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A Tribute to Gail McInnish.(Obituary)
Gail McInnish, 54, delegate from Alabama to the National Right to Life Committee Board of Directors, died December 23, 2006, after years of challenging and debilitating health problems. She lived her life with courage and without complaining. Her death leaves a vacancy in the pro-life movement here on earth, but we know she is being welcomed with shouts of joy into Eternal Life.
Gail knew, as did her close friends and family members, that she probably would not live a long life, so she spent all of her strength and energy defending the right to life of unborn children and protecting medically fragile members of our human family from death by euthanasia. She served on the board of directors with a strong sense of duty to protect the defenseless and disabled. She made every minute of her life count.
As members of the National Right to Life Board of Directors, we were close to Gail. We are Southerners and Southerners tend to stick together. Gail's home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, is a nine-hour drive from South Carolina, but we were able to travel and attend her funeral the day after Christmas.
Space does not permit us to recount all the hilarious stories about how Gail effectively persuaded politicians to be pro-life. Once at a political rally she vehemently disagreed with a pro-abortion candidate. Intrigued by her passion, the candidate decided to listen to Gail. Eventually she converted him and he became a strong pro-life supporter.
In his homily, Fr. Patrick Tierney said that Gail "could have been the first woman president of the United States if she had wanted to." But she chose pro-life work instead.
At the end of the funeral Mass at Our Lady of the Shoals Catholic Church where Gail was the fourth member of her immediate family to be buried, Fr. Tierney invited Cheryl Ciamarra, legislative director for Alabama Citizens for Life, to reflect on Gail's numerous and unique contributions to the pro-life movement locally and nationally. Gail probably was best known in Alabama for working equally well with ...
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