God is rewarding our 40 Days for Life efforts!
Dear Friends in Christ, Our Heavenly Father seems to be rewarding our 40 Days for Life efforts! Yesterday, only 5 babies were aborted at the Northern Illinois Women’s Center. We mourn each individual life lost but cannot ignore the fact that this is less than half the number of babies aborted on recent abortion days. We saw similar drastic results during the 40 Days for Life campaign last year....
We also witnessed a baby “saved” yesterday. That is the 6th baby to be saved in Rockford since the campaign began just 3 weeks ago. Your prayers and fasting are working, please continue to pray earnestly and spread the word about 40 Days for Life.
Your response to our last request to fill vigil hours was amazing. Thank you for being so generous with your time. It is not comfortable to stand at the Rockford Abortion facility to pray but the consensus is clear… it is richly rewarding.
A special note: The couple that owns the Labor News Building are Don and Mary Brady. Out of the kindness of their hearts, they make a special effort to keep the Labor News building open during 40 Days for Life so that you have a place to get warm, get a pro-life sign, get a bite to eat, or a drink or use the restroom. Don Brady celebrated a birthday this last Thursday. If you see him, be sure to wish him Happy Birthday.
Thank you and God Bless You,
Rockford Pro-Life Initiative
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Go to RockfordProLife.com to see the actual ultra-sound video of a baby who's life was saved by this years 40 Days for Life.
The full story is below.
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Ultrasound Coupon Saves Baby's Life
By David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life
March 5, 2010 (40DaysforLife) - Last week, we reported on a young mother in Louisville, Kentucky who chose life for her baby after redeeming a coupon for a free ultrasound. That story struck a chord with the 40 Days for Life team in Southfield, Michigan.
The Southfield team tried the same idea ... and it worked!
Howard, one of the prayer volunteers, showed his "free ultrasound" coupon to women who were approaching the abortion facility. One woman took the coupon - she seemed quite excited to get it - but then walked into the building.
She came out ten minutes later - and told the volunteers that while she was inside the abortion center, she had called the pro-life pregnancy resource center to ask about the free ultrasound.
They left the abortion facility immediately. "We did the ultrasound and had everyone crying tears of joy," said Mike, the 40 Days for Life coordinator in Southfield. "The baby' mother was so overjoyed to see her baby. Praise God!"
A verbal offer of a free ultrasound is certainly good; it appears, though, that the "free coupon" idea makes it seem more real. And besides, everybody likes to get a good deal with a coupon!
Ultrasound also helped save a life in Bakersfield, California. Of course, the prayer vigil in front of the abortion center had a lot to do with it as well.
40 Days for Life volunteers spoke to a 17-year-old and her mother as they arrived for the teen's abortion appointment. The girl said she was the youngest of five children and she did not want to disappoint her father.
Tim in Bakersfield said both the girl and her mother seemed to have very hard hearts. Although they listened for several minutes, "they seemed to have no change in their attitude." But when they were about to walk into the building, someone approached the girl and said, "Don't be afraid - trust in God."
When she heard this, tears began rolling down her cheeks. But her mother remained firm.
So the prayer team quickly made arrangements for an ultrasound. As the girl's mother watched the perfectly formed body of her grandchild on the ultrasound screen, "she began to cry," Tim said. "The baby's tiny feet and hands were clearly visible on the screen, and the baby even waved at his mother and grandmother!"
This is most definitely the image of a very young human being. And that fact was immediately evident to both mother and grandmother.
Please pray that more pro-life centers will have greater access to this amazing, life-saving technology!
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Baby Saved as Pro-Abort Mantra Crumbles under Scrutiny
Commentary David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life
March 4, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) - I had to smile when I read a California blogger's post that described 40 Days for Life as a "babies-saving, moms-helping, 'round-the-clock prayer-and-fasting- outside-abortion-businesses effort that's been saving thousands of babies' lives."
I really loved that breath of fresh air! Far too often lately, I've see strings of other adjectives connected to 40 Days for Life that are -- to put it mildly -- inaccurate.
Just this week, I saw 40 Days for Life described as "a nasty campaign of anti-women harassers" who "get their jollies at this time of the year by swarming women's reproductive health centers and abortion clinics for 40 days."
Really?
Unfortunately, others can often be taken in by these inaccurate representations. One 40 Days for Life vigil participant saw first hand how such misstatements can have an impact.
A young woman drove up to the abortion center and sat in her car. She seemed to be waiting for someone. Finally, the person she was waiting for arrived -- a policeman. The woman wanted to be escorted into the building because people were outside praying.
A 40 Days for Life vigil participant said the officer was aware that "there had never been any complaints about us and how we conduct ourselves." But he also didn't seem to understand why people were praying.
The volunteer saw an opportunity to do a bit of educating, and explained that two dozen lawsuits were pending against the abortion center and there had been reports of three abortion-related deaths. "He didn't know any of that."
The officer said, "The woman was scared to get out of the car with you here." The volunteer responded, "She should have been scared to go inside."
Other people have fallen for the common "pro-choice" mantra that a woman's abortion decision should be "honored and respected."
A 40 Days for Life participant in Lake County, Indiana was shocked to see a pro-life bumper sticker on a car in the parking lot at Planned Parenthood. The driver explained that she didn't like abortion, but it was her friend's choice to have one.
She was told that such an argument wouldn't wash if her friend were to rob a bank; the driver of the getaway car is considered an accomplice.
With that, the woman went inside the building to tell her friend she was about to make a terrible mistake.
It wasn't easy. Voices were raised. It was quite emotional. At one point, the driver came out crying, saying she had failed.
But the vigil participants encouraged her to try again. They kept praying and "decided to let the Holy Spirit work."
The driver went back into the abortion center.
Later, her friend came out in tears, saying she had changed her mind: "I couldn't do it."
Thank you for your faithfulness and your commitment. And thank you, Holy Spirit!
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Twitter RU-486 Abortion Chronicles to 'Demystify' Procedure Go Sour
By Kathleen Gilbert
March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A blogger known as Angie the Anti-Theist caused a stir both on the Internet and the mainstream media last month after word spread that she had decided to "live-tweet" her abortion - that is, issue regular updates on the process of her RU-486 medical abortion on the microblogging tool Twitter. But what followed - a raft of complaints about severe pain and days of unexpected bleeding - may have had the opposite of the intended effect.
A Youtube video recorded just after beginning the process shows the young woman, who calls herself Angela Jackson, laying out her purpose with a wry smirk.
"I'm doing this to demystify abortion," says Jackson, who aborted her child at 4 weeks' gestation. "I'm doing this so other women know: hey, it's not nearly as terrifying as I had myself worked up thinking it was. It's just not that bad.
"So I just wanna let everybody know that you too can have an abortion if you want one. It's ok. It's not shameful. It's not secret. It's not killing a child."
After discovering that she was pregnant, on February 13 Jackson tweeted: "I'll be getting an abortion for Valentine's Day (how romantic!)."
Some tweets took a more agressive approach than her stance on the Youtube video: "Why do I have to get a f***ing ultrasound? I want to KILL THIS THING," Jackson complained. "I know my son b/came more real to me w/the 1st ultrasound. They're a**holes."
As she began her liveblogging journey, Jackson explained that she would opt for an abortion because, she claimed, her last pregnancy caused her to "nearly die 4 times." Jackson scoffed at offers from Christians who wished to take care of her baby, pointing out "some Christians on twitter who think I should risk death to give them a spawn to brainwash."
But the process of "demystifying" abortion did not go as smoothly as planned: Jackson found she had begun a much longer journey than she had anticipated. While she had apparently been told that bleeding would last "4-8 hours," according to her tweets, her pain lasted at least another week and a half.
Minutes after taking misoprostol pills to eject her dead baby on February 19, Jackson began complaining of nausea and cramps. The next day, Jackson tweeted: "I'm not even surprised I'm having a stalled abortion. Same thing happened w/my labor!" "Just got back from 2nd trip to clinic. Hopefully it works this time! sadly only 3/10 chance it will 2nd time - grr!"
Several days of tweets thereafter described "sharp" pain, cramping, bleeding, nausea, and headaches - discomfort Jackson evidently attempted to quell by popping the narcotic Vicodin, with little success.
"Kid is calling out for me now. ugh, the walk across the house is long today," wrote Jackson on Feb 23.
Meanwhile, pro-life blogger Jill Stanek began following Jackson on her own blog. Stanek pointed out the misinformation that the young woman had evidently been fed regarding the abortion she proclaimed would be "just not that bad" days before.
"What kind of homework did Angie do before deciding on an RU-486 abortion? Apparently none," said Stanek. "And what did [Planned Parenthood] teach Angie about her RU-486 abortion? Clearly nothing."
The pro-life blogger pointed out that the chairman of the company that first marketed RU-486 admitted that "a woman who wants to end her pregnancy has to 'live' with her abortion for at least a week using this technique. It's an appalling psychological ordeal."
According to Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor of the medical abortion drug: "It's insulting to women to say that abortion now will be as easy as taking aspirins. It is always difficult, psychologically and physically, sometimes tragic."
As of 2006, RU-486, a very potent drug, has been associated with the deaths of at least six women in the U.S. since it was legalized in 2000. Over 600 adverse affects were also recorded, including life-threatening hemorrhages and septic shock.
"By live tweeting her abortion, Angie has performed a different kind of public service than she intended. No one can read her exhaustive and exhausting dismal account and want what she had," concluded Stanek.
Another blogger, "Nextthurs," who said she admired Jackson's endeavor, began tweeting her own abortion on February 28.
However, after three posts complaining about "bleeding like a stuffed [sic] pig all day," the tweets mysteriously ended.
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