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Join 40 Days for Life

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Pro Life Activists around the world are taking part in 40 days of prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil to end abortion in America. “40 Days for Life takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighborhoods, for their own friends and families. It puts into action a desire to cooperate with God in the carrying out of His plan for the end of abortion in America.”

St Michael Society editors attended the Washington, DC kick off rally and spoke with Alina Arias of Silent No More.  She talks about 40 Days For Life, Silent No More and gives advice to anyone thinking about abortion.

Learn more and join 40 Days for Life here: http://www.40daysforlife.com

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40 Days for Life Kicks Off Tomorrow

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UPDATE: 40 Days for Life is kicking off its spring 2010 campaign with a live webcast tonight. The webcast begins at 7pm Eastern time and may be viewed online at www.ustream.tv/channel/40days.

Particularly fitting for the beginning of Lent tomorrow, 40 Days for Life kicks off another cycle of peaceful prayer outside of abortion clinics on Ash Wednesday.

What is 40 Days for Life? It’s a community-based campaign that aims to draw attention to the evils of abortion through prayer and fasting, constant vigil and community outreach. It’s a peaceful approach to show communities the consequences of abortion. The campaign is based on the Biblical time of 40 days where God used those time periods to transform and change individuals and communities.

When was 40 Days for Life started? In 2007. Since then, there have been five 40 Days for Life campaigns mobilizing people of all faiths and backgrounds in 282 cities in all 50 states in the US, six Canadian provinces and in locations in Australia, Northern Ireland and Denmark. Over 300,000 people have joined in our efforts and more than 9,500 church congregations have participated in the 40 Days for Life campaigns.

Have the efforts of 40 Days for Life saved lives? Yes – we can document 2,168 lives saved from abortion and those are the ones we know about. Also, 27 abortion workers have quit their jobs and 5 abortion clinics have completely shut down following the 40 Days for Life campaigns.

How do I get involved? Check www.40DaysforLife.com to see the location nearest to you. Also, check your local church bulletin or website since many parishes have signed up for certain days during the campaign and are looking for volunteers to help. And remember you can also pray and fast for those who are participating if you are unable to.

 Let us all pray that the evils of abortion are exposed and pray for an end to abortion and especially for the success of this new 40 Days for Life campaign.

PS – participating in 40 Days for Life is a great thing to do for your Lenten devotion.

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Pro-Life Leaders Take to the Opinion Pages

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 Two opinion pieces published today hit the nail on the head when it comes to abortion and healthcare.

 Four powerhouse pro-life leaders, Dr. Charmaine Yoest (AUL), Marjorie Dannenfelser (SBA List), Kristan Hawkins (Students for Life) and David Bereit (40 Days for Life), call out Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry in today’s Washington Times for actively trying to mislead the public on the merits of the Stupak Amendment:

Earlier this month, New York Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey claimed that the Stupak-Pitts Amendment “puts new restrictions on women’s access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money.” Just days later, PolitiFact.com issued an analysis and said her comments were “false.”

Planned Parenthood’s cover has been blown. Before the vote on Stupak-Pitts, there were no uproars from the abortion lobby about government funding of abortion in the health care bill. There were no send-your-legislator-a-hanger campaigns. Why? Because they were hoping this issue would slip under the radar and that the bill would pass without any specific exclusion of abortion, which would ensure that abortion would certainly be funded by the government.

Read the whole thing here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/06/abortion-funding-fiight-far-from-over/.

 And Kristan Hawkins has her own piece at CNSNews.com today as well talking about the Mikulski amendment that passed in the Senate that would provide government funding for “preventative healthcare.” Kristan makes the case that preventative healthcare would include abortion – and she has the knowledge to back it up.Kristan Hawkins and her son Gunner

As a mother of a son with cystic fibrosis, a genetic life-threatening disease, and pregnant with another son, who has a 25 percent chance of having the disease, I know the first “preventative” abortions will be performed on children diagnosed prenatally with incurable, expensive-to-treat genetic diseases.
 
Already, over 90 percent of babies prenatally diagnosed with Downs Syndrome are aborted. That’s certainly a “preventative” service.

 Kristan has become quite an expert on rationing of care in the healthcare bills and runs the website www.HealthcareForGunner.com to raise awareness.

See the full opinion piece here: http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/article/59320

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