NEW PALTZ —  As another year of the Ulster County Fair concludes, the Ulster Deanery Respect Life Committee (UDRLC) and the Pregnancy Support Center of Ulster County (Bravo Center) worked together to conduct outreach at the fair to hundreds of attendees. 

“The UDRLC is grateful to the Bravo Center for the opportunity to provide a broad message of pro-life and pro-family hope not only to expectant mothers in need or distress but also to the greater Ulster community,”  remarked Father Arthur F. Rojas, moderator and spiritual director of the UDRLC.

For about 12 hours per day during the fair, shifts of UDRLC volunteers of the led by Father Rojas or Deacon John Carr, his deputy, worked with Michelle Whittaker, executive director of the Bravo Center, to engage attendees on several aspects of the pro-life cause, starting with abortion and expanding to the needs of expectant mothers and newborn children, distributing materials on various pro-life topics, as well as to answer questions about Christian spirituality and hand out devotional and other items. 

In addition, UDRLC volunteers distributed palm cards from the Campaign to Protect Kids NY and bilingual flyers designed by the Archdiocese of New York to encourage Ulsterites and visitors to the fair to vote against Proposition One on the New York ballot on November 5, a ballot item that would endanger parental rights by inserting gender theory and further enshrine abortion-on-demand into the New York state constitution.

“If adopted, Proposition One would make abortion-on-demand protected by the state constitution virtually up to the moment of birth as well as impose New York State in place of parents in the medical treatment of their children as well as to threaten the integrity of girls’ and women’s sports and activities,” alerted Father Rojas.

The UDRLC coordinates the prayerful and practical pro-life activities of the Catholic pro-life movement amidst the various parishes in the Ulster Deanery, which is coterminous with Ulster County.  The UDRLC has cooperated with other organizations such as the Bruderhof Communities and, recently at the Ulster County Fair, with the Bravo Center toward mutual aims to advance the common good, concentrating on pro-life and pro-family matters. “Furthermore, the UDRLC looks forward to spreading the Gospel of Life on Saturday, August 10 at the Blueberry Festival at Ellenville,” announced Father Rojas.  

The Bravo Center is located in Kingston. As its primary mission, the Bravo Center helps expectant mothers in need to make the choice of giving birth to their preborn children as well as to help with the needs of their newborn children and families through a wide variety of free and confidential services.

For more information, contact Father Rojas at (845) 514-37u3.