Thursday, February 15, 2018

Self-Proclaimed Christian abortionists chosen for Prayer Campaign

Pro-Life Action League Issues Call for Action during Lent

(February 15, 2018 – Chicago) This week, the Lenten season begins on the calendar of the church year. A 40-day period of spiritual reflection for Christians worldwide, Lent is also the time during which the Pro-Life Action League issues its annual Lenten Prayer Challenge. This year, the League is asking for prayer for a trio of abortionists who say it’s their Christian faith that inspires them to do abortions. 

It’s the irony of their faith-based justification for doing abortions that perplexes Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League. Scheidler asked, “How can they fail to see the contradiction between taking the lives of unborn children, and claiming faith in Christ, who entered the world as a child in the womb?” 

Pro-Lifers who accept the 2018 Lenten Prayer Challenge will pray every day and fast from one meal each week for the true conversion of these three abortionists:
  • Willie Parker, who just published the memoir, Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice.He states that his Christian faith requires him to do abortions, “… And so I became morally convinced that is was not a conflict of my Christian values to provide abortion care, and in fact it became unethical to me not to do so.”
Sarah Wallett, who is so outspoken about her work being inspired by faith that she once came out of a meeting of abortionists and knelt down on the sidewalk to pray beside pro-life advocates protesting the event. During this prayer, she said, “I can imagine no person who is in greater need of Christlike love and excellent medical care than a woman who is faced with an untenable pregnancy, and I am grateful every day to feel thy spirit and thy guiding hand on my work.”
  • Leroy Carhart, who recently held a blessing ceremony at his new late-term abortion facility in Maryland. He sees no contradiction between religious faith and performing abortions all the way into the final weeks of pregnancy, declaring, “I think that abortion is both religious and moral… I’ve prayed with many of the patients here.”
Scheidler admits these abortionists are far from sympathetic figures, and that some may find it difficult to pray for them. But he cites the Biblical directive to, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44), and reminds people of faith, “If we, who fear and love God, won’t pray for these abortionists to repent and seek forgiveness for the lives they’ve participated in destroying, then who will?”  

Pro-lifers across the country will participate in the Lenten Prayer Challenge by praying for Parker, Wallett and Carharts each day, and fasting from one meal each week for their true conversion to Christ. 

Read more about the Pro-Life Action League here [https://prolifeaction.org/].

Watch the video, Will you take the 2018 Lenten Prayer Challenge? here [https://youtu.be/qPoDaYv_kiY].

 About the Pro-Life Action League: The Pro-Life Action League was founded by Joe Scheidler in 1980 with the aim of saving babies from abortion through direct action, and is now headed by Joe’s son, Eric. Not content to await a political or judicial solution to abortion, the League seeks to stop the killing of unborn children right now through all available peaceful means, including public protest, sidewalk counseling, education, youth outreach, and national leadership. Visit prolifeaction.org to learn more.

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