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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