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Pat PelletierPat has been in the forefront of the pro-life movement in Fort Worth. She and her husband, Chuck, started Mothers and Unborn Baby Care in 1984. Together they trained sidewalk counselors to use the quiet, prayerful method. They purposely do not have anything on their building that would indicate that they pro-life. They want those girls who are abortion-minded to enter and pursuade them to keep their babies.
She has gained the bishop of Fort Worth's permission to have a chapel with the Blessed Sacrament in their clinic. She has provided priests to say mass weekly for the sidewalk counselors and people who pray at the abortion mills. The sacristy is full of vestments for every liturgical season and she ensures that the bread and wine is in stock, not to mention cleaning the altar linens week in and week out - all to provide spiritual nourishment for the prayer warriors.
Pat's husband, Chuck, was shot down in Viet Nam and became a parapelegic. So she's had to deal with his health issues throughout their married life. While praying at Planned Parenthood on a cold snowy day, one director was touched to tears by seeing Pat wheeling her husband through the snow to get him there to pray. When Chuck's life came to an end in January 2016, Pat was vigiilant to always have the medical staff honor his end-of-life wishes so he died a natural death.
So from birth to natural death, and everything inbetween, Pat has been a staunch defender of life.