La gran lucha

Todos los dias conocemos a chicas que quieren abortar. Por la labor qe aqui realizamos, tambien conocemos a gente que dedica su vida a ayudar a estas chicas. Pero hoy, despues de mas de un mes en Florida he conocido la historia de una de las mejores persona que he conocido aqui. 

Ella es una mujer a la que conocimos en una de las sesiones de formacion a las que hemos estado acudiendo. Desde fuera es una mujer llena de fuerza y valentia. Una lider provida en la red y a su vez combate una dura batalla contra el movimiento de la nueva era. Para nosotros ha sido una gran amiga, siempre llena de energia y optimismo. Hoy, en nuestra despedida, nos ha contado su historia. Una historia muy cercana al aborto y como a pesar de todo ello ha salido adelante para poder luchar contra ello y ayudar a las demas mujeres a no tomar la decision equivocada. Gracias a su lucha se estan salvando muchas vidas y consigue que otras muchas sigan el camino correcto. Es una mujer maravillosa de la que hemos aprendido mucho y a la que nunca olvidaremos. Las personas a las que estamos conociendo a lo largo de este verano son sin duda las mejores experiencias que estamos teniendo. Porque vinimos a ayudar a otros y recibimos mucho mas de lo que podemos dar. 

Sad endings

During our internship we listen to a lot of stories of different women in many different situations. But there are others that you have to guess. Those are the stories of the women that go to the abortion clinics and don't want to talk with us, or the ones that can't talk with us because others don't let them to. Any woman has their own story but the end of all of them is the same. It's pretty sad see a women crying inside a car going out of an abortion clinic. But it's even worse if that woman it's just a little girl. 

While we were praying at an abortion clinic a car entered there. There was a mother with her daughter that was just a teenager about 16 years old. The girl looked so sad. Some time later the same car went out and there she went, the same girl crying and waving her hand saying bye to us. I don't know what was the story of that girl but I do know that if she finally got the abortion it wasn't her choice and it will mark her for the rest of her life. She killed a baby and she knows but by the tears in her eyes I could guess it wasn't her choice and she regreted so much. But we just can gues this women's stories, just God knows what's going on with them and that's why the only thing we can do for them when they take the wrong way for any reason it's to pray for their souls and their babies killed because they need God's forgiveness and bless.

Valor incomparable de la persona humana

Durante este verano estamos realizando distintas actividades a favor de la vida. La vida tiene un valor especial otorgado por Dios. De esta forma, el Papa Juan Pablo II habla de este valor de la vida en El Evangelio de la Vida como en tantos otros de sus escritos.

El hombre esta llamado a una plenitud de vida que va mas alla de las dimensioned de su existencia terrena, ya que consiste en la participacion de la vida misma de Dios. Lo sublime de esta vocacion sobrenatural manifiesta la grandeza y el valor de la vida humana incluso en su fase temporal. La vida himana en el tiempo es condicion basica, momento inicial y parte integrante de todo el proceso unitario de la vida humana. Alcanza su plena realizacion en la eternidad. Al mismo tiempo, esta llamada sobrenatural subraya el caracter relativo de la vida terrena del hombre y de la mujer. En verdad, esa no es realidad ultima, sino penultima; es realidad sagrada, que se nos confia para que la custodiemos con sentido de responsabilidad y la llevemos a perfeccion en el amor y en el don de nosotros a Dios y a los hermanos.

Todo hombre abierto sinceramente a la verdad y al bien, aun entre dificultades e incertidumbres, con la luz de la tazon y no sin el influjo secreto de la gracia, puede llegar a descubrir en la ley natural escrita en su corazon el valor sagrado de la vida humana desde su inicio hasta su termino, y afirmar el derecho de cada ser humano a ver respetado totalmente este bien primario suyo. En el reconocimiento de este derecho se fundamenta la convivencia humana y la misma comunidad politica.

Como fue legalizado el aborto en EEUU?

El 22 de enero de 1973, el Tribunal Supremo de EEUU, en los fallos "Roe v. Wade" y "Doe v. Bolton", legalizo el aborto a peticion a nivel navional. Estas decisiones fueron tomadas apropiandose de la potestad de legislar sobre algo que ni siquiera esta mencionado en la Costitucion. Estos casos llegaron al extremo de negarles todos los derechos a los estados de penalizar el aborto de alguna manera.

El "derecho a la privacidad" inventado pocos años antes, se erigio como supremo sobre cualquier otro razonamiento, entendiendose a la capacidad legal de la madre de terminar con la vida de su hijo por nacer por cualquier motivo durante los nueve meses del embarazo.

El Tribunal declaro en "Roe v. Wade" que los estados no pueden prohibir el aborto antes de que el feto sea viable. Se definii la viabilidad en ese mismo fallo como el momento en que el ser humano por nacer "es potencialmente capaz de vivir fuera del utero de la madre, aun por medios artificiales". El criterio de la viabilidad es muy arbitrario, pues esta depende no solo del ser humano por nacer, sino tambien de la tecnologia medica disponible. De hecho, en las ultimas decadas, el momento de viabilidad ha descendido, gracias al avance tecnologico, de las 30 semanas a las 22 semanas de gestacion.

"Roe v. Wade" tambien declaro que despues que el ser humano por nacer es viable, los estados pueden prohibir el aborto, excepto en caso de peligro para la vida o salud de la madre. Sin embargo, el fallo definio el termino "salud" tan ampliemte, incluyendo factores fisicos, emocionales, psicologicos, familiares, asi como la edad de la mujer.

Ella puede justificar legalmente( no moralmente) para practicarse el aborto por cualquier motivo durante los nueve meses del embarazo.

Saturday at 117th street

As every saturday morning a lot of pro-life people go to the abortion clinic at 117th st in Miami. This is a very famous clinic because a lot of abortions are made there every day and the owner is always at the door waiting for any chance to bother pro-life people. Last saturday was our second time there and it was very different than the first time. The first time was calm and only a few people came. That second day we were praying the rosary as always and three cars entered to the clinic and went out in five minutes. This means they couldn't abort in that little period of time so that were good news. Also, before we arrived, a woman who was about to enter stopped to talk with the people that were there and finally didn't entered. That day the owner of the clinic was very rude to us and yelled at the people who were there. She even followed one man who was with us while he was talking on his cell phone. One of the pro-choice recorded us with a video camera triying to make us be afraid and when any car went out from the clinic they stand in front of it to not let the people in the car see us. During the morning a big group of teenagers came to pray the rosary with us. It was an activity theirs parish orginece. They all were very nice and it was very rewarding to see all those people there fighting for life! This saturday we'll repeat the experience going there again.

Our first experience at Radio Paz

On tuesday Florida interns were invited to a radio program at Radio Paz, a catholic radio station in Miami. Every tuesday in this program they talk about life. The first time we met Roger he invited us to the radio to make us and interview. 

Radio Paz is a little radio station in Miami that beams for a lot of other countries. All programs are in spanish.

During the program we prayed the rosary  for the first hour and for the second hour we talked about our experiences at EMC internships and about the organization and how it helps women. Many people called to the program to talked about their own experiences with the abortion issue and to thank us for our work here. It was a great experience that we will repeat next week because we were invited again to this program and to another one for next week. I hope this can be the opportunity to spread our voice and catch up with many women so we can safe more lifes!

Jovenes

Para finales de los sesenta y principios de los setenta, la vision de la persona humana como un animal cuyas pasiones deben predominar se consolido como algo intrinseco en las actitudes de los promotores de la revolucion sexual. Se promovio el sexo fuera del matrimonio e incluso alentaron fuertemente la promiscuidad. Se dijo a los jovenes que debian abandonar la moral represiva de sus padres para involucrarse en el amor libre. Les dijeron que una vida sexual activa con diferentes parejas era psicologicamente saludable, perfectamente normal y absolutamente moral. Ahora, principalmente a causa de la propagacion del SIDA y de la devastadora plaga de embarazos adolescentes se confiere cierto valor a la abstinencia. Pero la falta de confianza en que los jovenes puedan y vayan a abstenerse de las relaciones sexuales hace que se promuevan las relaciones sexuales "seguras" en las que se usan anticonveptivos. Los educadores sexuales asumen que la gente joven va a involucrarse en actividades sexuales fuera del matrimonio; asi pues la meta principal de sus programas es hacerlos usar anticonceptivos. Pero, de nuevo, todos los estudios demuestran que los programas de educacion sexual llevan a una mayor promiscuidad sexual, a mas embarazos de adolescentes y a mas abortos. 

Pro-life talking

Yesterday, the group of interns in Florida went to the second session of a pro-life course guided by Alfonso J. Castañeda from Human Life International. This time it was about natural methods for family planned versus contraceptives or artificial methods. 

Before talk about contraceptives it must be explain what is and when conception starts. Conception starts in the instant that the sperm penetrate in the egg. This is the star of a new life. For stop this exist two different types of contraceptives, the ones that avoid the sperm to penetrate in the egg and otrers that are abortive and avoid the implementation of the fertilized egg. Neither ones or the others can't be morally accepted as good methods of family planned because they act against conjugal act nature. On the other hand, nature methods for family planned are the good alternative for families that because of hard reasons need to take some time to have more babies. This methods are based on women's nature knowledge. This is open to life so it promotes the love between the couple and to their sons.

This is just a summary of a few things we learn at the course.

Esconder la verdad

Uno de los trabajos que realizamos los internos es la parte de sidewalk counseling. Este trabajo se realiza en las puertas de clinicas abortistas. Es en mi opinion el trabajo mas duro ya que pasamos horas en la calle tratando de que nos escuchen y conseguir hablar con alguna chica para que vuelva a pensar las cosas. Lo mas sorprendente es como estas clinicas engañan a las chicas para que vayan. Muchas se ocultan tras nombres en los que pretenden ayudar a las mujeres embarazadas cuando realmente lo que buscan es matar niños y conseguir dinero a traves de ello sin tener en cuenta los crimenes que cometen y el daño que hacen tanto a madres como a niños. Esta situacion es vergonzosa, todos sabemos que el aborto es matar a niños inocentes aunque estas personas intenten hacer que parezca algo bueno y totalmente normal pero ellos mismos estan aceptando la realidad tratando de ocultarse tras nombres falsos porque en el fondo, todos sabemos lo que esta bien y mal aunque en la sociedad actual prevalezca el "todo vale" siendo esta una de las principales causas de la crisis de valores actual.

Our first day at Florida's office

We'd been working in Miami for three days now but today was our first day at Florida's office. For today we had 3 appointments but unfortunately only one of them came. Her name is Iris Louis. She is pregnant and she came thinking of abortion because she thought her husband and her wasn't ready to have another child, they already had a little 6 year old daughter. After talking with us she asked for a sonogram so we get her an appointment to get it done tomorrow. She told us she will call us after the sonogram because she has some doubts. I hope tomorrow she'll call us after the sonogram to ask us for help or even better, to tell us she'll have the baby. We are praying a lot for her and her family. Please pray for them and for all the women that are in this situation because they need so much our prayers. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much!

As EMC is expanding all over USA most of us have to move from NYC to other cities to continue with our summer work. I'm now in Miami with other 5 interns. Four of us made a roadtrip from NY to come here. During that trip we met very nice people that also work for the organization and today my post will be about them. This people are very important in our lifes. We have the opportunity to come here to work at EMC because of that good people that help the organization in many different ways. Go to a different country for the first time is something difficult and sometimes work can be hard but it's all worth because we are doing the best thing in the world, saving lifes. This is why the support of all those people who contribute to this cause is so important. It's really nice to come back from a long working day and find someone who makes you feel like you are at home and who encourage you to continue working hard.

A great person can do great things but a lot of people together can do a lot of great things. I thank so much Chris, all the people of EMC and all the others who contribute with it for give us the opportunity of be a part of this team and work all together saving lifes and I thank God because without him any of this could be possible! God bless all of you! Thank you so much!

Maria Martinez

My name is Maria, I'm 21, I'm from Spain and I'm intern at EMC this summer. I already did volunteering work in the past in Lithuania and Spain. I'm almost finishing college so Ithought it was a great idea to spend my vacations doing something for other people before finishing university and this is the best way I could do it. I heard about EMC from a friend who also is an intern this summer. I've already worked with children and old people but Id never worked with women in this situations sothis is a new and exciting experience for me. I wish I do great at ny job this summer and help a lot of babies and mothers. Save a life is the best thing to fight for!