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Tuesday November 29, 2005
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99-Year-Old Pro-Life Campaigner Says Do Not “Stand Idly by When Human Life Is At Stake”
By Terry Vanderheyden
PORTLAND, November 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-lifer who has spent 30 years, six days per week, protesting abortion outside Oregon’s most notorious abortion clinic, enjoined, “Thou shalt not stand idly by when human life is at stake.”
In a tribute article appearing in the Catholic Sentinel, Marion Hite, who turns 100 next month, emphasized, “They’re killing babies in there.” Sentinel writer Ed Langlois describes Hite’s witness as so loving, though, that even the clinic workers themselves have come to his aid.
A woman entering Portland’s Lovejoy Surgicenter – which commits a third of the state’s 10,000 abortions each year – tried to remove his sign. His sign reads, “Stop Murder … Stop Abortion … Save the children … Please give him or her to us.” A clinic worker exited to his defense, telling the woman that he was harmless.
Langlois explained that the clinic hasn’t always come to his defense, as he has gone to jail for a month and once been ordered to pay the clinic $200,000 in damages for his sidewalk protest.
“I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to do it,” he said. Even though he doesn’t always want to, he comes every day, even when it is raining. “I don’t think there’s anything like a little baby,” Hite described. “So innocent, so pure. And they’re putting them to death here.”
Hite told Langlois that “standing idly by” while children are dying is “what a lot of people are doing.”
There will be a Mass celebrated in Hite’s honor on Sunday, December 4 at 11 am, at Holy Rosary parish, with Archbishop John Vlazny officiating. Following Mass, Auxiliary Bishop Kenneth Steiner will say a few words at a reception at the parish center.
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