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From 40 Days for Life Blog

Planned Par­ent­hood is in trouble.

And they have YOU to blame.

Their fed­eral fund­ing (which accounts for one third of their total income) is threat­ened. They’re get­ting tons of bad pub­lic­ity. AND …

… there are peo­ple right now pray­ing out­side more than 100 Planned Par­ent­hood offices dur­ing 40 Days for Life.

I’ve always paid close atten­tion to the nation’s largest abor­tion chain. The first time I prayed in front of an abor­tion facil­ity, it was a Planned Par­ent­hood location.

That same Planned Par­ent­hood in Bryan, Texas was also the birth­place of 40 Days for Life in 2004 and the loca­tion where Abby John­son was the direc­tor before quit­ting her job after wit­ness­ing an ultra­sound abortion.

So here’s an update on what Planned Par­ent­hood is say­ing – and doing – in response to YOUR pres­ence out­side, pray­ing for an end to abortion.

ST. LOUIS and COLUMBIA, MISSOURI
 

These Mis­souri cities were vis­ited by Planned Parenthood’s “big pink bus” recently. It’s basi­cally a com­bi­na­tion pep rally wagon / fundrais­ing machine on wheels.

Of course, 40 Days for Life par­tic­i­pants were on hand to pray for an end to abor­tion while Planned Par­ent­hood sup­port­ers were prais­ing abortion.

The bus has num­bers painted on its side – num­bers of can­cer screen­ings offered, STD tests con­ducted, and so forth. The num­ber that is NOT posted is 5,320,095 – the num­ber of abor­tions Planned Par­ent­hood has done since 1970.

Here are some pic­tures from the 40 Days for Life vigil in St. Louis:

HOUSTON, TEXAS
 

The Planned Par­ent­hood affil­i­ate in Hous­ton calls the prayer vigil out­side its iron gates and glass tower as “40 Days of Harassment.”

“From March 9 to April 17,” announces the Planned Par­ent­hood Gulf Coast web site, “pro­test­ers will attempt to keep women from com­ing to Planned Parenthood.”

As these “pro­test­ers” allegedly stand out­side and “bully clients,” Planned Par­ent­hood is ask­ing its friends to stand with them and “sup­port health­care with­out harass­ment.” It’s all just a ploy to ask for donations.

By the way, Planned Par­ent­hood has a spe­cial name for this build­ing, which is the largest abor­tion cen­ter in the West­ern Hemi­sphere – “Pre­ven­tion Park.” I think they really believe that. Please keep pray­ing for these folks!

AUGUSTA, MAINE
 

The 40 Days for Life vigil in Augusta is in progress out­side Fam­ily Plan­ning Asso­ci­a­tion of Maine. It is not part of Planned Par­ent­hood, but its direc­tor once worked for Planned Par­ent­hood, and has adopted many of its practices.

This abor­tion cen­ter is lash­ing out against the cam­paign, call­ing it “40 Days of Lies.” Quite hon­estly, how­ever, there isn’t a whole lot of truth com­ing out of this business.

“For the next forty days,” read an entry on FPA’s web site, “each time any of us come into or leave the build­ing, we will be the tar­gets of angry shouts and sign wav­ing by anti-choice protesters.”

The truth is that the build­ing is set far back from a lonely road, and the vigil is held on the oppo­site side of that road – an aer­ial photo posted on the Catholic Maine web site shows how far the vigil is from the front door – and how ridicu­lous is the alle­ga­tion of harassment.

Here’s the aer­ial photo, cour­tesy of Catholic Maine:

This busi­ness is also try­ing to use 40 Days for Life to raise funds – they’re call­ing their effort “Defend the Truth.” That’s about as hon­est as call­ing an abor­tion megaplex “Pre­ven­tion Plaza.”

Please, please pray harder!

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Yours for Life,

Shawn Car­ney
Cam­paign Direc­tor
40 Days for Life

PS: Even as we pray for an end to abor­tion, the efforts to strip Planned Par­ent­hood (which per­formed 332,278 abor­tions in its most recent fis­cal year) of its $362 MILLION in annual tax­payer fund­ing are heat­ing up. This week, your U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive is back home, specif­i­cally to hear from con­stituents. Please take one minute RIGHT NOW to call your representative’s dis­trict office, telling what you think about tax­payer fund­ing for Planned Par­ent­hood. Learn more, look up your representative’s info, and find out what to say when you call by going to:

http://exposeplannedparenthood.net/contact-congress