Stopping Abortions at Death's Door

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06/13/2017

Leticia Velasquez with Rod Murphy.
Me with Rod Murphy founder of Problem Pregnancy of Worcester MA and author of "Stopping Abortion at Death's Door". Rod mentored us for over a year as we moved Hartford Women's Center Pregnancy Resource Center At next door to the abortion mill. He saves over 200 babies a year at Problem Pregnancy and we aspire to that wonderful goal.

05/07/2017

Looking for some pro-life activists in Central Maine to open a new CPC.

03/09/2016

March 8, 2016 I visited the newly organized Morningstar Pregnancy Resource Center in Vestal (Binghamton), NY next door to Amy Cousins Abortion Mill. Frontline Life Centers was instrumental in helping to open this center. Gary Leber, Cathy Gow, Mary Franzonello and two others plus me. They are saving babies!

08/28/2015

August 22, 2015 - Worcester, MA - Organized by Sandra Kucharski In light of recent revelations that Planned Parenthood has been harvesting and selling aborte...

06/24/2015

Wanted RV. Frontline Life Centers (Div. of Problem Pregnancy, Worcester, MA) is 33 years old and tax exempt. We have helped to start 6 pregnancy centers next door to abortion facilities since 2012. We are working with pro-lifers to set up a mobile van across the street from Maine Family Planning, the abortionist in Augusta, Maine. We need a good condition RV for mobile counseling office. Fair market value IRS tax write-off in lieu of payment could provide you with no 2015 income tax due. If your selling price is $10,000, you would get a $10,000 charitable contribution write-off against your tax liability. Larger deduction, than you can use this year, could be carried over to be deducted against future year's taxes. See website at frontlinelifecenters.com Call Rod at 774-230-1756.

11/21/2014

"Stopping Abortions at Death's Door"
Get the full scoop on saving babies. It's all in my book.
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Abortion is the bellwether in America's Culture Wars. Whether you take the pro-life side or the "pro-choice" position, you must read "Stopping Abortions at Death's Door". It is a well written, well thought out plan and a user's manual for setting up a Save-the-Baby defense on the perimeter of eve...

10/02/2014

A new pregnancy center has been opened on Fletcher Ave. in Tampa, FL next door to Tampa Womens Center, an abortionist. Knights Women's Center has opened with much help from Frontline Life Centers. Babies will be saved. See photo.

01/27/2014

Print Edition: Nov. 3, 2013

At the Front Lines for Life
Veteran pro-lifer gives helpful how-tos to save the unborn.
BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN, STAFF WRITER Saturday, Nov 09, 2013

Roderick (Rod) Murphy has been running Problem Pregnancy Center of Worcester, Mass., so successfully for decades he hopes his model will be used nationally to save babies from abortion. He has written a book for opening and running such centers — Stopping Abortions at Death’s Door (Taig Publishing; available through Amazon) — and personally guides people under the Frontline Life Centers banner. He spoke to the Register about his idea.

Tell us about your successful crisis-pregnancy center.

Problem Pregnancy of Worcester (ProblemPregnancy.org) has been across the street from Planned Parenthood for 31 years. We moved three times when they moved.We have developed a method of saving babies. Planned Parenthood kills about 2,500 in Worcester a year. We save about 200 or more a year. We’re very successful.We do this with all volunteers and sidewalk counselors. Nobody gets paid. Nobody gets a nickel — ever. We’re open six days a week with volunteers.The money we raise we use to help the women with their real problems.

Such as?

They are going to get thrown out of the house if they don’t get abortions. We help get them to a maternity home here. Or we pay for the rent [for an apartment] for them or pay for tuition or, in some situations, for a plane flight to be with their mothers. This kind of a plan has worked for us for 30-something years.
How are you exporting your successful plan and model to start or help others start free pregnancy centers?
I travel and talk to people in various places. I wrote a book about this. People call me because of it. So I started this organization called Frontline Life Centers to help others.
Where have you brought the Frontline Life Centers model?
We started one in Springfield, Mass., with the Pioneer Valley pro-life groups. It’s called New Woman’s Center in Springfield. Then I helped to start one in Manchester, N.H., called the Pennacook Pregnancy Center, across the street from Planned Parenthood.
Even though they are modeled on Frontline Life Centers, they choose their own names?
All these crisis-pregnancy centers are independent and run by the people in their cities.

Where else are you bringing your ideas and expertise beyond New England?

People email and call to ask questions. We were in Indianapolis after people called and asked me: "Can you tell us what to do?" Recently, I spoke in Plattsburg, N.Y., at a kick-off dinner for 40 Days for Life. We’re trying to open a pregnancy center there, in a building available next to Planned Parenthood. I’ve been talking with people in Bradenton and Tampa, Fla.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Norwich, Conn.; and Fairbanks, Alaska.

Your book, Stopping Abortions at Death’s Door, is like a how-to manual to start a pregnancy center. Is it difficult to start one?

The idea is you can start lean because you do not need a whole lot of money. You rent the space, and I can help negotiate with real estate agents or help set up a nonprofit corporation and get the insurance. That’s what I’ve been doing. It’s all in my book.We need to get the money [donations]. These people usually don’t have much money, and they need cash. In Manchester, N.H., we paid the first month’s rent. What’s mostly necessary for people who want to start a crisis-pregnancy center is that they’ve got to believe they can do it. I tell them to have confidence.

Besides your book and talks, how do you help people gain such confidence?

Frontline Life Centers trains their counselors in Worcester. They shadow our counselors, so they get "battle training."

What is the biggest problem? Donations?

People keep asking me for money, for help. In August, in Toronto, we gave $1,000 because they [the crisis-pregnancy center] are trying to move to another location closer to the abortion site there. That was the first check I gave them. So I necessarily need … people who are interested in helping me [through donations].
What else is a major part of your Worcester headquarters?
We’re almost all Catholic, and we have a chapel in the building with the Eucharist there 24-7. All the bishops here have liked us. We’re peaceful — but no pushovers.
Joseph Pronechen is a Register staff writer.

01/27/2014

This Buffer Zone related OpEd was published in the Worcester Telegram January 24, 2014.

Worcester Telegram

Friday, January 24, 2014
Issue: Counseling vs. protest
AS I SEE IT

By Roderick P. Murphy
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Ever since the Roe V. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision 41 years ago this January, I have been yelling at my TV, sputtering and throwing newspapers at the wall because of misused abortion terms by media and politicians. Some of those offending circumlocutions include the words choice, abortion rights, anti-abortion, fetus and terminate a pregnancy.

Regarding one of those malaprops that has become a pro-abortion buzzword, I have found a kindred soul in Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

He took out his pique on lawyer Jennifer Miller, who argued the state of Massachusetts' buffer zone case (McCullen vs. Coakley) this January.

She used the term "protest abortion" to describe what pro-life folks do "in public spaces right outside abortion facilities."
Justice Scalia enlightened Ms. Miller by stating, "This is not a protest case. These people don't want to protest abortion. They want to talk to the women who are about to get abortions and try to talk them out of it. I think it distorts it to say that what they want to do is protest abortion."

He continued: "If it was a protest, keeping them back 35 feet might not be so bad. They can scream, and yell and hold up signs from 35 feet. But what they can't do is try to talk the woman out of the abortion. It's a counseling case, not a protest case."

I was sitting in the audience at the oral arguments of the McCullen v. Coakley case when Justice Scalia scolded Ms. Miller for distorting, and I almost jumped up to cheer for Scalia — a big no-no in those austere and secured premises.

To bring this terminology point home to Worcester, here at 470 Pleasant St. where Planned Parenthood destroys 2,500 babies or more each year, there are various types of pro-lifers around on abortion days.

Standing far out of the buffer zone are people who pray; Catholics saying the Rosary and Protestants reading their Bibles and praying quietly. Walking close to the edge of the buffer zone are a few real protestors who carry pro-life signs and try to draw public attention to the deadly business going on inside.

And there are the sidewalk counselors, mostly women, who formerly operated close to the abortionist's door, now within the buffer zone.

These volunteers are the ones that the buffer zone law was set up to frustrate and repress. Planned Parenthood wrote the buffer zone law for the Legislature to stop what they think is the poaching of its clients outside its buildings by those sidewalk counselors.

Justice Scalia would probably agree with me that it might be poaching but it's not protesting.

From a business viewpoint think of it as extending the abortionist's building lot by 35 feet on two sides of its property in order to defeat the nearby competition. I think many other less controversial businesses would like that favored treatment also.

From the questions asked of the attorneys by the Supreme Court justices, I think the Court will soon give me back my First Amendment rights that our despotic state Legislature took away in 2007.

I will then refrain from yelling at my TV. It's a Samsung and doesn't understand English anyway.

Roderick P. Murphy is director of Problem Pregnancy of Worcester, Inc

04/05/2013

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04/10/2012

My ten year old grand daughter, Cara wrote this letter to God on Easter Monday. Her mother, my daughter Deirdre comments also. "This is so sweet and funny. She put it in the mailbox yesterday afternoon with the flag up. I’m not sure what the mailman will do with it."

Dear God,
Hello. My name is Cara. I just wanted to know if you could please send me a picture of Heaven? Oh, and why did you make flies? And germs? And ticks?
Love,
Cara