40 Days for Life Prayer Campaign Kicks Off This Sunday

Each spring and fall pro-life Americans gather for prayer vigils outside abortion clinics across the country as part of 40 Days for Life.

These are not protests or rallies. They are peaceful assemblies where different people quietly pray each day that abortion will end.

The next 40 Days for Life campaign is just a few days away. You can take part in the prayer vigils outside the surgical abortion clinic in Little Rock.

There will be a kickoff meeting at 3:00 PM this Sunday featuring music, messages from local ministers, and prayer. The event will be held on the sidewalk outside the abortion clinic.

The official 40 Days for Life prayer campaign will last from February 14 – March 25 (Palm Sunday).

For more information visit the 40 Days for Life website or Facebook page.

U.S. Senate Rejects Pro-Life Legislation

Yesterday the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill banning most abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy.

The bill is similar to one passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last fall and a law Arkansas passed in 2013.

Arkansas’ U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton both co-sponsored this good bill and supported it yesterday.

Medical science shows unborn babies feel the pain of abortion, especially after the twentieth week of pregnancy. That’s one reason many states — as well as most countries on earth — have passed laws prohibiting late-term abortions. In fact, the United States is one of just seven countries that allows abortion after the fifth month of pregnancy.

In 2000, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kennedy described the abortion process, writing, “The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. . . . The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.”

Abortion is a horrific procedure that takes the lives of unborn children.

I hope you will thank Sens. Boozman and Cotton for supporting the senate bill to ban abortion after the twentieth week of pregnancy. Links to their contact information are below.

U.S. SENATOR JOHN BOOZMAN (R – AR)

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Click Here to Email U.S. Senator Boozman

U.S. SENATOR TOM COTTON (R – AR)

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Click Here to Email U.S. Senator Cotton

U.S. Senate to Vote on Bill Banning Abortion After 20 Weeks

Yesterday Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced the U.S. Senate will vote on the federal Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act next week.

This bill prohibits most abortions in the United States after the twentieth week of pregnancy. A similar measure passed the U.S. House of Representatives last fall.

Sen. McConnell told his colleagues,

Congress has an opportunity to take a step forward. The United States is currently one of just seven countries — just seven, including China and North Korea — that permit elective abortions after twenty weeks. It is time we begin to remedy this obvious and tragic moral wrong.

Arkansas Senators John Boozman (R-AR) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) are listed as co-sponsors on this good, pro-life bill.

This is a landmark piece of pro-life legislation. As we have written recently, the federal government has passed very few laws significantly protecting unborn children from abortion. By some estimates, this measure could save as many as 18,000 children each year. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is a law the United States desperately needs.