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Face of Pro-Life #119 – Corinn Dahm and Jill Sackidovitch on the youth ( 30min) >>> Play

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Jill Sackidovitch director of the Westbrook, CT branch of Birthright offers her insight of how to reach out to youth with a Pro-life message in this modern, changing, materialistic world, making use of her ample experience working with young teenage mothers coming to her local Birthright facility. She also set up a booth at a local fair and had much more contact with youth in general. She believes that the joy of life message has been received very well by youth. She believes that youth are increasingly pro-life and describes the free materials that she offered to the youth. She also mentions how ultrasound images of their little babies is very powerful for young mothers and how the youth and even young children understand the sanctity of human life very well. The youth are also very quick to notice a lack of sincerity and are quite skeptical in general so it is important not to talk down to them. They want to hear the other side of the story as opposed to the line they get from TV etc. We must provide them with this other side, the culture of life that raises the dignity of humanity and leads to eternal life.

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Face of Pro-Life #118 – Corinn Dahm and Jill Sackidovitch ( 60min) >>> Play

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This episode was  a live show  on local television with guest Jill Sackidovitch director of the Westbrook, CT branch of Birthright, the premier nation-wide (even international) emergency pregnancy assistance centers for women. She relates to hostess Corinn Dahm how she got involved in Birthright when she wasn’t even looking to do so as well as all the challenges of talking to young mothers in distressed pregnancies. They discuss:

• pro-choice nature of the agency in that it gives women a chance to choose life when, in this pro-abortion world, pregnant women are often heavily pressured to abort their child
• demoralizing and even traumatic nature of abortion that scars many women for life.
• lack of safety for abortion procedure
• lack of education about the emotional and medical dangers of abortion.
• difficulties and joys of adoption for women with unwanted pregnancies
• how they reach out to distressed mothers
• procedure for giving assistance once they come to their facilities
• how friendship is the greatest thing needed for these women even if they do make the wrong decision
• what additional services are needed for mothers in the future
• type of people needed for volunteers
• how people can donate
• how many women are helped

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Face of Pro-Life #121 – Friar Gabriel Cortes and Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Friar Gabriel Cortes continues his story from last episode where he related his conversion story. Now he covers his ministry work in the land down under, Australia. He first fills in the details of his conversion and then relates his experience of being in Toodyay and Perth, Australia for ten years. He covers his ministry with the youth where he uses his skill at skateboarding to break the ice. He has been able to start many conversations with the youth and even win the friendship of whole neighborhoods of kids. His passing out of Miraculous Medals, his trip to World Youth Day in Sidney, his trips to skate parks and many, many encounters with people of all ages.

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Face of Pro-Life #120 – Friar Gabriel Cortes and Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Friar Gabriel Cortes of the Franciscans of the Immaculate relates his journey in faith that led to his ministry with youth in Australia. He first talks about his early life, how he started to get serious about his faith and his calling to the Franciscans. He mentions the devotion of his parents, the rosary and Eucharistic adoration as factors in his conversion.

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Face of Pro-Life #105 – Leticia Velasquez with Corinn Dahm ( 30min) >>> Play

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Leticia Velasquez describes her book that she is writing on the trials and joys of being the mother of a Down Syndrome child. She covers motivations for the book, i.e. the culture against children with disabilities which she continuously runs into. She has titled the book “A Special Mother is Born” referring to herself that when her special-needs-child was born, she was reborn into a new kind of motherhood. It will consist of 24 stories of her experience both dealing with the needs of her daughter and dealing with this anti life culture. It is due out in the fall and she hopes it will give such mothers what she could not find for herself, good information about how to make the bold step to embrace this beautiful kind of motherhood. She also wants to fight against the Hitlarian eugenics culture that is obsessed with a perfect race.

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Face of Pro-Life #112 – Hostess Leticia Velasquez and Fr Angelo Geiger on the spiritual aspects of abortion  ( 30min) >>> Play

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Fr Angelo Geiger discusses with hostess Leticia Velasquez the spiritual aspects of abortion, covering a wide range of aspects including the occult, human sacrifice culture of death, Aztecs and how Our Lady of Guadalupe brought an end to much of this, Reike and yoga, occult themes in books and movies, Harry Potter, Twilight, normalization of evil. and attempts by abortion providers to normalize abortion by presenting it as a cultural and even spiritual event.

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Face of Pro-Life #93 – Sarah Cloutier and Gabrielle Velasquez give a challenging message. ( 30min) >>> Play

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Sarah Cloutier and Gabrielle Velasquez describe their new club at their high school that is a bit out of step with the main stream. It is a Chastity Club! Listen as these bold young ladies see something beautiful where others would not even look and challenge their peers to raise the standard of how they think of themselves and others.

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Face of Pro-Life #103 – Bill O’Brien ( 30min) >>> Play

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Bill O’Brien of Connecticut Right to Life gives a run down of the pro-life positions of Connecticut candidates for the elections in November 2010. This includes the race for Governor with Michael Fedele (R), Tom Foley (R), Ned Lamont (D) and Dan Malloy (D) and for US Senate: Linda McMann (R), Peter Schiff (R) and Richard Blumenthal (D) and what this means for the various pro-life  issues in CT.

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Face of Pro-Life #101 – Dr. Lorraine Hartnett sounds-off ( 06min) >>> Play

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Lorraine Hartnett gives a quick passionate run-down of the effects on medicine of legislation like Obamacare, bringing up:

• Loss of Judeo-Christian principles
• Starving the Elderly
• Physician assisted suicide
• Rationing Healthcare
• Culture of death
• Elderly being undervalued
• Fragility of our good health
• Youth need to watch out as well
• Holiness of life
• Need for action, wake-up
• Catholic Values

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Face of Pro-Life #87 – Eileen Bianchini ( 30min) >>> Play

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Eileen Bianchini discusses with Corinn Dahm the threat of legalized assisted suicide coming to the state of Connecticut and the resulting horrors that could be unleashed. These include almost no ability to confirm weather the person is actually consenting to being killed and whether real pressure is being put on them from family, doctors or government to “Not be a burden”. All of which leads to the specter of a universal distrust of the entire medical institution that is supposed to be the one we trust to save our very lives.

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Face of Pro-Life #89 – Susan Boyce with the Health Care facts that will surprise you.  ( 30min) >>> Play

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Susan Boyce explains how the federal health care plan which seems to have been defeated when Scott Brown won the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts is not at all defeated and still needs to be vigorously opposed. There is a real danger of stealth efforts to bypass normal rules by sneaking it into reconciliation without bringing it past the new senator. She further outlines the many problems that still exist in the plan, including half a trillion of new spending that will increase costs and taxes on employers reducing the number of jobs, unelected boards with unprecedented powers to dictate what gets funded, who gets health care or not. There are many indications that this rationing will be based on how ‘useful’ you are to society, similar to the Nazis.

It would also be a blow to religious freedoms due to the lack of conscience clauses in regard to abortion and abortifacients, mandated home visits, government oversight of marriage counseling. And, of course, abortion funding is still in the plan.

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Face of Pro-Life #82 – Leticia Velasquez on how to Keep Infants with Down Syndrome ( 30min) >>> Play

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Leticia Velasquez tells her plight on the difficulties of finding health care for her child Christa who has Down Syndrome. In her effort to look out for her child and help others in the same situation she started an organization called K.I.D.S. for Keep Infants with Down Syndrome. The group especially tries to encourage expectant mothers who have a pre-born child diagnosed with Down to keep their child in the face of tremendous pressure from their medical community, family and friends to have an abortion. She focuses on the joys of having one of these special children and how they go down to Washington DC each year for the March for Life.

You can read her blog:
Keep Infants with Down Syndrome blog

and Facebook:
Keep Infants with Down Syndrome Facebook Group

Last year’s K.I.D.S. trip to March for Life in DC!

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Face of Pro-Life #51 – Fra Anthony on Modesty ( 30min) >>> Play

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Fra Anthony Servium, FI relates to host Corinn Dahm about modesty of dress, how it has changed and how it effects our morals.

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Face of Pro-Life #39 – Fr Angelo and John Martin discuss Human? Vit? & the current social decay ( 30min) >>> Play

In this episode, Fr Angelo and John Martin discuss the ramifications of society ignoring Pope Paul VI’s teaching on the regulation of birth, Humanae Vitae, and specifically the degeneration of men’s behavior and faith. Also discussed was how to regain society for God through God-fearing men. Ave Maria!

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