It’s not a pre-April Fool’s joke. Starting in March and continuing for forty days, a Planned Parenthood group in Eureka, California, will once again hold forty days of prayer, in cooperation with the Humboldt County Clergy for Choice.¹ The pastors will offer “40 different prayers for those involved in the ‘sacred care’ of abortions to continue protecting, providing, and embracing the procedure—including mothers, escorts, [and] abortionists.”² Of course, none of the forty prayers is for the unborn.

This program makes a mockery of real prayer to the living, life-giving God, who cherishes every soul and unequivocally pronounces woe on those who do not. For instance, “The Lord hates … hands that shed innocent blood” (Proverbs 6:16–17), and “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20).