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Planned Parenthood launches ‘40 Days of Prayer’ for abortion
Life Site News ^ | 4/11/2012 | Kathleen Gilbert

Posted on 04/11/2012 5:29:21 PM PDT by Morgana

EUREKA, California, April 11, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Although Planned Parenthood has frequently complained of pro-life prayer vigils - particularly the biannual 40 Days for Life Campaign - one California Planned Parenthood affiliate seems to have chosen an unusually direct way of countering such efforts.

Last month, Six Rivers Planned Parenthood (SRPP) of Eureka, California, launched a campaign called the 40 Days of Prayer: Supporting Women Everywhere. The campaign, as noticed by Liberty Counsel, lists 40 different prayers for those involved in the “sacred care” of abortions to continue protecting, providing, and embracing the procedure - including mothers, escorts, abortionists, and everyone involved except the unborn children.

Some examples include Day 14, a prayer for “Christians everywhere to embrace the loving model of Jesus in the way he refused to shame women,” and Day 38, for “a cloud of gentleness to surround every abortion facility. May everyone feel calm and loving.”

The event is scheduled from March 18 to April 27 and includes several local gatherings “in celebration of women and reproductive rights,” according to a press release.

The campaign is being advertised under SRPP’s Clergy for Choice, who bill themselves as “religious leaders who value all human life.” The prayers themselves are credited to Faith Aloud, a “religious and ethical voice for reproductive justice” based in St. Louis.

The event appears to mimic an increasingly prominent thorn in Planned Parenthood’s side.

The 40 Days for Life Campaign, an emphatically peaceful prayer and fasting event in hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world, has reported saving at least 5,838 children from abortion, closing 22 abortion clinics, and prompting 69 providers walk away from abortion work since its inception in 2007.

Planned Parenthood affiliates have derided the campaign as “40 days and nights of intimidation and harassment” and routinely encourage supporters to pledge a donation for every new pro-life witness praying outside abortion clinics during the events.

Liberty Counsel likened Planned Parenthood’s latest tactic to Nazi Germany’s attempts to use religion to dehumanize the portions of society they sought to exterminate.

“Planned Parenthood’s attempts to develop a ‘spiritual’ aspect to the pro-abortion argument can seem comparable to the religious leaders in Germany who supported Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. It was wrong then and it is wrong now,” wrote LC in a press release Tuesday.

David Bereit, National Director of 40 Days for Life, told LifeSiteNews.com that the counter-campaign wasn’t entirely new.

“Some say that ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,’ but when that imitation is being used to promote the killing of innocent children, we are anything but flattered,” said Bereit.

While he has seen the same “prayers” mockingly displayed outside during 40 Days for Life campaigns,” he said it was the first time he had seen the invocations officially sponsored by a Planned Parenthood affiliate.

“Planned Parenthood has stooped to a new low by exploiting pastors and churches to ‘celebrate’ the slaughter of babies made in God’s image and likeness,” he said. “They certainly wouldn’t be doing this if 40 Days for Life wasn’t having a devastating impact on their abortion business!”


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: abortion; evil; moralabsolutes; plannedparenthood; prolife
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1 posted on 04/11/2012 5:29:34 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: wagglebee; little jeremiah

Prayers to Molech?


2 posted on 04/11/2012 5:30:38 PM PDT by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: Morgana

Satan’s got a special place reserved for these people.


3 posted on 04/11/2012 5:31:48 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: Morgana

Eureka - purely through it’s very close proximity to Arcata - has slowly been driven insane.


4 posted on 04/11/2012 5:33:27 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Burning the Quran is a waste of perfectly good fire.)
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To: Morgana

The only prayer I’d pray regarding Planned Parenthood would be for its early death. They’re disgustingly evil.


5 posted on 04/11/2012 5:38:21 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Morgana
Hmmm.... begs the question....

To whom are they praying....??
...What spirit are they invoking for intervention...??

...SO THEY CAN CONTINUE THE MURDER/SACRIFICE OF A MILLION-PLUS BABIES A YEAR!!!

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THISSSSSsss.... is our most egregious national sin...
God hears the outcry of innocent blood....

And while most Christians I know are crying to God for mercy and spiritual awakening.....

These bloodthirsty fiends can't get enough blood for their demonic altar...

Lord... have mercy!

6 posted on 04/11/2012 5:39:23 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: Morgana

if it weren’t so gruesome it would be comical.


7 posted on 04/11/2012 5:41:31 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (I think in about 5 - no, 4 - years I'll have had enough.)
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To: Morgana

This whole concept is absolutely blasphemous. To prey for the opportunity to kill babies ... disgusting.


8 posted on 04/11/2012 5:47:16 PM PDT by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote!)
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To: Morgana

1 Galatians 6:7 “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”


9 posted on 04/11/2012 5:48:19 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Morgana

satanists praying to satanists. JESUS is coming back and this time atheists... he will not be a Lamb... HE will come back as a Lion. I pray that HE will have me... if I am alive... I will be his sword.

LLS


10 posted on 04/11/2012 5:53:45 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES! (accept only the original))
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To: Morgana

2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.


11 posted on 04/11/2012 5:58:09 PM PDT by .30Carbine (God bless you with the spirit of wisdom and understanding)
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To: Morgana
Baal
12 posted on 04/11/2012 5:58:58 PM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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To: Morgana

I didnt know conversing with satan was considered prayer!


13 posted on 04/11/2012 6:07:55 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: Morgana
Let's modify these 'prayers'..I think that word work better...

“Christians everywhere to embrace the loving model of Jesus in the way he refused to shame women, except for the babies being ripped apart in the womb"

“a cloud of gentleness to surround every abortion facility. May everyone feel calm and loving, except for the babies being ripped apart in the womb"

Yeah, let's just add that to all their little 'prayers'...
14 posted on 04/11/2012 6:09:50 PM PDT by battousai (Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
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To: Morgana

Do NOT mock God.


15 posted on 04/11/2012 6:22:04 PM PDT by trimom
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To: Morgana

Abortion is indeed the sacrament of the left. They worship and celebrate the destruction of precious unborn human persons.

Evil.


16 posted on 04/11/2012 6:23:00 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Morgana

Sick!


17 posted on 04/11/2012 6:24:22 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: FrdmLvr

If folks can’t figure out that Planned Parenthood is an anti-Christian organization after this display of unmitigated blasphemy, it’s hopeless.


18 posted on 04/11/2012 6:36:38 PM PDT by caldera599
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To: Morgana

19 posted on 04/11/2012 6:38:31 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Morgana

I don’t think mocking the Creator of the Universe is a smart thing to do. I’d hate to be these people on Judgement Day.


20 posted on 04/11/2012 6:45:23 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (2012 isn't an election - it's a restraining order.)
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