As a result of 40 Days for Life vigils five abortion clinics have been closed in the U.S., eight abortion clinic employees have left the business, and one has joined the vigils herself. Vigils are planned for the Spring in Ontario.

Last spring, a 40 Days for Life prayer vigil was held in front of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Kalispell, Montana. On November 20, that facility closed. Planned Parenthood admitted it did not have enough customers to keep the doors open.

In Pensacola, Florida, a clinic announced its closure last October, days after the conclusion of the most recent of three vigils. The clinic was facing a choice between closing its doors or paying a $413,000 state fine for an expired laboratory license.

“There had been an abortion clinic in that location for 25 years,” said David Bereit, national director of 40 Days for Life. “People have prayed there that abortions would cease, and it was during the fall 40 Days for Life campaign - the peaceful, prayerful presence of faithful Christians - that it was finally announced that this facility, where untold numbers of unborn children perished, was closing. That is not just a coincidence. God works in mysterious ways, and this is indeed an answer to prayer!”

“This fall’s campaign has been the most incredibly blessed 40 Days for Life effort yet,” Bereit said of the fifth coordinated 40 Days for Life campaign, which was conducted simultaneously from September 23 to November 1 in 212 communities covering 45 American states, five Canadian provinces and one location in Denmark.

Among the eight employees who have left the abortion business is Abby Johnson, who was until October 6 the director of the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Bryan/College Station, Texas. She resigned after experiencing a change of heart. Johnson had worked at the clinic for eight years and had witnessed six 40 Days for Life campaigns outside that facility and has now joined the peaceful prayer efforts outside her former workplace.