On Saturday, 12/7 there is an Advent Mass (10am) followed by a Brunch Forum hosted by Women Affirming Life & The Pro-Life Office at Bethany Chapel, Pastoral Center at 66 Brooks Drive, Braintree, MA 02184. The Forum will be led by Katie Elrod, Author and Head of Montrose School. Seating is limited, brunch is $35/person, or table of 8 for $250. Please contact Maria at 508-651-1900 to register.
News and Events
Pro-Life Rosary at St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis
On Friday 12/20 there will be a Pro-Life Rosary at St. Francis Xavier Church – Decades will be spoken in Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and English. Printed translations are provided. The rosary begins at 7PM in the church located at 347 South Street in Hyannis.
2025 Washington DC March for Life
January 24, 2025 is the Washington DC March for Life. The March for Life website is www.marchforlife.org. We will update Alliance members when we hear of organized participation from the Cape.
Pregnancy Resource Centers – What’s the Big Deal?
If all a person did was read the Cape Cod Times or have knowledge of so-called gag-order bills being proposed by our state legislature, they might think that Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) are a bad idea. But this couldn’t be further from the truth.
A pregnancy resource center (PRC) is a privately funded center to assist pregnant woman. There are over 3,000 such centers in the United States. Services provided by many PRCs include life-affirming counseling by skilled patient advocates, pregnancy tests, and ultrasound imaging performed by certified sonographers and read by licensed physicians. The purpose of everything a PRC does is to empower a pregnant woman with all of the information needed to make an informed decision on her pregnancy.
Unlike Planned Parenthood and other clinics who provide abortions, PRC’s do not dispense chemical abortion pills nor perform surgical abortions. PRCs begin with the assumption that a woman facing an unexpected pregnancy needs love, support, and knowledge to make informed decisions. Should a woman decide to have an abortion after watching a sonogram of their baby and talking through all available avenues of support, it’s her right to do so. PRCs don’t judge. In the words of a mother who visited a Planned Parenthood clinic, the difference is stark. A PRC starts by asking how they can help. When I was pregnant and went to Planned Parenthood, they began by asking me if I wanted an abortion.
A number of our State Senators want to silence PRCs based upon unfounded accusations and outright falsehoods. They want to go even further and make it unlawful for a healthcare professional to refuse to participate in abortion procedures due to religious beliefs. Why are pro-abortion forces so worried that a woman might learn important information about her pregnancy, the support that is available for her and her baby, and the fact that there are healthcare professionals opposed to abortion?
PRCs are a big deal because they play an important role supporting women and their children in a way that pro-abortion organizations do not! For more information on how you can support expanding access to PRCs on Cape Cod please go to https://capecodprolife.org/
Cape Cod Pro-Life Alliance – An Update
For those who have not yet heard of the Cape Cod Pro-Life Alliance, it is a re-vitalization of a Pro-Life Christian ministry across the Cape and mainland side of the Canal. We now have over 250 members from 28 different churches and Christian organizations on the Cape..
The first priority of the Alliance has been to partner with Your Options Medical who has provided life-affirming pregnancy services in Massachusetts for over 30 years. With the support of the Alliance, Your Options Medical has opened a new Pregnancy Resource Center on the Cape centrally located in Hyannis.
Why is this work so important? The world seeks to normalize abortion. Our local state representative has helped procure over $700,000 in state funding for chemical abortions on the Cape based on the premise that “abortion is healthcare”. If Christians do not stand up to speak the truth about abortion and take action for life, then who will?
We invite you to join us in the effort to change hearts and minds to choose life by going to our Join Us page or contacting us by email at: ccprolifealliance@gmail.com, or phone at: 774-237-0211. To learn more about Your Options Medical go to http://partnersofyom.org/. Thank you and we look forward to sharing more updates in the future.
Seeds Take Root and Blossom into the Cape Cod Pro-Life Alliance
Massachusetts Pro-Lifers Form Alliance to Advocate for the Unborn in a Highly Pro-Abortion State
From Life Site News:
The Cape Cod Pro-Life Alliance has so far gathered over ’80 members from 14 different churches and Christian organizations’ after just three months.
Pro-lifers in the intensely pro-abortion state of Massachusetts have joined forces to form an alliance dedicated to encouraging and assisting men and women facing unplanned pregnancies to choose life. Read the entire article here.