40 Days for Life campaign to raise awareness for Pro-Lifers
Katie Sechrist
Issue date: 10/31/07 Section: Religion
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Forty days. If a person looks in the Bible, 40 is an extraordinary number. It represents the numbers of days that Jesus fasted in the desert, the number of days it rained when God wanted to cleanse the Earth, the number of days Moses was on the mountain with God, the number of days Egyptians believed was preparation for the afterlife and the number of days Jesus walked the Earth after his Crucifixion. For the Pro-Life Movement, it also means 40 Days for Life.
40 Days for Life, which runs from Sept. 26 to Nov. 4, is used as a campaign to raise awareness, save lives, bring healing and prepare America for the beginning of the end of abortion. The campaign consists of three components in order to spread the message to stop abortion: prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil and community outreach.
In addition to raising awareness, 40 Days for Live is an event that could play a part in reducing abortion rates, increase financial support for the Pro-Life Movement, lead those who had abortions into healing, as well as voicing the importance of the sanctity of human life.
According to the Catechism on the Catholic Church, paragraph 2270, "Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life."
The student organization, Mount Students for Life, strives to uphold the Pro-Life movement vision to spread awareness on respecting the dignity of human life from the moment of conception to natural death. On Saturday Oct. 27, members of the organization led in peaceful demonstration and prayer outside the abortion clinic to spread their message as a part of the 40 Days for Life campaign.
Sophomore Jon Benitez, a member of the Mount Students for Life and someone who holds the Pro-Life viewpoint, commented on the today's culture.
"Our culture promotes death, life is a commodity," Benitez said. "The basis is a material world but we need to focus on God, our creator."
Since the landmark United States Supreme Court Case Roe vs. Wade, more than 35 million abortions have been performed causing the late Pope John Paul II to state "a nation with abortion is a nation without hope."
40 Days for Life, which runs from Sept. 26 to Nov. 4, is used as a campaign to raise awareness, save lives, bring healing and prepare America for the beginning of the end of abortion. The campaign consists of three components in order to spread the message to stop abortion: prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil and community outreach.
In addition to raising awareness, 40 Days for Live is an event that could play a part in reducing abortion rates, increase financial support for the Pro-Life Movement, lead those who had abortions into healing, as well as voicing the importance of the sanctity of human life.
According to the Catechism on the Catholic Church, paragraph 2270, "Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life."
The student organization, Mount Students for Life, strives to uphold the Pro-Life movement vision to spread awareness on respecting the dignity of human life from the moment of conception to natural death. On Saturday Oct. 27, members of the organization led in peaceful demonstration and prayer outside the abortion clinic to spread their message as a part of the 40 Days for Life campaign.
Sophomore Jon Benitez, a member of the Mount Students for Life and someone who holds the Pro-Life viewpoint, commented on the today's culture.
"Our culture promotes death, life is a commodity," Benitez said. "The basis is a material world but we need to focus on God, our creator."
Since the landmark United States Supreme Court Case Roe vs. Wade, more than 35 million abortions have been performed causing the late Pope John Paul II to state "a nation with abortion is a nation without hope."
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