40 Days for Life reports from Sacramento, Chico
News from the Trenches Sacramento A 40 Days for Life coordinator received a call from a woman who was in tears. She is pregnant with her sixth child and her husband had been laid off from work. They're struggling financially, trying to care for their five children in a two-bedroom apartment. 
"She felt like her only option was to have an abortion," said Wynette in Sacramento, "but her husband lovingly encouraged her to call the number he found on our 40 Days for Life flier, which had been given to him at church the previous Sunday. He did not want his wife to abort their child." This woman immediately connected with the 40 Days for Life volunteer -- who also has five children -- and her husband also hasn't been able to find work lately. "This turned a challenge into a mutual blessing," Wynette said. "The woman, who was strongly considering abortion, changed her mind and has chosen life, while also gaining a new friend in the 40 Days for Life volunteer... all the result of volunteers simply distributing 40 Days for Life fliers at local churches!" Chico 40 Days for Life vigil participants were praying near Planned Parenthood's driveway when an agitated young man approached one of the volunteers and said they had no right to be on the sidewalk. The young man was visibly angry. He said he had brought his girlfriend to Planned Parenthood to "deal with her pregnancy." But when she saw people standing in prayer on the sidewalk, she began to question the abortion. "Just the presence of someone praying, even without any interaction, gives women perhaps just an extra second to question what they are about to do," said Mary in Chico.
