Jan 21, 2010 / 00:22 am
The 40 Days for Life Campaign has announced that 2010’s first campaign of prayer, fasting, pro-life outreach and vigils outside abortion clinics will take place from Feb. 17 to March 28. The effort aims to save women and children from the “tragedy” of abortion and to keep abortion out of U.S. health care legislation.
The Campaign says there will be participants in 156 cities across the U.S. and in four Canadian provinces and three Australian states.
Past campaigns reportedly have attracted more than 300,000 participants and are known to have saved 2,168 children and their mothers from “the tragedy of abortion.”
40 Days for Life also says five abortion centers have closed following its participants’ prayer vigils and 27 abortion industry employees have quit their jobs. These include Abby Johnson, a director of a Texas Planned Parenthood center who has now spoken out against the organization.