Tens of thousands to begin 40 Days for Life campaign on Wednesday
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College Station, Texas, Sep 23, 2009 / 03:29 am (CNA).- The 40 Days for Life autumn campaign will begin on Wednesday in 212 cities, starting efforts like prayer and fasting for an end to abortion, peaceful vigils outside abortion facilities, and grassroots community organizing.

The official effort is scheduled to last until November 1. David Bereit, national director of 40 Days for Life, said that “tens of thousands of faithful people” will participate in 45 American states, five Canadian provinces and Denmark.

The organization reports it has helped mobilize more than 215,000 people in its two years of work. Their efforts have reportedly saved 1,561 lives from abortion and have been endorsed by dozens of pro-life and pro-family groups.
Religious leaders, including more than 20 Catholic bishops, have also promoted the campaign.

The fall campaign will be the most widespread and longest coordinated pro-life mobilization in history, 40 Days for Life claims. It also alleges a “misinformation blitz” by pro-abortion partisans is trying to smear the campaign

Bereit said Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the country, was generating “inflammatory rhetoric.” The organization’s Houston affiliate has called on its supporters to “defend women’s health” from the “40 days of harassment.” A St. Louis affiliate has hung a huge “defend the truth” banner from the side of its building.

“Ironically, the truth is something Planned Parenthood tries to hide," said Bereit. "The truth is that the child in the womb is a human being, and that abortion takes the life of the child and can leave a devastating impact on the mother."

40 Days for Life reported that 90 percent of the prayer vigil locations are at Planned Parenthood facilities.

The organization has also been part of the Stop the Abortion Mandate coalition, which is working to ensure abortion is explicitly excluded from any proposed health care reform bill.

"We have never before seen the intensity of passion and extensive involvement in pro-life efforts that we are seeing all across North America right now," said Bereit. "We don't know what blessings this fall's 40 Days for Life will hold, but we can't wait to see what God has in store!”

For more information visit, www.40daysforlife.com.

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Published by: Radomysl Twardowski
Bismarck, ND, USA 09/23/2009 05:45 PM EST
Deacon John, abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia are in a slightly different "prayer basket" than death penalty. It would not be an outrage to keep the death penalty legal (although essentially not use it in practice by the State or states), but keeping abortion "legal" and using it in just one case IS an outrage against God.
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Published by: Dianne
St. Louis, MO 09/23/2009 02:04 PM EST
As a participating member of this incredible campaign, we believe that all stages within our natural life are to be respected and revered, BUT this campaign's focus is abortion. It's the belief of those involved that if we were to you use this campaign for the other equally important LIFE issues it would 'dilute' our effectiveness on ending abortion. While all attacks on the diginity of life are important it is believed that this initial attack on the most vulnerable and defenseless is where our focus should be.
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Published by: Deacon John P. Orlandello
Brooklyn, NY (USA) 09/23/2009 12:38 PM EST
Will the 40-day campaign for life include prayer and fasting for an end to euthanasia, assisted suicide, death penalty, and other forms of outrage against the dignity of all life, or will the campaign be restricted to abortion?
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