March 25, 2009
Day 29 – 237 lives saved!
National Campaign Daily Intention
We pray for the grace to be strong when others ridicule or oppose us.
National Campaign News
Stories of God’s Amazing Blessings
Local Call to Action
Nevada legislature Joint Resolution AJR 3 to ratify the ERA
Local Campaign News
Notes from the sidewalk
Volunteers needed
Coming Events
Rosary for Life at St. Albert’s March 27th and every Friday morning at 8:30 am
First Saturday Rosary, April 4, 9:00 am
Allow us to announce your prayer gathering here
40 Days through Scripture
II Corinthians 10 – Galatians 4
National News
Attorney General Opens Probe into Arizona Planned Parenthood, Abortion Abuse
International News
EU Countries Must Use Embryos Instead of Animals for Testing: Proposed Directive
Video Vignette
Development of the unborn baby
Get Involved
Keep Conscience Protection for Healthcare Workers – Deadline April 9th
Send a RED envelope
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.
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
We pray for the grace to be strong when others ridicule or oppose us.
Anyone who does not take up his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
Anyone who does not take up his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
-- Luke 14:27
We experience this, in particular, when we are out on the streets, where people are not expecting the pro-life message and where they did not go to hear it.
We must remember to never take the opposition personally. When people ridicule or yell at us, we might get a guilty feeling or be tempted to think we did something wrong. We did not. The insults are not being hurled at us personally, but rather at the truth of what we are standing for, and at the demands of the moral law.
There are many who are trying to run away from those demands, or who have managed to tuck the abortion problem away into a distant corner of their minds where it can no longer disturb them. By standing publicly for the cause of life, we have short-circuited that denial and frustrated those efforts to ignore the issue. Therefore, some will be angry, perhaps not fully realizing why.
Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life
and President, National Pro-life Religious Council
National Director, Priests for Life
and President, National Pro-life Religious Council
National Campaign News
Stories of God's amazing blessings:
Elizabeth was staying later than usual during her prayer shift at a 40 Days for Life vigil site in Indianapolis, Indiana. The extra prayers are certainly needed at this particular abortion center.
According to Eileen, the local coordinator in Indianapolis, "the owner of this center is Dr. Martin Haskell of Ohio," she said. "Dr. Haskell is the inventor of partial-birth abortion and is proud of the quick turn-around time" at this location.
But Elizabeth had seen a woman walk into the facility -- and leave a short time later. She was so greatly relieved when the woman walked up to her and said, "I changed my mind."
Those same words were also heard recently at the 40 Days for Life vigil in St. Louis, Missouri.
Maria tells me a woman brought her pregnant daughter to Planned Parenthood. But while they were inside, they got a surprise. "She found out she was pregnant with twins," she said. They left Planned Parenthood, and told the volunteers praying on the sidewalk she was keeping her babies.
A short time later, another pair arrived at the same Planned Parenthood -- a woman and her daughter-in-law.
The mother-in-law was against the abortion, but the younger woman was insistent. A bit later, though, the mother-in-law's face was beaming. "They told us she was keeping the baby," Maria said.
"I told her she had saved herself a lifetime of regret. Her mother-in-law told us then that she herself knew what it was like -- and had told the young mom the exact same thing."
Local Call to Action
Urgent enough to bear repeating…
Three Minute ACTION for Wednesday:
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
March 26, 3:45 pm, Carson City Legislature will have its first hearing on ERA. A vocal, large, RESPECTFUL response is necessary to stop this bad legislation. Here are a few ways to help defeat this legislation:
- Click on this LINK to register your opinion on AJR3 (Opposition). If possible, leave a comment.
- Be sure to leave your name and address because this info shows legislators how many individuals in their district support and oppose this measure.
- Forward this e-mail to ten people and encourage them to take action.
For more information, visit the Nevada Right to Life website. CLICK HERE.
Why is a pro-life campaign asking you to oppose the Equal Rights Amendment?
The ERA issue of concern to pro-lifers is that:
The Equal Rights Amendment
Equals Abortion without Limits
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Sounds harmless enough, but in 1998 warnings from pro-life advocates were proven correct. ERA is simply a back door means of guaranteeing abortion on demand, for any reason, at taxpayers’ expense.
A 5-0 ruling, handed down by the New Mexico Supreme Court, found that the state's refusal to fund elective abortions violated the state ERA. The court ordered the state to pay for all so-called "medically necessary" abortions. Within the context of abortion law, "medically necessary" is a legal term of art that simply means that the abortion was performed by a licensed professional.
Thus, the order actually requires the state to pay for abortion on demand for Medicaid-eligible women.
The ruling was based entirely on the New Mexico state ERA, which says, "Equality of rights under law shall not be denied on account of the sex of any person."
Another fact to consider, whenever an amendment is offered that works to eliminate the abortion issue from ERA legislation, it is always defeated by the same people who claim the legislation has nothing to do with abortion.
For a more detailed analysis, CLICK HERE
Local Campaign News
Notes from the sidewalk
We need YOUR stories from the sidewalk. Please contact Carol Marie at 530-412-1573 or renotahoe@40DaysforLife.com.
Volunteers needed!
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
Rosary for Life at St. Albert’s March 27th at 8:30 am
Join us as we pray the Gospel.
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 29 II Corinthians 10 – Galatians 4
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows, he who is blessed forever that I do not lie. At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus, in order to seize me, but I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows, he who is blessed forever that I do not lie. At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus, in order to seize me, but I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.
-- II Corinthians 11:30-33
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
Attorney General Opens Probe into Arizona Planned Parenthood, Abortion Abuse
Phoenix, AZ [LifeNews.com] -- The Arizona Attorney General has reportedly opened an investigation into Planned Parenthood after pro-life advocates released another video tape showing staffers at the abortion business covering up a potential case of sexual abuse. The Arizona footage follows video from Indiana showing the same thing.
As LifeNews.com highlighted last week, two more Planned Parenthood centers were caught on camera with staff hearing from college students posing as 15-year-old girls.
Lila Rose and Jackie Stollar told employees at one abortion center that Stollar needed an abortion because her adult "boyfriend" had impregnated her, giving his age as 27 years-old.
Arizona state law requires law enforcement to be contacted immediately if an adult-child relationship is revealed. Failure to report incidents of sexual abuse are punishable under this law. Continue
International News
[LifeSiteNews.com, BRUSSELS, March 24, 2009] - A proposed new directive from the European Commission (EC) will drastically restrict the use of animals in laboratory testing, and certain toxicology tests on animals will be permitted only after alternative methods, including research on tissue taken from human embryos, has proved fruitless, reports the Catholic Herald.
In its coverage of the issue, the Herald quotes a report accompanying the EC directive that says, "The establishment of human embryonic stem cells in 1998 raised hopes in many research areas, including the development of alternatives to animal experiments." The report says that human embryonic research is a "powerful alternative to animal tests."
The directive instructs member states to adopt "the 3Rs principles: Replacement, Reduction and Refinement" to animal testing. If the directive is approved by MEPs next month it will be binding on all 27 EU member states.
Pro-life advocates at the EU were taken aback by the proposal. Pat Buckley, the European officer of the UK's Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, told LifeSiteNews.com, "This is a shocking proposal and yet another instance of the appalling lack of respect for unborn human life in the EU institutions."
"Animals should never be treated cruelly but to propose that human embryos should be used for research instead is utterly reprehensible," Buckley added. Continue
Video Vignette
Development of the unborn baby
Get Involved!
Cardinal George Urges Catholics to Tell Administration: Keep Conscience Protections for Health Care Workers [USCCB, WASHINGTON] —Cardinal Francis George is urging Catholics in the United States to tell the Obama Administration to retain Health and Human Services regulations governing conscience protections for health care workers.
This is vital to keep the government from “moving our country from democracy to despotism,” said Cardinal George, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He delivered the message via video available on the Web at http://www.usccb.org/conscienceprotection/ and on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NoCRwMqVzQ
The deadline to submit comments is April 9th. Your prompt attention to this matter is greatly appreciated!
Send a RED Envelope
Red Envelope Day - March 31, 2009
Get a red envelope. You can buy them at Kinkos, or at party supply stores.
On the front, address it to:
President Barack ObamaOn the back, write the following message.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington , D.C. 20500
This envelope represents one child who died because of an abortion.
It is empty because the life that was taken is now unable to be a part of our world. Responsibility Begins at Conception.
Mail the envelopes out March 31st, 2009.
Don't forget to put your name and address on it or they will just pitch them out!
Encourage others to participate. It would be wonderful if we could send 50 million red envelopes, one for every child who died [only in the U.S.] before having a chance to live…
It may seem that those who believe abortion is wrong are in a minority. It may seem like we have no voice and it's shameful to even bring it up. Let us show our President and the world that the voices of those of us who do not believe abortion is acceptable are not silent and must be heard.
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.
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