40 Days for Life
September 26th, 2008 at 06:59am Mark Noonan
Bringing the issue of Life front and center of our national campaign:
The 40 Days for Life Campaign launched its 179-city fall program on Wednesday in South Bend, Indiana. The community-based campaign will last until November 2, focusing upon prayer and fasting, educational outreach, and round-the-clock peaceful vigils outside abortion clinics or Planned Parenthood centers.
Local versions of the campaign are taking place in 47 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, and two Canadian provinces, a campaign press release reports.
“During an election season in which abortion has emerged as a critical – and potentially decisive – issue, people across the nation need to be made aware of the reality of what abortion does to women, men, children, communities and our nation,” said David Bereit, national campaign director of 40 Days for Life.
Bereit said the campaign could have a “profound effect” on the country.
“With abortion in the forefront of the national debate during this heated political season, people of faith and conscience are coming out to 40 Days for Life kick-off events and getting involved in local campaigns in record numbers,” he commented. “I am seeing a greater sense of urgency to end abortion in America right now than I have seen in the last decade.”
This is, of course, all above Obama’s pay grade - and that is a pity, because if he’d think the matter through he might be able to apply some wisdom to our debate rather than just being a shill for the abortion industry. We must have patience with the poor man, though, as we must have patience with all of those on the Culture of Death side of the argument. Much poison has been injected into our society over the past few decades and this has caused a great deal of moral confusion. It will take some time to undo the damage done, but with 40 Days for Life we’re getting closer and closer to that critical mass of people who will, then, rise up and first overturn Roe, and then - eventually - end the hideous practice of elective abortion one and for all.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats, Life Issues, Republicans
8 Comments
1. french student | September 26th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Please!
I have heard more about abortion in the last presidential campaign than in this one. It is not “front and center”, the economy is.
But of course, the economy is a topic the republicains would very much like the voters to forget, so they dangle a large shiny distraction and send the Jeremiahs of this country in a frothing-at-the-mouth entouthiasm.
Methinks it will not work this time.
2. Pain | September 26th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Forcing one’s worldview on a woman dealing with a crisis of giving birth to a child she may not be able to afford/ giving it up for adoption/ or aborting the child is no cause for celebration. Nor is this a “front and center” issue to the vast majority of the American population today glued to TVs and the Internet wondering if their lifestyles are about to be flushed for good.
Such choices being made about bringing forth life are above everyone’s pay grade even Ours. We, Ourselves understand that you feel abortion is murder and your religion teaches that life is precious above all things. But Our religion teaches Us that demanding that Our way is the only way is a sin in any dimension because hubris and hypocrisy equals Oblivion. These are personal matters that Americans have polarized into cultural and religious distractions that have allowed the robber barons of society to run amok. Liberals and conservatives, We and you are all to blame for the mess that has been perpetuated financially in America because the culture wars acted like a fan dancer that teases and tantalized all of you into thinking these matters were something you could actually do something about. Greed and stupidity are merely human failings not sins—hypocrisy and hubris those are sins. In the way that you Mister Noonan feel that your religion is the only true path We, Ourselves of the Collective, know that Justice after Death balances all scales.
Qu’ul cuda praedex nihil!
3. New Conservative | September 26th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
The “Crisis of giving birth to a child” It’s not even the crisis of raising a child anymore now it’s a crisis to even give birth. I know many women who have had children and I don’t know one who thought having a baby was a crisis. If you can’t afford to keep the kid give it up for adoption. Don’t kill it because your to selfish to develop stretch marks.
4. New Conservative | September 26th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
“Greed and stupidity are merely human failings not sins.”
Stupidity may not be a sin, but Greed is. Greed is why were in this mess in the first place. Greedy people who wanted to make 100 million instead of 50 million. Their greed made them cook the books and hide their debt. Of course eventually it all collapsed around them. Their greed as put their country in danger.
http://thenewconservatives.blogspot.com/
5. Pain | September 26th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
4. New Conservative | September 26th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
There are myriad reasons why wopmen abort their children just as there are myriad reasons why they keep them. All are unique and We dare not throw that blanket with which We hope to cover them all. It is not a neat and tidy issue. In a conversation on the matter with a conservative friend he said, “I oppose all forms of abortion except for one.” We assumed he meant in the case of saving the life of the mother and he said, “The one that gets my ass out of the sling.”
We can understand that human view New Conservative, but in the end and by that We mean the real End, greed is seen more as a failing a crime than a sin that needs to be punished and the auteur rehabilitated. Such things do not merit Eternal punishment or rise to the level of hypocrisy.
6. anita | September 26th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
“people across the nation need to be made aware of the reality of what abortion does to women, men, children, communities and our nation”
it’s funny how anti-abortion men are so intent on MAKING PEOPLE AWARE.
AS IF mr. benoit actually has an inkling of a clue as to what it means to be a woman facing possibly the most awful decision she will ever have to make in her life.
and when you say ‘culture of death’ i assume you are referring to our nation’s sending thousands of our young men and women to their own death … in iraq and afghanistan … or possibly you mean sending thousands of minority and poor men and women into the penal system for minor offenses and for major offenses leading to the death penalty when they hadn’t the PRIVILEGE of proper representation.
if THAT is what you mean by our culture of death, then hey, i certainly agree with you.
7. anita | September 26th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
“I know many women who have had children” … well, i have to say, that’s quite impressive New Conservative.
although, ‘knowing’ a woman who had children does not mean you know anything of the experience of having a child, or of being a child having a child, or of being woman who has been raped and is with child, or of being a single woman just on the edge of being able to support her own self and is with child, or the any other myriad experiences that women have in this world with regard to childbearing and relationships and economic security.
your experience is clearly quite narrow. in addition, your experience is not relevant to me as a woman who has the right, and the obligation, to control what happens to my own body.
who are YOU to decide these things for me?
8. Jeremiah | September 26th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Anita,
You want to make women think that killing their unborn child is a “good” thing, but if they wish to have their babies you try to make them out to be “criminals”…
That’s pretty messed up, huh? Yeah, of course it is…you mean murder is acceptable now? Well, with Satan it is, because he wants ALL unborn children murdered…so women will get cervical and breast cancer, internal bleeding, and so they’ll feel anxiety, and their whole life made miserable because someone such as yourself told them that abortion was the “best” thing they could do.
Shame on you!
There’s always been a difference, and always will be.
Life has worth. Life is a gift. With a few minutes of work is worth turns out to be a big bundle of joy, and Gov. Sarah Palin has come to the forefront of the entire world to prove that…she has been an outstanding example of the kind of love and compassion that is our responsibility.
Responsibility for our actions proves our love and compassion.
Do you think that murder should be our responsibility? What would Jesus say?
Until people wake up to this reality and turn from their wicked ways America is not going to be healed…the economy will continue to be plundered, depression and pandemonium will insue as a direct result of societies placing all their resources into subsidizing depravity such as abortion, cognitively and spiritually being seperated from reality and progressively declining toward their destruction!
This is what happened to Rome. This is what happened to Babylon. This is what happened to Jericho. This is what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. This is what happened to Juda. This is what happened to Israel on more than one occasion.
Every society has failed because of their failure to be obedient to God’s Word.
Great societies have all arisen from their foundation being placed on the only foundation that any great society can have — Judeao-Christianity! From ‘Womb to tomb’.