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We pray for the conversion of abortionists and all abortion advocates.
National Campaign News
Complaints and harassment
Local Campaign News
Abortion Worker Can’t Take it Any Longer – Looking for Another Job
Carson City Abortion Site Feels the Heat
Volunteers needed
Coming Events
Weekly Monday Rosary –Carson City Abortion Site, 10:00 am
Rosary for Life at St. Albert’s April 3rd and every Friday morning at 8:30 am
First Saturday Rosary, April 4, 9:00 am
Wrap-Up Rally – Reno Life Chain, April 5, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Allow us to announce your prayer gathering here
40 Days through Scripture
Hebrews 2 - 10
National News
Barack Obama and NARAL, Two Peas in a Pod
Video Vignette
Happy Birthday - Flipsyde
Get Involved
Dawn Johnsen's Top 3 Outrageous Abortion Quotes
Be Heard Project Defends Conscience Clause
Keep Conscience Protection for Healthcare Workers – Deadline April 9th
Send a RED envelope
Sign-up for Your Hours 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.
We pray for the conversion of abortionists and all abortion advocates.
"Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow."
God is just.
Inscribed around the inside of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, are the immortal words of Thomas Jefferson: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." If the deist, Jefferson, knew in the depths of his being that God is just, how much more ought we Christians to reflect on this profound truth? The justice of God, like his holiness and his purity, encourages us to seek justice for all people. It is the evil deeds and wrong, selfish attitudes of our modern society that have led to the cavalier acceptance of abortion and euthanasia. But, as Jefferson also said, "his justice will not sleep forever."
God is calling us today to seek justice, to encourage the oppressed, and to defend the orphans and widows of our society. It is a noble calling! It is one which every true believer, every God-fearing man and woman, should heed with no hesitation and no reluctance. To follow the God of justice and truth is to stand unequivocally for the right to life of everyone, especially the unborn, the physically disabled, and the terminally ill. God's word through the prophet Isaiah is as relevant in today's 21st century world as it was in Isaiah's 8th century BC world. May God's grace help us to defend the unborn's right to life as well as that of the already born.
Presbyterians Pro-life and
National Pro-life Religious Council
Complaints and harassment
The abortion industry calls itself "pro-choice."
But so often we see that, in reality, their stance is NO choice -- and if you publicly disagree with them, they'll call the police to try and harass you.
A 15-year-old participant in the 40 Days for Life vigil in San Francisco has found that out for himself -- twice!
The California Catholic Daily shares the story of Will Campbell, a high school student who was outside a Planned Parenthood abortion center praying with seven other people, including his parents.
Will had his iPod with him and a small portable speaker. He was playing a pro-life rap song called "Happy Birthday" (yes, "pro-life rap song" may sound like a contradiction, but there are actually several tunes out there that fit this description).
"Many people walking down the street, hearing the music, gave thumbs-up and thank-yous," he told the reporter. "People going into the clinic obviously were trying to ignore the music, but kept looking over to us praying." But not the clinic staff! They saw fit to call San Francisco's finest because of what Will was doing.
"The Planned Parenthood escorts immediately started jotting down notes, making phone calls, and moving around anxiously," said Will. The escorts seemed excited that they finally had something to complain about.
When the police arrived they simply asked us if we were playing music to ourselves. We said yes and offered to turn it down repeatedly if we needed to, but the police officers just told us to enjoy ourselves," he said, adding, "the two officers thought it was no big deal."
A week later, it happened again!
"We started playing the music again, and the escorts called the police," said Will. "But this time the officer did nothing but give me a thumbs-up."
You know what, Will? There are many others around the country giving you a big thumbs-up too!
You can read Will's whole story here: http://tinyurl.com/dlhetw
Local Campaign News
Abortion Worker Can’t Take it Any Longer – Looking for Another Job
The other day at the sidewalk, those in prayer on the sidewalk were approached by one of the employees of the abortion site and told that she was looking for another job. She just can’t take it any longer. She was invited to join them in prayer but she indicated that she needed to get back inside to work, but would they please pray that she find a good position so she can quit. She also told the vigil volunteers that their prayers make a difference in what happens inside.
When there are prayers happening outside the tone of what happens inside changes. Everyone is aware of their presence, and she for one, can no longer pretend that what is happening is OK.
Other campaigns have stepped up and assisted local abortion facility workers when they have finally decided to leave the abortion industry. If anyone knows of a job that we could offer to this young woman please let us know. We’d like to do everything in our power to help her get away from this place of death.
Carson City Abortion Site Feels the Heat
The Tahoe Women’s Care Ob/Gyn & Abortion facility in Carson City has been feeling the heat of our presence. We know of at least 3 patients who attend St. Gal’s in Gardnerville who have left the practice once they learned that abortions are performed by the practice. Most recently, a woman who was a patient there, went to the desk and told them she would no longer be their patient. When the receptionist offered to give her the necessary forms to release her medical records, she informed them that the only form she wanted from them was the form to tell them why she was leaving their practice. She then proceeded to put a long note in writing as to exactly what she thought of an OB/Gyn performing abortions as a part of their regular practice.
This wonderful woman has ensured that they fully appreciate the reason they have lost her as a patient. And these women are just the ones we have heard about because they all happen to attend one church in town. What of the others we don’t know about? By being present at the sidewalk, we are informing their patients about what is being done behind closed doors. Won’t you please take an hour during their regular business hours and stand in witness of the lives lost there? With enough patients lost they could rethink their commitment to performing abortions.
And if you ever wondered if what we’ve been doing has been making a difference, well, certainly in the last 2 days the Lord has given us an answer, Loud and Clear. Lives are being saved, people are leaving the business and we are costing them the money that motivates the doctors to do what they do. All Praise and Glory goes to God!
Thanks to Eddie Montanucci for providing us with this great photo of the vigil in Carson City.
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
Weekly Monday Rosary –Carson City Abortion Site, 10:00 am
Members of St. Theresa of Avila and St. Gals parishes invite you to join them as they gather on the sidewalk to pray the Rosary, for the intention of bringing abortion to an end, at the Tahoe Woman’s Care Center and elsewhere through-out our region and the nation. This past week they had over 30 standing together in prayer. The Carson City abortion vigil is held at the sidewalk at the entrance of 973 Mica Drive.
Rosary for Life at St. Albert’s April 3rd at 8:30 am
Join us as we pray the Gospel every Friday.
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.
Wrap-Up Rally – Reno Life Chain, April 5, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Join us as we once again take our message of Love and Life to the streets in a Life Chain Event, this time in downtown Reno, on Sunday, April 5 from 2:00 – 3:30 pm. Our Midway Rally / Life Chain was a success, as we stood in prayerful witness calling upon those who drove by to consider that all life deserves protection, from conception until natural death.
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 34 - Hebrews 2 - 10Take care, brothers, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God. Encourage yourselves daily while it is still “today,” so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin. We have become partners of Christ if only we hold the beginning of reality firm until the end, for it is said:
“Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
‘Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion.’”
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.
Barack Obama and NARAL, Two Peas in a Pod
[www.nrlc.org] Last year when I tried talking to good people thoroughly intoxicated with candidate Barack Obama, I searched everywhere for the equivalent of hot coffee to sober them up. I won't go through the list of items at length because you know them as well as I do, if not better.
But I learned that what success I did have never had anything to do with what would seem to be deal-breakers for people who considered themselves "moderates," even pro-life…
…But I eventually did find there were two remarks that did give these people pause. The first were his comments at a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Referring to his two daughters. Obama told the assembly, "If they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." Using his single-digit-aged daughters as props did not go over well with most folks. And more than a few people asked doesn't Obama realize that the "mistake" he proposes to eliminate would be his own grandchild?
The other was actually a one-word response to a pro-abortion advocacy group's question: "Does Sen. Obama support continuing federal funding for crisis pregnancy centers?" Brief as the Obama campaign's response was, it spoke volumes: "No." Read further
Will Campbell said the song he was playing is called "Happy Birthday" by the rap artist Flipsyde. To see a video of the song that so upset the Planned Parenthood escorts,
Dawn Johnsen's Top 3 Outrageous Abortion Quotes [www.sbalist.org]:
1. “The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies reality…and others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more ‘consent’ to pregnancy than pedestrians ‘consent’ to being struck by drunk drivers.’”
2. “The woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not wholly her own: the state has conscripted her body for its own ends. Thus, abortion restrictions ‘reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.’”
3. “Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state’s asserted interest.”
Please write to your Senators today and oppose Dawn Johnsen’s nomination to the Office of Legal Counsel.
For more on Dawn Johnsen please read Congressman Steve King’s (R-IA) great article on Townhall.
Be Heard Project Defends Conscience Clause
Find details HERE
Sign the online ''Petition to Protect Pro-Life Doctors.''
Cardinal George Urges Catholics to Tell Administration: Keep Conscience Protections for Health Care Workers
Find details HERE .
The deadline to submit comments is April 9th.
Your prompt attention to this matter is greatly appreciated!
Send a RED Envelope on March 31st
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. Details
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.
Pray whether you are signed up or not. It is most important to pray.
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