COMMENTARY: The demand for 40 Days for Life is at an all-time high in post-Roe America.
After the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, many pro-life advocates started preaching — and falsely continue to preach — that we are worse off than ever before in the pro-life movement.
This is certainly not accurate. Just ask Planned Parenthood. The abortion giant closed a record number of facilities in 2025 and continues to close more in 2026. Many pro-life advocates contend this simply reflects a market shift to pill-induced abortions. But according to the abortion-advocacy organization Guttmacher Institute, 73% of abortions are still distributed through brick-and-mortar facilities rather than ordered through the mail. Furthermore, as the largest distributor of abortion pills, Planned Parenthood should benefit from the proliferation of abortion pills — and hasn’t.
The overturning of Roe was halftime in the battle to end abortion. Roe had to go to make substantive legal progress.
For the past 19 years, 40 Days for Life has stood toe-to-toe with the culture of death. Our concentrated campaigns of prayer and fasting, community outreach and dayslong prayer vigils outside abortion businesses have reached people in more than 1,000 cities in 63 countries. This
