life in Washington DC (January)
Visit the Respect Life Office March for Life page for details on Respect Life Coordinator travel to DC
March for Life Archdiocese of New Orleans CYO Pilgrimage to Washington DC (January)
Louisiana Life March (January) Baton Rouge/Alexandria/Shreveport
Life Chain (October, 1st weekend)
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March for Life 2017
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Church Teaching
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church
2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.2274 Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being.
Prenatal diagnosis is morally licit, "if it respects the life and integrity of the embryo and the human fetus and is directed toward its safe guarding or healing as an individual. . . . It is gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent of a death sentence."
2275 "Certain attempts to influence chromosomic or genetic inheritance are not therapeutic but are aimed at producing human beings selected according to sex or other predetermined qualities. Such manipulations are contrary to the personal dignity of the human being and his integrity and identity" which are unique and unrepeatable."
From the USCCB:
Among important issues involving the dignity of human life with which the Church is concerned, abortion necessarily plays a central role. Abortion, the direct killing of an innocent human being, is always gravely immoral (The Gospel of Life, no. 57); its victims are the most vulnerable and defenseless members of the human family. It is imperative that those who are called to serve the least among us give urgent attention and priority to this issue of justice. While at times human law may not fully articulate the moral imperative – full protection for the right to life – our legal system can and must be continually reformed so that it will increasingly fulfill its proper task of protecting the weak and preserving the right to life of every human being, born and unborn.From Donum Vitae (5):
From the moment of conception, the life of every human being is to be respected in an absolute way because man is the only creature on earth that God has "wished for himself " (16) and the spiritual soul of each man is "immediately created" by God; (17) his whole being bears the image of the Creator. Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves "the creative action of God" (18) and it remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end.(19) God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can, in any circumstance, claim for himself the right to destroy directly an innocent human being.
