{"id":28583,"date":"2013-03-12T05:23:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T09:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=28583"},"modified":"2013-03-12T14:55:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:55:50","slug":"shawn-carney-on-new-40-days-for-life-book-weve-been-overwhelmed-at-the-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/shawn-carney-on-new-40-days-for-life-book-weve-been-overwhelmed-at-the-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Carney on new 40 Days for Life book: &#8216;we&#8217;ve been overwhelmed at the reaction&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p align=\"left\">Last Thursday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.40daysforlife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">40 Days for Life<\/a> co-founder\u00a0Shawn Carney spoke in Fresno, California at an educational event for <a href=\"http:\/\/righttolifeca.org\" target=\"_blank\">Right to Life of Central California<\/a>. Afterwards we caught up with him to get his thoughts on the new 40 Days for Life book, released\u00a0January 28 by\u00a0Cappella Books.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Live Action News:<\/strong> How did the book come about, and what has the response been so far?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Shawn Carney:<\/strong>\u00a0When David Bereit and I decided to write the 40 Days for Life book, it was last spring, when we saw the approaching 40<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision, we saw NARAL and Planned Parenthood planning celebration events to honor <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. We just thought that the story after 40 years of abortion, after 55 millions little boys and little girls had been lost, the story of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> does not need be what Planned Parenthood and NARAL and the abortion industry say that it is. It needs to be the story of people in America that are sacrificing, that are going out when they can be doing so many other things to save these babies, to reach the women who are having abortions, to reach the workers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">That\u2019s why we decided to put together the 40 most powerful stories, many of which\u00a0we&#8217;ve\u00a0never revealed.\u00a0We&#8217;ve\u00a0never revealed all of them in full detail and just share some of the hearts and minds. You know, we have become so cold as a nation, and we want the book to put a face, a heart, and a soul on abortion. So it can\u2019t be tucked away; it\u2019s something that happens to people, something that people choose, and it\u2019s also something that people don\u2019t choose at the very last moment. And so it\u2019s an inspirational book. It\u2019s really a shot in the arm.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We&#8217;ve\u00a0been overwhelmed at the reaction and the feedback we have gotten. We had Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, endorse the book. We had George Weigel, the biographer of Pope John Paul II, endorse the book, so many different Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelical have rallied around it. And so it&#8217;s really been a positive thing and something we obviously want to make an impact.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28585 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"shawn-carney2\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shawn-carney2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shawn-carney2-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shawn-carney2.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><strong>Live Action News:<\/strong> Can you give us a preview of any of the stories \u2013 a kind of look inside?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Shawn Carney:<\/strong> Absolutely. We have one of the most profound stories that happened to me during a 40 Days for Life visit. A mom in California who chose life for her severely handicapped baby. She had actually scheduled an abortion after two doctors told her to have an abortion.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">She drove then to Planned Parenthood in Orange. She saw the 40 Days for Life volunteers. They had a fetal specialist in Los Angeles, who specialized in severely handicapped children, offer his services for free. They drove this mom to the appointment. She chose life for her baby. Her baby was born with no legs and a cleft pallet. Yeah, she chose life and named the baby Milagro &#8211; \u201cmiracle\u201d in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It\u2019s just a beautiful story to hear this woman\u2019s background, which is in the book. She is from Mexico, and she\u2019d been in a very difficult marriage &#8211; just the circumstance where the abortionist would say, \u201cYou know, you need to have an abortion.\u201d And yet she got there; she got to that point where she made an appointment, showed up for it, and yet had the courage to leave. And we\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0put this in the book, but when I asked her for permission to tell her story, I changed her name, changed the location to protect her identity. She insisted I use her real name and that I use the real location, so one day her daughter could read that chapter in the book and know how much her mom loves her. And that\u2019s really the stuff that people need to hear.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We live in a very cold, cynical world. There are a lot of reasons for despair, but there are also a lot of reasons to hope, because a lot of women choose life at the very last moment, when the world has kind of turned their back on them and said they should have an abortion.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28586\" alt=\"shawn-carney3\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shawn-carney3.jpg\" width=\"648\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shawn-carney3.jpg 648w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shawn-carney3-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full of hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":28584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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