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Marie Smith on a Face the Truth Tour with the League
Loyal activist and longtime Pro-Life Action League volunteer Marie Smith, 86, died December 21 of a massive heart attack. Marie was the mother of eight children and had many grandchildren.
The previous day, while at Mass at St. Mary of the Angels Parish in Chicago, she told her son Richard that she hoped to have her funeral there.
Marie was exceptionally devoted to the pro-life cause. The very first League Face the Truth Tour in the year 2000 lasted ten days, visiting three sites every day. Marie joined every one of those thirty sites. Featured on the League’s Face the Truth video, she has been an inspiration to pro-life activists of all ages.
For the past eight years, Marie had served as the volunteer custodian of the files at the League’s chicago office, where, every Tuesday, she came to work with a box of Dunkin Donuts for the staff. We pray that Marie will be greeted in heaven by the Lord and by a chorus of voices of the children whose lives she cherished as she worked for their protection and respect.
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I’m sorry, people, but saying you’re pro-life is spewing such a load of bullshit that it’s really starting to stink, alright? First off, you’re not pro-life, you’re pro HUMAN life, okay? Hunters can go out and shoot the hell out of WILDlife for no good reason at all, but when a 16-year-old gets knocked up and it’s between a ball of cells inside her and her entire future, it’s wrong to choose the latter one? This is especially relevant in America today, where our steady depletion of decency in the GENERAL public has caused teen pregnancies to go rampant. And if you’re pro-life, than why are you endorsing the increase of the human population to the point where deforestation depletes our oxygen supply to the point that we are endangered by it.
Posted January 15, 2010 at 5:04 pm
wats a hotline number that i can call to get more information on abortion
Posted January 19, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Dolores–
You can call 1-800-395-4357.
Posted January 20, 2010 at 1:10 pm
[...] so strange to think of the dead, both those you loved and worked with like Walter Krawiec and Marie Smith and oh so many more, and to recall those you fought, like George Tiller and Susan [...]
Posted February 8, 2010 at 2:18 pm