A New Prayer Program Against Planned Parenthood

In the Vital Signs Ministries' latest report, Denny Hartford outlined a new prayer strategy be used against Planned Parenthood.  It is simple in design but I believe it could be quite powerful if we undertake it together.

This special prayer program is one which we hope will result in a greater number of Christians praying against Planned Parenthood and in bringing greater specificity to our unified intercession.  We’re calling it “3 for 5” and here’s how it works.

We’re asking believers to covenant together to pray at least 3 minutes a day on the 5 weekdays about specific issues related to Planned Parenthood’s ongoing assaults on the culture of life.  That could mean 3 minutes of prayer added to one’s morning meditations, a minute prayer lifted up three times a day…whatever.  And for every weekday, we’re encouraging prayers aimed at particular targets.  Again, this way we’re praying more AND praying for the very same things, agreeing with one another and the Holy Spirit to oppose the evil deeds of this mega-abortion corporation.

Here's the prayer schedule:

1) Monday’s focus: Pray for Planned Parenthood’s scheduled victims for the week.

“This week many young women are scheduled to have their babies destroyed by Planned Parenthood abortionists.  Many more will abort children through the various chemicals that the business sells.  Father, we pray for many of these minds to be changed.  We ask that these moms will choose instead the guidance and loving assistance of pro-life family members, churches and pregnancy aid centers.  And we also pray that those who have already been exploited and victimized by Planned Parenthood find healing in the cross of Christ.”

Scripture exhortation: Deuteronomy 30:19 -- “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants.” (NASB)

2) Tuesday’s focus: Pray for shame and scandal to be the portion of Planned Parenthood.

“Holy Lord Jesus, today I pray that the immoral and violent nature of Planned Parenthood be increasingly revealed to the public.  Raise up journalists, lawyers, politicians, educators, celebrities, business leaders and more to expose the organization’s promotion and enablement of abortion, sexual perversion, promiscuity, and misuse of government funds.  Take from Planned Parenthood their financial support, their partnerships and their false cloak of respectability.”

Scripture exhortation: Ephesians 5:11 --“And so do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them.” (NASB)

3) Wednesday’s focus: Pray for spiritual conversion among Planned Parenthood employees and supporters.

“Please, Lord Jesus, reveal to those who work with, promote or otherwise support Planned Parenthood the organization’s inherent evils.  Give them a new understanding of the sanctity of life, marriage, family and purity.  And with repentance and conversion, make of these ‘born again’ people effective servants of Your grace and holiness.”

Scripture exhortation: 2 Corinthians 5:17 -- “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold, new things have come.” (NASB)

4) Thursday’s focus: Pray for those who stand against Planned Parenthood’s assaults on the culture of life.

“Dear Jesus, today we earnestly pray for all those who seek to defend the least of these and to restore a sanctity of life ethic to our nation.  We pray for those who, in various ways, prayerfully oppose the barbarism of Planned Parenthood.  We ask You to provide wisdom, protection and spiritual power in abundance for sidewalk counselors, clergy, medical professionals, pro-life educators and especially for those who serve with pro-life pregnancy aid ministries.”

Scripture exhortation: Timothy 1:7 -- “For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.” (NASB)

5) Friday’s focus: Pray for a dramatic reformation of sexual ethics among American youth.

“Father, today’s prayer is for fresh and compelling conviction of Your truths regarding modesty, purity, self-control, and the blessedness of sexual relations within marriage.  Reveal these precious virtues especially to youth and to those who influence American culture.  And also, Lord, please expose for all to see Planned Parenthood’s perverse and counter-productive sex-ed philosophy.”

Scripture exhortation: Philippians 4:8 -- “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.” (NASB)

Talk About Conspiracy Theories! Check Out Planned Parenthood's Jaffe Memo.

Have you ever heard of the Jaffe Memo?

It's a memorandum sent in 1969 by Frederick S. Jaffe (then a Planned Parenthood vice-president) to the president of the Population Council. It's a quite disturbing document, revealing as it does that the social decadence occurring in recent decades did not "just happen" by sad accident. Indeed, there have been forces (like Planned Parenthood) purposefully and actively at work breaking down America's moral, economic and social traditions.

Think I'm sounding like a conspiracy theorist? Then take a look at the document and think again.

Here's more.

Planned Parenthood's Mythomania

Is Planned Parenthood suffering from an extreme case of mythomania, the psychological disorder marked by an “excessive or abnormal propensity for lying and exaggerating.” Because whether it involves history (even their own), the science of embryology, the procedures of abortion, the links of abortion to breast cancer, post-abortion trauma, racism, their extremely lucrative business model, eugenics, and even more, Planned Parenthood just can't seem to deal with the truth.

And so they lie. Big, outrageous, dangerous lies. And they do it constantly.

Ryan Bomberger muses about just a couple of elements of Planned Parenthood's mythomania in this LifeNews.com column.

(And remember, Ryan Bomberger is coming to Lincoln for the annual walk for Life next month. Here's more on that.)

Another Planned Parenthood Insider Speaks Out

In 1997, I began working at a Boston Planned Parenthood clinic as a young, idealistic college student who strongly believed in what I had been told about the organization, that I would be helping other young women access safe and affordable health care.

But I quickly came to learn that the message Planned Parenthood advertised did not reflect reality. I was disillusioned by the betrayal that was perpetrated against patients and the public alike.

My time there was not spent providing prenatal care to pregnant women, providing counseling or basic health care services or educating women about reproductive health.

Instead, I spent my days urging women to terminate their pregnancies. My superiors constantly reminded me of our abortion-centered business model: abortions first, everything else came second...

Read the rest of Catherine Anthony Adair's story in this enlightening LifeSiteNews column.

Look Who's Talking About Misinformation!

Marc John Paul reports for LifeNews.com about how Planned Parenthood regularly misleads women about their services -- while all the time trying to portray pro-life pregnancy help centers as the villains. It's an illuminating piece.