{"id":604,"date":"2017-10-03T14:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandc.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2017-10-03T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:12:30","slug":"40-days-for-life-offering-hope-and-life-one-vigil-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dandc.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"40 Days for Life: Offering Hope and Life One Vigil at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

via www.frcblog.com – Latest entries<\/a> September 27, 2017 at 08:32AM<\/p>\n

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Arina O. Grossu, FRC\u2019s<\/em> director for the Center for Human Dignity, spoke last night at the 40 Days for Life 2017 opening event in Washington, D.C. Here are her remarks:<\/em><\/p>\n

Good evening everyone. Thank you for being here. Every spring and fall in hundreds of cities worldwide, people gather as part of the 40 Days for Life campaign to pray for all of the mothers and babies who unfortunately end up at the doors of a Planned Parenthood. They pray not only for the protection of mothers, fathers, and babies that they be spared from the evil of abortion, but also for the conversion of all abortion workers and volunteers, and for an end to abortion itself. Participants of 40 Days for Life are part of a noble endeavor that has already borne so much fruit. Literally.<\/p>\n

How effective<\/a> exactly was 40 Days for Life this past spring alone? 637 babies were saved from abortion (8 here in fact), 13 abortion workers quit their jobs, and 9 abortion facilities closed.<\/p>\n

On this 10th anniversary of 40 Days for Life and in their largest campaign yet, it is due to your efforts and those who have participated in 40 Days for Life that more than 13,300 babies are alive today. Some of these children are celebrating their 10th birthdays this year. What a great legacy for life!<\/p>\n

Since the first 40 Days for Life in 2007, it has been present in 715 cities and 44 countries with 750,000 individual participants and 19,000 churches getting involved. Not only have over 13,000 babies been saved from abortion, but 154 abortion workers quit their jobs and 86 abortion facilities have closed.<\/p>\n

We can and we must defund Planned Parenthood and redirect taxpayers\u2019 dollars to comprehensive health care centers. We must not accept anything less. It is a shame that a couple of naysaying Senate Republicans have determined the fate of the Graham-Cassidy bill and it will not go for a vote. In addition to repealing and replacing Obamacare, including halting taxpayer funding for abortion, this bill would have defunded Planned Parenthood. We must find other solutions.<\/p>\n

Why is it urgent that we defund Planned Parenthood? Because Planned Parenthood commits about one-third of all U.S. abortions at 328,348 abortions per year, and is the single biggest abortion business in America. Planned Parenthood aborted 900 babies every single day in 2015\u2014one baby every 96 seconds.<\/p>\n

We must defund Planned Parenthood because Planned Parenthood hurts women and children. It is a sham of an organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From 2009 to 2015, cancer screening and prevention programs have consistently decreased by close to two-thirds, breast exams have consistently decreased by over half (and we all know that Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms), and prenatal services have steadily decreased by more than three-quarters. In fact, in 2015, Planned Parenthood committed 35 abortions for every prenatal service it provided. It also committed 114 abortions for every adoption referral it made. According to Planned Parenthood\u2019s 2015-2016 report, out of total services for pregnant women (adoption referrals, prenatal services, abortion), abortion accounted for 96 percent.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood has not only had a decrease in services, but also a decrease in patients. In 2015, it had 2.4 million patients\u2014100,000 less patients than in 2014.<\/p>\n

Yet while its patient base and purported services continue to decrease, in 2015-2016, Planned Parenthood received $554.6 million in combined federal, state, and local government grants and contracts, an increase of $900,000 since the year prior, and the highest in government funding that Planned Parenthood has ever received.<\/p>\n

Additionally, its total revenue for 2015-2016 was about $1.354 billion, the highest in its history.<\/p>\n

Of all funding received by Planned Parenthood, 41 percent comes from taxpayers\u2019 pockets. Why are we subsidizing an organization that kills babies? We don\u2019t need Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

There are 13,540 federally-qualified, low-cost, high quality health care clinics and rural health centers that can and should replace Planned Parenthood. They outnumber Planned Parenthood more than 20 to 1 nationally. They not only offer screening and prevention services, pap smears, cancer screenings, breast exams, and prenatal services, but they also offer a full spectrum of other primary care services that Planned Parenthood fails to provide such as mammograms, various immunizations, diabetes and glaucoma screenings, cholesterol screenings, well-child, mental health, and substance abuse services.<\/p>\n

Imagine how much more we can do for women and children when an extra half a billion in taxpayer funds is restored for actual healthcare.<\/p>\n

Remain steadfast because we are winning. As they say, \u201cKeep calm and carry on.\u201d Before we know it, Planned Parenthood will be obsolete. Planned Parenthood facilities and affiliates are at an all-time low, now down to 620 from 930 facilities, and 56 from 190 affiliates at their height.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no better time than today to keep this momentum going. Our prayerful, loving presence in front of Planned Parenthoods and other abortion facilities rips at the very fabric of the abortion industry. Our prayerful presence exposes the dirty and evil deeds that go on behind these walls. Our prayerful presence reaches out to women in the depths of their despair and offers them a life-giving choice, for themselves and for their children. Our prayerful presence changes the hearts and minds of abortion workers. We are on the front lines fighting between life and death. Our task is to help every person we can to escape the grip of the evil of abortion. This is a sacred calling, one which we must not take lightly.<\/p>\n

So from now until November 5, I invite you to once again join our brothers and sisters all around the world in building the culture of life\u2014right here, right now. Take part<\/a> in this 40 Days by praying and fasting, keeping a prayerful vigil outside of an abortion facility, and doing community outreach to spread the pro-life message. Get involved in your local efforts by visiting 40daysforlife.com. Remember that \u201cAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.\u201d (Edmund Burke). In these next 40 days, do something for life. You may never know all of the good effects your efforts for the cause of life in the next 40 days may make, or you may be blessed enough to one day hold a bright-eyed, pudgy, giggly baby who owes her life to your prayerful witness. Thank you.<\/p>\n

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via www.frcblog.com – Latest entries September 27, 2017 at 08:32AM Arina O. Grossu, FRC\u2019s director for the Center for Human Dignity, spoke last night at the 40 Days for Life 2017 opening event in Washington, D.C. Here are her remarks: Good evening everyone. Thank you for being here. 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