40 Days for Life has announced that it has now saved over 20,000 babies from being aborted since being founded in 2004.
40 Days for Life is an international pro-life organisation that has campaigned against abortion in more than 60 nations.
Through vigils and other pro-life initiatives, 40 Days for Life has saved over 20,000 verified babies and helped shut down 114 abortion facilities across the world.
Among those saved this year are six sets of twins and, in a first for 40 Days for Life, a set of triplets.
As of now, 40 Days for Life has held vigils at 612 abortion sites worldwide.
“We’re winning”, said Steve Karlen, who currently directs the campaign. “We’ve seen over the last 25 years half of all abortion facilities close and go out of business.”
And it’s not just babies who are being saved.
In one case, the presence of just one man attending a pro-life vigil in Mexico City saved the life of another man considering suicide after finding out that his girlfriend had aborted their child. Seeing the pro-life man praying outside an abortion facility, the suicidal man turned to him in his hour of need.
“You saved my life”, he would later tell him after receiving vital support.
SPUC comment
A SPUC spokesperson said: “Peaceful pro-life vigils and interventions, offering help to mothers and others in need, are proven to save lives.
“20,000 lives saved is a wonderful milestone that also shows just how much of a disaster the introduction of buffer zones would be – sabotaging the life-saving work by dedicated pro-lifers.
“These interventions save lives. Buffer zones would stop that.
“SPUC congratulates 40 Days for Life for these lovely 20,000 additions to the world – over 20,000 precious lives saved from the abortion industry – proving to the world that what vulnerable mothers really need is support, love and a way out of abortion.”
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