As the abortion center closed for the day, one of the
employees came out and threw eight small plastic babies
on the ground.
"I don't know how long you people plan to be here,"
said the worker, "but this is how many we did today."
"Our group remained silent," said Ryan in Tuscaloosa.
"We watched the staff member leave, and prayed for
the eight babies and the staff."
The local team decided it would be best to distribute
the plastic babies to vigil participants to carry as
a reminder to pray for all the unborn, especially the
eight from this particular day.
"We all deal with trials at our vigils," Ryan said.
"We have faith that God is using us to do His work.
This trial and others are proof that God is at work
in these clinics."
The team in Tuscaloosa sent a photo of the plastic
babies. To see it, please go to:
http://40daysforlife.com/blog/
Then I received an email from Students for Life in Buffalo reporting an act of vandalism in which one of their pro-life memorials was carefully destroyed. then there was more to follow:
In total eight people were caught vandalizing the display Monday and Tuesday and at least one of them is facing criminal charges - the arresting officer insinuating that they might be charged with a Hate Crime."
If so that would be the first time - that we're aware of - in which individuals would be charged with committing a hate crime for vandalizing a pro-life display.
I know that Mary Flegel has had to replace our sign more than once in the course of our annual vigils. I have this encouragement to share:
Elijah Lovejoy (1802-1837) was an important abolitionist. He published a newspaper, The Observer, which attacked the evils of slavery. His views were unpopular in his home state of Missouri. His printing press was destroyed, and he was forced out of St. Louis. Across the Mississippi River, at Alton, Illinois, Lovejoy set up a new press and renewed his attacks on slavery. Businessmen in Alton, under pressure from those in St. Louis, again threw Lovejoy’s press into the river. In the fall of 1837, Lovejoy angered local pro-slavery forces when he co-founded the Illinois Anti-Slavery Society. The group resolved to buy a new press to continue Lovejoy’s work. While Lovejoy and his abolitionist friends kept watch over the new press in an Alton warehouse, an armed pro-slavery mob gathered to demand Lovejoy turn over his press. Lovejoy refused and the mob prepared to set fire to the building. Lovejoy ran out of the warehouse in an attempt to stop the fire, but was killed by gunfire. Several others protecting the press were injured and eventually fled the warehouse. The mob then seized the press and threw it out the third-story window of the warehouse.
That was an excerpt from this website. People used to defend mob violence against abolitionists in court, believing they were on the side of true justice. We know better now, thank God.
Let's pray that one day in this nation people will look back on this era as a time when ignorance of truth masqueraded as the moral highroad. We are on the good side of this fight when we stand at 320 Fulton and silently, peacefully pray for an end to abortion and its attendant evils.
