Day 32 – Prayer Volunteer Meets Abortion Survivor

Table of Contents

• Local Campaign News
  • Prayer Volunteer Meets Abortion Survivor
  • Excessive and Wasteful Water Usage
  • Please Remember to Stay on the Sidewalk or Across the Street
  • Have You Encountered Disturbing the Peace or a Noise Nuisance?
  • Video Cameras Recommended
• National Campaign News
  • 352 Babies Saved
• Vigil Calendar
  • Reno Adopt A Day Calendar
  • Volunteers Needed Sat 7-10 am & 5-7 pm; Sun 7-8 am, 2-5 pm – 5:30-7 pm; & Mon 7-8 am & 5:30 – 7 pm
• 40 Days through Scripture
  • Day 32 - 1 Thessalonians 3 – I Timothy 5
• National News
  • Pro-Life Women's Group Runs TV Ad in Districts of Five Wavering Dems
• Take Action
  • High Priority U. S. House Members to Contact
• Video Vignette
  • Pro-Life Students: Speak Out Against Tax-Payer Funded Abortions
• Abortion 101
  • Abortions Are Only Legal in the First Trimester, Right?
• Coming Events
  • Jericho March to Close the Campaign Daily 3/22 – 3/28
  • Allow us to Announce Your Pro-Life Prayer Gathering Here
• Support the Effort!
  • Support 40 Days for Life with a Donation through our Website

Local Campaign News

Prayer Volunteer Meets Abortion Survivor

“I wanted to stop and commend you for standing out here.”   This is how a conversation began with a woman who drove up to the prayer volunteer at the sidewalk early Friday evening.   She had her teenage daughter sitting next to her in the passenger’s seat.   When she was pregnant, the doctors insisted that due to health reasons, she absolutely needed to abort her child.   As frightening as it was, she refused and continued to carry her child to term.   This baby whom the doctors wanted to abort is now a beautiful, healthy, happy young woman whose life has meaning.   She’s quite grateful that her mother insisted on allowing her to have life, against the advice of her doctor.    She survived the abortion that never happened, thanks to her loving mother.   They have been given a flyer of information regarding our campaign, so I hope and pray that they join us as we Pray to End Abortion.

Before they arrived at the sidewalk we were once again blessed by the presence of Fr. Jason and Brother Luis.   We had as many as 8 people present at one time, and another turn-over in volunteers again resulted in 6 people present praying.   The number of volunteers praying at any given time, and the consistency of the coverage continues to grow.   But we can still use your help, as the prayers of the righteous are answered, and we know that if we are persistent in our requests, they will be heard and answered.

When you come to the sidewalk at 5915 Tyrone Rd (for directions, go to: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/westend ), please bring some of the referrals to local pregnancy resources that we provide to offer to the women who come to the abortion site.   If you haven’t seen this handout, please download a copy from our website.   There is a link to it located on the team page, or you can go to it directly at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/resources .   These resources provide the women with the opportunity to fully explore their choices before they end up at a dead end.

If you need any brochures to assist the women you meet at the sidewalk choose life or to promote the campaign, please contact Carol Marie at 530-412-1573 or come to the Life Chain event on Sunday to request your copies.

Before you go to the sidewalk to pray and/or sidewalk counsel, please sign our Statement of Peace, located at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/statementofpeace .    Those who participate in 40 Days for Life are asked to commit to being peaceful, prayerful and lawful while we are at the sidewalk.

Excessive and Wasteful Water Usage

The sprinkler system in the front of the property at the abortion site has been brought back into functioning condition. The Truckee Meadows Water Authority closely monitors the use of water, including the water used on landscapes in the area of the abortion site, located at 5915 Tyrone Road. According to their website, businesses and residences are to follow the same watering schedule, with odd numbered addresses allowed to water only on the following days – Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The use of water is controlled based on a series of rules, Rule 2 addresses the Excessive Use of Water and Water Waste.

See http://www.tmh2o.com/docs/Customer_Services/rules/Rule02_20100217.pdf As can be seen in the definitions here, “Excessive” relative to the application of water means an immoderate or unreasonable consumption which results in: water running into any street, road, parking lot, gutter, drainway, … in a steady stream or flow, or collecting in pools or in a depressed area to a depth of one inch or more or … applying … in a manner contrary to any water conservation regulation, policy, rule, condition, directive, or request that has been issued to the Customers of the public water system or that has been given general public notice by the Authority.

The Truckee Meadows Water Authority website states the following:

Report Water Waste in Your Community

Truckee Meadows Water Authority is serious about preventing water waste. You are the eyes of the community so we need your help. If you see water being wasted, please let us know by filling out the form below. A big part of our success in responding to water waste is very specific information concerning the time, day and location.

If you encounter wasteful use of our precious water resources, please go to:

http://tmh20.com//conservation/assigned_day_watering/report_waste to submit a report. If possible, take photos of what you encounter, especially as it pertains to water flowing on the street and into the storm drain. Note that failure to provide adequate information is the primary reason that these reports cannot be followed up with corrective action.

Please Remember to Stay on the Sidewalk or Across the Street

Just a quick reminder that we don’t want to be in the street when we come to pray. Please stay either on the sidewalk or on the dirt across the street when you come to pray. We also are not allowed to block vehicles entering or exiting the driveway of the abortion site, nor can we block pedestrians on the sidewalk. Thank you for your continued cooperation. If you are asked to move by a police officer, please comply immediately and ask for his name and badge number. We’d like to keep track of any encounters between those who are volunteering at the sidewalk and the Reno Police department, so please email us at 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or call us at 530-412-1573.

Have You Encountered Disturbing the Peace or a Noise Nuisance?

Have you been to the sidewalk and been subjected to a noise nuisance while there? Did you know that the City of Reno has a code that specifically addresses disturbing the peace and public nuisances?

Sec. 8.12.020. - Disturbing the peace.

It is unlawful for any person to commit a breach of the peace. Such breach shall consist of:

1. Fighting or challenging to fight; or
2. Conduct or words calculated to provoke violence or a violation of the law by the person to whom the conduct or words are addressed; or
3. Making annoying, lewd, malicious or threatening telephone calls; or
4. Willfully and unreasonably subjecting a person or neighborhood to any noise which is likely to disturb the peace of persons of reasonable and ordinary sensibilities.

(Code 1966, § 11.12.090; Ord. No. 5047, § 1, 9-28-99; Ord. No. 5387, § 1, 11-5-02)

And further on in the code regarding Nuisances:

Nuisance or nuisance activity. That which is injurious to health, or injurious, indecent and offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or is against the interest of public morals, decency, safety, peace and order, including, but not limited to, an attractive nuisance, a nuisance per se, criminal activity, the presence of debris, litter, graffiti, garbage, rubble, abandoned, unregistered or junk vehicles or junk appliances, curfew violations, or any other activity, behavior or conduct defined by the council or Nevada Revised Statutes to constitute a public nuisance. Nuisance or nuisance activity includes unreasonably creating, allowing, or engaging in any activity, conduct or use of property that subjects a person or neighborhood to noise which is likely to disturb the peace of persons of reasonable and ordinary sensibilities. [Reference NRS 268; NRS 268.412; 1997]

Sec. 8.22.035. - Nuisances per se defined.

Any of the following conditions are a nuisance per se as constituting conditions which annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health or comfort of any considerable number of persons:

(1) An unsafe or dangerous building; …

(25) Any other condition which creates a blight to adjoining property, the neighborhood or the city, or a nuisance, health, safety or fire hazard identified as such under the conditions set forth in the International Fire Code, International Building Code, Uniform Abatement of Dangerous Buildings Code, Washoe County Solid Waste Management Code, or any other Reno Municipal Code or Washoe County Code or the Nevada Revised Statutes.

While we need to be accountable for our own behavior and ensure that we ourselves do not in any way cross over from prayer and an exercise of our Free Speech to being a public nuisance, we should also be protected from those who seek to disturb our peace or use noise as a nuisance towards us. The Reno Police Department Non-Emergency number is: 775-334-2677. I recommend you program it into your cell phone. If you do contact the police for an incident of Disturbing the Peace or a Noise Nuisance, please also contact us at 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or 530-412-1573 and let us know how your call was handled. Please get the name of the officer with whom you spoke, as well as their badge number. If a report was taken (this is what is required for them to follow-up on the matter) be certain to ask for the case number and provide that to us as well.

Video Cameras Recommended

It has been recommended, and I’d like to encourage you to consider this recommendation, that those coming to the sidewalk bring a video camera when you come to pray. Place the camera in your car, or on a tripod on the sidewalk, to videotape you while you are standing in prayer. It is prudent that we have a video record of all that occurs at the sidewalk, as we gather peacefully, prayerfully and lawfully.

To sign up on the vigil calendar go to: www.vigilcalendar.com/renotahoe or for the Carson City vigil site, go to: www.vigilcalendar.com/carsoncity . If you’ve already registered, your username is your email address. If you have forgotten your password, there is a simple mechanism by which your password can be sent to your email address. If you still have difficulty getting registered, feel free to send your questions to: 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or call: 530-412-1573.

Join our Facebook group for 40 Days for Life Reno Tahoe, at: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=50059641315

Join the Carson City Facebook Fan page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/40-Days-For-Life-Carson-City/262781127002?v=wall&ref=search

National Campaign News

352 Babies Saved!

World-wide, there are a reported 352o babies saved during the current 40 Days for Life campaign.   The incredible thing is that we know from local experience that there are saves that aren’t reported to the sidewalk, sometimes for years afterwards, and sometimes they are never reported to those who come to pray and council the women entering the abortion site.   Praise God for all those who are saved from abortion and the women who are spared the trauma!   Praise God also for those who have been brought to the healing of Our Lord Jesus Christ through the witness provided at the sidewalk.

If you’re not already getting the daily updates from the National 40 Days for Life campaign, go to our website: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe and sign up to receive updates at the top right corner of the page.

Vigil Calendar

Reno Adopt A Day Calendar

Date	Church	Contact	Phone
Sun – Mar 21	Bishop Manogue High School	Matt Schambari	(775) 336-6000

Bring Adopt-a-Day to your church by contacting us at 40DaysforLifeRenoTahoe@gmail.com or by calling Carol Marie at (530) 412-1573. We will schedule your church for a day at the sidewalk.

Volunteers Needed Sat 7-10 am & 5-7 pm; Sun 7-8 am, 2-5 pm – 5:30-7 pm; & Mon 7-8 am & 5:30 – 7 pm

Which hour during the week can you cover with prayer?   We especially need you to stop by the sidewalk before going to work.   This gives you the opportunity to be present when the doctor and his staff arrive for their day of work.   We want to be present in prayer as they arrive to begin their day.

Perhaps you can take a late lunch and come to the sidewalk at 2 pm, staying to pray for an hour.   Or would you be able to swing by at the end of the work day to pray from 5-7 pm?   We like to continue our prayers at the sidewalk even after the doctor and his staff have left for the day.   If the weather turns, praying from your car still provides the spiritual benefit to the site, but seeing a prayer volunteer standing in inclement weather has turned more than one person from abortion or from participating in the industry, as they see the strength of our commitment.   Help us maintain a constant vigil for 12 hours of the day, from 7 am until 7 pm daily.   Please register using our online calendar, so we can be certain that the sidewalk is covered in constant prayer.

The business of selling death is typically busiest in Reno on Weds through Friday.   Won’t you please commit to pray at the sidewalk for an hour on these days to assist us in filling the schedule?  

On the weekends, while we aren’t encountering women on their way into the abortion site, we do have the opportunity to have an impact on those who are driving by on Airway or those who walk past.   Please come to the sidewalk and assist us in covering the sidewalk with prayer, 7 days per week for 40 Days, as we Pray to End Abortion.

Please register the hours when you can come pray at the sidewalk by going to our on-line calendar at:  www.vigilcalendar.com/renotahoe.   The names of those who sign up on the calendar are hidden from all but a small and select group of volunteers who can assist others in registering their hours on the calendar, so you needn’t fear that you might be harassed by anyone opposed to our prayers, nor do you need to fear that posting your hours is a form of boasting that you are being pious in your prayers.   Signing up simply allows us to coordinate our efforts so we can determine where we have holes in our volunteers efforts, allowing us to best use our time while ensuring we maintain a constant prayer covering at the sidewalk.

You are welcome to sign-up or simply show-up to pray at the sidewalk at any time of the day or night when you are available to join us.   Your prayers have value well beyond anything we can see and we welcome whatever contribution you can make to the effort as we Pray to End Abortion.   If you haven’t already done so, please sign a Statement of Peace, by going to www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/StatementofPeace.

40 Days through Scripture

Day 32 - 1 Thessalonians 3 – I Timothy 5 (including: 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12)

To this end, we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and powerfully bring to fulfillment every good purpose and every effort of faith, that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, in accord with the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

Join us as we read the New Testament over the course of the 40 Day campaign.     

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.

National News

Pro-Life Women's Group Runs TV Ad in Districts of Five Wavering Dems

[LifeNews , Washington, DC] – Doing everything possible at the last-minute to try to sway wavering pro-life Democrats to vote no on the Senate health care bill. That's the idea behind a slate of new television commercials the Susan B. Anthony List has released in a handful of Midwestern congressional districts.

Today the Susan B. Anthony List launched a $200,000 television advertisement campaign aimed at pricking the consciences of these pro-life Democrats.

The ad exhorts these members to vote “No” on the healthcare bill which includes federal funding of abortion, fails to protect consciences, and creates numerous abortion mandates.

“This has been a long and difficult battle since we began targeting members and drawing attention to constituent opposition to federal funding of abortion in a healthcare reform bill more than a year ago,” the SBA List president, told LifeNews.com. “Our latest ad targets those whose vote will make or break this bill: pro-life Democrats sitting on the fence.”

The ad is focused on Reps. Jason Altmire and Chris Carney of Pennsylvania, Brad Ellsworth and Baron Hill of Indiana and Alan Mollohan of West Virginia. Full story at LifeNews.com

To view the video of the ad, go to: http://www.sba-list.org/baby

For more Pro-Life related news, go to our website: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/News

Take Action

High Priority U. S. House Members to Contact

[ Catholics for the Common Good ] –Here is a list of House members who are friends that need support through phone calls and letters, or members who could be swing votes on the Senate-passed healthcare bill.

Calls and letters that are most influential are those who are voters in their districts. Please contact friends and family members in these states and ask them to spread the work and contact their member of congress.

Find your member of congress and his or her phone number and call him or her now. Ask him or her to vote "No". You will be surprised by how easy it is to call and express your opinion. Or write a handwritten note and fax it to the office.   For All the Details

Video Vignettes

Pro-Life Students: Speak Out Against Tax-Payer Funded Abortions

Kristan Hawkins, Executive Director for Students for Life, America, has put together a video regarding the current legislation that is being addressed in the House of Representatives.   Take a moment and watch it at:

Abortion 101

Abortions Are Only Legal in the First Trimester, Right?

The Roe v Wade and the lesser known Doe v Bolton Supreme Court companion decision, resulted in abortions being legal for all 9 months of the pregnancy.   Some states have put into place certain limitations on abortions performed after liability, including the State of Nevada, which limits abortions after the 24th week to those required for the life or health of the mother.   Unfortunately, the health of the mother has been interpreted by most states to include both physical and mental health.   This mental health exception is the loophole necessary to justify abortions if being pregnant creates anxiety for the mother, or she might be depressed by taking on a child.   To see how each state addresses late term abortions, go to: http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_PLTA.pdf  

Coming Events

Jericho March to Close the Campaign Daily 3/22 – 3/28

Starting next Monday evening, 3/22 at 6 pm and repeating every evening through-out next week, there will be a daily march around the block containing the abortion site in Reno. This series of daily marches will culminate on Sunday, 3/28, the final day of the Spring 2010 40 Days for Life Campaign, with a march 7 times around the block, for a total of 3 ½ miles of praying that abortion comes to an end in Reno. Please come, pray, march, cheer on those marching, celebrate a successful campaign brought to completion and the beginning of the End of Abortion in Reno! We will start at 3:00 pm on Sunday afternoon, and will follow with a Rally at 5:30 pm. Please join us for this family friendly event. Invite the members of your church by posting a copy of our flyer in your church lobby.

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.

Support the Effort!

Support 40 Days for Life with a Donation through our Website

Do you believe in the work we are doing as we Pray to End Abortion?   If so, please support the effort with a donation to cover our expenses. Donate Now

For more information on 40 Days for Life, Reno/Tahoe, visit our local website, at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe , look for us on Facebook, or Call: Carol Marie at 530-412-1573.

To receive your own copy of these updates, as well as information from the National Campaign, go to http://www.40DaysforLife/renotahoe and request to receive updates. 

If you prefer to only receive our local updates, send an email with “Please Add Me to 40 Days for Life” on the subject line to renotahoe@40DaysforLife.com

Campaign Materials

Free 40 Days for Life Items - Bumper Sticker, Bracelet & More.

Heritage House, is offering a Promotion Pack of 40 Days for Life items through their website for the amazing cost of $0, they are even picking up the postage.If you have wished to place a bumper sticker on your car, but I haven’t had one on hand when we’ve seen one another, our you haven’t yet got one of the rubberized bracelets, but you’d like one, now is your chance to get these and more items,for free.They aren’t even requiring that you enter your email address to receive this promotion, although, I encourage you to do so, and they will continue to keep you informed of the many great items they place on sale during the course of the year.And if you see something on sale and would like to purchase it for our 40 Days for Life campaign, I would gladly accept the help in making their many excellent pro-life items available!To receive your free promo pack, go to: http://www.40dayspromopack.com/40dayspromopack/signup.asp

Two Hearts Catholic Books & Gifts to Carry 40 Days for Life Items

Truly, pictures are worth a thousand words.To make it possible for us to communicate more effectively with those who witness our campaign, Millie has stocked Yard signs, Rally signs, New colored precious feet, Pro-life buttons, Static and Bumper sticker available @ The Two Hearts,33 Winter Street, Reno NV and St. Rose of Lima Church (weekend Masses).

More information

Please share this truth, among others relative to abortion with those who follow your Facebook posts! For more information on 40 Days for Life, Reno/Tahoe, visit our local website, at: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe, look for us on FaceBook, or Call: Carol Marie at 530-412-1573 Please forward this message to anyone you know who might be willing to Pray to End Abortion.

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