Colorado Right To Life

The story on the front page of our April newsletter should have appeared exactly the way it appears below.

Precious Tuesday

Looking out of the second story window I watched as the people marched together, the adults walked slowly, many with children riding in wagons. There were lots of kids, some riding bikes, some on skateboards, and others running. Minutes later they begin to arrive. As they came up the stairs, this large room quickly filled leaving only standing room in the back.

 A few days earlier I sat down to read the days e-mail and one in particular stood out, the subject line read “My precious Tuesday.” I opened this letter and my heart sank with the message,

  “Friday January 30, 2009
Tuesday Fiona Whitt October 11, 2006 - January 30, 2009
Posted by Charley at 8:06 PM”

The death of a child is likely the most difficult thing that a family will ever face. Many will ask,” why did God let this happen?” Some will say “there is no God.” Others may say “God made this happen.” Still others will be angry having prayed for a miracle but recognizing none. Tuesday died from cancer on January 30, 2009 but not before she showed her incredible will to live.

Tuesday’s grandmother would have given her life to extend Tuesday’s life if she could have. I know this because she has given of her life to protect the innocent, regardless of their perceived value to society and that includes every baby in the womb, the elderly, and people like Terri Schiavo, and Lauren Richardson. She has been a good friend of mine and she has inspired me and many others to join her in the battle to protect the innocent.

My friend Leslie Hanks said goodbye for now, to her precious Tuesday, knowing that in spite of the circumstances God is good, God is always good, and his promises are still true. Leslie knows in this time of sorrow when faith is sometimes shaken, Christ remains.

Yet even with Tuesday’s death there is a miracle here and it gives Tuesday life just as sure as it gives every Christian life, the miracle is Jesus, who through his life, death, and resurrection already provided victory over death; and because of His sacrifice every innocent child who dies is eternally protected by Jesus.

Our world is broken by sin and because of sin many adults reject Christ. Sin leads to death and often the innocent suffer. But Jesus never desires the suffering and death of a child.

The celebration of Tuesday’s life affirms the value of every human life. Hundreds of people came to honor a precious little girl. They came because Tuesday was valuable to them, and like every person she is valuable to God, created in His image with a will to live. I pray that the day will soon come when every child will be viewed with the love and respect that has rightly been shown to Tuesday Fiona Whitt.

In our newsletter the title and some of the text was changed without the knowledge or permission of the author. The meaning of this letter in memory of Tuesday may have been affected by these changes. We sincerely apologize to Tuesday’s family and friends; our goal is to show our love and respect for their family at this most difficult time. 

Re-submitted to the Rocky Mountain News, Nov. 5, 2008:

Politically speaking, our state's Personhood Amendment 48 was trounced, but 550,000 Coloradans voted 'Yes' giving us a firm baseline from which to fight for the innocent. But now that Colorado has also rejected the Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer, I would like to re-submit (as reported on by the Denver Post, LifeNews and appearing on the Rocky Mountain News site) Colorado Right To Life's June press release as a guest editorial:

Right To Life Warns Colorado Republican Chairman

by Leslie Hanks
CRTL V.P.
June 16, 2008

Colorado Right To Life is warning Dick Wadhams, the state Republican Party chairman, that by shunning their pro-life conservative base they're headed for another election defeat in November, three election-cycle catastrophes for the Colorado GOP, and two U.S. Senate losses for Wadhams.

Wadhams banned the nation's oldest Right To Life organization from their state convention while he welcomed a pro-abortion group. The state's top Republican is out of touch with his own party's base, where 4 out of 5 Republicans at the convention voted to defend life beginning at fertilization.

The thousands of convention delegates passed all forty resolutions offered, except for the only one that failed, the pro-abortion Resolution #21...

Dear Editor:

Please Gazette, don't take our side. Retract your endorsement of the Personhood initiative (Gazette, The Case for Amendment 48, Oct. 29, 2008) which we are working so hard to pass. Colorado Right To Life rebukes the Gazette for its utter lack of humility before our Creator God. In your endorsement you acknowledge that the unborn child is a living human being, a person, and recommend a Yes vote. But then you claim that if society wants to kill those kids, you give the example of a Down syndrome child, then so be it; let them be killed. We rebuke you.

There is no bottom to that abyss. Worse even than Obama saying he doesn't know when human life begins, is McCain saying that rights begin at conception and then funding as he does the killing of countless unborn. Human beings are not animals. Fish eat other fish. The rights of Blacks don't come from a white-dominated government, nor do the rights of Jews come from Germans, nor do a child's rights come from a mob or a majority. An unborn girl's rights come from her Creator, not at birth, but at the moment of her creation. The Gazette says, yes, these tiny children are people, but go ahead and kill them. Please, don't take our side.

Joe Riccobono
President
Colorado Right To Life

For Immediate Release

Colorado Right to Life
To Join the Race for the Cure Protest

Denver, Colorado -- A meeting last Friday between Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's Denver officials, CRTL board members, and scientific and medical experts led the pro-life organization to decide to join an annual protest to warn women at the Komen Foundation's Race for the Cure of the link between abortion and breast cancer.

DENVER, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- An official Guinness Book of World Records^TM attempt to display the largest ever protest sign has succeeded. The 530-foot tall and 666-foot wide message is being shouted from the mountaintops overlooking the Democratic National Convention with the leading 2008 protest message.

Depending on their location, thousands of DNC delegates and journalists can look out their hotel windows to the west to see the sign. Sponsored by American RTL Action, the message initially appeared with three enormous 160-foot tall, bright yellow letters, D-N-C, stacked on top of each other.

After those letters suddenly appeared on a mountain just west of Denver, the actual full message of the sign began to unfurl. Three lines of white text, built on the vertical yellow letters read, D-N-C:

Destroys
uNborn
Children

"The tiniest boys and girls should be loved and protected," said American RTL Action president Steve Curtis, "but as nominating Barack Obama emphasizes, the DNC even supports killing kids in the womb old enough to know their mother's voice, sleep and dream, suck their thumbs, and play with their toes."