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40 Days for Life prayer vigil begins on Feb. 22
The couple looked like they were in high school. They sat together in the back seat of the car as the father of one of them drove into the Planned Parenthood parking lot. As soon as the car stopped, the couple jumped out of the car, hopped over the divider between Planned Parenthood and the sidewalk and, holding hands, ran across the street to the Old Colorado City Pregnancy Center. The father was left there, in shock.
Would this young couple have been able to save their baby if the pregnancy center had not been across the street? Probably not, because after they ran across the street, the very angry father followed them. When he got to the pregnancy center, he stayed outside and threw up his hands in defeat. It seemed obvious that they were being forced into this “choice” to abort.
The Old Colorado City Pregnancy Center came into being, in part, as a result of a number of strangers coming together, some of them meeting each other for the first time while praying at the sidewalk during the first 40 Days for Life movement. They all had the same idea, to open a pregnancy center across the street. Eighteen months after The Old Colorado City Pregnancy Center was opened, Planned Parenthood had to move from that location after 25 years in “business.” Coincidence? I think not.
Please join us in the upcoming spring 40 Days for Life effort of prayer, fasting and praying in front of Planned Parenthood, beginning Feb. 22 and ending on April 1. Sign up through your church, call Michele at 659-2097 or sign up at: www.40daysforlife.com/coloradosprings.
The kickoff celebration will be an ecumenical service with distribution of ashes and Stations of the Cross on Feb. 22 at noon in front of Planned Parenthood at 3480 Centennial Blvd.
-- Michele Mason
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