Emily's 5 Blessings: Operation Outcry and A Cry Without A Voice visit OHOP

Our friend, Cecilia Sullivan is part of a ministry called Operation Outcry and A Cry Without A Voice. We invited her plus some of the ladies that are part of these ministries to come to OHOP to tell our missions base about what they do.Operation Outcry is the project of THE JUSTICE FOUNDATION to end legal abortion by exposing the truth about its devastating impact on women, men and families. We believe that this will be accomplished through prayer and with the testimonies of women and men who have suffered harm from abortion. We are working to restore justice and to protect women, men, and children from the destruction that abortion causes.
OPERATION OUTCRY exposes the two great lies surrounding legalized abortion: 1) abortion is good and safe for women; and, 2) it is not a baby being aborted.
OPERATION OUTCRY has a national network of leaders to assist, encourage, and train women and others to speak out in the public arena and to collect DECLARATIONS for the historic legal effort to end legal abortion. PLEASE JOIN ONE MILLION VOICES

HOPE AND HEALING
OPERATION OUTCRY reaches out to hurting women and men and refers them to the National Helpline for Abortion Recovery - a 24-hour, toll-free helpline to help women and men deal with their grief and to offer hope and healing. If you are hurting from abortion, please call the National Helpline for Abortion Recovery at 866-482-LIFE.
Operation Outcry is:
Touching hearts by “crying out” the truth that abortion hurts women, men, families, and the culture.
Changing lives by offering hope and healing as women and men share their personal stories of tragic grief and pain of abortion.
Restoring justice through legal and legislative efforts. The U.S. Supreme Court cited to the written testimony of the women of Operation Outcry in upholding the federal ban on partial-birth abortion. But the Court said it did not know the size of the problem, so help us collect one million declarations to show the Court how many are hurt by abortion!
BackgroundIn 2000, The Justice Foundation agreed to represent Norma McCorvey, who was “Jane Roe” in Roe v. Wade, and Sandra Cano, who was “Mary Doe” in Doe v. Bolton, in their legal efforts to reverse their 1973 Supreme Court rulings that made abortion on demand legal in America. In the evidence collection phase of the legal effort, women who experienced the tragic and harmful effects of abortion provided sworn testimony about how abortion hurt them. See “Legal Cases” for more information on the Roe and Doe case. In light of the partial-birth abortion decision of April 2007, our goal is to now collect one million DECLARATIONS to show the court the size of the problem with abortion and how it hurts women.Operation Outcry inpired a national movement of women and others harmed by abortion who are sharing their stories in the hope that others will be spared the suffering and tragic consequences they have endured. They are exposing the truth that abortion hurts the mother and father of the unborn baby, as well as others. Abortion strikes at the heart of a culture: the family. Join us!

A Cry Without A Voice

A Cry Without a Voice HistoryKrissi and Rebecca's Story
Krissi Rutledge Vasquez was a young woman at Southeastern Bible College who began to think of the 'silent' war which is ravaging lives in our 'Homeland' everyday. She saw that as men and women risk their lives for our freedom, it is those 'freedoms' that are ending unborn life.
She began to collect 3500 baby shoes to display on the Washington, DC Mall to show how our nation's children's 'destiny's' are affected by abortion.

The 'A Cry Without a Voice Project' was to represent three 'cries' associated with abortion.
1. The first cry is the unborn child(ren) in the womb crying out for LIFE.2. Second, are the mothers who silently grieve year after year and have no voice due to the guilt and shame they carry. 3. The third cry represents the fathers who have no voice in whether their child will have a destiny thanks to a 'woman's right' to choose.

Only 1200 baby shoes were collected but it created a bigger impact when people realized it was only 1/3 of the daily loss. There were 35 pairs of baby shoes tagged 'In Loving Memory' at the original display.
Rebecca Porter was asked to take over the project in 2005. She helped with the original display and her children's tagged baby shoes are part of it. She has taken small displays all over America and around the world.

There are not over 700 tagged pairs and 1500 total pairs collected since becoming the 'A Cry Without a Voice' Memorial.
Some of the baby shoes are tagged by women, men and siblings in memory of their family members lost to abortion. Some have been sent to the memorial after completing an abortion recovery group, but the majority has been tagged during the display.

Parts of the Memorial have traveled to Operation Outcry events and retreats • TheCall prayer and fasting gatherings in Nashville, Orlando, Montgomery and Washington DC • America for Jesus Rally • Creation Festivals • Soul Fest • Texas, Pennsylvania, Georgia • University of Florida and University of Miami • Internationally to Israel, Holland, Hungary and Jamaica.

All of the women shared their testimonies which brought tears to most of us.

This woman's daughter died due to a legal abortion procedure.

Most of these women had all had abortions many years ago but today have asked the Lord for forgiveness and they are now involved in both of these ministries.