CEC for Life News

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 18, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ — Not even six months after the closure of one dangerous Birmingham abortion facility — brought on by the careless injury of two female patients — yet another woman, Ms. Roberta Clark, has come forward and filed suit against the city’s only remaining abortion clinic: Planned Parenthood.

In 2010, Planned Parenthood of Birmingham originally underwent investigation after Live Action President Lila Rose uncovered their regular practice of illegally providing abortions for minors and choosing to cover up statutory rape cases.

At that time, Planned Parenthood was placed under a one-year probation. The recent lawsuit filed against them by Ms. Clark details an incident that actually took place during this probationary period and creates the question of how it went unnoticed by the Alabama Department of the Public Health, which should have been closely monitoring the facility.

This also comes in the wake of the recent death of the 24 year old Chicago woman, Tonya Reaves.

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from Jessica Kessler

Opening up a word document feels like school again. I am definitely not in school anymore, although sometimes I feel as if I ought to be with fall coming.  After school is work.  That is what I wanted to talk about, an experience at work.

For those of you who don’t know, I am a nurse.  In being so, I meet all sorts of people in different moments of their life, whether they be tragic or miraculous.  Daily, I am blessed by the beauty of life in all its forms.

I met a very special person last week who I had the honor of caring for.  She had been born with Spina Bifida and shouldn’t have lasted the night of her birth.  She did though.  Then she beat a rare infection in her spine.  Then, against all the “scientific speculation,” she grew into a unique person who is fully cognitive and interactive to the world around her. 

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by David Jonathan Valentin

Before the Madrid Convocation, many people in my life passed away unexpectedly, and it made me doubt God.  It wasn’t that I didn’t believe in God anymore, but I doubted Him.   At first, I felt bad and tried to remove that thought.  But, after a time, when I found myself doubting God I didn’t even really care.  I gave in to it and meditated on my doubts.  Suddenly, I didn’t know why I went to church or why I even believed in God.

I was so focused on the losses that I experienced in the recent years that I couldn’t see the blessings of God anymore.  I didn’t think that God wanted to punish me, but I started asking myself if God even really existed.  I stopped thinking like a Christian and started thinking in a very secular way.  I would say things like, “if God doesn’t want me to do something, then He should try and stop me.”  And I definitely didn’t want to go to the Convocation in Madrid, because I didn’t want to spend a week with people gathered just to talk about the God that I doubted.

Obviously God didn’t want me to miss out, however, because I ended up in Madrid and at the Convocation.  Still, I didn’t expect anything, even sitting in the room for the youth sessions, until Fr. Terry Gensemer got up to speak.

Fr. Terry told us how children are being aborted, even after birth.  As he spoke, I kept thinking of my nephew, who was born in less than perfect circumstances.  I couldn’t bear the thought of him being aborted, and the more I thought of his little face, the more I realized what a blessing he was.  I realized that, amidst all the hardships and all the lives that God called back in the past few years, I had failed to see the blessings that God had still given.  Even more, I realized that every life God called back was a sacred one.  Every one of the people I lost believed and loved God with all of their hearts.  Each of them tried to bring me closer to God and wanted to make sure that I loved and believed in Him with my whole heart.

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If you’ve ever been to the March for Life in Washington, DC, or the Walk for Life in Cali, then you know what it’s like to stand in the midst of thousands and thousands of like-minded people and experience the rush and joy of remembering that you’re not alone in this fight.

Many of us spend a great deal of time organizing local pro-life events with small numbers, ceaselessly recruiting volunteers, and inviting anyone we meet to rallies and prayer vigils. It’s tough work to be a pro-lifer some days, and there are times when you feel a bit lonely. Thankfully, however, it is all to the glory of a God who is incredibly faithful, and He gives us those moments, those seasons, in which we glimpse the greatness of His plan and the unity of His people. He lets us know that we are not alone — we are part of a Body, and that Body is drawing together with the power of Christ to bring Life to a death-dominated culture each and every day.

CEC For Life’s time in Ireland and Madrid could be narrowed down to these words: the power of Christ in the unity of His Body. From the streets of Belfast, where Fr. Terry spoke as the sole representative for the American pro-life movement, to the Convocation youth sessions and even the hot Plaza del Sol of Madrid, we could see, throughout the entire trip, the power of God manifested through the work of those who serve Him.

In Belfast, CEC For Life stood with more than 7,000 other people — some Catholic, some Protestant, all proclaiming the Gospel of Life – and together we made known to the world that abortion would never have a place in the cities and towns of Ireland. It was incredibly encouraging! Just to stand in a country that is statistically the safest place in the world to have a baby, where abortion is completely illegal, and where the majority of the nation is willing to fight to keep it that way…it’s astounding. And strengthening. It reminds us that the fight in America will be won.

Next, we tackled the Madrid Convocation. CEC For Life arrived to discover that the government had changed our Rally time and that the majority of our literature did not survive the trip over. Not our smoothest start but, as mentioned before, God is faithful. And not only that, but our youth are absolutely amazing.

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