Another abortion center CLOSING!
Whenever you get an e-mail with 20 exclamation marks in the subject line, you know it’s one of two things…
1.) A spam message
-OR-
2.) Something REALLY exciting
After getting off an airplane Friday coming home from a talk in Indiana, I jumped in my car and fired up my laptop to quickly check e-mail, and there it was: “Prayers Answered!!!!!!!!!!! Aaron’s Abortion IS CLOSING!!!!!!!!!”
I opened the message to verify what I suspected, and sure enough, the notorious late-term abortion facility in Dallas, Texas — site of the second 40 Days for Life campaign in history — was shutting its doors for good!
Grabbing my cell phone, I dialed my friend Karen Garnett, Executive Director of the Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas (the group that led the 40 Days for Life outside that Aaron’s Abortion center three and a half years ago.)
(David Bereit with Karen Garnett at the White House in April)
Karen answered and confirmed the amazing news. Her voice was almost quivering with excitement.
She only had a minute, as she was about to go on the air for a live interview with a Dallas radio station, so we agreed to talk later.
On Saturday evening I was able to get her on the phone for about twenty minutes and she agreed to let me record our discussion so I could share it with you…
…And you won’t believe what she shared!
Listen Online Now (click “Play” button to start audio):
Download MP3 (click to play, right-click to save to your computer):
http://www.40daysforlife.com/blog/audio/dallas_closing.mp3
With less than a month before registrations begin for this fall’s 40 Days for Life campaign, God has given us another beautiful gift to show what can happen in a community when dedicated people pray, fast, and put their faith into action.
Would you like to see this kind of impact in your hometown?
It can happen.
Ask the people of Dallas, Texas, who are now gearing up to conduct 40 Days for Life campaigns at TWO locations this fall.
(Photo from original 40 Days for Life in Dallas, outside now-closing Aaron’s abortion center)
Ask the people of Rockland County, New York — site of the other abortion center that shut down less than two months ago, following a local 40 Days for Life campaign.
If you want to see abortion end in your city, you owe it to yourself to listen to Karen share how 40 Days for Life — and the ongoing faithfulness of many people over many years — led to the closure of a late-term abortion facility.
Her words will give you great hope!
Maybe YOU’LL be the next one sending out an e-mail sharing the exciting news from your city: “Prayers Answered!!!!!!!!!!! The local Abortion Center IS CLOSING!!!!!!!!!”
Yours for LIFE,
David Bereit
National Campaign Director
40 Days for Life
P.S.- This case study begins the pre-registration training to help you and others decide if 40 Days for Life is right for your community this fall. We certainly weren’t planning to begin this way, but realize there’s no better way to start than with a view of the possible end result! Please post any comments as a reply below!
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
Praise God. God works sometime slowly, sometimes swiftly.
Thank you for uplifting God’s work and my day.
This motivates me to keep attending Mass and giving to 40 Days for Life.
May God continue to bless you and your work.
Thank you for your emails.
In Christ,
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Tremendous! The Holy Spirit is moving and I am thrilled to be a part of this upcoming 40 Days Campaign. Please, Lord, let this be the year that the abortion clinic on Concord street closes it’s doors as well. Through prayer and fasting, we will spread Your love and mercy. Thank you, David and 40 Days staff, for all the work you are doing to prepare for this monumental 40 Days campaign!
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:30 am
Thank you for the pictures. It is good to know what David lokks like, after receiving so many of his messages. Also I’m impressed by the picture of the facility which closed. It is a far cry from the small but numerous clinics I had envisioned. It’s true; a picture does speak a thousand words.
jeh
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:42 am
Please pray that the abortion mills in Sacramento, CA shut down. It would be a tremendous vote of confidence from the Lord for all of us who faithfully witness and pray at Planned Parenthood, Feminists Clinic, the facilities at Sutter Hospital.
Great news for Texas. Please God that Sacramento may soon join in the Hallelujuah chorus.
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 am
Alleluia!!! Alleluia!!! Give Praise to the Risen Lord!!! Alleluia!!! Alleluia!!! Give Praise to HIS name!!! b
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:53 am
35 years is ENOUGH! This is my mantra, it’s my opening statement to my meeting with pastors. It was wonderful hearing it also from Karen. NOW, is the appropriate time, NOW.
Praise the Lord. And yes, we will be doing a 40 Days in our communities, even though we are one of the lucky ones who have no local abortion mills. We will be joining others not so lucky, to pray at the mills advertising to our communities.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
The Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas, with Karen Garnett’s leadership, is planning another 40 Day Vigil this fall right in the heart of this year’s election, our second at Planned Parenthood. At the same time, we are planning a diocese-wide distribution of one page bulletin stuffers or pass out flyers to all diocesan parishioners clearly identifying each Catholic’s moral obligations in voting for pro-life candidates on November 4th along with voter guides. This will be done either inside the churches or outside the churches depending on our Bishop’s approval or lack of it. The template of our plan will be made available to all diocese’s pro-lifers in the country. Watch the blog articles at http://www.viewsfromthepews.wordpress.com for on-going information or call Chuck Suter at 972-401-0471. The Holy Spirit is working overtime this year, everyone, because a 10 to 15% increase in the pro-life Catholic vote can keep the worst anti-life president in our history from winning the White House!!
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Praise to God! I was there in 2004 and walked to this facility on Dec. 12 and prayed on Christmas night with people from Arkansas and parishioners from Grand Prairie. How great is God to answer our prayers and give us this encouragement! I am renewed in my spirit and will commit now to the next 40 days of prayer and fasting. Thank you Lord, Jesus!
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Thank you so much for sharing this incredible story. It helps to strengthen my resolve to have the fall 40 Days for Life campaign take place in Lincoln Nebraska! This encouraging news really helps me keep moving forward. Fall in Nebraska is much warmer than the lenten 40 Days so that is further encouragement. Thanks again – Pam
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Praise the Lord! I will continue to pray for the closing of the local abortion clinic on Case Street and also pray for the proliferation of the “40 Days for Life” campaign. Thank you to everyone for all you are doing! Diane D
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Thanks Karen and David:
This is great news. The key is faithfulness, not success. I encourage evereyone regardless of your role, philosophy, or strategy in the pro-life movement to conduct/participate in a 40 Day campaign.
We did it with 40 below temps here in the Twin Cities with 6 churches participating in our “Adopt-A-Day” program, with Hispanic and African-American participation. If we can do it in the “40 Frozen Days for Life” you can too!
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Karen and David
What wonderful news you have shared with us. May this news help the country unite in the effort of pro-lifers to put an end to abortion. It speaks highly to the value of prayerful presence. The Holy Spirit is indeed giving energy to the 40 days for life. Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn, desires our prayers and efforts to overcome the evil of abortion. God bless you for your leadership in the movement.
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Terrific News!!
May God’s Name be praised for hearing our heartfelt prayers and answering us!
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Dear David and Karen,
Thank you for sharing your tremendous victory. That abortion facility
in Dallas looks worse than a concentration camp to me.
Just because it’s legal, doens’t mean that “Thou shalt Not Kill”, particulary the unborn, doesn’t apply.
When we go against Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,Jehovah, as a country, the consequences are apparent. I am glad that President
Bush is in the picture supporting this action.
I am also thankful that we, as a country still have freedom of speech
on the airwave, internet, etc.
Patricia
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Praise GOD!
It took 7 years of prayer- a Biblical number of completeness.
What a message of encouragement for those of us who pray without apparent answers for so long……..
Keep praying brothers and sisters!
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
You all,
There isn’t an abortion mill near my city, but there are three in South Carolina; Greenville, Charleston, and Columbia. I travel alot through my job and stay in many motel rooms, the first thing that I do entering the room is get the phone book and flip it open to the yellow pages and tear out the ads for the abortion clinics. I wrote a book called “Help Me, Grandma: I Don’t Want to Die”, which has true stories of abortion.
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Thank you to all the dedicated supporters who have stood in front of abortion clinics and/or prayed for the closing of the doors of all these murder factories.
We are blessed with people here in Montgomery who show up in front of Beacon Clinic and Reproductive Health Services. God willing, may we have more to join the ranks and pray these abortion mills into non-existence.
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Great way to go. Praise God.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:24 pm
we prayed over abortion in san marco .the san marco abortion clinic closed down after the blessed adoration was put next to the abortion clinic
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Thank you Jesus!!!! Praise the name of the Jesus!!!!
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Thank you Jesus. Thank you also to all the hard working pro-life people that are working to end abortion in America and the world. This is a passion that touches the heart of God.
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
IT’S THE POWER OF PRAYER AND FASTING WITH THE WITNESS TO MAKE IT WORK. WE CAN HARDLY WAIT FOR THE FALL CAMPAIGN HERE IN NAPA.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Praise God. Thanks for the hard work. We will keep 40 days for life in our prayers. We are currently investigating the possibility of launching a campaign in our own community. This is a wonderful piece of encouragement!
June 24th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Praise be to God! Thank you to all the prayer warriors for the prayers, fasting and sacrifice that have brought about this wonderful news. I can’t wait to post an update on my website and make sure that people visit your site and hear the broadcast.
God bless 40 Days for Life.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Thank God! That is wonderful news. God bless your wonderful work.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Thanks be to God and to all of the people that pray for an end to abortion. We will continue to fight God’s battle until abortion ends!
June 24th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
GOD IS TRULY REWARDING THE LOYALTY AND STEADFASTNESS OF ALL THE FAITHFUL. THAT WONDERFUL NEWS BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES. I WILL CONTINUE MY ROSARIES FOR THE SUCCESS OF 40 DAYS, FOR DAVID, SHAWN AND ALL THE DEVOTED INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE GIVING THEIR TIME, THEIR PRAYER AND SHARING THEIR FAITH. ALLELUIA!
June 25th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Praise God. I will continue to pray for this to happen in New England. All your prayers have been answered.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:06 am
This is great news! Wonderful news! Praise God!
In our own town, I look forward to the conversion of Dr Hodari and the closing of all his Womancare abortion facilities in Michigan.
Let’s remember “There is no such thing as a good abortion, a woman is never better off with the choice of abortion.”
June 26th, 2008 at 4:52 am
I’m so proud to be part of the pro-life work in my community and will continue to pray for the end of abortion here and everywhere! We had one facility close down but still another one survives in Ventura, Ca.
This is really great news, though, in Dallas! Thank you David and Karen and ALL the suporters who come out and pray and who help in other ways. God is Great and hears our prayers. Thank you to all who pray- Keep praying and never never never give up! God is faithful!!
I have been teaching Natural Family Planning for about 10 years. Now more and more couples are asking for this knowledge and (better yet) more and more priests are making classes a pre-Cana requirement. Praise the Lord! (DO SIDE-WALK COUNSELORS AND PEOPLE PRAYING REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT NOT ONLY PROCEEDURES AT AN ABORTION FACILITY KILL BABIES, BUT ALSO BIRTH CONTROL PILL(PATCHES,SHOTS IUD’S) ALSO HAVE ABORTIVE EFFECTS?
There are many areas to serve in the Pro-life world. Thank you EVERYONE for your work.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Praise God for this wonderful blessing! I am brought to tears over this triumph for I was an active participant in the 40 Days for Life at this particular location, and was blessed then to be part of it but feel even more blessed now. I was glad to be part of such a wonderful outpouring of Pro Life supporters. God is definitely good, ALL THE TIME!
Let’s never stop fighting for good over this evil of abortion!
July 1st, 2008 at 11:32 pm
God is moving and opening doors.We can’t stop now, lets close every deathcamp in this country, we can do it,if we humble ourselves and let God lead us, day by day. Thanks to all you good people who love the Lord and His children. God bless you all!
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 am
An overwhelming gift from God!!! Such awesome news! I am delighted for Texas, for the babies who will continue to live, for their parents, and for everyone who was laboring for this triumph!! Blessed be God! (And such timing He has, too!)
August 6th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
God is moving and there is an excellent opportunity to move with God through the doors that He is opening! The Twin Cities first meeting for participants of the Fall 2008 40 Days for Life will be held at:
Bethlehem Baptist Church, 720 13th Avenue South, Minneapolis Minnesota 55415 (near the Metrodome) on Thursday, August 28th from 11:00 AM – 1:00PM.
Pastors, lay leaders, all are welcome. Free parking and refreshments. Call Pro-Life Action Ministries (651) 771-1500 ext 211 to RSVP