Events and Opportunities

Redeeming Grief is a reflection of and study of abortion grief, which is experienced by some women who choose to undergo this elective procedure. These reflections are the result of listening to over 1000 personal stories and listening to the expressions used by the women as they spoke about their decision to abort the life of their child. These reflections then attempt to reconstruct the meaning that this procedure has had for the aborting woman and how this one procedure has been the catalyst for life changes.

Redeeming Grief looks at abortion trauma and grief from the spiritual and the psychological perspective. Its influences on the individuals involved and society. It is hoped that the language used is reader friendly and the concepts (both spiritual and psychological) are also reader friendly.

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When: Saturday 13 March 2010
         1:15pm Roby Curtis & Band
         2:00pm Speakers

Speakers:
Bernie Finn MLC (Victorian politician)
Teresa Martin (Cherish Life Queensland Inc State President)
Dr David van Gend (Toowoomba GP, Queensland Secretary
of the World Federation of Doctors Who Respect Human Life)

Presentation of 6000 signature petition to Mr Aidan McLindon, Member for Beaudesert

Where: Queens Park, cnr William, Elizabeth & George Sts, Brisbane CBD
What to bring: Your friends, relatives & children, hat, water, sunscreen, chair, rug, umbrella.
Note: Only official placards allowed.

For further information contact: Cherish Life Queensland info@cherishlife.org.au or ph 3871 2445

Flyer attached.

Mrs Jan Kronberg MLC will speak about 'Promoting the pro-life measage in Victoria' at Endeavour Forum’s 31st birthday meeting.

Jan was very vocal in speaking against the recent abortion legislation in Victoria.

Date and Time: February 5, 2010 at 7.30 pm.

Venue: St Patrick’s School Hall, Childers St, MENTONE, Victoria 3194.

The meeting will be followed by supper. All welcome, $10 donation appreciated.

RSVP essential for catering: Prue Oldham, (03) 9583 6835 or Margaret Butts, (03) 9589 5039.

Dear Friends for Life,

A highly successful campaign called 40 Days for Life started in America in 2004.  Last year, Brisbane ran this very successful campaign. This year, Sydney and Melbourne are also participating. By reading the 2009 campaign overview at you will get a very good overview of how successful this cause really is.

The campaign will be a focused effort, held at the same time in all the hundreds of participating cities in America and other countries and now also Melbourne, starting on 17th of February,  (Ash Wednesday) 2010 until 28th of March, 2010 (Palm Sunday).
 
The aim of 40 Days for Life is to change the culture of death to a culture of life in the minds of as many people as we can reach through this peaceful vigil campaign.
 
We prayerfully invite you and all your fellow supporters of the Right to Life for the Unborn to join in this witness outside the Fertility Control Clinic, 118 Wellington Pde, East Melbourne, by registering your attendance on the Vigil Schedule slots can be made individually, as a family or group for any number of hours and/or days.

We pray that you and your beautiful family, friends/organisation can and will participate. Please help spread the news regarding the 40 Days for Life campaign in any way possible because the more supporters we have, the bigger the impact! 
 
Thanking you, in anticipation of your necessary support.
Best Regards, 
 
Fons Janssen                        Trudi Aiashi
Campaign Director                 Communications Coordinator

Phone 03 5194 2340
fonsforlife@skymesh.com.au
MelbourneWebsite: http://www.40daysforlife.com/melbourne/
Venue: Fertility Control Clinic. 118 Wellington Pde East Melbourne.
Dates: 17/02/10 – 28/03/10.

One of the most heartbreaking situations that a woman can find herself in, is to discover the foetal development of an aborted baby after the fact. The emotional and psychological impact can be extremely damaging and is often long term. Women deserve the opportunity to be fully informed about this development prior to making a decision about the future of their pregnancy.

‘IN-SIGHT’ is intended to enable women to access this information at the time of decision making by providing free and readily available ultra sound scanning: offering an immediate and convenient option of seeing the developmental stage of the foetus before making an irreversible choice.

Our goal, at Genesis, is to purchase a $50 000 machine which is portable and 4D compatible. So far, amazingly, we have raised $29 000!

Being portable, we will be able to make the machine available to other pro-life agencies as well, so that it is put to maximum use. With your help, we can do this, and be able to offer the first free ultra sound imaging available in South Australia.

Genesis Pregnancy Support is a pregnancy support agency providing options counselling for people facing an unplanned pregnancy. We provide telephone and face to face counselling free of charge and offer material assistance where possible. We also offer post abortion counselling. We are completly relient upon donations as we do not receive any funding. All our workers are volunteers.

To make a donation, contact Genesis at genesispregnancysupport@msn.com.

Adapted from the Genesis Pregnancy Support Newsletter
Used with permission

Choices of Life will continue to expand in 2010, but TRAINEE PRESENTERS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED.

NSW and ACT — new and return visits to schools

January — Camp at Toukley, January 15 - 17 (contact brucecoleman@choicesoflife.com.au for more information)
March — Tasmania
April/May — North Coast (NSW) and Queensland
June — Annual Sydney Dinner
July — Passion4Life Walk
July/August — Riverina (NSW) and South Australia
September — Darwin
October — Victoria

There are increasing demands for the program and presenters are desperately needed. Thank you to those who are making presentations (Julie Jordan in Sydney and Sally Baird in Geelong) and those who have offered in country areas. Bruce will be in touch as he visits your area.

Please email Bruce Coleman (brucecoleman@choicesoflife.com.au) if you have a passion to save the unborn and are willing and able to be involved. A very special Thank You to Judith Bond who faithfully rings schools and successfully makes appointments across Australia.

Cherish Life Queensland Inc and a number of other pro-life/pro-family groups are holding a united "Rally For Life" at Queens Park, Cnr Elizabeth & George Sts, Brisbane City on Saturday 13th March 2010 at 2pm - 4pm.
 
Lets make this TWO THOUSAND AND TEN people for 2010!  So, 2010 for 2010!

More details to come ...

Melbourne Launch of the Benenson Society....the pro life alternative to Amnesty International 

The April 2007 decision of the International Executive of Amnesty International to adopt a pro abortion policy forced many pro life supporters to withdraw from the organization.

At the time of the decision, Cardinal Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, warned Amnesty International that it had disqualified itself as a defender of human rights. Here in Australia, Jesuit priest Father Chris Middleton, School Principal of St Aloysius College in Sydney, whose pleas to AI to resist such a policy had fallen on deaf ears, decided to give pro life opponents of the human rights abuse of prisoners of conscience, torture, kidnapping and "disappearances", an alternative to Amnesty International.  He founded the Benenson Society, named after Peter Benenson, the Catholic founder of Amnesty International.

The Melbourne Catholic Archdiocese's  Office for Justice and Peace is pleased to invite you to commemorate this International Human Rights Day with the Melbourne launch of the Benenson Society by Father Tony Kerin, Episcopal Vicar for Justice. The Society aims to provide all people with the opportunity to be involved in the promotion and defence of human rights. It  intends to lobby governments on behalf of prisoners of conscience, to work for the abolition of torture and the death penalty.

International Human Rights Day will be marked with an address by the Hon. Clovis Alidor Mwamba Member of Parliament, Congo, (in exile) journalist, author, victim of torture, campaigner for democracy, human rights and rule of law.

Thursday 10 December 2009, 2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m at the Knox Room, Thomas Carr Centre, 278 Victoria Parade Melbourne.

by Denise M Cameron for Pro Life Victoria (Inc.)

Cherish Life, Queensland is holding a Fundraising Dinner. 

The dinner will feature guest speaker, Fiona Simpson MP who won the seat of Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast in 1992 at the age of 27 — the youngest woman ever (at that time) elected to parliament.

Where: Terrace Room, Indooroopilly Golf Club, Meiers Road, Indooroopilly
When: Friday 6th November 2009 [RSVP with payment by Friday 30 Oct]
6:30pm arrival for your complimentary drink on the terrace.

For more details please see the Full Invitation here.

The Rev Hon Fred Nile MLC, Leader of the Christian Democratic Party, is co-ordinating a petition to ask the NSW parliament not to decriminalise abortion. The petition can be downloaded and printed here.

In part it reads:

"Your petitioners call upon your Honourable House to uphold the sanctity of human life and to defend the fundamental right of children to be born, by rejecting any and all attempts by advocates of abortion to initiate in New South Wales legislation emulating the Victorian Abortion Law Reform Act 2008, and your petitioners call upon your Honourable House to seek ways and means of promoting to the people of New South Wales the truth that each baby is a wonderful gift from God, deserving protection and nurturing from conception.

Please print it out, collect signatures and send to Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group, 9 Exeter Road, Homebush West NSW 2140).

Please also let your local MP and media know how many signatures you collect.