Date:
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
by Shawn Carney | LifeNews.com | 10/13/14 9:33 AM
We are at the halfway point! Have you participated in the 40 Days for Life campaign yet? If not … there is plenty of time.
And here’s some motivation.
Halfway through these 40 days of prayer and fasting, we are aware of 199 babies whose mothers chose life at the very
last moment!
Here are the stories of just a few of those babies.
DALLAS, TEXAS
Volunteers in Dallas say they have “two jubilant reports” from the sidewalk outside the Planned Parenthood abortion
mega-center where the 40 Days for Life vigil is going on.
In one instance, the vigil participants were able to talk to a woman who “just needed someone to help” … and she
quickly learned that the help she really needed was not available at Planned Parenthood. One of the volunteers says it
brought tears to her eyes when the woman chose life for her child.
A second woman stopped her car near Planned Parenthood when she saw someone with a sign that said “Pregnant?
Need help?” The sign also had a phone number … which the woman started to call.
She said she was thinking about abortion – she’d had one before, and now had two children in diapers. Her simple
plea: “I need help!” Counselors put her in touch with a pregnancy center that would offer the assistance she – and her
baby – would need.
One of the newer volunteers in Portland
was able to start a conversation with a
young woman who was on her way into
Planned Parenthood.
It was her boyfriend who was
encouraging the abortion. “She felt she
couldn’t take care of another child,” said
Therese, the local leader. “She has
three children and said she didn’t have
enough resources. She was in a tough
situation.”
The volunteers told her there were many types of help available, and that the older children would love their new baby
brother or sister. “After some more encouragement, she was showing us pictures of her other children,” Therese said.
“And smiling!”
She then left … knowing where she could find help and support following her decision to reject abortion.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Baltimore volunteers watched a woman leave the abortion center after having been there for four hours. Usually, that’s
bad news. But in this case, the woman walked up to the people praying outside and said, “I will keep my baby.”
She was four months along in her pregnancy, she told the vigil participants, who said she seemed overjoyed with her
decision.
“A miracle happened,” said Kim in Baltimore, “and all who witnessed it are forever changed. A life was saved through
the power of our Lord Jesus Christ … and none can deny His merciful heart and His mighty hand in action.”