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La Habra Life Center
Newsletter
Winter 2016
La Habra Life Center * Corner: 860 E. La Habra/Valencia, Suite #150 * La Habra, CA 90631
562-691-9395 * e-mail:[email protected] * www.lifecentersofOrangeCounty.com
The La Habra Life Center is a non-profit, non-sectarian community organization, dedicated to promoting the
Sanctity of human life from the moment of fertilization and promulgating the high moral ethics expressed in the
Judeo-Christian tradition. We seek to carry out this basic philosophy in a practical manner by offering positive help
to women in a crisis pregnancy through counseling, education, and practical help.
I am struggling to report negative stories when Thanks-Giving and the Christmas Season are such
joyful times. I am reminded that the glorious event of our Lord’s Birth is at the same time
overshadowed by His flight into the desert from the clutches of Herod, who is
plotting his murderous thoughts against the Newborn King.
As always joy and sadness are intermingled as are the stories in our Newsletter.
* We have been obedient to commit to 40 days for Life every Wednesday
morning. One of our friends submitted the poem below:
The parking lot was full at the abortion clinic today
I stood on the sidewalk where I could pray
for the mothers who drove in and then went inside
for the mothers who would never hear their baby cry.
For the babies born too soon, And first breath never taken
Their trust in their safe womb forsaken.
The parking lot was full at the abortion clinic today
And as the cars drove out with windows closed and eyes straight ahead
They couldn't hear me and my heart broke as I prayed
"Break my heart Lord, for what breaks yours"
And then my heart broke when I counted car eleven
And the little eleven souls returned to heaven - Patti O’Haggerty Smith
Board of Directors
Robert Kurtz President
Mechtild Grothues Vice President
Adriane Vecchione Secretary
Steven Dunne Treasurer
Robert Kaiser, Ph.D. Board Member
Ted Vecchione Board Member
Zonya Townsend, RN Board Member
Advisory Board
Rev. Edward G.
Becker
Pastor, Our Lady of
Guadalupe Church
Paula Vandegaer L.C.S.W.
Founder of ILSI
Bill Anderson
Attorney at Law
Karl Grothues PE, ret.
News you can use
Black Lives Matter! Really???????????
Protecting Black Life. A pro-life organization
conducted a survey and found that 78 percent of 173
abortion facilities are within walking distance of
Black and Hispanic/Latino communities, indicating
that Planned Parenthood continues its strategy of
targeting minority communities for abortion.
In total, a whopping 90 percent of Planned
Parenthood’s current surgical abortion facilities are
within walking distance of a college or a Black or
Hispanic/Latino neighborhood. Clearly with intent,
Planned Parenthood has placed 35 percent of these
facilities to target both of these vulnerable
demographics from each location.
Planned Parenthood argues that it places its facilities to serve poor communities with “reproductive health care.”
However, our study documents that P.P. specifically places its surgical abortion facilities in poor minority areas. For
women from these areas, P.P.’s idea of “reproductive health care” is clearly abortion. The abortion giant “serves”
them by killing their babies and getting paid for those “services” with our tax money. P.P.’s annual report shows that
over 94 percent of the pregnant women they “serve” receive an abortion. Only 5 percent receive pre-natal care and
just 1 percent are referred for adoption.
It is a fact that abortion is the leading killer of Blacks and Hispanics, more than all other causes of death combined.
In 2010, approximately 330,000 Black babies were aborted, compared to 286,959 Black deaths by all other causes. In
the same year, 275,000 Hispanic/Latino babies died by abortion, compared to 144,490 deaths by all other causes.
Over their lifetime, Black women are five times more likely to have an abortion than White women, and Hispanic
women are 2.3 times more likely. These trends are frightening for the future of minority communities, and are
arguably rooted in the continuous targeting of minorities by the abortion industry.
Excerpts from © 2016 Protecting Black Life - 1821 W. GALBRAITH RD., CINCINNATI, OH 45239 - 513.729.3600
Openness to life is at the center of true development. When a society moves towards the
denial or suppression of life, it ends up no longer finding the necessary motivation and energy
to strive for man’s true good. If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of a
new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance tha are valuable for society also wither away.
(Caritas In Veritate, n. 28 then Pope Benedict XVI)
Two companies in California, DaVinci Biosciences and
DV Biologics, (right here in Yorba Linda) have
been illegally profiting from the sale of aborted baby
body parts. Thankfully, the Orange County District
Attorney’s Office is suing these two companies for
selling hundreds of baby parts around the world and
making millions of dollars in the process. We thank
District Attorney Tony Rackauckas for his efforts to stop
this disgusting trafficking in baby body parts. It is a
grave evil that must be stopped.
Hitler Nazi Program rearing its ugly head again! Headline: Belgium is expanding Euthanasia to the Mentally Ill.
(Hitler called them “useless eaters”)
Through the ongoing efforts of Father Ed Becker, Pastor of Our
Lady of Guadalupe Church, Stephanie Baker was invited to our
parish, to give first-hand information about the dangers of the
proposed ‘Assisted Suicide’ bill; she warned of abuse and our
need to get involved to fight it. Through last minute maneuvers
and shenanigans in Sacramento the bill passed and Governor
Brown signed it.
I remember Stephanie, a wife and mother of four, who is
diagnosed with scleroderma, as an upbeat woman despite her
terminal illness. She is now reporting that: “when the Assisted
Suicide law was passed, it was a week later that I received a letter
in the mail saying they were now going to deny coverage for her
promised and approved chemotherapy ,” instead she was told: ‘we do provide to our patients the assisted suicide pill ,
and you would only have to pay $1.20 for the medication!’
She reports that other ‘terminal’ patients in her support group now feel discouraged and express their feelings:
‘Let’s just get it over with’.
Thank you, Father Becker, for staying the course, for offering these informational talks…..even though the numbers of
participants were disappointingly small.
On a totally different subject, the response to the ‘Pennies from Heaven’-‘Baby Bottle Drive’ was
most heart-warming. Motivational talk at the end of the Sunday Masses resulted in a “run” on
baby bottles. Thank you to Becki Maffucci, Betsheba Orona, Robert Kaiser, Ofelia Garcia, Sylvia
Lauder, Eva Solis, and Shannon Trott for a job well done! Mrs. Judy Kremer, 7th grade teacher at
OLG, again engaged all OLG students in the project; they managed to collect well over $500.00.
Coins felt like kisses, paper bills and checks like hugs. Bottles are still being delivered to the parish
office. THANK YOU FROM OUR HEARTS TO YOU ALL !!!
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• The number of clients coming for assistance has increased slightly. No Ultrasound yet.
Listening patiently to our moms regarding their daily struggles is saving lives too. Privacy keeps us
from giving details. Many are desperate for true love, especially from their family members.
• RN’s from Cal State Fullerton requested the one time use of our office to teach young
mothers parenting skills; an opportunity for them to earn credits, and a win-win for ‘our mothers’
as well.
• A photographer from the Diocese recently called to volunteer his skills to take pictures of
our client moms with their children; his Christmas gift to them!
To all of you who are ’hanging in there’ with us: a big Thank you for
‘hanging in there’ with us and showering us with sacrificial love and
concern in our efforts to serve our clients and to make abortion
unthinkable !!!
May all of us again experience the simple wonder and joy of the
approaching most holy Christmas! It will strengthen us when we
experience the scorn, persecution and abandonment our Lord felt during
His Life here on earth.
Blessings from our dedicated staff of the La Habra Life
Center… Mecki Grothues, Dir.
The Kubasek Twins
You are cordially invited
To the blessing of our
Ultrasound machine by
The Most Reverend Bishop Kevin Vann
Sunday, December 4th at 1:30
La Habra Life Center
860 E. La Habra Blvd. #150, La Habra, 90631 (Entrance from Valencia)
*
Color guard by the Knights of Columbus,
Generous donor of the Ultrasound machine
*
Refreshments will be served RSVP 562-691-9395 helpful, but not required
La Habra Life Center, Inc.
860 E. La Habra Blvd. #150 (Corner Valencia)
La Habra, CA 90631
Christmas Boutique, Bake Sale and
White Elephant Sale Sat. and Sun. December 3&4 from 10 am to 3pm
Msgr.Coleman Hall,
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church Hall,
900 W. La Habra Blvd. La Habra 90631
Your donations of Baked Goods and White Elephant items
are very much appreciated.
Mecki 714-871-5382 or Jennie 562-944-6821
(Yes, Sunday is also the visit by our Bishop at the Center)
Feast of the Holy Innocents
Wednesday, December 28 Candlelight procession at 7 pm from
City Hall, 201 E. La Habra Blvd.
Followed by Eucharistic Celebration at Our Lady of
Guadalupe, 900 W. La Habra Blvd
Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus: Join us in prayer
for the unborn and their families.
One Life LA Walk for Life
Sat. Jan 21-2017
Starting at Olvera Street to
Park for rally, music, speakers.