40 Days for Life

The pro-life movement is on the offensive against Planned Parenthood:

"This fall, 89 cities in 33 states across the nation will unite for a unique pro-life campaign called 40 Days for Life -- an intensive effort designed to raise awareness, save lives, bring healing, and prepare America for the beginning of the end of abortion.

The campaign will be conducted simultaneously in all locations from September 26 - November 4."

The main component of this campaign is peaceful vigil outside Planned Parenthood clinics or other abortion facilities. Here is the link to learn more and to see how you can help.

I attended the kickoff event in one city, Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the local Catholic charismatic parish. As usual, the most moving testimony was from two women who choose to be silent no more and to speak of the immense damage that abortion does to the mother involved. By the mercy and healing power of Jesus, these women are free today to live full lives and to speak truth to power courageously and prophetically. Although they still carry scars from their great error, they are able by the power of Jesus to move on, experience peace and joy, and now go about doing good and teaching others. Just the other day, another woman told me about the horrors of her own abortion and about the insidious workings of Planned Parenthood when she volunteered there years ago: exorbitant profit margins on birth control pills and suppression of information about the harmful consequences of abortion to the woman. She also told me that if anyone had intercepted her on the way to the abortion clinic and urged her to turn around, she would not have had the abortion.

This particular sin and others are at times like that: many are reluctant even as we begin the sin and are undergoing it. The lie of the devil is that we are on some kind of assembly line where we just can't stop the descent to hell. The truth is that we are really free and can choose to stop the madness as we begin to slide into sin. Too many women have been "hustled" through fear, lies, propaganda, and pressure into scarring themselves permanently with abortion. The same woman told me that she tried to interrupt the abortion as it was proceeding, but was told that it was already too late. Many times we slide into disaster even while we recognize that it is a disaster. That's why we have to remind ourselves that in Jesus we are always free to say no to the machinations of evil. We have to learn to say no and to exercise our freedom to be sane.

Let's be clear: Planned Parenthood is an umbrella term for a network of death camps for infants spread throughout the United States. The roots of this evil lie in the fornication culture that exploded onto the American scene in the sixties and is now considered "normal" in America. The most outrageous bad fruit of a fornication culture is the murder of children. Sin works that way. The devil works that way: one outrage leads to another until you get to the ultimate outrage--child sacrifice in modern America for personal convenience and as a form of after-the-fact birth control. We even have one major political party--the Democratic Party--that has sold its soul to the maintenance of this contemporary holocaust.