40 Days for Life: more than 580 unborn babies saved

The 40 Days for Life campaign reported more than 580 unborn children were saved and eight abortion clinic workers left the business by the close of the initiative Nov. 1, reports Baptist Press.

In the waning days of this fall's effort, the initiative surpassed 2,000 unborn babies saved in all the campaigns it has conducted, national director David Bereit reported.

40 Days for Life, which began locally in Bryan, Texas, in 2004, involves peaceful prayer vigils outside abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood offices, as well as fasting for the end of abortion. The latest campaign involved tens of thousands of people in 212 cities in 45 states, Canada and Denmark.

Two abortion clinics that have been the sites of 40 Days vigils announced their closings recently.

The Community Healthcare Center in Pensacola, Fla., shut down Oct. 30, according to a report by WEAR-TV, the local ABC affiliate. State inspectors discovered the clinic's lab license had expired 413 days earlier. The state gave the clinic the option of paying a $413,000 fine or closing. Though Florida's Agency for Healthcare Administration offered the center a reduced fine, it never received a reply.

The closing came two days before the end of a 40 Days for Life prayer vigil outside the clinic.

“People have prayed there that abortions would cease, and it was during the fall 40 Days for Life campaign ... that it was finally announced that this facility, where untold numbers of unborn children perished, was closing,” Bereit said in a written statement. “That is not just a coincidence. God works in mysterious ways, and this is indeed an answer to prayer!”

Planned Parenthood of Montana has announced its clinic in Kalispell, Mont., is closing because of the “economic downturn,” effective Nov. 20. The center was the site of a 40 Days for Life vigil in the spring.

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[11/24/2009]

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