BE A VOICE FOR LIFE!
Express Support for Pro-Life:
Call radio station: KMMS 586-2343 extension 0.
OR email radiojewels@yahoo.com. Just say you support and encourage any pro-life information and shows they have or plan to have.
Write Letters:
Write letters to city commissioners and newspapers. Your city commissioners are James Bennett, Bill Spannring, Steve Caldwell, Juliann Jones, and Rick VanAken at 414 E Callender Street or email them at citycommission@livingstonmontana.org. Keep a copy of the letters. If you would like to share a copy with us, mail to Operation Life at P. O. Box 2152 in Livingston, MT 59047.
Get the Word Out:
Encourage friends and family NOT to support the Mountain Country Women's Clinic in Livingston, which provides abortions locally and to the surrounding states. Although this is called a women's clinic, the name is simiply a pro-abortion tactic to downplay the clinic's main business, which is abortion. Mountain Country Women's Clinic is surrounded by strong financial and politically charged agendas for abortion. While it is true that other services are offered, the primary goal is to perform and to promote abortions. Let us not confuse health care with the ending of the life of pre-born children.
Do:
Go to the city council meeting on the first and third Monday of each month. Express your concern and let your pro-life voice be heard.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Phone Numbers for Congressmen
Here are important phone numbers:
Call Senator Max Baucus 202-224-2651 or 800-332-6106.
Cal Senator Jon Tester 202-224-2644 or 866-554-4403
Call Representative Denny Rehberg 202-225-3211 or 888-232-2626
Call Senator Max Baucus 202-224-2651 or 800-332-6106.
Cal Senator Jon Tester 202-224-2644 or 866-554-4403
Call Representative Denny Rehberg 202-225-3211 or 888-232-2626
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
22 Weeks - The Movie
‘22 Weeks'
The Inescapable Truth about Abortion
Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship Ministry President Mark Earley.
If you are a reader of our blog, The Point, you may remember that back in January of '09 we wrote about a stunning film on abortion called 22 Weeks.
Now you can see the film for yourself. It’s available on DVD at the website www.22WeekstheMovie.com. But you should know beforehand that watching this movie is a harrowing experience. Even if you know how abortions are done, even if you’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the topic, most likely you’ve never seen it portrayed like this.
22 Weeks is based on a true story. A young woman, Angela, undergoes an abortion procedure in her 22nd week of pregnancy. After the procedure was begun, her child was born alive and moving in a bathroom at the clinic. Though she begged the clinic staff to help the baby, clinic staff left her and her son alone in the bathroom until the child died in her arms. Not until a friend called 911 for her did she receive any help.
The DVD contains both a censored and uncensored version of the movie, so that the more sensitive can watch a version that’s a little less graphic. But in either version, viewers should be aware, this film is very, very difficult to watch. The details of Angela’s abortion procedure, including the baby’s live birth in a toilet, are shown in all their stark brutality.
Even more chilling, though, is the callousness of the clinic personnel. And the really frightening thing is that their attitude is easy to understand, because it stems from the very nature of their job. Confronted with a woman in hysterics and a bloody infant, they’re simply dealing with business as usual. And they don’t want to complicate their day by admitting that the baby might actually be alive and that he needs help.
But as the beginning of the film reminds us, the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act passed in 2002 requires that all infants born alive, including abortion victims, be given medical help, and that what the clinic staff did was illegal.
Even more important, the film makes clear just how wrong their attitude is—and by implication, I think it makes clear how wrong the practice of abortion is that creates that attitude. When Angela holds her tiny baby in her arms and cries that she’s sorry and she loves him, there is no doubt that that child is a real human being—a small, helpless representative of all the innocent victims of so-called “choice.”
Without preaching, the film communicates this truth in a way that is unforgettable.
The film leaves viewers sad and shaken, as it should. It’s the story of a young mother who felt trapped and needed a way out of a painful situation, only to end up in a nightmare that she could never have imagined.
It should remind us all of the great need for the church to reach out to young women like this in any way we can, to help them to choose life and not death for their children. For one way or the other, in the end each person involved in abortion will have to face the truth that abortion is the taking of a life.
The young mother portrayed here only had to face that truth sooner and in a more painful way than most.
The Inescapable Truth about Abortion
Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship Ministry President Mark Earley.
If you are a reader of our blog, The Point, you may remember that back in January of '09 we wrote about a stunning film on abortion called 22 Weeks.
Now you can see the film for yourself. It’s available on DVD at the website www.22WeekstheMovie.com. But you should know beforehand that watching this movie is a harrowing experience. Even if you know how abortions are done, even if you’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the topic, most likely you’ve never seen it portrayed like this.
22 Weeks is based on a true story. A young woman, Angela, undergoes an abortion procedure in her 22nd week of pregnancy. After the procedure was begun, her child was born alive and moving in a bathroom at the clinic. Though she begged the clinic staff to help the baby, clinic staff left her and her son alone in the bathroom until the child died in her arms. Not until a friend called 911 for her did she receive any help.
The DVD contains both a censored and uncensored version of the movie, so that the more sensitive can watch a version that’s a little less graphic. But in either version, viewers should be aware, this film is very, very difficult to watch. The details of Angela’s abortion procedure, including the baby’s live birth in a toilet, are shown in all their stark brutality.
Even more chilling, though, is the callousness of the clinic personnel. And the really frightening thing is that their attitude is easy to understand, because it stems from the very nature of their job. Confronted with a woman in hysterics and a bloody infant, they’re simply dealing with business as usual. And they don’t want to complicate their day by admitting that the baby might actually be alive and that he needs help.
But as the beginning of the film reminds us, the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act passed in 2002 requires that all infants born alive, including abortion victims, be given medical help, and that what the clinic staff did was illegal.
Even more important, the film makes clear just how wrong their attitude is—and by implication, I think it makes clear how wrong the practice of abortion is that creates that attitude. When Angela holds her tiny baby in her arms and cries that she’s sorry and she loves him, there is no doubt that that child is a real human being—a small, helpless representative of all the innocent victims of so-called “choice.”
Without preaching, the film communicates this truth in a way that is unforgettable.
The film leaves viewers sad and shaken, as it should. It’s the story of a young mother who felt trapped and needed a way out of a painful situation, only to end up in a nightmare that she could never have imagined.
It should remind us all of the great need for the church to reach out to young women like this in any way we can, to help them to choose life and not death for their children. For one way or the other, in the end each person involved in abortion will have to face the truth that abortion is the taking of a life.
The young mother portrayed here only had to face that truth sooner and in a more painful way than most.
Operation Outcry
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