The next 40 Days for Life prayer vigil runs from September 27 through November 5, 2023.
We pray in shifts for 40 days outside of the Cedar Rapids Planned Parenthood (3425 1st Ave SE) each spring and fall. Join us! Check out the official 40 Days for Life website for more information about this activity.
40 Days for Life draws attention to the evil of abortion through:
- Prayer and Fasting
- Peaceful Vigil
- Community Outreach
We offer opportunities to pray for end to abortion. We also encourage fasting. You may fast from food, TV, internet, or anything that takes priority in your life.
We gather for a peaceful prayer vigil outside of Planned Parenthood, which draws visibility to our pro-life efforts and helps women find hope and alternatives if they are seeking an abortion. Multiple lives have been saved through our local efforts.
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Why participate?
Each Year, Abortion Claims Up To:*
- 556 lives in Linn County
- 6,728 lives in Iowa
- 1.25 million lives in the US
- 42 million lives globally
* Based on statistics from the past decade
Why Pray at Planned Parenthood?
- Largest Iowa abortion provider
- Largest US abortion provider
- Offer webcam abortions far from help for life-threatening complications
- Lives have been saved just by women seeing us pray locally
- Planned Parenthood refers women to have abortions
Amazing Local Results!
- 2008: Started praying for 40 days, and a local abortion facility closed!
- 2011: Started praying outside Planned Parenthood. Their local management resigned.
- 2011-2012: Planned Parenthood experienced 100% turnover of all employees.
- 2011-2013: Abortions on Linn County women dropped over 37% in just 3 years!
- 2014: Planned Parenthood stopped performing webcam abortions in Cedar Rapids!
- 2023: Planned Parenthood brought abortion back to Cedar Rapids after closing their Cedar Falls location.
Help save lives, spare women and men from regret, and set aside some time for prayer. Join us! Check out the official 40 Days for Life website for more information about this activity.