{"id":2215,"date":"2011-03-08T13:46:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T18:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:47:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:47:32","slug":"praying-for-an-end-to-abortion-one-priests-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/03\/praying-for-an-end-to-abortion-one-priests-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying for an end to abortion: one priest's story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Reader and blogger Anne Bender sent this my way, from her blog Imprisoned in my Bones<\/strong><\/a>: an account from Fr. Don Hying, about his experience praying outside an abortion clinic.<\/p>\n

With the Lenten \u201c40 Days for Life\u201d campaign about to begin, this couldn\u2019t be more timely.<\/p>\n

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Snip<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Late last Saturday morning, a group of us went to pray at the abortuary on Farwell Avenue. Usually, I go earlier in the day when pregnant women are entering the building and the pro-abortion escorts are stationed in front to keep the clients from talking to us. At 11 AM, the escorts were gone because all of the women were already inside. One by one, the women came out, walking slowly, looking dazed, holding a brown bag, gingerly entering their boyfriend\u2019s car and driving away. It was heartbreaking, like watching a steady stream of casualties returning from some gruesome and hidden front, where the invisible violence could only be read on the bodies of the survivors.<\/p>\n

After praying a rosary and a Chaplet of Divine Mercy, we were thinking about leaving when suddenly a woman who has worked at the abortion mill for years in some form of management came driving up in her Jaguar, dashed inside and emerged moments later. As she passed me, I spoke in a quiet and calm voice, \u201cStop killing people here!\u201d She turned on me in a visceral and hysterical rage, shouting about priests abusing little boys, calling me \u201cpathetic\u201d, enraged by my promise to pray for her and finally giving me the finger as she drove away.<\/p>\n

What impressed me about such a brief and disturbing incident was the startling fact that the woman never denied that she was indeed helping to kill people or that what I said was in any way false.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the rest<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And: pray for life.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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