It is nice to start a new week with some encouraging, uplifting news!

446 babies saved from abortion in 40 Days for Life's Lent campaign

Timed to coincide with Lent, this year's 40 Days campaign began on March 6 in 377 cities across the United States, United Kingdom, and 29 other countries around the world. Volunteers have been stationed outside abortion facilities for 12 hours a day to conduct prayer vigils and offer sidewalk counseling to women considering abortion. The campaign has received 446 confirmed reports of mothers choosing life for their babies!

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Elouise is healthy after parents chose prenatal surgery for spina bifida, not abortion

When doctors told 26-year-old mental health nurse Bethan Simpson after her 20-week ultrasound that her daughter Elouise had spina bifida - a condition in which the area around the developing spinal cord fails to properly close - they recommended abortion. But Simpson refused. "I couldn't justify terminating a child I could feel kicking," she said.

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Amazing Video Shows Baby Who Had Experimental Surgery to Fix Spina Bifida While Still in the Womb

Doctors in Egypt captured an amazing new surgical procedure on film showing their work on the spine of an unborn baby boy with spina bifida. Leading the surgical team was Dr. Wael El Banna, of Egypt, who said the baby's mother chose the surgery after rejecting abortion. He said both baby and mother are doing well now.

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Abortion survivor missing limbs has 'to live with someone else's choice'

Nik Hoot first made headlines in 2013 as a high school wrestler who was missing parts of his legs and fingers. He lost them when an abortionist failed to kill him, but still managed to rip off parts of his body. Born in Russia, Hoot was immediately placed for adoption and a year later was adopted by an American couple. He says, "I knew that I was supposed to be an aborted baby and it failed. It makes me angry because I would never want for that to happen to any kid. Anybody can become anything, and getting rid of a kid like that isn't right to me."

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Abortion Clinic That Does Abortions Up to Birth May Close After Abortionist Loses in Court

An Ohio appeals court issued a ruling that upheld the Department of Health's order to close the Women's Med Center, a full-term abortion facility located in the Dayton suburb of Kettering. The Women's Med Center failed to comply with licensing regulations by not maintaining a hospital transfer agreement approved by the Ohio Department of Health.

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There are few, if any, issues more important than life. Many of us have worked hard for so many years to do what we can to protect life from conception to natural death. We have lived in the "culture of death" that Roe v. Wade brought to this nation. But I believe that we are making real strides and that we MUST continue to be faithful to the task before us!

Blessings,
Bobbie Patray