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Stop the Hyde Amendment!
Your voice could help save millions of lives. The Hyde Amendment has protected Americans from funding abortion for 45 Years. It is credited with saving the lives of over 2.4 million children to date. Now, powerful members of Congress want to take away this law that both Democrats and Republicans have supported for nearly half a century. Without it, billions of taxpayer dollars could go to abortion. That means abortions would be cheaper, easier, and funded with our taxpayer dollars!As Pope Francis has said, “The future of humanity … is fundamentally in the hands of people and in their ability to organize.” It is critically important for Catholics to send a strong message before Congress moves forward to impose taxpayer-funded abortion. Because of the incredibly high stakes Congress needs to hear from a massive number of people. To that end, I invite the people of your parish to join our diocesan response to this nationwide effort by the USCCB, set for the first week of June. The primary goal is for millions of Catholics to sign the petition on NoTaxpayerAbortion.com .The USCCB has created easy, ready-to-use tools that can be found at respectlife.org/no-taxpayer-abortion. These include a sample announcement, graphics, flyer, and infographic. More tools continue to be added as they become available, so be sure to check back. Additionally, the USCB is hosting a webinar Wednesday, May 12 at 2:00 p.m. (EDT) that will give more information on the push for tax dollars to pay for abortion and what Catholics can do to stop it. Anyone interested can register at respectlife.org/no-taxpayer-abortion.
Stop your tax dollars from going to abortion. NoTaxpayerAbortion.com.With every prayerful best wish, I remainSincerely yours in Christ,
Most Reverend Robert J. McManusBishop of Worcester
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The Spring 2021 40 Days for Life campaign is off and running, and it’s great to see many familiar faces out on the sidewalks as well as a lot of new people signing up on the website.While many dozens of you have already signed up to pray at vigil, there are over 600 people on our mailing list who haven’t signed up yet! That means we have a lot of untapped prayer potential waiting to be unleashed. Over the years that we have been praying, we have seen babies saved, women spared, post-abortive women and men connected with healing resources, and workers leaving PP. This only happens if we show up to pray.Now is the time to sign up to participate at 40daysforlife.com/worcester
! Please put yourself down for at least 1 hour of vigil time so we can get the schedule filled up. If physical limitations or caring for a sick family member prevents you from joining us, we hope you will sign up for Shawn Carney’s daily emails and pray along from home in support of our campaign. Did you hear… Planned Parenthood just released their latest annual report showing the most abortions ever (354,871 in their 2019/2020 annual report vs. 197,070 in their 2001/2002 annual report...which is oddly titled “Creating Hope for Humanity”). Meanwhile their provision of healthcare (breast exams, Pap tests, prenatal care) is down substantially since 2000. We need to match this news with renewed resolve to pray for eyes to be opened and hearts to be changed. There was a sign posted in the window of the Worcester PP this past week that said “Destigmatize Healthcare.” We need to pray that PP employees and customers will come to see that abortion, their primary business, is NOT healthcare.Did you know...the entire abortion industry is built on lies? Terry Beatley will be running free online sessions (via Zoom) on Tuesday nights at 7pm to teach people what she learned from Dr. Bernard Nathanson when she met him shortly before his death. Dr. Nathanson was a co-founder of NARAL and was known as America’s “Abortion King,” as he was responsible for 5000 abortions directly and another 65,000 performed by those he trained and supervised. Once he saw a baby on ultrasound, his mind, his heart, and his life were changed, and he became pro-life and eventually Christian. He confessed to Terry that he and his cohorts had outright lied about all of the statistics they used to change Americans’ opinions of abortion in the late 60s and usher in the disaster we have today. His dying wish was that Terry would tell people how Americans had been deceived so we could start to undo the damage he had done. Learn more about this great opportunity here: https://www.hosea4you.org/. Terry hopes people will invite friends and family members who are neutral or pro-choice to these calls as well.Thank you for being a part of 40 DFL/Worcester.Hope to see you on the sidewalks!Your 40 DFL/Worcester leadership team