40 Days for Life begins this Wednesday, Sept. 22 and runs through Oct. 31.
40 Days for Life will be observed in the Wisconsin area in Appleton, Green Bay, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, Wausau and Rockford, Ill. For more information on locations and who to contact, go to the 40 Days for Life website.
We encourage you to join us in the 40 Days for Life opening ceremony nearest you:
— 40 Days for Life - Appleton: Kickoff on Tuesday, Sept. 21 at 6:30 p.m. Meet at Community Church (3701 N. Gillett St. Appleton, right before the abortion mill.) PLW's Steve Karlen will speak. Join us for prayer, music, and inspiration;
— 40 Days for Life - Milwaukee: Kickoff on Wednesday, Sept. 22 from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Affiliated Medical Services, 1428 N. Farwell Ave., Milwaukee;
— 40 Days for Life - Madison: Kick-off is Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 6 p.m. at the building across the street from Planned Parenthood (3711 Orin Rd., Madison). Our special guest will be Shawn Carney, National Director of 40 Days for Life. The evening will include food and fellowship, a presentation from Shawn and prayers at Planned Parenthood offered by Fr. Brian Dulli of Sun Prairie. Plan on attending with your family and friends!
In addition, Shawn Carney, National Director of 40 Days for Life, will be present at the following Wisconsin 40 Days for Life locations this week:
— 40 Days for Life - Green Bay: Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 12:30 p.m. at OB-GYN Associates of Green Bay, Medical Arts Building, 704 S. Webster Ave., Green Bay;
— 40 Days for Life - Appleton: Wednesday, September 22 at 3 p.m. at Planned Parenthood, 3800 N. Gillett St., Grand Chute;
— 40 Days for Life - Milwaukee: Thursday, Sept. 23 at 9 a.m. at Affiliated Medical Services, 1428 N. Farwell Ave., Milwaukee.
The following narrative illustrates something we encounter all too frequently outside abortion facilities – teenage girls brought in by their mothers. This situation happened during last spring’s 40 Days for Life. We ask you to join us in observing 40 Days for Life this fall, to pray for an end to abortion – so no 15-year-old girl, or anyone, will ever be forced into abortion again.
She had somewhere to go. On her way, Teresa thought she would stop by the abortion clinic on Farwell Ave. in Milwaukee and pray for an hour as part of the 40 Days for Life campaign. It was Friday and she was praying at the clinic when a young girl of 15 walked up to the clinic, obviously pregnant.
I’ll call her Doris (not her real first name). She was there with her boyfriend. She told Teresa she was 21 weeks pregnant and did not want to have an abortion. Her mother wanted her to have an abortion. Her mom was threatening to sue her boyfriend if she did not kill her child. The boyfriend did not want her to abort their child. Teresa and a sidewalk counselor tried to offer her help and other options. She went in the clinic anyway, but on her way in she turned to Teresa and said, “Are you going to be here when I come out?” Teresa replied yes, not knowing when Doris would come out. Teresa would be late to her next stop.
When Doris came out of the clinic, she would only tell Teresa that she had made an appointment for the abortion the next day at 8:30 am. The abortion clinic had closed the deal. Teresa and others promised to pray for Doris and her child. Teresa would return to the clinic the next morning after many hours of prayer and after asking an army of people to pray for Doris and her child. It was hoped that she would not return to the clinic but when Doris did return, she was extremely sad and said, “I can’t back out now, my mother has paid $2,000 to the clinic.”
Teresa describes Doris as “well off” in her appearance, not poor. However Doris is truly the poorest of the poor when her own mother forces her to abort her large, kicking unborn child. Doris’ mother does not realize that Doris will at least resent and probably hate her for a very long time. Teresa was afraid her mother wouldn’t care. If that is so, how poor is that?
“Are you going to be here when I come out?” Even though Doris felt she had to give in to the extreme coercion that she was under, she still wanted to know, “Are you going to be here when I come out?” Is this not the cry of the poor? Was she not begging for someone to come after her with love? Are we not all wanting God to “come after us” when we sin? Are we not all called to be the hands and feet of Christ to the women coming to the abortion clinic who are so poor that they are not just hungry; they are so poor that they feel trapped into having their babies stolen from them by a curette or a suction machine at our abortion clinic… right here in Milwaukee? Can we not find an hour or two to pray for these women, to be there for them, to offer them love and hope?
Pro-Life Wisconsin
For all the negatives that go along with praying outside abortion clinics (like Gundersen Lutheran "Hospital" in La Crosse) this is something that we must never give up on. Heck even the Stupid Party that we have hoped to carry The Cause has been infiltrated in hopes of abandoning us. How truly Christian to simply stand and pray and offer help, all the while being hated and vilified by the ignorant, not to mention betrayed by our own politicians. Is that not what Christ did for us? Even if you cannot participate publicly, please offer extra prayers and sacrifices for the good of these mothers and their children. Also if you want to get the word out about any events or how things are going, email me and The BC will get the word out.
Go Team Life!
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