ProLife Petitioning

In January, 2012, Personhood FL launched a new prolife petition called the Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment. To those who have signed the new petition, volunteered to collect petition signatures, and donated to Personhood FL, thank you! We have made much progress in first few months of this petition drive, but we have much work yet to do.

To obtain ballot access for the Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment, we need to obtain nearly 700,000 validated petition signatures. To accomplish this, we need your help. If you haven’t signed the Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment Petition yet, please sign the petition today! If you haven’t signed up as a volunteer, please volunteer today! If you are able to donate to help Personhood FL collect more signatures to obtain ballot access, please donate today!

We are actively recruiting volunteers in every Region, County, City, Church, and Civic Organization in Florida. For the Florida ProLife Personhood Petition to be on the ballot in 2014, we need your help! Sign up for our next volunteer conference call today!

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To obtain nearly 700,000 validated signatures in the next 19 months, we also need to implement direct marketing to reach that goal. Your gift of only $10 allows us to obtain 8 signed petitions! Your gift of $100 will bring in 80 signed petitions, and your Your gift of $1,000 will help us obtain 800 signatures. Please make your most generous donation today.

If you prefer to mail your donation, send it to Personhood FL, 7186 S US Highway 1, Port St Lucie, FL 34952.

Together we can make history by ending abortion and protecting all innocent human life!

So, the 3 of us representing Pinellas County decided to go out together on the National Day of Prayer (May 3rd) and attempt our first petition run. We got another friend involved, so with a team of 4 we went to Brighthouse Field in Clearwater where there would be hundreds of Christians praying for change in our country. None of us had ever attempted this before but we knew being equipped with the Holy Spirit was all we needed. I think we were all satisfied to get just one person to sign the petition but we ended up with 40 signed and tons of confidence to keep getting more. I’m excited to see what God does through us and I’m very thankful for your guidance as we champion for the unborn together!!

Psalm 103:6 “The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed”

Standing strong for life,

Laura, Bryan, Ricky, and Chace

Personhood, Pinellas County FL

Pray for Our Nation

Today is the National Day of Prayer. Our nation has a long heritage of turning back to God in a time of need. These times of need are usually precipitated by compromise and sin which leads to the judgment of God. Those times of judgment often bring us back to God, and coming back to God in turn brings His blessings.

In 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, we read, “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (NKJV)

If there has ever been a time in America’s history where we need to turn back to God, this is the time! Will you join us in praying for our state and nation today? I urge you to cry out to God today and everyday for this nation that we love so dearly.

• The National Day of Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, May 3 at PSL Community Center on Airoso Blvd and PSL Blvd., Port Saint Lucie, FL at 8:30-10:30 am will include prayers by Personhood FL Director Pastor Bryan Longworth and State Coordinator Brenda MacMenamin.
• The National Day of Prayer Service at Morningside Church, 2180 SE Morningside Blvd. Port St. Lucie, FL at 6:30 pm will include prayer and personhood petitioning by Personhood Florida State Coordinator Brenda MacMemanmen. This prayer service will include a time for participants to cry out to God on behalf of our nation. See Morningside’s website for more information.
• Other National Day of Prayer events are scheduled for the Treasure Coast and across Florida and the Nation. View National Day of Prayer Events in your area, and join us in pleading with God to send us revival lest we perish in our sin.

Will you pray for America? Will you pray for our state? Take our online poll.

Pray for Our Nation

If there were ever a time that America needs to turn back to God, it is now! If there were ever a time when the church of Jesus Christ needs to turn back to God, it is now! On May the 3rd, join us in participating in the National Day of Prayer, and join us in collecting petitions for the Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment. “We, the people” of the state of Florida must turn back to the covenant we made with Almighty God…

In Port Saint Lucie, our Mayor issued a proclamation for the National Day of Prayer, May 3, 2012.

• The National Day of Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, May 3 at PSL Community Center on Airoso Blvd and PSL Blvd., Port Saint Lucie, FL at 8:30-10:30 am will include prayers by Personhood FL Director Pastor Bryan Longworth and State Coordinator Brenda MacMenamin.
• The National Day of Prayer Service at Morningside Church, 2180 SE Morningside Blvd. Port St. Lucie, FL at 6:30 pm will include prayer and personhood petitioning by Personhood Florida State Coordinator Brenda MacMemanmen.  This prayer service will include a time for participants to cry out to God on behalf of our nation. See Morningside’s website for more information.
• Other National Day of Prayer events are scheduled for the Treasure Coast and across Florida and the Nation. View National Day of Prayer Events in your area, and join us in pleading with God to send us revival lest we perish in our sin.

May we all be diligent in prayer and in expanding the Kingdom of God.

“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJV)

Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day
Washington, D.C.
March 30, 1863 By President Abraham Lincoln of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.

All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

You may listen to the interview on Mikeessen.com

Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still and know that

I    am    God”

Let’s pray from the Florida Constitution:

PREAMBLE

We, the people of the State of Florida, being grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty…

“We, the people” have turned our back on Almighty God and have almost lost this covenant.  I speak now to those who are grateful to Him.  May we turn from being grateful to “the government” for what it may allow us to do, or give us, and return to looking to Almighty God only and to being grateful to Him alone for our constitutional liberty.

Let’s continue to look at our constitution, for our political power to return to that which He bestowed upon us:

SECTION 1. Political power.—All political power is inherent in the people.

This means that “We, the people” have the power, and (more accurately to recapture our heritage as Floridians) the responsibility to carry the power of government.  This means turning from ever saying, “The government should do something about that…”  We are the government.  It is OUR responsibility to DO something about THAT!

Our founding fathers educated their children well.

Children were considered a blessing, a heritage and a reward- “blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.”

We, the people fed the poor, we clothed the naked, we took in the immigrants, taught them to speak English, how to read and employed them.

Statue of Liberty quote:

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

 “We, the people” need to return to our first love and do the deeds that “We, the people” once did.

You see our constitution is inherently Christian.  In no other religion would the government be “of the people” to have the rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

But our Florida constitution does not give us these rights exactly.  Our constitution says:

“All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law.”

This is inherently a Christian concept.  In most other religions, it is legally advantageous to be male.  But Galatians 3:28a says, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female ….”  We believe that Jesus in us is our hope of glory, not what caste we are born into, how much money we make, how old we are or what our sex or race is.  We are all considered equal if we are Bible- reading, Bible-reasoning Christians as our founding fathers were.

Our constitution says that we:

have inalienable rights -

That means that neither man nor government can take them away.  So in order to obey God and not man, we have to be willing to pledge our “lives, fortunes and sacred honor” to stay and be free.

And here comes the most important and critical part, because as Thomas Jefferson  said, “The care of human life and happiness … is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”

And as President Ronald Reagan said, “We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life- the unborn- without diminishing the value of all human life… There is no cause more important.”

Our constitution, in declaring our rights, establishes that:

 “among which are the right to enjoy and defend life.”

Without life we have no liberty, pursuit of happiness or ability to speak freely, assemble, or worship as we choose.

If we do not defend those unjustly sentenced to death, we will not enjoy our constitutional liberties.  And if we want to truly be grateful to Him, we must obey Him in our constitutional responsibility to DEFEND LIFE.

This is why the PersonhoodFL amendment is so important.  I agree with our founders, that governments should not be altered for “light and transient causes.”  But if we continue to allow our disabled and elderly to be starved and dehydrated to death as Terri Shiavo and Carrie Johnson were here in Florida, if we continue to allow abortionists to profit from crisis pregnancies, if we allow embryos to be used for Nazis type experiments  in some of our biotechnology labs, like the “cow-boys” of the UK or the “glow-in-the dark” experiments, we will not continue to “enjoy life” as is our heritage.  (See PersonhoodFL.com or Personhood.net, if you want more information on these issues.)

In Ezekiel 9, the Lord said basically, “Enough!” and sent an angel to mark those who were crying out because of the injustice and sent angels behind him to wipe out everyone else for the “land is full of blood.”  As you know they started in the sanctuary.

Malachi 3:16 says,

“Then those who feared the Lord spoke with each other, and the Lord listened to what they said. In His presence, a scroll of remembrance was written to record the names of those who feared Him and always thought about the honor of His name.”

I invite you now to covenant with God once more, to honor Him and declare that you love what He loves, and hate what He hates.  This Personhood Petition will allow Floridians to vote in the general election of 2014, to determine that all persons may be considered equal and endowed with the inalienable right to life from our Creator, not our government or Supreme Court.

The  proposed  Personhood  Amendment defines all humans as “persons” under the Florida Constitution regardless of age, race, creed, mental or physical ability.   It will establish justice and respect for life from the moment of biological beginning until natural death.

Please sign the PersonhoodFL amendment today and print out more petitions.  Share this message with your sphere of influence:  your family, friends, co-workers, pastor and church, your men’s and women’s groups, schools and civic groups.  Take it to the people at all kinds of public gatherings and invite them to join you in their constitutional right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

As we re-assume our constitutional responsibility to enjoy and defend LIFE, may all political power be restored to the people of Florida.

Once again, may we pray this covenant:

“We, the people of the State of Florida,

being grateful to Almighty God

for our constitutional liberty…”

© 2012 Mrs. Brenda MacMenamin

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See Personhood Florida

Personhood FL continues it’s tour through Florida after participating in the Stand for Religious Freedom Rally in Orlando and holding a ProLife Rally in Naples. Personhood Florida will be in Tampa Saturday for a Rally for Life and will have a table at Liberty Counsel’s The Awakening in Orlando April 20 – 21.

Join Personhood FL Co-Sponsor and State Coordinator Brenda MacMenamin in Tampa Saturday, April 14^th. Please join us for a Rally for Life, April 14, 2-4pm at 1st Missionary Baptist Church of Highland Pines, 4711 E 21st Ave., Tampa, FL 33605.

Personhood Florida Co-Sponsor and State Coordinator Brenda MacMenamin will be at the FPEA convention in Broward County May 24-26.

Please join us at these events and invite anyone and everyone you know whose hearts beat for the next generation and for the future of our country, to one of these meetings, if they are close to you? This Window of Grace has to be taken full advantage of while it is open. If not now, when? If not us, who!

Please come and we will bring a presentation to educate those you invite, who are concerned with the heritage we will be leaving for our children and children’s children!

We are having a serious but exciting campaign to end abortion by establishing personhood for the preborn as a Florida constitutional amendment. There is an urgency to this movement as we do not know how long we will have the freedom to defend the orphans and widows. We find that young people especially, are excited about this movement. We are petitioning 2012-2013 to have this amendment on the Florida General Election ballot of 2014.

For more information or to ask for a speaker to visit you see Guardians of Liberty and contact:

Mrs. Brenda MacMenamin, State Coordinator
Personhood FL
http://www.PersonhoodFL.com
Phone: 772-873-7187

“I had the privilege of watching October Baby at last year’s Care Net Conference in Orlando. I can tell you that it is the most powerful prolife movie I have ever seen and second only to The Passion among all movies I’ve seen. When you watch October Baby, you will laugh; you will cry; you will be challenged on the value of every human life. You don’t want to miss October Baby.” – Pastor Bryan Longworth, Director, Personhood Florida.

In Florida, watch October Baby now in Altamonte Springs, Destin, Fort Myers, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Leesburg, Naples, Oldsmar, Orange Park, Orlando, Ormond Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Pensacola, Port Charlotte, Sebring, South Miami, Sunrise, and Tampa. If you live in these cities, make plans to see October Baby today as it may only play through Thursday, April 12.

October Baby is opening in new theaters across America Friday, April 13. In Florida, October Baby will open Friday April 13 in the following cities: Crestview, Melbourne, Orlando, Panama City, Port St Lucie, Starke, Tallahassee, Vero Beach, and West Melbourne where it will run through Thursday, April 19.

View a list of theaters and purchase tickets online here. If October Baby isn’t playing near you, form an action squad to bring the movie to your city.

October Baby, The Movie

“You saw me before I was born.” Psalm 139:16 (NLT)

As the curtain rises, Hannah hesitantly steps onto the stage for her theatrical debut in college. Yet before she can utter her first lines, Hannah — unscripted — collapses in front of the stunned audience.

After countless medical tests, all signs point to one underlying factor: Hannah’s difficult birth. This revelation is nothing compared to what she then learns from her parents: she was actually adopted … after a failed abortion attempt.

Bewildered, angered, and confused, Hannah turns for support to Jason, her oldest friend. Encouraged by his adventurous spirit, Hannah joins his group of friends on a Spring Break road trip, embarking on a journey to discover her hidden past … and find hope for her unknown future.

In the midst of her incredible journey, Hannah finds that life can be so much more than what you have planned.

View a list of theaters and purchase tickets online here. If October Baby isn’t playing near you, form an action squad to bring the movie to your city.

A Vote for Life!

This weekend, when the biggest box-office hit is expected be a film based on a popular book about young people being forced to fight to the death, OCTOBER BABY hits theaters with a resounding message about the sanctity of life. Talk about a culture in need of a wake-up call!

On top of that, every ticket purchased for OCTOBER BABY is a vote for life. The producers of OCTOBER BABY have assigned 10 percent of the profits of the movie to the Every Life is Beautiful Fund, which will distribute funds to frontline organizations helping women facing crisis pregnancies, life-affirming adoption agencies, and those caring for orphans.

View a list of theaters and purchase tickets online here. If October Baby isn’t playing near you, form an action squad to bring the movie to your city.

This Weekend Matters!

In every facet of life, there are different ways of judging success. With a movie as powerful as OCTOBER BABY, success could literally come in the form of a mother seeing the movie and choosing life instead of the alternative.

Yet for films like OCTOBER BABY to continue being made, audiences need to be willing to see it in theaters. Movie industry success is based on how well a movie does on its Opening Weekend. For OCTOBER BABY, that means what happens this Friday through Sunday, March 23-25, will determine if the movie has an extended run in the theaters where it’s opening and if it will expand to other theaters around the country.

Your support of OCTOBER BABY is imperative. Bring a group of friends with you and introduce them to OCTOBER BABY. They’ll be glad you did … and so will you. And be sure to stay through the credits, which include the real-life testimony of actress Shari Rigby.

View a list of theaters and purchase tickets online here. If October Baby isn’t playing near you, form an action squad to bring the movie to your city.

October Baby: See It With Your Friends

Are you in a small group Bible study? How about a prayer group? Maybe a book club? Chances are you have like-minded friends with whom you share special times. We have an idea for your group this weekend: together, go see the new movie OCTOBER BABY, which opens in theaters on Friday.

Get your favorite group together for a movie night out or an afternoon matinee this Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. You’ll be entertained and inspired by OCTOBER BABY, a movie whose plot reminds us vividly that every life is beautiful. After seeing the movie, plan to grab some coffee and talk through what you experienced.

View a list of theaters and purchase tickets online here. If October Baby isn’t playing near you, form an action squad to bring the movie to your city.

October Baby In Theaters Now, New Theaters April 13

What People are Saying

“I had the privilege of watching October Baby at last year’s Care Net Conference in Orlando. I can tell you that it is the most powerful prolife movie I have ever seen and second only to The Passion among all movies I’ve seen. When you watch October Baby, you will laugh; you will cry; you will be challenged on the value of every human life. You don’t want to miss October Baby.”
Pastor Bryan Longworth, Director, Personhood Florida.

“POWERFUL! OUTSTANDING! I was not prepared for the impact this movie would have on me. October Baby is THE must-watch movie for all families in 2012.”
Dr. Dennis Rainey, Host, FamilyLife Today

“OCTOBER BABY not only has a beautiful message, it is beautifully made. It is a must-see masterpiece film for life, so critically needed at this time in history.”
Karen Garnett, Executive Director, Catholic Pro-Life Committee

“Powerful, emotionally charged and worthy of every accolade the film industry has to offer. OCTOBER BABY will change you … just open your heart.”
Judie Brown, President, American Life League Author, The Broken Path

“OCTOBER BABY is an entertainment-packed film with a positive message that promises to captivate and inspire. A must-see family movie for the entire family!”
Gary Bauer, American Values

“OCTOBER BABY is a heart-warming story of redemption that brings to the big screen how a seemingly small decision can powerfully affect many lives and relationships. See it—you’ll be inspired!”
Peggy Hartshorn, President, Heartbeat International

“The sanctity of life has always been a calling for God’s people. We are excited to see the impact OCTOBER BABY will have on our society as people are reminded in a powerful way that ‘every life is beautiful.’”
Jason and David Benham, Founders, Cities4Life

“OCTOBER BABY is a powerful witness to the beauty and significance of every life!”
Dr. Day Gardner, President, National Black Pro-Life Union

“I applaud the creators of OCTOBER BABY for their significant portrayal of the value of life—even in desperate circumstances. I encourage everyone to see this inspirational movie!”
Carl Landwehr, President, Vitae Foundation

“OCTOBER BABY will change and save lives. You don’t want to miss it!”
Monica Cole, Director, OneMillionMoms.com

“Hannah’s journey to find answers and embrace her identity leads her to hope, acceptance, and love—and leaves us celebrating life.”
Bill Blacquiere, President, Bethany Christian Services

“OCTOBER BABY is a powerful story proving what we all know—that every life is indeed beautiful.”
Melinda Delahoyde, President, Care Net

“OCTOBER BABY broke my heart, encouraged my soul and made evident in a fresh way the vital role and responsibility men have in preventing abortion, holding families together and raising children who know and experience love.”
Joe White President, Kanakuk Kamps and Men at the Cross Founder, Kids Across America

“OCTOBER BABY is compelling and inspirational—it has the potential to change hearts and minds. … It will help people better understand the gift of life and the power of forgiveness.”
Father Peter West, Vice President for Missions, Human Life International

“Incredibly compelling, with a great ending!”
Ted Baehr, Movieguide.org

“OCTOBER BABY is a riveting story about life and the value of every individual created at conception in the image of God.”
Brian Simmons President, ACSI

“Finally! A faith-based film that is accessible for believers AND unbelievers that is compelling, artistic, and extremely well done! I loved how this movie was very much pro life, yet it didn’t villainize any particular party. Everyone was broken and everyone needed a second chance. So true to life!”
Tauren Wells, lead singer for Royal Tailor

“OCTOBER BABY is a thought-provoking film that shows how a tragic decision can reverberate for decades—affecting the lives and futures of many individuals. It is a story that needs to be told and this film tells it in a wonderful way. Everyone should see it.”
Jim Sedlak, Vice President, American Life League
Founder, STOPP International

“The message of forgiveness and redemption will inspire everyone who sees it.”
Dr. Richard Land, President Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

“October Baby touches home and leaves imprints on your heart!”
Stacy Massey, Abortion Recovery InterNational

“Our world is full of abortion survivors, whether the procedure was attempted on them or not; thanks to OCTOBER BABY, we can begin to understand and minister to this massive wound among our youth. OCTOBER BABY is a major blessing to our movement!”
Father Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life

“It’s a powerful, riveting story of one girl’s dramatic journey to uncover the secrets that have haunted her life since before she was born. OCTOBER BABY approaches one of the most polarizing issues of our time with a human face, a tender heart and unblinking candor.”
Ron Hutchcraft,, speaker, author, radio host

“Words cannot express how moved I was by OCTOBER BABY. In today’s society with so many kids growing up without purpose, this film captures the essence of the importance of every person’s life. At this critical time in the life of our culture, I am calling every man, father, grandfather and father figure to see this magnificent film. You must see film!”
Carey Casey, CEO, National Center for Fathering

“Scene after scene, OCTOBER BABY unfolds a touching story of a unique journey that will leave you thinking for days. You’ll want to see it!”
Bri Laycock, Director, OptionLine

“OCTOBER BABY is absolutely the best movie about the precious gift of life, the incredible pain of abortion, and the power of forgiveness. OCTOBER BABY will change your life. This is a must-see movie.”
Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman, Liberty Counsel, Dean and Professor of Law, Liberty University School of Law

“I am now an OCTOBER BABY activist.”
Mark Hall, Casting Crowns

“A masterful production with impressive cinematography, OCTOBER BABY has the potential to significantly impact the culture of life in America.”
Michael Farris, Founder and Chairman, Home School Legal Defense Association, Founder and Chancellor, Patrick Henry College

“A movie for my whole family.”
Penny Nance, Concerned Women for America

“OCTOBER BABY is an incredible witness to the pro-life movement. Not only does it allow for healing and hope for those affected by abortion, it also sheds a positive and reaffirming light on adoption and portrays the adoption process as a positive alternative to the horrible injustice of abortion.”
Kristan Hawkins; Executive Director, Students for Life of America

“A great film with a great message!”
Alex Kendrick, Courageous

“OCTOBER BABY is a must-see film: poignant, powerful, and packed with blessings.”
Dr. Alveda C. King, Director of African American Outreach, Priests for Life

“What a remarkable movie. This is a significant story, beautifully told.”
Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life

“OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.”
Marjorie Dannenfelser, Founder and President, Susan B. Anthony List

“OCTOBER BABY is the most gripping drama ever produced about the central civil rights issue of our time—the right to life. The script is superb, the acting is first-class, and the presentation is flawless. This is a must-see movie for all Americans.”
Bill Donohue, President, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights

“I laughed so hard and cried so hard, and healed. Thank you.”
Gianna Jessen, Abortion Survivor, National Speaker

“A wonderfully heart-touching film, OCTOBER BABY is a powerful reminder that there is purpose and meaning in every life.”
Commissioner Nancy Roberts, National President for Women’s Ministries, The Salvation Army

“An incredible story! Wow … just wow.”
Francesca Battitstelli, GMA Artist of the Year

“I laughed, I cried. OCTOBER BABY is a must-see movie for teens and adults. It is an incredible story. Please don’t miss it.”
Nancy Stith, Executive Director, Georgia Right to Life

“Every life IS beautiful and OCTOBER BABY honestly explores the reality of life, which isn’t always pretty. As the mother of adopted children, this movie spoke to me personally. Go see it!”
Susan Merrill, iMom Director

“This is a touching movie with a story that needs to be told. I pray that OCTOBER BABY will heal hurting hearts and open the eyes of those with hardened hearts.”
Carol Tobias, President, National Right to Life

“Like all well-crafted art, OCTOBER BABY powerfully stirs both the mind and the heart. The film explores some of life’s most difficult questions with a grace, humor, and wisdom that build ultimately to a unforgettable affirmation of life.”
Jedd Medefind, President, Christian Alliance for Orphans

“It might change your life.”
The Dove Foundation

View a list of theaters and purchase tickets online here. If October Baby isn’t playing near you, form an action squad to bring the movie to your city.

Attending the 2012 Law of Life Summit “2″  at Ave Maria Law University was one of the highlights of the weekend.  The students discussed personhood strategy in the opening event Thursday night.  The leaders agreed that what is crucial for success in re-establishing a pro-life culture to our state and nation is humility among our ministries.  This is well articulated in this LifeSiteNews article.

Several pro-life ministries expressed the importance of recognizing that our battle for life is not limited to the pre-born, but must include proactive protection for the aging and disabled.

This is why those of us at PersonhoodFL are so excited about this Constitutional Amendment.  It protects all human beings, from the moment of biological development until natural death, no matter how each person is conceived or what condition they are in.  Every person is precious and has a destiny from God that needs to be nurtured and protected by love and by law.

Personhood FL Co-Sponsor and State Coordinator Brenda MacMenamin will be in the Hillsborough County area Saturday April 14^th. Please join us for a Rally for Life, April 14,  2-4pm at 1st Missionary Baptist Church of Highland Pines, 4711 E 21st Ave., Tampa, FL 33605.

Personhood Florida Co-Sponsor and State Coordinator Brenda MacMenamin will be at the FPEA convention May 24-26.

Would you invite anyone and everyone you know whose hearts beat for the next generation and for the future of our country, to one of these meetings, if they are close to you? This Window of Grace has to be taken full advantage of while it is open.  If not now, when?  If not us, who!

Please come and we will bring a presentation to educate those you invite, who are concerned with the heritage we will be leaving for our children and children’s children!

We are having a serious but exciting campaign to end abortion by establishing personhood for the preborn as a Florida constitutional amendment.  There is an urgency to this movement as we do not know how long we will have the freedom to defend the orphans and widows.  We find that young people especially, are excited about this movement.  We are petitioning 2012-2013 to have this amendment on the Florida General Election ballot of 2014.

For more information or to ask for a speaker to visit you see  Guardians of Liberty and contact:

Mrs. Brenda MacMenamin, State Coordinator
Personhood FL
http://www.PersonhoodFL.com
Phone: 772-873-7187

“I have come to give you Life and that more abundantly.” ~Jesus

Why Personhood, Florida? from Mrs. Brenda MacMenamin on Vimeo.

God is the author of human rights – mine, yours – every human being from their very beginning. First among these on which all others stand is our right to be recognized as persons – as children of God, made in His image and likeness.

As the hands and feet of Christ it is up to us to safeguard this most fundamental of these rights – human personhood.

The nation’s founding fathers recognized this all-important responsibility. “We hold these truths to be self-evident …”

Yes, even during the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and many of our founding fathers desired to right what was even then viewed as an a grave hypocrisy and injustice in our newborn American country. They struggled to recognize the personhood of Africans – both slave and free.

Now was not the time said some. The economic burden on the plantation owners would be too great. The public sentiment was not great enough some offered.

The fervent acquiesced. Laws were proposed during the Constitutional Convention to be enacted in 1808 that would outlaw slavery and set slaves free. But between the Constitutional Convention and 1808, the cotton gin was invented. Greed set in, hearts grew cold and we compromised again.

As Lincoln taught us, when our liberty curtails the liberty of another, we seek not liberty but tyranny.

Quoting from our Florida state Constitution:

“We, the people of the State of Florida, being grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty, in order to secure its benefits….. do ordain and establish this constitution ……All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life ….”

Some may be concerned that now is not the time for a human personhood amendment. Some may say there is a better way. To this we say, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his passionate epistle from the Birmingham jail, “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.”

Our Floridian Founding Fathers laid upon our shoulders the right, better yet the responsibility, to defend life – of every human being.

As we learn the price they paid to recognize our rights, can we do less to recognize the personhood of every human being on which all other rights stand?

In 1808 the window of grace slammed shut and it took bloodshed and hundreds of thousands of lives before America finally birthed the Emancipation Proclamation and recognized the personhood of African Americans.

A window of grace is before us again. If we do not whole-heartedly work to establish personhood with all our hearts, our minds, our souls and our strength, our compromise, like the compromise at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, will result not in the possibility of a wider door in the future, but a slamming shut on God’s grace yet again.

Wait means never.

Justice for all human beings cannot wait.

What is the price of keeping our liberty? Very small compared to the price of losing it.

Our cause is just and our God is able!

Amendment language:

(a) The rights of every person shall be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every
innocent human being to life. The right to life is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person.
(b) With respect to the fundamental and inalienable rights of all persons guaranteed in this Constitution, the
word ‘person’ applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, sex, health, function, or condition of dependency, including unborn children at every stage of their biological development regardless of the method of creation.

For the generation yet to be born,
Mrs. Brenda MacMenamin PersonhoodFL
PersonhoodFL@gmail.com

“…..we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord,….so the next generation might know them even the children not yet born— and they in turn will teach their own children. So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands.” Psalm 78: 4, 6-7