MAKING FRIENDS WITH OUR ENEMIES!

In the widely-viewed film 180, there is a young man named Steve with a Mohawk, tattoos, and piercings. He is also very fouled-mouth, anti-God and anti-Jewish. The first reaction to him might be is that he is a kook or "those atheists are so weird and rude." By the end of the interaction with 180's creator Ray Comfort, it is obvious Steve's heart has been softened and he states that he will think about reading his Bible.

Pro-life activist Bud Shaver demonstrates often how to respond to someone who states they are pro-abortion, anti-God, or just does not want Bud to be in front of the abortion facility. He has made friends with his enemies by not shunning them but engaging in productive positive conversation. Read Monte's entire article here: The Exception and Worst-Case Scenario Approaches To Issues

As we step out in faith, God can use us to Light Up the Darkness, and deal with people's brokenness, those who are carrying heavy burdens. We can represent Jesus to them as he says "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28) As we lead them to Jesus..He will do the rest!

MAKING FRIENDS WITH OUR ENEMIES!


I was reaching out to abortion-minded women at the late-term abortion mill, Southwestern Women’s Options (www.lateterm.com), I was confronted by a young man who was very angry! I was as close as you get to being violently assaulted. He cursed me and asked me what I had to say about it. I told him God Bless You and if you want to talk rationally about the situation we could. He left just as quickly as he came, cursing and flipping me off as he left!

This does not happen as often as one may think, but it does occasionally happen. The difference today was that this guy returned about an hour later…this time very apologetic! He was genuinely sorry for how he treated me.

When we ended our conversation, he did not fall on his knees and profess Christ as his Lord and he was still “Pro-Choice” when he left but he did shake my hand…What seemed impossible just one hour earlier with him being my enemy, was possible for the God that we serve…We ended our (rational) conversation as friends!

Read the full article, by clicking here.

MAKING FRIENDS WITH OUR HARSHEST CRITICS...FELLOW CHRISTIANS!


Sometimes our harshest critics are fellow Christians! We are not here to make friends (even though we sometimes do!), but to save lives! Our ministry is Christ centered and Grace Filled! Please be gracious to us! We do save lives and change minds...everyday! We are always effective...Each and every-time we step out in Faith! Yes, we have seen the "Mountains Move!"

MAKING FRIENDS WITH GOD-HATERS!


This video footage was taken on August 8, 2012 out at Late-Term abortion clinic Southwestern Women's Options www.lateterm.com This was this woman's (and children's) first time peacefully witnessing and offering help out at SWO! What an introduction to the hostility intolerance, and hatred from the "Pro-Choice" community! This guy admitted to being post-abortive. He was carrying around all this baggage, abortion does not just effect women and children...it also effects men! We eventually found common ground and we actually became...friends! (This is just some excerpts the actual conversation was over an hour long!) Also, there were two babies and two women saved from the horror called abortion this day! One of the women was able to receive help from Project Defending Life! www.defendinglife.org We are making friend's with God-Haters, and ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time!

Pro-Life Missionaries are Pushing Back the Abortion Cartel in New Mexico

By, Cheryl Sullenger- Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue

Bud and Tara Shaver need our support to continue their life-saving work in the Late Term Abortion Capital of the Southwest

Albuquerque, NM -- Bud and Tara Shaver are full time pro-life missionaries in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their ministry encompasses its name, "Prayer and a Pro-life Witness." As former Operation Rescue interns they have learned proven strategies to close down abortion clinics. Since arriving in Albuquerque in July 2010 they have begun to implement those strategies by stripping away the layers of the abortion industry and by educating the public with the truth about abortion. When the Shaver's arrived in New Mexico there were seven abortion clinics, as of January 1, 2012 there are only five! The retirement of abortionists Lucia Cies in Santa Fe and Bruce Ferguson in Albuquerque at the end of 2011 is proof that when pressure and exposure is applied through peaceful legal means abortionists aren't willing to continue killing babies!

Why Albuquerque, New Mexico?

The Shaver's have researched and uncovered, that the injustice of abortion is deeply entrenched in New Mexico. New Mexico is one of 15 states in the country that force tax payers to foot the bill for abortion! The state also has virtually no laws protecting the pre-born and those who are in positions of authority have proven to be apathetic and unwilling to act. Abortion clinics are running amok in New Mexico, with virtually no oversight from the Health Department or other state agencies to ensure unsuspecting women's safety!

Albuquerque is also home to the notorious Late Term abortion clinic Southwestern Women's Options (SWO) run by abortionist Curtis Boyd. Curtis Boyd was an illegal abortionist who harmed women before Roe vs. Wade and continues to put women at risk in his Albuquerque clinic. SWO performs abortions through all nine months of pregnancy unashamedly. Albuquerque is also home to the University of New Mexico which operates a free standing abortion clinic (UNM Center for Reproductive Health) which performs abortions through 22 weeks of pregnancy. The University of New Mexico is attempting to train the next generation of abortionists through a residency training program and has medical students performing abortions. Using the research training they received as interns, the Shavers have begun to uncover and expose a deep seated abortion culture and agenda at the University of New Mexico.

Accomplishments this far

In June 2011 Tara obtained fourteen 911 calls stemming fromboth SWO and The University of New Mexico's abortion clinics through a public records request. While most pro-abortion individuals believe that legal abortion is safe, the Shaver's have debunked that myth by uncovering the 911 calls. These calls revealed serious abortion complications including uncontrollable bleeding after a punctured uterus, seizures and a ruptured uterus. Once these calls were obtained, Medical Board complaints were then filed by Tara and Operation Rescue. Filing Medical Board complaints in other states has proven to be extremely successful in closing down clinics by the stripping of doctors licenses. Once light is shed on how women are being needlessly injured behind abortion clinic doors the Medical Board is then compelled to act.

Bud and Tara have also been diligently working to mobilize the Christian community through education to become actively pro-life. They are also striving to organize and maintain a constant prayerful presence at the abortion clinics in Albuquerque. As a result of their efforts countless lives of women and babies have been saved and Churches are getting involved.

They have endured persecution and assault as they boldly confront evil every day in order to light up the darkness! The Shaver's have also helped Project Defending Life open and run their second pregnancy resource center directly across the street from UNM Center for Reproductive Health abortion mill.

The Shaver's collaborate with established Pro-Life organizations in New Mexico, and are directly working alongside Project Defending Life. With the leadership of Father Stephen Imbarrato the Shaver's have met with several state senators, representatives, other public officials, and the Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez numerous times delivering the information they have uncovered into the hands of those who can act. They are working to develop a relevant strategy to address the pertinent Life Issues that face New Mexico. Bud and Tara recognized the abortion crisis and urgent need for outreach in New Mexico and have made New Mexico their mission field.

Operation Rescue recently launched the Pro-Life Nation project, and the Shaver's are an example of what the Pro-Life Nation is, and what it takes to achieve it! The Shaver's are working to end abortion in New Mexico by implementing proven strategies they learned during their time with Operation Rescue and they are ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time!

The Shaver's are full-time Pro-Life Missionaries and raise our own support from individuals who have a heart for their life saving work! Please prayerfully consider supporting this family so they can continue their effort to end abortion in New Mexico!

All donations made out to Project Defending Life, earmarked for "Bud or Tara Shaver" are tax deductible. Your donation can be mailed to:

Bud and Tara Shaver
P.O. Box 50351
Albuquerque, NM 87181

Also, tax-deductible donations can be made on-line here: Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness


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About Operation Rescue®
Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation and has become a strong voice for the pro-life movement in America. Operation Rescue is now headquartered in a former abortion clinic that it bought and closed in 2006. From there, Operation Rescue launches its innovative new strategies across the nation, exposing and closing abortion clinics through peaceful, legal means. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to stop abortion and ultimately restore legal personhood to the pre-born in obedience to biblical mandates.

About Pro-Life Nation

Pro-Life Nation is an initiative of Operation Rescue that offers a goal-oriented strategy to end abortion. For more visit ProLifeNation.org and read our new booklet that details our strategy.
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Web site: www.operationrescue.org
E-mail: info.operationrescue@gmail.com

This also appered on LifeNews.com

Pro-Life Advocates in New Mexico Keep Fighting Abortion Industry

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LifeNews.com also acts as a service provider to furnish news content to media that share the pro-life perspective. The topics covered by LifeNews.com include abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia, bioethics issues such as human cloning and stem cell research, campaigns and elections, and legal and legislative issues.

Formerly the Pro-Life Infonet, LifeNews.com has been harnessing the power of the Internet since 1992 to bring pro-life news to the pro-life community. We’ve developed a reputation for fairness, accuracy and timeliness in our nearly two decades of service.
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MAKING FRIENDS WITH GOD-HATERS!

This video footage was taken on August 8, 2012 out at Late-Term abortion clinic Southwestern Women's Options www.lateterm.com This was this woman's (and children's) first time peacefully witnessing and offering help out at SWO! What an introduction to the hostility intolerance, and hatred from the "Pro-Choice" community! This guy admitted to being post-abortive. He was carrying around all this baggage, abortion does not just effect women and children...it also effects men! We eventually found common ground and we actually became...friends! (This is just some excerpts the actual conversation was over an hour long!) Also, there were two babies and two women saved from the horror called abortion this day! One of the women was able to receive help from Project Defending Life! www.defendinglife.org We are making friend's with God-Haters, and ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time!

August Newsletter: We Are Ending Abortion, One Woman, One Child, One Day At A Time!

Simply Being Present Is All It Takes To Save A Life...

This month God used our prayerful pro-life witness at the abortion mill’s and
as a result, there were several turnaround’s and we were able to speak with/help numerous people. It always amazes me how we can light up the darkness by being present at the abortion clinic for women in their darkest hour and share with them life-affirming alternatives! How else will they know?! While we wait and pray for the Supreme Court and for our own state legislators to end to abortion...we are ending abortion one woman, one child, one day at a time by serving and by simply being there! Thank you for your continued prayers and support...together we are lighting up the darkness!

If you want to know how you can Stand
For Life, here is a great place to start...on
your knees!

This month, we had a great turnout
from the largest local church,
Calvary Chapel ABQ

This woman was walking by, saw our presence
and stopped to share her abortion
testimony and how she turned to Christ
and was forgiven....now Christ is using her
to witness and minister to others! This is
the power of the God we serve!

We do interact with both local law enforcement
and the FBI. We are appreciative
of their public service, and it allows
us opportunities to build bridges with
them. They understand that our public
presence is legal and always peaceful!

“Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of this
dark world!” ~Ephesians 6:12

The Mainstream Media Publicizes The Truth About Abortion

This month a local news station KOAT Channel 7 interviewed Bud out at Late-Term abortion clinic Southwestern Women’s Options. (You can visit our blog by clicking here, to read KOAT’s coverage.) While we always have our critique of the media, we are encouraged that our talking points are getting aired about Albuquerque being the Late-Term Abortion Capital of the country, and the media is focusing on the truth about abortion. This is vital, because as our dear friend and Director of Project Defending Life Fr. Stephen Imbarrato stated, "I truly believe that publicity helps us, not them"...when people do talk about the reality of abortion and are educated...we always win, because lives are saved and minds are changed! The next day after KOAT aired the story, New Mexico’s most listened to talk radio station ,KKOB interviewed Bud and opened up the phone lines for peoples comments and reaction’s to the brutality of abortion, and the public use of graphic images to reveal the truth about abortion. My good friend Mon-te Harms of Stand For Life listened to the show that day and he wrote up a wonderful summary:

By, Monte Harms- Stand For Life

In the last week a truck with photos of the truth has been getting a fair amount of publicity in Albuquerque. Local ABC affiliate KOAT-TV aired a story about the "truth truck" that has abortion photos on its side. Pro-life activist Bud Shaver drives the truck around town and parks it across the street from the late-term abortion facility, Southwestern Women's Options, while he is peacefully counseling women and men at SWO...

Read the rest of the article by clicking here: The Mainstream Media Publicizes The Truth About Abortion

Please Pray :
~For an end to abortion in New Mexico.
~For the conversion of every abortion doctor and clinic worker.
~For softened hearts of the women we speak to each day at abortion clinics.
~For the moms who have already chosen life and for the means to continue to serve them.
~For a continued grace filled and Christ centered ministry focus.
~For more opportunities to share the truth about abortion and it’s effects with
the Christian community.
~For the Christian community to rise up out of apathy and a spiritual awakening.
~For more workers for this ripe harvest.
~For our safety in this spiritual battle.

Please visit our blog throughout the month, for the most recent updates:
Prayerandaprolifewitness.blogspot.com

We are full-time Pro-Life Missionaries and raise our own support from individuals
who have a heart for our life saving work!

All donations made out to Project Defending Life, earmarked for “Bud or
Tara Shaver” are tax deductible and can be mailed to:

Bud and Tara Shaver
P.O. Box 50351
Albuquerque, NM 87181

Your generous support makes our work possible!

“The harvest is plentiful, but the
workers are few. Ask the Lord of the
harvest, therefore, to send out
workers into his harvest field. “
Luke 10:2

The Mainstream Media Publicizes The Truth About Abortion

By, Monte Harms- Stand For Life
(This originally appeared on www.standforlife.net)

In the last week a truck with photos of the truth has been getting a fair amount of publicity in Albuquerque. Local ABC affiliate KOAT-TV aired a story about the “truth truck” that has abortion photos on its side. Pro-life activist Bud Shaver drives the truck around town and parks it across the street from the late-term abortion facility, Southwestern Women’s Options, while he is peacefully counseling women and men at SWO.

The story prompted radio talk show host Scott Stiegler to devote two hours of his show the following day to listener’s reactions to the truck and the use of graphic photos. KKOB with its 50,000 watts is the most listened to station in New Mexico, so there was a huge audience and plenty of comments from the public. Scott Stiegler moderated the two hours by stating it was not going to be about the abortion debate, but he wanted the audience’s opinions about the appropriateness of having abortion images on the side of the truck. Stiegler’s approach was one of the fairest I have seen by the mainstream news media on an abortion-related subject. He started off by saying how we use graphic images for stop-smoking campaigns, driver training videos, and other examples, so why is this any different? Bud Shaver spoke for the first 10-15 minutes about why he uses the truck and the reactions he has received.

Although KKOB’s audience leans conservative or libertarian, it was still surprising how few people disagreed with this method of showing graphic images. Approximately 75% agreed with what he was doing and stated how the world needs to see what abortion is. The other 25% believed it was too “in your face” and not a good way to communicate the pro-life issue.

Hopefully, these reports and the use of the truth truck will wake up the public to the horror of abortion and the issue will be in the news more often. If nothing else, the public that was exposed to these reports now realize that late-term babies are being aborted in their hometown. It’s been obvious that the pro-life view of abortion has been off limits by the mainstream press, but every time a story such as this is aired, the wall comes down a little. In the future the press may be a little more willing to cover the truth about abortion.

Check out Bud and Tara Shaver’s site, Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness, and also go to lateterm.com for more information.

Thanks to KOAT-TV and Scott Stiegler of KKOB radio.

Billboard Calls Albuquerque the Late-Term Abortion Capital

Graphic anti-abortion billboard drives around town.

Report originally appeared at koat.com (Complete report including video footage!)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Report by By Anna Velasquez koat.com

An anti-abortion activist has taken his message to the streets and highways of Albuquerque with a rolling billboard that displays graphic pictures.

Bud Shaver drives around a truck with huge, larger-than-life pictures of dead fetuses from what he said are late-term abortions.

"This just shows what abortion is," Shaver said. "It shows the reality of what abortion is. It also restores meaning to the word abortion."

The billboard also declares Albuquerque as the nation's late-term abortion capital.

"As far as late-term abortion is concerned, Albuquerque is the capital for the United States just because it's drawing people from all over the country," he said.

Shaver keeps his truck near the Southwestern Women's Options abortion clinic at Lomas Boulevard and Interstate 25. He is part of the daily protest there, and knows these pictures drive some people over the edge.

Last summer, a woman attacked Shaver for holding graphic pictures. She was arrested.

While there were no attacks Wednesday, some admit, they had to leave the area because they found it so offensive.

"I looked up and I saw that truck," said Kathy Foy, who was looking for a nice place to sit in her car and have lunch. "It needs to stay between a woman and her doctor. It shouldn't be on a van on the street in a public place like this."

In New Mexico, late-term abortion is legal if the pregnancy endangers the woman's life.

(End of Report)

Actually Late-Term abortion's can be done for any reason up to the day of birth in New Mexico and is funded 100% by YOU and ME the taxpayer thanks to Medicaid! Read the following report by Tara Shaver, Project Defending Life: New Mexico forced taxpayers to fund 1,786 abortions in 2011.

Women obtaining Late-Term abortions are not doing so to save their own life, because the late-term procedure is such that, they still have to go through the pain and process of delivery! The only difference is that they give birth to a dead child...The baby was killed two-three days earlier! Read the entire late-term procedure here: Late-Term.com

The truth is, women can obtain abortion's for any reason up to the day of birth here in New Mexico! Generally, abortion's are done in the later stages of pregnancy for fetal abnormalities...such as Down Sydrome! In fact 90% of babies diagnosed with Down Syndrome, do not survive the womb...They are aborted.

Here are two undercover video's revealing the shocking truth about tax funded Late-Term abortion's at Southwestern Women's Options!

Call Reveals Medicaid Paying $16,000 to Abort 30-Week Down Syndrome Baby


Undercover Calls Reveal Medicaid Pays For $9,000 Late-term Abortions With Our Tax Dollars

In The Midst Of Chaos...A Moment To Hope!

Today (July 3rd, 2012) after spending several hours at Late-Term abortion mill (SWO) in Albuquerque, NM (lateterm.com) reaching out to abortion minded couples and just being ignored or angrily "flipped off!" I drove the Truth Truck back to where it is stored and then headed to Project Defending Life (PDL). After being there for a while taking care of business and speaking with volunteers I headed out the door. As I was leaving I just glanced over and saw a couple being helped by our Gabriel Project volunteer and I sort of recognized the couple but in the moment, couldn't remember where I had seen them before...That is until I walked outside and saw a very unique bright yellow truck! All of a sudden I realized where I recognized the couple from. Over a year ago, I had spoken with the boyfriend and given him information about PDL when he had dropped off his girlfriend for an abortion. He had told me that it was too late and that his girlfriend had already gone back for the abortion.

Due to confidentiality policies at PDL I will never know for sure, but just the possibility stopped me in my tracks for a moment to hope that even though we were not able to spare his girlfriend and previous child from the tragedy of abortion... That our presence and faithful commitment to be present at the abortion mill over a year ago, saved this child and spared them from the tragic mistake of another abortion!

The number one question I am asked is "Are you really effective in your ministry?" I always emphatically respond..."Yes we are always effective when we step out in faith and publicly stand against injustice even if we never know if we ever saved even one baby, just being present is enough!"...And you never know, possibly more babies are being saved then we will ever know! One thing is for sure, God knows what we are doing to rescue those being led away to death, the lives being saved, and He will repay everyone according to what they have done!