40 Days For Life Sets New Record as Lent Campaign Launches in 588 Cities

Ashley Bateman : Mar 4, 2022
LifeSiteNews.com

"Even Christians outside the United States are excited because they know that just as the US exported abortion around the world, we will export the end of abortion around the world." -Steven Karlan, the 40 Days for Life campaign director.

(Jackson, MS) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Ash Wednesday marked the opening of 40 Days for Life's largest spring campaign. Affiliated campaigns in 588 cities in 41 countries on all six populated continents is an historical high for the powerful pro-life action organization. (Image: 40 Days for Life /by Ashley Bateman-LifeSiteNews)

In Jackson, Mississippi, participants gathered in front of the abortion facility that originated the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health case at the Supreme Court. In the state of Texas, where a Heartbeat Act threatens the survival of the abortion industry, 16 locations were activated. In addition, an all-time record number of campaigns began in the United Kingdom, Spain, Taiwan, South Korea and India. The United States is also hosting the most Lenten campaigns in the organization's history this year.

"Unlike most culture battles in our country right now, Christians in the pro-life movement are winning," said Shawn Carney, the president of 40 Days for Life. "We are winning hearts and minds like no other issue while at the same time we have the most pro-abortion government in the history of the United States. The motivation to do something to save more lives and close more abortion facilities has never been higher."

As the US Supreme Court considers arguments for the overturning of landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade, pro-life enthusiasm is at an all-time high, said Steven Karlan, the 40 Days for Life campaign director...

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