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DAY 12: Who Planned Parenthood fears most

Nothing terrifies the abortion industry more than an abortion survivor.

Every survivor forces society to confront the fact that every aborted child is just as human as you and me.

Perhaps that explains the push to legalize infanticide–especially for children who survive failed abortions. It’s easier to just kill an abortion survivor than to reconcile her existence with support for abortion.

“Set them aside and make them comfortable.” That’s been the refrain from abortion fanatics holding elected office. It almost makes cold-blooded murder sound compassionate.

Melissa Ohden knows better. She was set aside, left to die of neglect following her mother’s forced-but-failed abortion.

A nurse with a conscience saved her life. Today Melissa’s alive and well and joined this week’s episode of The 40 Days for Life Podcast to share her story and discuss how she’s given a voice to abortion survivors everywhere.

Click here to listen to Melissa’s incredible story: https://40daysforlife.com/2019/03/12/the-abortion-industrys-push-to-legalize-infanticide-with-abortion-survivor-melissa-ohden-podcast-season-4-episode-11/

And, in case you missed them, check out these podcasts highlighting the abortion industry’s late-term abortion and infanticide push:

Virginia Beach, Virginia

The woman entering Planned Parenthood already had two abortions. This one would be number three. “She just wanted ‘that thing out of her,'” said Dawn in Virginia. “This woman needs lots of prayers.”

An encounter earlier this week with another woman left on a more hopeful–but still uncertain–note. Cheri, who operates a mobile pregnancy center in Virginia Beach, persuaded an abortion-bound woman to get a free ultrasound before she makes her decision.

Pray that she makes the right choice!

Zagreb, Croatia

Nearly EVERY city in Croatia is holding a 40 Days for Life campaign!

The Zagreb campaign team prays in front of the Sisters of Mercy Hospital–around the clock. A group of pro-life men known as “Night Watch” keeps the vigil unbroken until daybreak.

My power is made perfect in weakness. —2 Corinthians 12:9

Lord, during these forty days, we ask that with each day of this sacred vigil, everything in us that separates us from your perfect will would be pruned from our hearts and souls. In this blessed freedom may we experience a powerful anointing of your Holy Spirit.

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DAY 13: God, paper, scissors

PROGRAMMING NOTE: I’ll appear on EWTN’s At Home with Jim and Joy TODAY to discuss the current 40 Days for Life campaign and the March 29 release of Unplanned.

The show airs at 1 pm Eastern/Noon Central/11 am Mountain/10 am Pacific. Want to call in? Dial 1-800-221-9460!

Today we know of 91 babies saved from abortion by YOUR prayers since March 6…

…and the fate of one of those children was left to chance.

“One couple stood out,” said Tina, who volunteers for the 40 Days for Life campaign in Forest Park, Georgia. “They were playing ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors.’”

“They must have made an agreement that if one of them won, they should go in [for an abortion],” Tina continued. “But if the other person won, they would walk away. It was apparent that one of the two wasn’t happy with the results because they played the game repeatedly.

Finally, the couple walked over to the local pregnancy center. But it was closed!

“Praying all the way, I approached them and asked if they wanted to speak with someone inside the pregnancy clinic,” Tina said.

They did.

Tina had the pregnancy center director’s phone number in her cell phone. She called, and the director opened the center to welcome this couple inside.

“I returned to the sidewalk to continue praying,” Tina said. “Please keep this young couple in your prayers.”

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

When a young woman exited a busy Philadelphia abortion center, vigil participants were sure she had the abortion. They handed her a brochure that would direct her to the resources she’d need to find support, healing, and recovery.

“She read it…looked at them [and] in a quiet voice, she said, ‘I changed my mind,’” said Monique, who leads the Philly faithful.

“She has been suffering with nausea and vomiting,” Monique reported. “They informed her of all the phone numbers she could call to address her needs and assured her that HELP IS AVAILABLE!”

Near the end of a four-hour prayer shift, a young woman approached a volunteer named Joe and his fellow prayer warriors.

“Can you help me?” she asked. “I was going to have an abortion but I changed my mind.”

Joe and his crew were more than happy to direct the young mom to the resources she needed to choose life. Before she left, she hugged each of the men who helped her.

Little Rock, Arkansas

“Praise the Lord! We have a CONFIRMED baby save this morning!” said Toni in Little Rock. “Parents came out of the clinic and told the sidewalk helpers that they changed their minds.”

A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy habitation. —Psalm 68:5

Heavenly Father, we thank you for caring about each of us so deeply. Help us to see and know you as our Father in heaven each and every day of our lives. Your loving hand also rests on every child today carried in its mother’s womb. May they be born into this world and come to know fully and personally your endless love.

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