Wed Sep 28, 2022 – 8:34 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The 40 Days for Life ministry launched its first post-Roe campaign today, continuing to fight for an end to abortion on the local level.
Nearly 20 years after the apostolate’s founding and following the historic Dobbs ruling that allows for laws on abortion to be decided at the state level, thousands of volunteers will participate in the international prayer, fasting and outreach effort to eliminate abortion one community at a time.
“We are excited that the first post-Roe 40 Days for Life campaign will be the largest ever in 622 cities,” president and CEO Shawn Carney told LifeSiteNews in a statement. “Despite losing some locations for the best reason, abortion facilities closing, we have added new cities and grown even more at the grassroots at a time when abortion is leaving Washington, D.C. and going to where the pro-life movement is the strongest, the local level.”
As the apostolate’s website states, “40 Days for Life is an internationally coordinated 40-day campaign that aims to end abortion locally through prayer and fasting, community outreach, and a peaceful all-day vigil in front of abortion businesses.”
The campaign consists
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