Pro-Life Agenda for the 2004 Democrat National Convention, Boston

The Boston Rescue ^ | 07.23.04

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Pro-Life Agenda for DNC

    It’s John Kerry’s home town, and it’s where the Democrat Convention will be held—the Abortion Candidate of the Abortion Party. So, it is imperative that there be a prophetic witness for Life in Boston during this time, all the more so as Kerry contends that he is a “believing and practicing Catholic”!

   We have scheduled most of our activities on July 24 and 25, before the convention starts, since the media will mostly fixate inside the Fleet Center during the Convention. We especially want good numbers at the July 24 rally and the July 25 Life Chain.

Transportation:
    MBTA: http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/transitupdates.asp#dnc
    Highways: http://www.boston04.com/about_boston/visitor_information.asp

Saturday, July 24 8:00-10: AM Prayer at Planned Parenthood abortion mill, 1055 Commonwealth Ave., Allston [Babcock Street stop on Green Line (B train)]. 12 Noon Demonstration in Boston; meet at State House and leave on foot. 7:30 PM  Pro-life rally Speaker [CHANGED!]: Dr. Paul Schenck (brother of Robert), serves as a Pastoral Associate with Priests for Life and Director of Gospel of Life Ministries, an ecumenical outreach to the broader Christian community that seeks to form alliances across denominational boundaries.      Raised in a Jewish family, “Chaim” was baptized at age 16. He served for twenty-two years as an Evangelical minister and Anglican pastor, before his recent conversion to Catholicism. He is an author and editor. He founded two parochial schools, a ministry to the homeless, and an international relief organization.      He married his high school sweetheart, Rebecca, shortly after they graduated and they have eight children. Location: Hampton Inn, 319 Speen Street, Natick. Directions: Rte. 128 to Mass. Pike West. Take Exit 13. From toll booth bear left and follow ramp around to Rte. 30 East. Go about 0.1 miles to traffic light [Mobil & Getty stations on corners] and turn right onto Speen Street. Go straight through the first set of lights on Speen Street [past Home Depot]. As you approach second set of lights, get in far left lane as you go through light. Turn left into Superior Drive, just before Sam’s Club. Cross the next intersection and enter the Hampton Inn lot.   Sunday, July 25 9:30-10:10 AM Demonstration across from Paulist Center, 5 Park Street, Boston, just down the hill from the State House [Park Street Street stop on Green Line and Red Line]. 11:30 AM-12 Noon Return to Paulist Center 12:30-2:30 PM  Life Chain Congress Street, Boston (between Faneuil Hall and City Hall [Gov’t. Center stop on Green Line]) 7:00 PM Prayer vigil at Kerry’s house in Louisburg Square, Beacon Hill; leave on foot from State House.   Monday, July 26 8:00-10: AM Prayer at Brigham & Women’s Hospital abortion mill, corner of Francis St. & Huntington Ave. (Rte. 9), Boston [Brigham Circle stop on Green Line (“E” train)]. 12 Noon Demonstration in Boston; meet at State House and leave on foot. 7:00 PM Prayer vigil at Kerry’s house in Louisburg Square, Beacon Hill; leave on foot from State House.   Tuesday, July 27 8:00-10: AM Prayer at Planned Parenthood abortion mill, 1055 Commonwealth Ave., Allston [Babcock Street stop on Green Line (“B” train)]. 12 Noon Demonstration in Boston; meet at State House and leave on foot. 7:00 PM Prayer vigil at Kerry’s house in Louisburg Square, Beacon Hill; leave on foot from State House.

1. Boston Action Alert

Starting this weekend, thousands of pro-aborts will be swarming Boston for the Democratic National Convention.  While we do not endorse political parties or candidates, we do oppose the slaughter of babies, no matter who is promoting it.  The official Democratic Party platform supports the slaughter of one-third of our generation through surgical abortion.

In response, members of Rock for Life Boston and Rock for Life Capital District (Albany, N.Y.), along with many other pro-life activist groups, will be a voice for the babies during this time.  If you are in the area, we ask that you prayerfully consider attending one or more of their events.  The babies and their mothers need you to stand up and be a voice for them while politicians speak out against life.

For a list of events, click here.  For additional information from an activist in the trenches, call 717-341-2994.

For the babies,
Erik & Mickey
540-659-4171

info@rockforlife.org
www.rockforlife.org
AOL IM = RockForLifeUSA
Yahoo! IM = RockForLifeUSA

Pregnant?  Don’t know what to do?  800-395-HELP or click here
Had an abortion?  Need help or healing? 877-HOPE-4-ME or click here
 Rock for Life is a project of American Life League.

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Abortion Protest Barred at Kerry House

Mon Jul 26, 3:22 PM ET

By ADAM GORLICK, Associated Press Writer

BOSTON - A federal judge refused Monday to let anti-abortion groups demonstrate in front of Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites)'s Beacon Hill town house.

AP Photo

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"I'm not going to second-guess the Secret Service's idea of how they feel they need to protect a presidential candidate," U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton said.

The groups had filed a lawsuit contending the city improperly revoked their permits to demonstrate. Operation Rescue and several other anti-abortion groups had planned to pray and lay roses outside Kerry's home during the Democratic National Convention. Kerry supports abortion rights.

Mary Jo Harris, a legal adviser to the Boston Police Department, said the city revoked the permit at the request of the Secret Service, which believed the demonstration zone was too close to Kerry's residence. She said the groups were offered another location about a block from Kerry's house. The groups turned down the offer and said they would likely not appeal the judge's decision.

"The Democratic National Convention should be welcoming free speech, not crushing it," said the Rev. Pat Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, one of the anti-abortion groups. "It is clear regardless of whatever one's political views are, the First Amendment is not welcome here in Boston during the Democratic National Convention."

The lawsuit, filed on the first day of the Democrats' four-day convention at the FleetCenter, was the latest by protest groups seeking greater flexibility in where and when they can stage their demonstrations during the convention.

Also on Monday, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites) in Boston refused to make any changes to the fenced-in demonstration area near the FleetCenter. Civil libertarians and activist groups had sued the city, saying that confining the protests to the cramped area violates their First Amendment rights. A lower court judge had dismissed their complaint, saying unique security concerns presented by the convention made it necessary to confine the protests.

In the demonstration zone itself, several dozen protesters gathered Monday to complain about the conditions there.

Members of a group calling itself Save Our Civil Liberties quietly walked around the protest area wearing black hoods, their hands bound behind their backs with yellow cord. One protester wearing combat boots and a red Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) T-shirt ordered them to walk, kneel and hop on one foot.

David Meieran, 42, of Pittsburgh, said they were trying to draw comparisons between the government's treatment of terrorism suspects and political protesters.

Elsewhere in the city, Buddhists held a silent vigil for peace at the Holocaust Memorial near Faneuil Hall, and rowdy supporters of perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche (news - web sites) began singing loudly on a subway car, mocking DNC volunteers on board.

Across town, about 150 members of the Bl(A)ck Tea Society, a self-described anarchist group, gathered for protests, starting with a two-hour rally on the Boston Common, a 50-acre park once used for public hangings.

About 15 speakers railed against the Iraq (news - web sites) War, U.S. drug policy and the imprisonment of American Indian activist Leonard Peltier before the group set off on a march through the Back Bay neighborhood. One protester collapsed, apparently from the heat, and was treated on the scene by an EMS crew.

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Dr. Paul Schenck told me the Democrats for Life were not allowed into the convention this year.