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Planned Parenthood launches ‘40 Days of Prayer’ for abortion
Life Site News ^ | 4/12/2012 | Kathleen Gilbert

Posted on 04/12/2012 5:13:52 AM PDT by IbJensen

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: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortionists; babykillers; degradedsociety; enroutetohell
How utterly stupid!

They believe (of course not) that their 'prayers' will be heard by God and he will bless their murderious rampage that has aborted more innocent babies than the entire population of Canada?

These god-less humans, allied with their elected facilitors, have indeed gave their souls not to God, but to satan!

If I shoot a pregnant woman in the stomach, killing both her and her child, it's a double homicide. BUT, if a woman elects to terminate her pregnancy via an abortion clinic, it's ok. Killing a child is killing a child, irregardless if I or, worse yet, his or her MOTHER perpetuates the act. And, I find it morbidly amusing that abortion is usually argued for in the name of protecting a womans' REPRODUCTIVE rights! Call it like it is, sister. Your right to kill your kid.

God save this Country!

1 posted on 04/12/2012 5:13:59 AM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen
Praying to their pagan ideas of God.


2 posted on 04/12/2012 5:24:22 AM PDT by drpix
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To: IbJensen
Those Planned Parenthood folks have been smokin' too much up there in Eureka. That county (Humboldt) leads the state in all drug growing and making. There is even an FBI office in that very small county capital of 25,000 souls.
Stands to reason when PP pulls a stunt like this. WAY too many drugs in their system.
3 posted on 04/12/2012 5:26:32 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: IbJensen

Who would baby killers be praying to?


4 posted on 04/12/2012 5:34:23 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (ABO)
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To: IbJensen

Are they aware that they will they be praying to Lucifer?


5 posted on 04/12/2012 5:44:26 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Galatians 6:7 ‘God is not mocked’.....The only response for Christians to look skyward and say “Lord, how long do we have to wait?”
6 posted on 04/12/2012 5:46:59 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: hecticskeptic

In other words, the child-killers, in their typically-twisted way, are acknowledging that the “40 Days for Life” prayers are working.
Sooo...let’s change it to “365 Days for Life” prayers!!!!!


7 posted on 04/12/2012 6:32:11 AM PDT by Radagast the Fool ("Be Brave! Be Brave! Be Brave!" -"War Horse")
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To: Radagast the Fool

as a walking, talking human being - I survived a “ woman’s right to choose “.....

abortion is a war on women - the aborted, and those whose lives will never be the same....

male casualities, too...


8 posted on 04/12/2012 6:43:10 AM PDT by nevermorelenore
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Who would baby killers be praying to?

Baal.

9 posted on 04/12/2012 6:43:29 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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To: IbJensen

"Tophet is Moloch (Ba'al), which was made of brass; and they heated him from his lower parts; and his hands being stretched out, and made hot, they put the child between his hands, and it was burnt; when it vehemently cried out; but the priests beat a drum, that the father might not hear the voice of his son, and his heart might not be moved."

"There stands in their midst a bronze statue of Kronos, its hands extended over a bronze brazier, the flames of which engulf the child. When the flames fall upon the body, the limbs contract and the open mouth seems almost to be laughing until the contracted body slips quietly into the brazier."

Leviticus 20:2-5

Again, you shall say to the Sons of Israel: Whoever he be of the Sons of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that gives any of his seed Moloch; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

And I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his seed Moloch, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives of his seed Moloch, and do not kill him, then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go astray after him, whoring Moloch from among the people.

10 posted on 04/12/2012 6:49:23 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("It is already like a government job," he said, "but with goats." -- Iranian goat smuggler)
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To: nevermorelenore

Absolutely, nevermorelenore. Not to mention the generations destroyed by even one abortion.


11 posted on 04/12/2012 6:56:02 AM PDT by Radagast the Fool ("Be Brave! Be Brave! Be Brave!" -"War Horse")
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To: IbJensen

Praying for abortion “rights” is the ultimate obscenity.


12 posted on 04/12/2012 7:05:33 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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To: hecticskeptic

Totally agree! God will NOT be mocked; He will judge them accordingly. Goats will be separated from sheep; the condemned from the redeemed.

We truly are living in the days as of Noah—come soon Lord Jesus!


13 posted on 04/12/2012 7:15:25 AM PDT by sassy steel magnolia (USAF life and Navy wife...God Bless the USA!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy; sassy steel magnolia; The Great RJ; Mikey_1962
That "St. Francis" church on the pro-abort flyer is actually:

St. Francis Episcopal Church
568 16th Street
Fortuna, CA 95540
(707) 725-4686
email: St.FrancisFortuna@gmail.com

The pastor, Rev. Jeri Gray-Reneberg, is married and the mother of two daughters, is a past board member of Six Rivers Planned Parenthood and a present member of Clergy for Choice. She is also an "anti-violence" activist.

More here: http://stfrancisfortuna.org/index.html

I strongly recommend writing, e-mailing, and phoning, and letting them know (in the nicest possible way) that what they are doing is

Seriously.

Thank you.

14 posted on 04/12/2012 8:03:37 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child that's got his own." Billie Holiday / Arthur Herzog Jr)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

“Who would baby killers be praying to?”

I believe this would be Lillith. Check the link below for the reason.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2635663/posts


15 posted on 04/12/2012 10:20:08 AM PDT by Jack Burton007 (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

It would be the Episcopal Church, wouldn’t it. Take a look at the rites they will soon adopt:
http://cybermonksredactions.blogspot.com/2009/12/abortion-rites.html


16 posted on 04/14/2012 11:07:09 PM PDT by curator
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To: Mrs. Don-o

It would be the Episcopal Church, wouldn’t it. Take a look at the rites they will soon adopt:
http://cybermonksredactions.blogspot.com/2009/12/abortion-rites.html


17 posted on 04/14/2012 11:07:45 PM PDT by curator
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To: IbJensen

Legally fetus’ do not have rights until they are in the third trimester because by then they could survive outside of the womb ie viability. By the time a women is in the third trimester she has no doubt decided she wants to keep the pregnancy - third trimester abortions almost *never* happen except for medical reasons with the fetus or mother.

Before the third trimester the pregnancy could still be aborted for a multitude of reasons and it cannot survive (not without extreme and morally ambiguous measures) outside the womb.

Agree with it or not but this is the way it is legally decided whether or not to count the pregnancy as a double murder.

Example - Laci Peterson was seven and a half months pregnant, that’s why it’s a double homicide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Laci_Peterson


18 posted on 04/16/2012 2:52:54 PM PDT by Oubli
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