Catholic Pro-Life Committee E-Alert

The new facility at the NE corner of Royal Ln and Greenville Ave in North Dallas

CPLC sidewalk counselors standing at one of the entrances to the new facility's office park on Greenville Ave. They spent the day yesterday sharing with tenants and those arriving at the complex that a new late-term abortion facility was opening there. Not one person that they spoke to knew that this was a late-term abortion facility.

Building on the momentum of the current 40 Days for Life-Dallas Campaign, where 2,000 people of faith have come out to pray outside of Robinson's abortion center on Record Crossing, the CPLC is calling for a massive prayer and public witness effort, particularly at this new late-term abortion facility, to bring about an end to the killing of innocent unborn children at the 5 abortion centers in Dallas.

Here is a listing of the Catholic Churches closest to this new killing center (there are a number of nearby churches of other denominations as well):

St. Patrick – 3.78 miles
St. Paul, Richardson – 4.79 miles
Christ the King – 4.97 miles (the abortion facility is in the boundaries of Christ the King Parish)
St. Rita – 5.34 miles
St. Thomas Aquinas – 5.53 miles

If you belong to one of these churches, will you please share this information with your pastor and/or your fellow parishioners?

24-week baby in the womb

Closing Memorial Prayer Service at Fairmount

A Closing Memorial Prayer Service will be held outside 2921 Fairmount St., Dallas, in memory of each of the thousands of babies who were killed in that building over the last 36 years, and in prayer for the healing of all the mothers and fathers who lost their children there. Fairmount was the first abortion facility in Dallas and the state of Texas. We are grateful to God that no more children will die at 2921 Fairmount St in Dallas. The Memorial Prayer Service will be held on Saturday, November 7, from 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm. Monsignor Mark Seitz, pastor of St. Rita Catholic Church in Dallas, will preside. Please join us.

Immediately following the Memorial Prayer Service at Fairmount is the 40 Days for Life-Dallas End Celebration (celebrating the lives saved during the vigil), Potluck Dinner & Pro-Life Fair from 6:00 pm -8:00 pm, at St. Monica Catholic Church, 9933 Midway Rd., Dallas, in Room 109 of the Family Life Center. Please bring a dish to share. Join us to hear testimonies from 40 Days for Life-Dallas participants and visit the exhibits of pro-life organizations.

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Karen Garnett, Executive Director of the Catholic Pro-Life Committee, issued the following statement today:

October 28, 2009

The Catholic Pro-Life Committee expresses our deep disappointment upon learning that there are plans for a late-term abortion facility to be operating again in Dallas, after a 14-month reprieve following the closing of Aaron’s abortion center in August 2008. While we were aware that plans were in the works for a possible new facility affiliated with Fairmount after Aaron’s' closure, we have been praying that this would not be an additional facility, thereby bringing the number of killing centers in our city back up to six. We have confirmed that the new facility in North Dallas is a relocation from Fairmount; there remain five abortion centers in Dallas, down from 13 in 1990. The new facility in North Dallas, Southwestern Women's Surgery Center at Greenville Ave and Royal Lane, is registered as an ambulatory surgical center, equipped to kill innocent unborn children through 24 weeks gestation. God, have mercy on us.

One abortion in our city is one too many; five abortion centers in our city are five too many. We will continue to pray and work, peacefully and legally, for Dallas to be free of these five terrible "wounds in our city," where the innocent blood of more than 11,000 unborn children is shed each year. We remain unwavering in our commitment to realizing an abortion-free Dallas, even if it remains legal to kill unborn children in our city, state and country. As in the case of slavery and other grave injustices, just because something is legal does not always mean it is right. It is a grave injustice and crime against humanity for innocent unborn children to be legally and violently killed each day. God, have mercy on us.

While we are also extremely disappointed that the new facility will not provide our sidewalk counselors with the kind of access to speak with the mothers arriving for abortions that we had at Fairmount, access which resulted in thousands of lives being saved there over the last 12 years, we feel certain that a late-term abortion facility is not welcome in our community, and through peaceful, legal prayer, public witness and sidewalk counseling efforts, many lives will still be spared outside the new facility. We look forward to working with the churches, businesses and residents – particularly in the Lake Highlands area, where this facility intends to perform its grisly operations – to do all that we can, peacefully, prayerfully and legally, to save the lives of the innocent unborn children scheduled to be killed and to offer help and hope to their mothers.

We are calling on people of faith from all over Dallas and the surrounding suburbs to join with us in a renewed, massive prayer and public witness effort against this grave evil in our community. We also ask all people of faith to pray for the conversion of heart of abortionist Dr. Curtis Boyd, his wife Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, Ph.D., and all the clinic staff at the Southwestern abortion center on Greenville Avenue, as well as the abortionists and clinic workers at the other four abortion facilities in Dallas. The average age of abortionists in America is 72. It is also our earnest prayer that younger doctors in America, and Dallas, continue to refrain from joining the abortion industry.

Deliver us, Lord, from the evil of abortion.

Watch the CPLC web site, www.prolifedallas.org, or call 972-267-LIFE (5433) for further information on specific prayer and public witness initiatives.

All together, let us build a culture of life!

Please pass this on to your friends and family!

For more information, call the CPLC at 972-267-LIFE (5433), or visit our web site: www.prolifedallas.org.
Check out our blog at: cplc.blogspot.com.

This message is brought to you by the Catholic Pro-Life Committee, the Respect Life Ministry of the Diocese of Dallas. The CPLC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Tax-deductible donations to support the life-saving work of the CPLC may be mailed to: CPLC, P. O. Box 59852, Dallas, TX 75229, or make a secure donation online at www.prolifedallas.org/pages/donations.

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