Today begins the 40 Days for Life campaign: prayer, fasting and presence. This movement began locally and has grown terrifically in such a short time.
Here’s the website for the effort.
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Marcel LeJeune from Texas A&M has a short blog post on 40 Days, with links and a bit of background on its beginnings there in College Station.

Sheila Liaugminas has a couple of related blog posts on the pro-life movement in South Dakota, one with a video from Dr. Bernard Nathanson – helpful to focus our minds at the beginning of these 40 days, reminding us what this is all about – not a ‘wedge issue” that “right-wingers” bring out this time of year for fun, not a “single issue” about which some wackos inconveniently and inexplicably obsess, but lives.