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March 29, 2018
Dolores Tulkoff
San Francisco
This St. Patrick’s Day I chose to honor one of the patron saints of our archdiocese by standing outside the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic on Valencia Street and praying the rosary for an end to abortion. I held a sign that read, “Pray to End Abortion.” Standing next to me was a young woman who held a sign that read, “Atheist, Liberal, Feminist, Pro-Life.” As the group of about 25 of us, including four priests, prayed the rosary, I stood next to her and heard the unkind words from some of those passing by. I asked God to bless them and to turn their hearts of stone into compassion for the babies not allowed to be born. It struck me how very different I was from this young woman. But it was our similarities that united us together to stand for life! St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I pray that our prayers will drive the choice of abortion out of our beloved city of St. Francis.
Planned Parenthood cooperates with evil by providing abortion. I am reminded of Jesus saying, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
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