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‘Abortion will end in America’ Eduardo Verastegui tells pro-lifers
LifeSiteNews ^ | 2/2/12 | Peter Baklinski

Posted on 02/02/2012 4:14:55 PM PST by wagglebee

DENVER, Colorado, February 2, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The star of the film ‘Bella’ encouraged benefactors at a fundraiser for a soon-to-be opened pregnancy center with his conviction that abortion in America will come to an end.

“I think we will see regeneration — I’m very optimistic— and we will see the end of abortion in this country,” said Eduardo Verastegui to more than 500 people at a sold-out January 26th fundraiser for the Lighthouse Pregnancy Center in Denver, CO.

During his testimony, Verastegui who is Latino, described his frustration a few years ago after encountering 10 abortion clinics within a one mile radius right in the heart of Los Angeles’ Latino population.


Eduardo Verastegui

The movie star was inspired to open a pro-life medical centre, what he called an “oasis of life” in a “desert of death.” Many people pointed out to him all the difficulties, especially raising the necessary funds, but Verastegui was not deterred. The culture of death is “not afraid to do big things, why are we afraid to do big things?” he asked.

With the help of the local pro-life community, Guadalupe Medical Center in Los Angeles opened August 15th, 2010. For Verastegui, the most “amazing part” was knowing that when women in a difficult situation enter the centre they “don’t feel alone anymore” because there are “so many volunteers, so many people just hugging them [and saying] ‘we’re your friend and family.’”

Verastegui expressed support for the Lighthouse Pregnancy Center’s goal to become an oasis of life right next to the second largest Planned Parenthood center in the country. “I am just so excited to hear that you are doing the same thing here,” he said, adding that it is “really the best way to really win this culture of death and turn this culture into a culture of life.”

Rosalinda Lozano, executive director of Lighthouse Pregnancy Center told LifeSiteNews that she shares Verastegui’s optimism that a culture of life will bring abortion to an end in America.

“I believe that instead of talking about our so-called rights, we need to start talking about the truth and educating women on their own strengths that have been taken away from them in the past.”

Lozano said that pregnancy centers like Lighthouse exist not to take away women’s rights, but to educate women to recognize the “strength, courage, and intelligence” they possess and to help them recognize that the baby they carry within them is their very own child.

“They have the strength and the intelligence to make the right decision, and that is to give life to their child,” she said.

Lozano believes that she will live to see the day when abortion will be a choice that women will not make because they will be educated in the truth.

Verastegui indicated that he would like to come back to Denver for the grand opening of Lighthouse Pregnancy Center in May on Mother’s Day weekend.

To open their doors by May 13th, Lighthouse Pregnancy Center is still in need of local volunteers and financial support. “We are still in the renovation process,” said Lozano. “Any donations would be most appreciated.”


Contact information:

Lighthouse Pregnancy Center (http://www.lighthousedenver.org/)
5994 S Holly Street #148
Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Ph: (720) 320-2449

Online contact form (http://www.lighthousedenver.org/3/contactus.htm)

Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lighthouse-Pregnancy-Center/200172346690475)

See clip from Eduardo Verastegui’s testimony (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMM5isa1jz0&feature=player_embedded) on YouTube.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; eduardoverastegui; moralabsolutes; prolife
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

Abortion is murder from conception forward.


21 posted on 02/02/2012 6:01:46 PM PST by DNA.2012
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN
Jews and Christians don’t see eye-to-eye on [abortion].

What are the specific differences?

22 posted on 02/02/2012 6:09:26 PM PST by DNA.2012
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To: wagglebee
‘Abortion will end in America’

At first I saw: Abortion will end America

...probably because I think that's much more likely. One way of another, the shedding of innocent blood will end.

Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

23 posted on 02/02/2012 6:16:38 PM PST by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
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To: DNA.2012

That is your belief.


24 posted on 02/06/2012 7:48:44 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Future Meteorologist.)
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To: xzins

Let’s just agree to disagree.


25 posted on 02/06/2012 7:52:04 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Future Meteorologist.)
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To: little jeremiah
I am not advocating murder.

Let's get that straight.

I am not advocating the “execution” of those with Alzheimer's.

Let's get that straight,too. What I am saying is that a woman's life may be in danger. Things do go horribly wrong during pregnancies. A woman can die. It may not be like the olden days but it does happen.

26 posted on 02/06/2012 8:02:19 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Future Meteorologist.)
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To: Dr. Brian Kopp

The indirect abortion is what I was getting at. Imminent death is a threat that needs to be addressed.

Now do you,as well as everyone else,understand what I am talking about?

I sure hope so.


27 posted on 02/06/2012 8:08:18 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Future Meteorologist.)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

It’s fact.


28 posted on 02/06/2012 9:44:15 PM PST by DNA.2012
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To: DNA.2012

Well,to you it is but I have a different view.

There is no doubt,however,that partial-birth abortion is murder. It is a viable fetus,a fully-developed baby. No question about it.

Abortion is not always wrong. There are instances where the mother could be on the verge of death. She should be able to live too,right?


29 posted on 02/06/2012 10:17:21 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Future Meteorologist.)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN
Things do go horribly wrong during pregnancies. A woman can die. It may not be like the olden days but it does happen.

And there is absolutely nothing that prevents a good faith attempt to deliver that baby and keep it alive rather than kill it. One would take no longer than the other.

Someone trying to save that life moves what happens from the macabre to the merciful.

30 posted on 02/07/2012 5:05:57 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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