Day 16 – 109 lives saved!

March 12, 2009

Day 16 – 109 lives saved!

National Campaign Daily Intention
May the mystery of the Incarnation increase our zeal for defending life.

National Campaign News
Cincinnati Archbishop Joins in Prayer at 40 Days for Life Vigil

Local Campaign News
Life Chain
Volunteers needed

Coming Events
Rosary for Life at St. Albert’s March 13th and every Friday morning at 8:30 am
Vigil of Mourning, March 13, 6:00 pm
Life Chain, March 15th, 2 – 3:30 pm
40 Hour Prayer Campaign, March 20-22 – Sacred Heart Parish, Susanville
First Saturday Rosary, April 4, 9:00 am
Allow us to announce your prayer gathering here

40 Days through Scripture
John 10 - 14

National News
Orange County Supervisors Terminate Planned Parenthood Funding
Senate-Backed Stimulus Bill Contains Birth Control Bailout for Planned Parenthood
A Gift Obama Refused
President Obama Also Kills Bush Executive Order for Adult Stem Cell Research

Audio Bits
Knights of Columbus organization interview with David Bereit — our 40 Days for Life national director — and his wife Margaret.

Get Involved
Stop Pro-Abortion Nominee David Ogden
Sign-up for Your Hours on the Vigil Calendar
Have you signed up on the Vigil Calendar?

If you’re near the abortion site and have even just a few moments to spare
– GO PRAY!
Commit to pray daily from wherever you are.

National Campaign Daily Intention

May the mystery of the Incarnation increase our zeal for defending life.
Heavenly Father, you have made the womb of each woman a very special place.
Help us to hold fast to the sanctity of this first home of humanity, remembering the wonderful mystery, that God inhabited the womb of a young woman and came forth as the savior and deliverer of the world.
We ask this in the Name of the one who came forth, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

-- Randolph Sly of the National Pro-life Religious Council

National Campaign News

Cincinnati Archbishop Joins in Prayer at 40 Days for Life Vigil
DAYTON, Ohio, March 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr, who will replace Cincinnati's Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk upon his retirement later this year, joined with 40 Days for Life vigil keepers in front of the Dayton Women's Health Center abortion clinic yesterday to pray the Rosary.

"God's greatest gift is life and what God gives, only God has the right to take away," the Archbishop said to about 200 people gathered at the abortion facility at 1401 E. Stroop Road. "We have to be concerned with all life, especially the most vulnerable among us. We're praying for the conversion of hearts today."

Among the 200 present at the 40 Days for Life vigil were 50 grade six to eight students from nearby Royalmont Academy. Commenting on Archbishop Schnurr's attendance, principal Tony Ferraro told the Dayton Daily News, "It's tremendous. He's the head of the flock. It certainly affirms (the church leadership's) commitment."

Local Campaign News

Life Chain – This Sunday March 15th
If you haven’t already received your Life Chain signs for this weekend’s Life Chain – Sunday, 2:00 – 3:30 pm, S. McCarran & S. Virginia Streets, please contact either Carol Marie (Tahoe City 530-412-1573), Shirley (Reno 530-725-1174 or 775-815-4628) or Katie (Carson City 775-721-2721). Join us as we stand witness to the Gospel truth, that Abortion Kills Children, Abortion Hurts Women and Jesus Forgives and Heals. A $1.00 per sign donation is suggested to assist us in covering our costs.

Volunteers needed!
Volunteers are needed to deliver Life Chain signs to churches. Please contact Katie at:
775-721-2721, or sending an email to: katietorvinen@gmail.com

Volunteers are also needed to make phone calls to past participants to ask them to give an hour at the abortion site again. Please contact Carol Marie at 530-412-1573 or send an email to: renotahoe@40DaysforLife.com

Coming Events

Vigil of Mourning, March 13, 6:00 pm
Join as we mourn the lives lost at the abortion site and the potential never realized through the horror of abortion. Bring your large sized votive candles and wear clothes in black to symbolize the mourning of these losses.

This is a Catholic devotion of praying for the Mercy of God, but all are welcome to join.

Life Chain, March 15, 2 – 3:30 pm
Life Chain, for those who are unfamiliar with it, is a peaceful witness to the fact that Abortion Kills Children, and Abortion Hurts Women. Women Deserve Better than Abortion, but if they don’t know the truth, they may find themselves submitting to this as their supposed best option. Additional signs state: Jesus Forgives and Heals; Adoption is the Loving Option; Lord, Forgive us and our Nation; El Aborto Mata Niño’s; Life the First Inalienable Right; and Pray to End Abortion.

For more information regarding Life Chain contact Katie at: 775-721-2721, or send an email to: katietorvinen@gmail.com

40 Hour Prayer Campaign, March 20-22 – Susanville
The Sacred Heart Parish in Susanville Catholic Church will be holding a 40 Hour Adoration for the intention of the success of the 40 Days for Life campaign. They are located at: 120 N Union St, Susanville, CA‎

First Saturday Rosary, April 4, 9:00 am
Calling all Pro-Life Catholics (and others who are interested) to pray the Rosary at the abortion site on Saturday, April 4th at 9:00 am. Join us as we pray the Gospel.

Allow us to Announce Your Prayer Gathering Here
Gather together to Pray to End Abortion! When you have plans, let us know and we’ll let others know through our updates.

40 Days through Scripture

Day 16: John 10 – 14

Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. So the sisters sent word to him, saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

-- John 11:1-4

What glory could God be intending to come from all the abortions that have occurred since 1973? We know that through Christ all things are possible, even bringing abortion to an end. We also know, that in some mysterious way, God always brings a greater good from whatever evil occurs. Let’s allow this tragedy to bring out the best in the Body of Christ, as we come together to Pray to End Abortion, as one body, across all that separates us otherwise.

To get the complete 40 Days through the New Testament list, go to: www.40DaysforLife.com/renotahoe/NewTestament, print it out and get started now.
It’s never too late to start reading the bible.

National News

Orange County Supervisors Terminate Planned Parenthood Funding
[LifeSiteNews.com] - All five members of the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to cancel a health education contract with the local Planned Parenthood, cutting about $300,000 from the group.

Each supervisor cited an objection to abortion as the motive behind the vote. Planned Parenthood is the nation's leading provider of abortions.

"Not to generalize, but when you contact a law firm that specializes in bankruptcies, they most likely will advise you to file for bankruptcy," Supervisor John Moorlach wrote in an email to constituents.

"If you go to Planned Parenthood, they are most likely to recommend their specialized surgical solution, which they provide and are compensated for, which appears to be a conflict of interest." Read more...

Senate-Backed Stimulus Bill Contains Birth Control Bailout for Planned Parenthood
[LifeNews.com] -- The so-called economic stimulus bill the Senate approved on Tuesday contains a bailout package for Planned Parenthood that will give the abortion giant the ability to make hundreds of millions of dollars selling birth control at an inflated rate. Read more...

A Gift Obama Refused
Behind the Cell Curve - Why Is the President Ignoring a Scientific Gift?
[Washington Post] As he lifted the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research Monday, President Obama proclaimed that scientific decisions now will be made "on facts, not ideology."

This sounds good, but what if there were other non-ideological facts that Obama seems to be ignoring? One fact is that since Obama began running for president, researchers have made some rather amazing strides in alternative stem cell research. Science and ethics finally fell in love, in other words, and Obama seems to have fallen asleep during the kiss. Either that, or he decided that keeping an old political promise was more important than acknowledging new developments. In the process, he missed an opportunity to prove that he is pro-science but also sensitive to the concerns of taxpayers who don't want to pay for research that requires embryo destruction.

Unfortunately, the stem cell debate has been characterized as a conflict between science (as though science is always right) and religious "kooks" (as though religious folk are never right).
Moreover, as Obama said, the majority of Americans have reached a consensus that we should pursue this research. Polling confirms as much, but most Americans, including most journalists and politicians, aren't fluent in stem cell research. It's complicated. If people "know" anything, it is that embryonic stem cells can cure diseases and that all stem cells come from fertility clinic embryos that will be discarded anyway. Neither belief is entirely true.

In fact, every single one of the successes in treating patients with stem cells thus far -- for spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis, for example -- have involved adult or umbilical cord blood stem cells, not embryonic stem cells. And though federal dollars still won't directly fund embryo destruction, federally funded researchers can obtain embryos privately created only for experimentation. Thus, taxpayers now are incentivizing a market for embryo creation and destruction. Read more

President Obama Also Kills Bush Executive Order for Adult Stem Cell Research
Washington, DC [LifeNews.com] -- President Barack Obama did more on Monday than just force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research that requires the destruction of human life. He also rescinded an executive order President Bush put into place funding adult stem cells and new research with iPS cells.

Obama also rescinded Executive Order 13435 of June 20, 2007.

President Bush put that order in place in June 2007 when he vetoed a Congressional measure that would have required embryonic stem cell research funding.

Instead of signing the bill, President Bush issued an executive order to press for more research into ways of obtaining embryonic stem cells without harming human life. The order was intended to ultimately fund research into alternatives" to destructive embryonic stem cell research such as altered nuclear transfer (ANT), "regression" (reverting differentiated cells into stem cells), and other methods.

Bush could be said to have been ahead of his time since regression, also known as direct reprogramming, has taken off and the new induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are the talk of the scientific world. Read more...

Audio Bits

Knights of Columbus organization interview with David Bereit — our 40 Days for Life national director — and his wife Margaret.
The national Knights of Columbus organization just interviewed David Bereit — our 40 Days for Life national director — and his wife Margaret for a podcast on the topic of instilling pro-life values in our children.

The 10-minute audio recording is now online at: http://tinyurl.com/an9xeq

Get Involved!

Stop Pro-Abortion Nominee David Ogden
[Susan B. Anthony List – www.sbalist.org] The Senate is set to vote on President Obama's nomination of David Ogden as the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice this afternoon.

In the past, Mr. Ogden has publicly opposed common sense restrictions on abortion. He doesn't think that parents deserve to know when their daughters head to an abortion clinic. And he has argued against current restrictions that keep your tax dollars out of abortion clinics.
Please call the Senate Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and tell your Senators to vote "No" on David W. Ogden's nomination!

Tell them that Mr. Ogden supports extreme abortion policies that the majority of Americans oppose. Pro-Lifers represent the majority of Americans, not the extremist pro-abortion agenda.

Sign-up for Your Hours on the Vigil Calendar
Please, visit the calendar, register and sign-up to join us at the sidewalk. Our Vigil Calendars are located at: www.vigilcalendar.com/renotahoe and www.vigilcalendar.com/carsoncity for Reno and Carson City respectively.

Sign up even if you’re not 100% sure that you can make that particular time.

Noise pollution continues. Bring an iPod (or similar device) or earplugs so that you may concentrate on prayer without the distraction of the foul filth Dr. Stutes continues to spew from his speakers.

Pray whether you are signed up or not. It is most important to pray.