The best confirmation that 40 Days for Life is effective at hurting the bottom line of a local abortion facility does not come from us…
…but from the leaders of Planned Parenthood.
Recently, we got more confirmation from America’s most pro-abortion state – California.
The abortion facility in Napa, California, recently moved, citing the daily presence of pro-lifers outside.
Then, Planned Parenthood Northern California’s director of operations complained to the media that the appointment no-show rate more than doubles when 40 Days for Life is taking place.
“It confirms many important things,” explained Dominic, the campaign leader in Napa. “Even [here in Napa], no-show rates go up to 40%-50%!”
Former Planned Parenthood workers say that the no-show rate for an abortion appointment goes as high as 75% when we’re out there praying.
As for Napa, Dominic and his team are moving to the new Planned Parenthood location, where they’ll continue to save lives from abortion….
Full story at LifeNews.
Praying in front of Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities saves lives and protects women and girls. Our bishop blessed an icon of Our Lady for each of our parishes and urged our priests, deacons and lay faithful to pray for life near such killing centers. Our Lady, Help of Mothers, pray for us.
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So who do we believe, you or Jesus?
Matthew 6:5-6
Jesus, of course. (I’m presuming that’s a rhetorical question.) Jesus prayed publicly as well as privately, as did the Apostles and Christians throughout the ages. It seems you’re reading that passage in a narrow, fundamentalistic way; out of context. Do you really pray only in your bedroom or closet? Earlier in the sermon on the Mount, our Lord speaks about gouging our right eyes out and cutting our right hands off, if we’ve ever sinned with our eyes or hands. Wouldn’t that make us all half-blind disabled persons? I’ve still got both ears and hands in spite of my sins. You? I’d be happy to discuss this further with you privately, if you’d like to contact me directly (at dcnanderson@ephx.org). Keep believing Jesus.
Good for you, Deacon Craig.
“So who do we believe, you or Jesus?
Matthew 6:5-6”
The verses criticize the Pharisees for parading their religious practice like peacocks in order to be thought well of by the hoi polloi, the rabble. It was an ego trip. Praying in front of abortion facilities is done for the selfless act of saving babies and bringing people to faith, and with hostility directed toward them as an always possible reality, it is something not for the faint of heart. Those who pray display fidelity to our Lord and courage in the face of difficulty. So now, “whom do you believe” is a false contrast. True prayer with proper motivation is good anywhere, any place, because Jesus is pleased with the exercise of genuine faith any time, and in any place. Consider the entirety of the Book of Acts and the various times and places of prayer. That said, I would encourage you to take up Deacon Anderson on his offer of discussion.
I agree with you, Dan.
Could these rates be due to the rise of medication abortions?
Good question. I don’t know the answer. Do any readers? Below are a couple of articles addressing that growing abortion procedure.
https://www.liveaction.org/news/bad-actors-industry-abortion-pill-fda-limits/
https://www.liveaction.org/abortion-pill-kills/
That said, long before now, the presence of people praying and offering “sidewalk counseling” at abortion facilities did reduce the number of those following through on lethal plans. May God bless, protect and heal all women and girls (and their babies) in crisis pregnancies. And, may we once again realize that sex is best in marriage and destructive outside of marriage. God’s ways really are best for all people.