• Visit our Sidewalk Ministry Page to learn more about the importance of Sidewalk Presence at a local abortion facility. Join one of our groups that pray at our local abortion facility - See information on specific dates/groups in the Respect Life Newsletter. 
• Consider helping Compassionate Burial for Indigent Babies (CBIB) with their burial costs of roughly $1600 to bury each baby.  Any portion of the cost would be a welcome donation!  CBIB has buried over 180 babies since its founding in 2007.  They bury babies who were aborted, abandoned, & babies whose families are unable to cover the cost of their babies’ burials.  Go here for more information.  You may donate directly to CBIB here
• Collect diapers (especially sizes 4, 5, 6, & pull ups) for ACCESS Pregnancy
• Donate Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, and Target gift cards to Woman's New Life Clinic.
• Join the annual March for Life in Washington DC &  Louisiana March for Life South in Baton Rouge
• Attend or plan a Life Chain for the First Weekend in October

Post-Abortive Healing 

• Sponsor a retreatant who will be making a Rachel's Vineyard Retreat
• Write a note/card of encouragement to one who will be making a Rachel's Vineyard Retreat
• Make a donation to St. Vincent Maternity Clinic to sponsor a momma & her baby
• Contact the Office of Catholic Cemeteries to sponsor a name of a baby on the Rachel Weeping statue

• Dr. Susan Caldwell (Metairie) 504-831-3117
• Dr. Bennie Nobles (Metairie) 504-883-3770

Prenatal Diagnosis

Be Not Afraid - an organization that provides comprehensive, practical, and peer-based support to parents experiencing a prenatal diagnosis and carrying to term. For your parish to support parents in this difficult time... Supporting Families Who Receive a Prenatal Diagnosis
 

Resources for groups that pray at abortion facilities
Visit our Sidewalk Presence Ministry page for information & resources.

Respect Life Office Pregnancy/Infant Loss and Miscarriage & Early Infant Death/Burial Information - Click Here

Healing After Abortion  

• Project Rachel — help after an abortion for New Orleans area assistance contact Danna at 504.832.1503  
• Rachel’s Vineyard — post-abortion healing retreats for local information contact Retreat Leaders -- 
• Melanie Baglow -504-710-6458  or Pam Richard -  504-460-9360 
• Silent No More
•  Woman's New Life Clinic - Provides free, confidential counseling
• Louisiana Abortion Recovery - Provides healing and resources for women
• Louisiana Abortion Recovery Awareness
• Speak Hope - Louisiana Abortion Recovery
• Abortion Changes You - Confidential space for those touched by abortion wanting to tell their story
• Men and Abortion: Reclaiming Fatherhood
• "Healing A Father's Heart: A Post-Abortion Bible Study for Men".  On Tuesday evenings, the group is offered at 7:00pm, in the St. Benilde Parish Office (located behind the church).  St. Benilde Catholic Church is located at 1901 Division Street, Metairie, LA.  70001.   There is no cost to attend the group.  Masks are required. The contact person is    Val Hebert at valencemet@aol.com or at 504-427-0327.
• Holy Innocents Prayer Garden memorial plaques

 

PUBLIC POLICY - Click Here

• Rosary for Life
• 9 Days for Life - USCCB
• Mother's Day Rosary Crusade - contact Pam Richard, richj504@bellsouth.net or 504-460-9360
• Memorial for the Unborn Prayer Service (January,  St. Patrick #1 Cemetery)​
• 40 Days for Life (September-October-November)
  • Learn about 40 Days for Life here.
  • View the New Orleans calendar here. 
  • Sign up here for your day to pray at the New Orleans abortion facility.

“Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I love you very much. I beg you to spare the life of [baby’s name] the unborn baby that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion.”

- Prayer of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Healing After Abortion

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church

2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely  from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.

2274 Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being. 

Prenatal diagnosis is morally licit, "if it respects the life and integrity of the embryo and the human fetus and is directed toward its safe guarding or healing as an individual. . . . It is gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent of a death sentence."

2275 "Certain attempts to influence chromosomic or genetic inheritance are not therapeutic but are aimed at producing human beings selected according to sex or other predetermined qualities. Such manipulations are contrary to the personal dignity of the human being and his integrity and identity" which are unique and unrepeatable."

From the USCCB:

Among important issues involving the dignity of human life with which the Church is concerned, abortion necessarily plays a central role. Abortion, the direct killing of an innocent human being, is always gravely immoral (The Gospel of Life, no. 57); its victims are the most vulnerable and defenseless members of the human family. It is imperative that those who are called to serve the least among us give urgent attention and priority to this issue of justice.  While at times human law may not fully articulate the moral imperative – full protection for the right to life – our legal system can and must be continually reformed so that it will increasingly fulfill its proper task of protecting the weak and preserving the right to life of every human being, born and unborn.

From Donum Vitae (5):

From the moment of conception, the life of every human being is to be respected in an absolute way because man is the only creature on earth that God has "wished for himself " (16) and the spiritual soul of each man is "immediately created" by God; (17) his whole being bears the image of the Creator. Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves "the creative action of God" (18) and it remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end.(19) God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can, in any circumstance, claim for himself the right to destroy directly an innocent human being.