DAY 4: “We are costing them money!”
There’s no better way to put it. As far as abortion centers are concerned, 40 Days for Life is just bad for business.
While this is not the main reason that we pray outside abortion facilities, it does show that when women choose life, it affects one thing the abortion industry really cares about — money!
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AUGUSTA, MAINE
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“Three years ago, when we did our first 40 Days for Life prayer vigil,” said Janet in Augusta, “Family Planning Association of Maine hung a banner with a comic strip type character with the words ‘defend the truth.’ ”
This facility has used a high-profile — but ineffective — program called “pledge-a-picket.” The idea is to get pro-abortion donors to pledge a certain amount of money for each person praying outside the building.
Recently, she said, they spent big money on a new surveillance system. “They’ve focused some of their resources on us. We are costing them money.”
The Augusta campaign was featured this week on WABI-TV in Maine.
The reporter interviewed a spokeswoman for the abortion center, who complained of demonstrators “harassing” their clients. The video then showed a couple of volunteers against a background of snow — bundled up on a cold Maine day — quietly praying for an end to abortion.
Here’s a photo from the WABI-TV news story. Click the picture to read the TV report — and watch the video:
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SYRACUSE, NEW YORK
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A record crowd of 120 turned out for the kickoff of the fifth 40 Days for Life campaign in Syracuse.
Coordinators noted that the Planned Parenthood facility in Syracuse was the first freestanding abortion center in the United States.
It opened for business on July 2, 1970 — 40 years ago (abortion was legal in New York prior to the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling).
“We are thrilled to be here and do God’s work and bring His light and love and mercy to this darkest corner of our city,” Jeannie, one of the coordinators, told the crowd.
“We’re uniting in prayer and fasting with 247 cities,” she said. “That’s tens of thousands of people praying and fasting. And we’re expectant that God will do great things for us.”
Here are photos of the 40 Days for Life kickoff in Syracuse:
Saturdays are often “procedure days” at abortion centers. In plain English, that means Saturday is the deadliest day of the week for innocent unborn children.
Please consider joining a 40 Days for Life vigil today. Who knows? Your prayers may help save a baby.
All you have to do is show up and pray. God will handle the rest!
To find the nearest 40 Days for Life campaign, please go to:
http://40daysforlife.com/location.cfm
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Yours for Life,
Shawn Carney
Campaign Director
40 Days for Life
PS: Even as we pray and stand for innocent life during this 40 Days for Life, please also pray for those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan which caused devastating loss of life — that they may have God’s strength in the difficult days ahead.
PPS: As always, if you have a story to share about the blessings of 40 Days for Life, please post a reply below.
March 12th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
I have visited the 40 Days site in Maine and was struck by what a desolate place it is to hold a vigil. There is no way that the vigil pray-ers could be harrassing clients of PP, as they are across the road, standing in a cul-de-sac next to an open field, that is whipped by wind. They cannot even speak to anyone going into PP, as everyone would arrive by car and drive through the gate, the PP facility is surrounded by a very high fence. I have seen the 40 Days people standing and praying across the road/highway and they stand alone and buffeted by wind, with nothing there except their prayers and God.
March 12th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
“They have to drive through a high fence with a gate” sounds like a concentration camp! God Help us All. Mrs. C. LeBlanc
March 12th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Syracuse NY oldest abortion minded City in America ,God will change this , the abortion mill has a strange sign infront of the place a picture of a little girl laughing ,it says”If we don’t help her who will”. Very strange way to think.
I’m making 40 baby quilts to give away for 40 days for life .God bless our sacrifices of time,prayer and labor for the preborn.mary t
March 12th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Mary- What a great way to use your blanket-making talent! The victory is already ours in Christ, and I’m so happy we can pray to him whenever we want. I’m so glad those sweet babies who never know life are already in his arms. I pray so deeply for the mothers.
March 12th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
I was outside praying yesterday at the Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas. It was a pretty busy day for PP yesterday, but we had several prayer warriors on the public right-of-way in front of the clinic. A few people took information about alternative health care clinics that didn’t do abortions, but the majority ignored our efforts to reach out to them in love. It was nearing the end of my shift, and a truck pulled into the PP parking lot. At that time, I was praying and also holding a sign that read “Without LIFE, there is no choice.” The couple in the truck looked over at me, and the sign, looked at each other, and promptly put the truck into reverse and drove out of the PP parking lot!! It was a good feeling to know that we are indeed having an impact on the hearts of at least some of the people. Keep praying strong, our God is an awesome God! Our God is rooting for us, so who could ever stop us?
March 12th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
So far, I have made two visits to the Sacramento, CA abortion clinic at Wright Street where we are holding our 40 Days for Life vigil. Both times, there has been a Roman Catholic priest present. Fr. L. was able to bless my 100 rosaries and I have been able to hand out these sacramentals to several people including men and women waiting in the parking lot, drivers in cars passing by on the street. I always tell them, “Pray for the end of abortion.”
I was handing out rosaries to people in cars passing by the clinic. This somehow served to infuriate the clinic death-scorts. They came flying off their posts to yell at me and the drivers. It was truly an amazing display of hostility having nothing to do with their mission!
Pray for the people of California. One man I talked to over the fence had no idea whether he had ever been baptized. It is a huge mission field and as we pray, God opens our eyes to the enormity of the task for our society. Conversion. Conversion. Conversion+++
March 12th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
I am praying for your 40 days for life constantly. I am unable to stand in front of the clinics here in my area because of illness.
I know God will bless your efforts for pro-life and you will save may lives in this 40 days of prayer and fasting. How I admire you who are standing in the cold weather. This adds to your prayers for life. God knows and loves you.
God Bless you all.
Katie
March 12th, 2011 at 7:57 pm
I saw a great bumper sticker the other day and would love to know if anyone knows where I can get one. It read “Isn’t it funny that everyone who is pro-abortion has been born!??”
Go Pro Life!!!!! I will pray to end abortion.
Leslie
March 12th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Gee, the media bending the truth. What a surprise…
Some of the clinics are like concentration camps, with furnaces for burning bodies. Pray hard, people, pray hard!
March 13th, 2011 at 12:05 am
I was outside the abortion mill in Cranston, RI, this morning for an hour. I was so encouraged on seeing new people out there praying, as well as the young girl who changed her mind and is going to give her baby life. I was also convinced even more of the spiritual battle going on out there, as 2 men in 2 different cars drove by with some unkind signs and words. Let us persevere in running the race, knowing that He has already won the Victory. God bless!
March 13th, 2011 at 1:15 am
I have some great encouragement I wanted to share with you all! A few months ago I was heading to my regular prayer time with Project Defending Life outside Boyd’s late term abortion facility in Albuquerque. When I walked up one of the volunteers was talking with a young woman.
It turns out that her boyfriend (not the baby’s dad), who she was living with, dropped her off at the clinic and said she could not come back until she had the abortion. She was 6 months pregnant. After the boyfriend drove off, she came over to our volunteer to get information.
I thank God that it was HIS timing for us to be there when she was dropped off. We were able to offer her a place to stay in our Mom’s Home. She eventually got in touch with the baby’s father again, and they got back together. Their little girl was born about 10 days ago! I was able to take them some baby items and visit with them this afternoon, and she is so BEAUTIFUL!!
Many women DO NOT really want to abort their child. They feel hopeless and helpless, and God may want to use YOU to give them practical help and most of all HOPE!
God bless ALL OF YOU, who stand for hours to offer help, who fast and pray for mothers, fathers, babies, and abortion workers, and who are moved by the Holy Spirit to give financial assistance.
This is a team effort, and though we may not get taxpayer funding, that is not a problem, because we are backed by the most wealthy and loving donor in the world — JESUS!!!
March 13th, 2011 at 5:46 am
Here in Chicago, I tend to assume that almost everyone is pro-choice. However, 40 Days for Life is bringing out signs of support from unexpected places–from taxi drivers who honk and give a thumbs up to people who walk by and ask how they can get involved. I was out on a cold night tonight and a young man bought me a hot chocolate. What blessings and encouragement!
March 13th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
I can’t understand how doctors who are supposed to be healing people can kill human beings and not feel guilty. They can never say they are saving the mother. We all know what it does to the mother physically and mentally when she realizes that she has killed her child. We need to pray for the doctors and for the mothers.
March 13th, 2011 at 9:19 pm
We have lost Dr. Bernard Nathanson but we have won a significant victory in Maryland. What makes anyone think 2012 will be better for PP & Co than 2011? Now Ken Cucinelli will write the rules for the abortuaries in Virginia. And never again can PP accept someone as trustworthy who might be a spy. The squirrels have done away with Acorn. The tide has moved but we must be perseverant. The enemy is at large and militant. We face a long campaign against LeRoy Carhart. His meager frame cannot withstand the Holy Spirit. There are too many free spirited believers who love Christ mounting vigils. Let’s give him a few months.
March 14th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
God Bless all the people who stand up against abortion and stand out and pray for the end of it. Let the Holy Spirit guide us all and help us be a a part of the ending of this. How can anyone think it is ok to end a persons life!?! Someone has to be a voice for the unborn; they can’t speak for themselves! Abortion is murder, so why is it allowed?
March 17th, 2011 at 2:06 am
Thank God for pro-lifers out there in this vital battle against the forces of evil. I pray everyday for all those prayer warriors out there. I stand on God’s Word that no weapon be formed against them, as written in Isaiah 54:17, and I place the armor of God, as is written in Ephesians 6:10-17, upon all of them; not by name but by “pro-life warriors,” whom God knows by name. I also include their families and the babies (and their parents) they are praying to save. God is so Providential and Ever-Present and Almighty. As Father Frank Pavone says, we pray and we act. I thank God for all who are in this ministry and who stand up for the truth. Truly pro-lifers are saints in training! God bless and keep and protect all of you!