The words to this song so aptly epitomize the meaning of 40 Days for Life! Join us as we bring LIGHT to the DARKNESS in our community!
Join us as we PRAY TO END ABORTION in Pensacola!
Next Wednesday, September 22nd, we will begin our local 40 Days for Life campaign. We will be joining 237 other cities around this nation and around the world as we pray simultaneously for 40 Days.
For 40 Days we will pray, fast, and peacefully vigil outside Pensacola’s two abortion facilities. The goal this fall of our local 40 Days for Life is to have a peaceful, prayerful presence in front of both abortion facilities, AMS of Pensacola and American Family Planning. In order to do this we need your help. If everyone on this e-mail list took one hour or more to pray, we would be able to cover a majority of the 960 hours. If you haven’t signed up for an hour to pray, please do so at our vigil scheduler.
You can also Spring 40 Days for Life Pensacola Miracle Baby Born Sept 10, 2010
On Sunday, February 21, 2010, this baby boy was scheduled to die by abortion. His mother was actually inside the abortion clinic. On Friday, September 10th, 2010 he was born. My wife was actually asked by the young mother to be present in the C-section room. What an amazing experience. Praise the Lord!!!
That February day participants in the Spring 40 Days for Life campaign were able to help his mother. What a wonderful mother she is. She just needed to know everything was going to be alright. She needed someone that was willing to help her out. She needed someone to love her.
This is what 40 Days for Life is all about. This is why we stand in front of abortion clinics. We are there to love mothers and fathers. We are there to help guide them. We are there to pray for them and with them.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to participate in 40 Days for Life. It starts on September 22nd and continues until October 31st. Go and pray in front of one of Pensacola’s two abortion facilities.
Your presence does really make a difference. A few months ago when I was speaking with baby boy’s mother she stated that she remembered seeing our family outside praying in front of the abortion clinic. She stated, “It was seeing your family outside the abortion clinic that day that really made me begin to question what I was doing. I began to change my mind after seeing your family through the abortion clinic window.”
Today we have a perfect example of the power of prayer; the power of LOVE. Lives are saved when we pray in front of abortion clinics. Do not ever doubt that.
Oh, sweet Jesus, we Trust in You!
Thank you Jesus! Thank you for the miracle of life. Thank you for this miracle, your miracle, that we are able to witness.
Come on, get involved with 40 Days for Life. Lives are depending upon you.
If you have any questions please e-mail us
40 Days for Life Pensacola Novena of Masses Schedule
Novena of Masses for the Intention of the closing of the abortion facilities; AMS of Pensacola and American Family Planning
September 22, St. Jude Thaddeus, Cantonment 8:30am
September 23, St. Ann, Gulf Breeze 8:30am
September 24, Little Flower 8:15am
September 25, St. Stephen, 8:00am
September 26, St. Michael, 11:00am, Sunday mass
September 27, Corpus Christi, 8:00am
September 28, St. Rose of Lima, 8:00am
September 29, St. Sylvester, 8:30am
September 30, Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, 8:00am
Prayer for the Closing of the Abortion Mills
By: Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life
Father, all life is in Your care.
You have entrusted us to one another,
that we may show our brothers and sisters
the same love You have for us.
We pray, then, for the least among us,
the children in the womb.
Protect them from the violence of abortion.
We pray for those that are scheduled to die at
AMS of Pensacola and American Family Planning abortion facilities.
Save them from death.
Give new hope to their parents,
that they may turn away from the
desperate act of abortion.
Grant conversion to the abortionist and to the staff.
Show us how we are to respond to the
bloodshed in our midst,
and lead us to the day when this place of death
will be transformed into a haven of life.
Guard us with your joy and your peace,
for in You, life is victorious.
We pray in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
On Sunday, February 21, 2010, this baby boy was scheduled to die by abortion. His mother was actually inside the abortion clinic. On Friday, September 10th, 2010 he was born. That February day participants in the Spring 40 Days for Life campaign were able to help his mother. What a wonderful mother she is. She just needed to know everything was going to be alright. She needed someone to was willing to help her out. She needed someone to love her.
This is what 40 Days for Life is all about. This is why we stand in front of abortion clinics. We are there to love mothers and fathers. We are there to help guide them. We are there to pray for them and with them.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to participate in 40 Days for Life. It starts on September 22nd and continues until October 31st. Go and pray in front of one of Pensacola’s two abortion facilities.
Your presence does really make a difference. A few months ago when I was speaking with baby boy’s mother she stated that she remembered seeing our family outside praying in front of the abortion clinic. She stated, “It was seeing your family outside the abortion clinic that day that really made me begin to question what I was doing. I began to change my mind after seeing your family through the abortion clinic window.”
Today we have a perfect example of the power of prayer; the power of LOVE. Lives are saved when we pray in front of abortion clinics. Do not ever doubt that.
Oh, sweet Jesus, we Trust in You!
Thank you Jesus! Thank you for the miracle of life. Thank you for this miracle, your miracle, that we are able to witness.
40 Days for Life Pensacola scheduler (Schedule some time to pray; Trust in God and go in prayer):
http://40daysforlifepensacola.com/scheduler.php?logout=1
Pictures of the Spring 40 Days for Life miracle baby boy.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4749526&id=588354679#!/album.php?aid=233871&id=122128579428&ref=mf
Nine months ago this baby boy’s life was in jeopardy. Today, he has made his grand entrance into this world on September 10th at 8:23 AM. A healthy baby boy. A true survivor.
Today we thank God for the gift of life. Thank you to everyone for your prayers and support you have shown this young woman and her child over the past 9 months. Today is a day of celebration for all people of life here in Pensacola.
We have a lot of work to be done, but today couldn’t be any sweeter!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Prayer to End Abortion
by Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life
Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life,
And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters.
I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion,
Yet I rejoice that you have conquered death
by the Resurrection of Your Son.
I am ready to do my part in ending abortion.
Today I commit myself
Never to be silent,
Never to be passive,
Never to be forgetful of the unborn.
I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement,
And never to stop defending life
Until all my brothers and sisters are protected,
And our nation once again becomes
A nation with liberty and justice
Not just for some, but for all,
Through Christ our Lord. Amen!
“A Night for Life”
St. Anne Parish Family Life Center
5200 Saufley Field Road
Pensacola, FL
Sunday, September 19th at 7 PM
You don’t want to miss this evening to hear how 40 Days for Life has impacted the Pensacola Community and how you can be part of this life changing campaign.
Musical guest Sharmane Adams
All Faiths Welcome
Spread the word to everyone you know and bring someone with you!
By Marie McCullough
Inquirer Staff Writer
Three weeks ago, physician Steven Brigham led a car caravan of patients from his Voorhees abortion clinic to his facility in Elkton, Md. After one of the patients was critically injured during her surgery there, Brigham put the semiconscious, bleeding woman into the back of a rented Chevrolet Malibu and drove her to a nearby hospital emergency room rather than call an ambulance.
Those details are contained in documents issued over the last 10 days by the Maryland Board of Physicians and Elkton police. The two agencies have launched a wide-ranging investigation into Brigham’s long-troubled abortion business, which he conducts in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.
On Aug. 25, the Maryland Board of Physicians ordered Brigham, 54, to stop performing abortions in that state, where he has never been licensed to practice medicine. By then police had raided Brigham’s Elkton facility – from which they said they removed 35 “late-term fetuses and fetal parts” – as well as the Voorhees headquarters of his chain of 15 clinics, which does business as American Women’s Services.
Maryland authorities seek missing medical records, and are looking into Brigham’s habit of sending late-term patients across state lines after initiating their abortions in Voorhees.
Brigham’s four New Jersey clinics cannot provide abortions after the first trimester (14 weeks of pregnancy) because they do not meet state safety requirements for such risky outpatient surgeries. Brigham has for years performed the first phase of such abortions there – the insertion of absorbent rods that dilate the patient’s cervix over a day or more – and sent them to a facility in another state for the surgery. New Jersey law doesn’t address whether inserting dilators constitutes abortion.
Brigham did not return a phone message left Thursday at his Voorhees condominium.
Maryland’s action is just the latest problem for the doctor, whose medical license has been revoked, relinquished, or temporarily suspended in five states over the last 18 years.
In July, the Pennsylvania Department of Health revoked Brigham’s permission to own clinics in the state because he had repeatedly employed unlicensed caregivers; he is appealing that decision. Brigham himself cannot perform medical procedures in Pennsylvania because of a confidential 1992 agreement in which he agreed to give up his license.
Brigham also had $234,536 in federal tax liens against him in April for failing to pay payroll taxes from 2002 to 2006.
Maryland regulators are investigating not only Brigham, but also two physicians he employed, the documents show.
On Tuesday, the board suspended the Maryland license of George Shepard Jr., a Delaware obstetrician-gynecologist hired in 2009 as a part-time medical director of Brigham’s four Maryland clinics. The board has charged Shepard with unprofessional conduct and with helping Brigham flout credentialing requirements.
Shepard’s lawyer, Jason Allison of Elkton, said, “We are reviewing the allegations and . . . are confident that Dr. Shepard’s license will be reinstated.”
On Tuesday, the Maryland board also suspended the license it granted less than two months ago to Nicola I. Riley, a family physician who in late July began flying “from her home in Utah every other week to Maryland to perform abortions.” Riley did not return a call left with her mother in Utah.
It was Riley who mishandled the abortion on Aug. 13, according to the medical board documents. They provide this account:
On Aug. 12, an 18-year-old woman, 21 weeks pregnant, signed abortion consent forms at Brigham’s Voorhees facility, at 1 Alpha Ave. Brigham then inserted the absorbent rods that widen the cervix.
On Aug. 13, the patient returned to the Voorhees clinic, with “the understanding that she would be provided transportation to Philadelphia” for the surgical phase of the abortion.
Instead, “Dr. Brigham . . . instructed [her] and the other women who were scheduled to complete abortions to form a line of cars and follow the lead car to a location where the abortion would be performed.”
In Elkton, Riley gave the patient anesthesia under Brigham’s direction and began the surgery, but cut through the patient’s uterus into the bowel and vagina.
Riley informed the patient’s mother and boyfriend of the complications, but refused to call for an ambulance. Riley “originally contemplated taking [the patient] by wheelchair to the hospital, which was about two blocks away.”
Brigham drove Riley and the patient to the hospital, where the two abortion doctors dodged questions “about who they were, what had happened, and from where they had come.”
The patient’s injuries were so complex that she had to be flown by helicopter to Johns Hopkins Hospital while Riley “returned to the Elkton office . . . to perform another abortion.”
A few days later, the patient complained to the Elkton police; they raided the clinic on Aug. 17, looking for the patient’s medical record. Although that couldn’t be found, police discovered frozen aborted fetuses and medical-waste records showing fetal ages up to 36 weeks. (A pregnancy is considered full-term at 38 weeks.)
On Aug. 20, Elkton police searched Brigham’s Voorhees office for medical records that would explain the fetuses.
The officers “found only two medical records related to the fetuses,” board documents say.
Staff from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office were on hand for the search, spokesman Paul Loriquet said. He added that he believed New Jersey’s Board of Medicine, which oversees physicians, would take action soon.
The Maryland board moved against Brigham, Shepard, and Riley after a Johns Hopkins physician filed a complaint. The physician expressed concerns that patients were being put at risk by “being transported across state lines to complete medical care,” board documents say.
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