Action Needed! 40 Days Under Attack
National Campaign Daily Intention
Pray that as young couples or single moms choose life for their child, the church will come alongside them physically, emotionally, and spiritually to help bear their burdens.
Table of Contents
- National Campaign Daily Intention
- National Campaign News
- Action Needed! 40 Days Under Attack
- Local Campaign News
- Don’t Forget About Fasting
- Door to Door Campaign, Help us Expand the Campaign through-out Reno
- Coming Events
- A Vigil of Mourning – Tuesday, Oct 13, 6:00 pm
- Pro-Life Solidarity Day – Oct 20, All Day
- Allow us to Announce Your Pro-Life Prayer Gathering Here
- 40 Days through Scripture
- Day 16: John 10 – 14
- National News
- Bioethicists, Worthwhile Lives, and Health Care "Reform"
- International News
- Ireland Adopts Lisbon Treaty but Pro-life Guarantees Remain Suspect
- Video Vignette
- Is This What Qualifies as Debate at McGill?
- Get Involved
- Contact Chicago’s Mayor Dailey – No Bubble Zone!
- Californian’s - Ask Governor Schwarzenegger to Veto Bill to include Embryonic Stem Cell info in K-12 curriculum
- Support 40 Days for Life with a Donation through our Website
- Campaign Materials
- Two Hearts Catholic Books & Gifts to Carry 40 Days for Life Items
- Free 40 Days for Life Items - Bumper Sticker, Bracelet & More
National Campaign Daily Intention
Pray that as young couples or single moms choose life for their child, the church will come alongside them physically, emotionally, and spiritually to help bear their burdens.
Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.— Galatians 6:1-2
Restoring those who are broken from sexual sin and who desire to live life differently—a life focused on Christ—is a burden the church must share. What an awesome opportunity for a spiritually mature woman to come alongside a single mom as a mentor and friend.
- A regular time together praying and studying God’s Word will help her mature in her walk with the Lord.
- Allowing her the opportunity to observe life as you live it—meal preparation, family time, and providing wholesome conversation and wise counsel on a frequent basis—can provide a teaching moment that will benefit her for a lifetime.
- Introducing her to a small group or class in the church where she and her baby are welcomed and plugged in will be vital to her restoration.
These are just a few examples of things the body of Christ can do. Staying connected with young couples or single moms who have chosen life should continue beyond the celebration of the child’s birth if we truly desire to fulfill the law of Christ in bearing one another’s burdens.
You will find it is not a burden after all, but a tremendous blessing as your family line extends to include these precious souls as part of your own.
Carmen Pate
Co-host
“Point of View” Talk Show
National Campaign News
Action Needed! 40 Days Under Attack
The National campaign reported on how our right to Free Speech is being challenged in Chicago:
**IMPORTANT!** Please read this message in its entirety and take action immediately!!
In a direct attack on 40 Days for Life and the rights of local pro-life sidewalk counselors, the Chicago City Council on Wednesday passed a new ordinance intended to cripple 40 Days for Life and silence pro-life free speech within a 50 foot "Bubble Zone" around abortion facilities.
The new city ordinance will not only block sidewalk counseling and pro-life signs within 50 feet of all entrances to an abortion facility, it would also prevent any pro-lifer from being within eight feet of an abortion customer without getting that person's permission. Anyone found in violation could be fined up to $500.
The law is such a clear violation of First Amendment Constitutional rights that even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) -- no friend of the pro-life movement -- sided with local pro-life interests in opposing aspects of the ordinance. …
… ** WE CAN STILL DEFEAT THIS BUBBLE ZONE **
Before this bad law goes into effect, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has to approve it. We have a narrow window of time to convince the mayor to VETO the Bubble Zone ordinance.
PLEASE call Mayor Daley's office immediately at 312-744-3300 to say: "Mayor Daley, please don't restrict freedom of speech in Chicago. VETO the Bubble Zone ordinance!"
So many calls have already been flooding into the mayor's office that they've set up an automated system for the public to speak out on the Bubble Zone. If you get the automated system, here are the steps to follow:
- CALL Mayor Daley's office at 312-744-3300
- PRESS 1 to submit your opinion on the Bubble Zone ordinance
- Then PRESS 2 to vote NO on the Bubble Zone
To send the mayor a fax instead: 312-744-8045
If we don't push back hard against this clearly unconstitutional law, Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry will feel empowered to trample on the rights of pro-life free speech all across the country. …
To read the entire national update go to: http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=342. This bubble zone law is similar to the one in place in Oakland, which was used to convict Pastor Walter Hoye. We must work hard, before these laws are put into place, to let our views been seen. It is easier to stop these laws before they are enacted than to fight each one, all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.
Local Campaign News
Don’t Forget About Fasting
While much of the focus of these updates has been on our Constant Vigil effort, we must not forget about the Prayer and Fasting that is happening away from the sidewalk. Towards that end, I thought you’d be interested in learning that at least 2 of our local prayer volunteers has taken the drastic step of also fasting on Bread and Lemonade for the duration of these 40 Days. The fast is a compromise of a Lemonade only fast that Pastor Walter Hoye talked about during his visit to Tahoe this past August. One of our local volunteers say she felt drawn to do something drastic in response to God’s call to make a difference, but didn’t feel called to go to a liquids only diet for a full 40 Days. Therefore she determined to add a home-made, multi-grain bread to ensure that she was getting a complete protein and fiber component to her diet.
Her friend, who had also confided that she was fasting, found that changing her bread recipe to this multi-grain recipe made all the difference in ensuring she had the energy necessary to go about the business she has at hand. The recipes they have used can be found on our website, at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/PrayerFasting Perhaps you are called to join in this radical fast. It’s not too late to get started.
Can you go spend an hour at the sidewalk tomorrow and then send me an email telling about your experiences? To register for the hours when you’ll be at the sidewalk, go to: http://www.vigilcalendar.com/renotahoe I thank you in advance for your assistance with this effort.
Send your impressions of your time at the sidewalk to renotahoe@40DaysforLife.com.
By the way, our Life Chain page now actually has new pictures, ready to be viewed. To see them, go to: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/LifeChain
Door to Door Campaign, Help us Expand the Campaign through-out Reno
Are you willing to join us as we go door to door, inviting the community to Pray to End Abortion? We will be going out next Saturday afternoon and we need your help. Please contact Carol Marie if you would like to participate. Reply to renotahoe@40DaysforLife.com.
Coming Events
- A Vigil of Mourning – Tuesday, Oct 13, 6:00 pm
- On the thirteenth of each month, a group gathers on the sidewalk outside the abortion site to remember the lives that will never be lived, the potential never realized because of the tragedy of abortion. Come join them, dressed in mourning, as they pray for God’s Mercy. You are welcome to bring a large votive candle.
- Pro-Life Solidarity Day – Oct 20, All Day
- [Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust] "The Survivors challenge students of all ages to be bold advocates for the 3,500 preborn who are murdered everyday in our country. You have an opportunity to stand with your fellow classmates and an obligation to be a voice for the voiceless. By standing in united solidarity across the world, students everywhere can identify with the preborn children, and our silence will proclaim 'stop killing our generation!' We can and must be warriors for the preborn!" Read the article from Survivors regarding this day long event.
- Allow us to Announce Your Pro-Life 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 (including: John 11:1-4)
- 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.”
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
Bioethicists, Worthwhile Lives, and Health Care "Reform"
[National Right to Life] You'd think by now that no matter how front-loaded the bias is in a story, I'd not be shocked. But the lead paragraphs in Cathy Lynn Grossman's "Life and death: Hospital ethics panels help families decide" in Thursday's USA Today is a real corker.
"An infant is born with no functioning brain. A teen is ravaged in a car wreck. A 90-year-old with dementia and pneumonia lies unconscious in intensive care.Medical and moral decisions must be made. But there's no written directive for guidance. Family and physicians disagree. What now?"
Is it really even marginally fair to talk about medical decision-making in the context of the most extreme imaginable cases? Is that lead intended to engage the reader in a thoughtful dialogue or to persuade her to take off her thinking cap?
Newspapers and news magazines have crusaded for advanced directives for decades. National Right to Life offers a counterbalance—a life-affirming "Will to Live," which makes clear what you would want done to take care of you, not what you wouldn't want.
Typically, the ethos that runs through most quoted sources in most stories is that these "experts" understand what makes a life "worthy" and ought to have a larger role in end-of-life decision-making, especially when confronted with overly-emotional family. …
… To be fair, in this and Grossman's second story, she presents other views. Grossman quotes one self-described "bedside ethicist," Robert Orr, who told her what usually happens is that "we continue treatment unless we believe it causes unrelenting and unmanageable pain -- or it's futile."
"But I hate that word 'futile,'" Orr adds. "Do you mean no treatment or therapy will work at all? Or that there's just a 1% chance something would help? Who makes the call? Or does it mean that while it might prevent death, the worth of the life it provides is questionable? How does the patient define 'worthwhile'?"
These articles are written in the context of the ongoing health care "reform" debate. … Read the Entire Article.
International News
Ireland Adopts Lisbon Treaty but Pro-life Guarantees Remain Suspect
[C-Fam] Irish voters overwhelmingly accepted the Lisbon Treaty on October 2nd after they were given guarantees that their pro-life and pro-family laws would be protected. While some pro-life and pro-family voices hail the guarantees as a step forward, many analysts argue that the nature and extent of those guarantees are far from certain and that the “yes” vote will eventually lead to intense pressure on Ireland from the European Union (EU) to liberalize its laws and policies on abortion and homosexual “marriage.” In the midst of a severe economic downturn, Irish citizens voted 67% to 33% to adopt the Treaty of Lisbon after rejecting it only a year ago amidst fears about the erosion of national sovereignty on social issues as well as taxation and national security. Read more
Video Vignette
Is This What Qualifies as Debate at McGill?
[LifeSiteNews] A pro-life presentation at McGill University erupted in chaos Tuesday after a mob of pro-abortion students were allowed to silence the pro-life message while university officials made meek attempts to intervene until the designated time ran out.
Ironically, following the event the pro-abortion protesters complained that their 'right to assemble' was violated.
The videotaped presentation, entitled 'Echoes of the Holocaust,' was given by the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform's Jose Ruba and hosted by McGill University's Choose Life club. The talk aimed to draw a parallel between past genocidal atrocities and abortion. The entire ordeal is now available on YouTube.
As Ruba began to speak, a woman in the audience stood up and told him that he was not welcome. A group then began banging on desks and shouting, "Please go! Please go!"
After Ruba explained to the protesters that he would like to hear their side of the debate, one of them shot back, "It's not a debate!" Another told Ruba to "f**k off!" and another said, "We don't need hate speech at our university."
Ruba began displaying images on the screen, prompting the mob to take over the front of the room and block them. Smiling and laughing as they prevented Ruba from speaking, they made noise in a variety of ways, such as singing children's songs and telling jokes. At one point, they even sang 'Happy Birthday' to abortion, in English and French.
Security asked the protesters to be quiet or leave, but when the protesters refused, security backed off. They intervened occasionally as protesters stood on tables, grabbed at Ruba's written materials, or fiddled with equipment.
The police eventually arrived (see video 8 of 19), and after speaking with the students, the officer gave them five minutes to stand down or leave. Two were arrested and the rest joined the audience, mostly gathering to one side. Read more here.
Is this what constitutes open and honest debate these days, is this the “choice” that is supposedly promised?
Get Involved!
Contact Chicago’s Mayor Dailey – No Bubble Zone!
- CALL Mayor Daley's office at 312-744-3300
- PRESS 1 to submit your opinion on the Bubble Zone ordinance
- Then PRESS 2 to vote NO on the Bubble Zone
To send the mayor a fax instead: 312-744-8045
Californian’s - Ask Governor Schwarzenegger to Veto Bill to include Embryonic Stem Cell info in K-12 curriculum
Please call Governor Schwarzenegger 916-445-2841 and ask him to VETO SB 471, which would include incorporate stem cell information in the K-12 curriculum. Something to the effect of the following:
- You’re concerned that it will not be balanced information, which would appropriately address the very legitimate ethical and moral questions about adult vs. embryonic stem cell research
- At a time when the state is cutting public education and students are already struggling to read and do math at grade level, this is additional information that schools do not need to be mandated to provide. They should stick to the basics
I believe that his deadline to sign bills is sometime this weekend...so this is a really late request. But, if you have a chance...it might be good for him to hear from as many people as possible.
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Our next expenses are to have additional Pray and Fasting Commitment Brochures printed, in each of our three versions, Marian, non-Marian, and Spanish. Are you ready to step up and contribute to the effort? We are now able to accept donations through our website. Please help us fund this successful campaign. Donate Now
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