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Your voices are being heard! The NJ Reproductive Freedom Act (S3030/A4848), introduced in the Senate and Assembly on October 8, 2020, has stalled, due to reluctance on the part of legislators to pass such an extreme act during an election year. But we can't be complacent! Keep up the storm against this evil act. Click the article title for a link to send an email to your state legislators.

March for Life’s Annual Rose Dinner Gala—a pro-life event benefiting the March for Life Education and Defense Fund—is going virtual! The event will take place online at 7 pm on Friday, January 29. The program will feature a variety of pro-life voices and organizations working to build a culture of life. Among them will be Tim Tebow,a two-time national champion, first-round NFL draft pick, and Heisman Trophy winner; Fr, Mike Schmitz, and Carl Anderson.

Lent will be here soon and before you know it, we will be celebrating the Risen Lord. What will you do during those 40 days leading up to Easter to foster your relationship with the Lord? Click the article title for a suggestion.

Pray and fast on the first Friday of each month remaining in 2020 to attain equal rights for babies in the womb. Click the article title for more information.

The Respect Life Ministry of OLS-SA is hosting a group rosary at an online Zoom conference every Wednesday evening at 6:45 PM. We invite everyone to join us in praying this rosary as a group for the express intention of an end to abortion. At this time, we are also including an intention to end the Covid-19 pandemic. Click the article title for contact information and details.

There is a bill currently before the state legislature that would permit abortions for any reason for all nine months of pregnancy, eliminate conscience protections for medical professionals, require taxpayers to pay for the abortions whether or not they have moral objections, and prohibit the adoption of future laws that conflict with any provision of this bill. Please click the article title to find and use the link to make your objection to this bill known to your legislators.

Check out the Family & Pro-Life News Briefs for September, 2020, on our Respect Life page, under Documents. This news brief includes articles on the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, A Better Way to Plan Your Family, a condensed statement from the US Catholic Bishops, two articles on college, one on Respect Life Month, a short article on the US Birth Rate, and an article on "Jesus, Son of an Unwed Mom."

PRAY! St. Gregory the Great parish invites you to join in their efforts as either a Sidewalk Advocate, or a Prayer Warrior at church or at home. Our OLS-SA Respect Life group participated with St. Gregory the Great parish's pro-life prayer vigil last Spring, and welcomes the invitation to join them in continuing efforts to end the scourge of abortion.

Twenty-three human rights groups, including two medical associations, have requested that the abortion pill (mifepristone, or Mifeprex) be banned as an imminent danger to public health. Click the article title for more information.

This article is not telling you who to vote for, but does provide some information on one of the candidates that you need to know before your decision. Click the article title to see.

“A just law is a code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.” [Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., 4/16/1963]

Do you know someone who is carrying the grief of a past abortion? There is always hope. The pain and sorrow of abortion does not need to endure for a lifetime. A “Day of Prayer and Healing” offers the opportunity to experience the love and mercy of God and to respond to His invitation to begin the journey of healing the wound of abortion. Click the article title for more information.

The Pro-Life movement features prominent female leaders, black activists, and some Democrats, and has far more support from non-religious Americans than abortion supporters admit. Click the article title for more information.

Because of language that would promote abortion, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations has rejected an UN agreement on humanitarian assistance for emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement released last night, the U.S. Mission to the UN said, “We emphasize that health care should focus on health promotion and prevention, consistent with national legislation and policies.” The US objects to the terms "sexual and reproductive health care services" and "sexual and reproductive health" as code words for abortion.

The New York Times recently criticized pro-life politicians who are taking steps to save lives during the coronavirus outbreak. The newspaper editorial board did not have a problem with states’ bans on most non-essential medical procedures—just those that include abortion, a life-destroying practice that puts both mothers and unborn babies at risk, potentially requiring medical resources better used in saving lives threatened by COVID-19. Click the article title for more information.

Planned Parenthood has publicly stated that their clinics will remain open during the COVID-19 crisis: “It is important that patients do not postpone necessary health care, especially abortion services.” But pregnancy is almost never life-threatening, and in those rare cases when it may be a threat to life, abortion is too slow a solution. So it is never medically necessary for a woman to have an abortion, and abortion can, in fact, seriously harm the woman (not to mention the child). Continuing to perform abortions takes medical resources away from people who truly have life-threatening illnesses.

The 40 Days for Life Prayer Witness on Rt. 33 across from St. Gregory the Great will still be held. Since it is outdoors, the proper distance can be maintained to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. The other facets of this Lent's 40 Days activities have been cancelled.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Louisiana abortion case, June Medical Services v. Russo. Click the article title to see what's at stake.

Click the article title to read an article from the New Jersey Right to Life "NewsAlert" newsletter, on a severe breach of the Constitutionally guaranteed Right to Religious Freedom.