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Apple Removes Popular Pro-Life Prayer App After Liberals Complain
LifeSite News ^ | 10/17/17 | Fr. Mark Hodges

Posted on 10/20/2017 7:06:35 PM PDT by marshmallow

CUPERTINO, California, October 17, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Apple banned a pro-life mobile application after abortion supporters complained, even though the app was approved and previously offered on its App Store.

Human Coalition (HC) created a mobile app that sends prayer alerts to intercessors and church groups.

“Human Coalition’s prayer app is a platform where pro-life advocates can gather together in prayer for abortion-determined women and their children and families,” HC’s public relations director Lauren Enriquez told LifeSiteNews. “Our supporters have found the app helpful in their mission to extend all forms of support, including prayer support, to the women and children we serve and rescue.”

The app, launched in 2014 for both Apple and Android phones, sends anonymous, real-time information about women who call crisis pregnancy centers considering abortion so that pro-lifers can pray for them.

One of the top five “Must-Have Pro-Life Apps” according to the American Life League, the HC app alerts prayer warriors with messages such as “pray for someone in Texas who just placed a call to inquire about abortion,” or “who scheduled an appointment with a Colorado pregnancy resource center.” The app suggests that Christians pray for women to keep pro-life appointments and to choose life for their baby.

Human Coalition culls anonymous information from its women's care centers in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Dallas, and Raleigh, North Carolina, along with its connections at more than 30 centers across America. The app encourages intercessors with real-time results, noting how many people are praying using the app and how many women the user has prayed for that have chosen to give birth.

“Let’s pray our way to ending abortion in America,” the app’s web launch states.

Abortion activists took notice. In June and July, media attacks on Human Coalition exploded. The “hit pieces and podcasts” mocked the.....

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TOPICS: Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: apple; prayer; prolife

1 posted on 10/20/2017 7:06:35 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

If they don’t like it, they don’t have to use it, but it should be available for those who want it.

Apple should put it back.


2 posted on 10/20/2017 7:15:52 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: marshmallow

Don’t buy an Apple.


3 posted on 10/20/2017 7:25:52 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Innovative

That availability is subversive to their State and they don’t want to touch a device that can have that kind of stuff on it. It makes them shudder.


4 posted on 10/20/2017 7:26:34 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: marshmallow

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. ~ J. Sidlow Baxter


5 posted on 10/20/2017 7:27:40 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12")
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To: marshmallow

Why are liberals better at getting stuff like this killed than we are at keeping it available?

(Because the company agrees with the liberals I reckon)


6 posted on 10/20/2017 7:30:02 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: marshmallow

The app is still in the Google play store, and the makers of the app dispute Apple’s contention that the app violates its standards for inclusion in the Apple app store.

https://www.humancoalition.org/2017/10/18/apple-pull-human-coalition-prayer-app-response-pro-abortion-media-targeting/


7 posted on 10/20/2017 7:35:04 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: bigbob

liberal b!tching gets press coverage, conservatives don’t that is why.


8 posted on 10/20/2017 7:51:10 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: marshmallow

Just another example of tyranny by a minority.

All tyrannies are minorities.


9 posted on 10/20/2017 8:45:56 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: marshmallow

will apple remove planned parenthood apps when people complain?


10 posted on 10/20/2017 8:54:41 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: marshmallow

Does that mean if we object to apps conservatives find offensive Apple will remove them? Is it even worth wasting any time on?


11 posted on 10/21/2017 12:00:24 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Doing my part to help make America great again!)
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To: marshmallow

Lest anyone doubt the Left’s plunge into the depths of evil.


12 posted on 10/21/2017 7:07:42 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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