A California abortion mill has launched a 40-day prayer effort asking "God" to bless abortionists and the families who choose abortion, and to deafen abortion customers to the pro-life message.
For background, read Prayer Vigil Saves Babies & Mothers from Abortion and also read Abortion Prayer Vigil Nationwide: 40 Days for Life as well as Praying for Victims of Planned Parenthood Nationwide
-- From "Planned Parenthood’s abortion prayer" by Jordan Sekulow and Matthew Clark, posted at Washington Post 4/18/12
Some of the prayers . . . are for the abortionists. Others are for all “women to access . . . abortion,” and one is to “give thanks and celebrate that abortion is still safe and legal.”
Still other prayers are against pro-life advocates. They pray that women on the way to have an abortion would be “shielded” from the lifesaving message of pro-life sidewalk counselors and “give thanks for abortion escorts who guide women safely through the hostile gauntlets of protesters.” In another, “we pray for women who have been made afraid of their own power [of choice, i.e. abortion] by their religion. May they learn to reject fear and live bravely.”
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From "Planned Parenthood Group Launches 40-Day 'Prayer' Campaign for Abortion Industry" by Dave Bohon, The New American 4/15/12
. . . The project, entitled “40 Days of Prayer to Keep Abortion Safe and Legal,” is sponsored by Six Rivers Planned Parenthood [SRPP] in Eureka, California, and features 40 different prayers individuals can offer for those involved in the abortion process: the mothers, escorts, abortionists performing the procedure — everyone, it seems, except the babies destroyed by abortion. The effort runs from March 18 through April 27.
The Rev. Rebecca Turner of Faith Aloud, one of the sponsors of the project, explained to Focus on the Family’s Citizen Link that the “prayer” initiative is based on the belief that “abortion is a very private decision that women do often make.”
While it is impossible to ignore the obvious similarities, the pro-abortion minister insisted that her group’s prayer campaign was not intended as a challenge to 40 Days for Life, the annual initiative during which pro-life individuals and groups pray for an end to abortion. She did, however claim that the pro-life prayer project was “misguided ... because it completely eliminates the woman. And it is the pregnant woman that we are concerned for.”
She emphasized that “instead of praying for unborn children, you know, we’re praying for those women . . .”
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From "Planned Parenthood launches ‘40 Days of Prayer’ for abortion" by Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSiteNews.com 4/11/12
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.
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.
“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,” [David Bereit, National Director of 40 Days for Life,] said. “They certainly wouldn’t be doing this if 40 Days for Life wasn’t having a devastating impact on their abortion business!”
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