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Contact: Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life, 979-574-8711
WASHINGTON, July 28 /Christian
Newswire/ -- According to news reports from northwest Arkansas, the
Fayetteville Women's Clinic -- an abortion facility -- will be closing its doors
at the end of the month as the owner has announced his retirement.
"This will be the sixth abortion center at a location where 40 Days for Life's
peaceful prayer vigils have been conducted to go out of business," said Shawn
Carney, 40 Days for Life campaign director. "It is truly an answer to prayer
that abortions will no longer be carried out at this facility. All the glory
belongs to God."
The announcement comes as 40 Days for Life is accepting applications to host
40-day campaigns of prayer, fasting, vigil and outreach this fall from September
22 to October 31. This will be the seventh coordinated campaign. Already,
locations across the United States and Canada -- and in several other nations --
have applied at www.40DaysForLife.com
to participate in the fall campaign.
"How humbling will it be," asked Carney, "to see God use the simplicity of
prayer, fasting, outreach, and vigil to bring an end to abortion in many more
areas, just like Fayetteville?"
"We rejoice over the babies that will be saved and the parents who will be
spared from a lifetime of regret," said Juliet Cassell, Fayetteville coordinator
for 40 Days for Life, upon learning of the facility's closure. However, she
added, "we must continue to pray that abortions will also stop at Planned
Parenthood." The local Planned Parenthood center provides "medical abortions"
using the RU-486 pill.
In addition to the Fayetteville center's closing, abortion facilities have
closed in Dallas, Texas; Pensacola, Florida; Kalispell, Montana; Orange County,
California; and Rockland County, New York following peaceful 40 Days for Life
prayer vigils.
In six previous coordinated campaigns, the 40 Days for Life program has been
conducted in 307 communities across all 50 states, plus Canada, Australia,
Northern Ireland and Denmark. More that 350,000 people representing some 11,000
church congregations have participated. More than three dozen abortion center
employees have left their jobs in the abortion industry, and more than 2,800
babies' lives have been spared from abortion during these campaigns.