According to their website, this year's 40 Days for Life campaign will begin with a period of prayer and fasting, constant vigil, and community outreach from September 28 through November 6, 2011. Its aim is to take "a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighborhoods, for their own friends and families. It puts into action a desire to cooperate with God in the carrying out of His plan for the end of abortion in America".
Since this campaign first began in 2007, the website reports that it has met with success. While some may well argue that it is hard to directly attribute some of these reported successes to 40 Days for Life, here are the results of campaigns to date, taken directly from their website:
Since this campaign first began in 2007, the website reports that it has met with success. While some may well argue that it is hard to directly attribute some of these reported successes to 40 Days for Life, here are the results of campaigns to date, taken directly from their website:
- Over 400,000 have joined together in an historic display of unity to pray and fast for an end to abortion
- More than 13,000 church congregations have participated in the 40 Days for Life campaigns
- Reports document 4,313 lives that have been spared from abortion — and those are just the ones we know about
- 53 abortion workers have quit their jobs and walked away from the abortion industry
- 14 abortion facilities completely shut down following local 40 Days for Life campaigns
- Hundreds of women and men have been spared from the tragic effects of abortion, including a lifetime of regrets
- More than 1,500 news stories have been featured in newspapers, magazines, radio shows and TV programs from coast to coast ... and overseas
- Many people with past abortion experiences have stepped forward to begin post-abortion healing and recovery
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