40 Days for Life New Orleans

40 Days for Life in a Post-Roe World: Prayer, Service, and Education in Your Church and Community!

Dear Faithful 40 Days for Life Friends:

As you know, our pro-life laws are in effect and abortion, unfortunately except in rare “medical futility” circumstances, is illegal in Louisiana. Learn more about our laws at www.PostRoeFacts.com.

Because of this, at this time, we do not plan to hold a traditional 40 Days for Life vigil outside the New Orleans abortion facility.

However, we encourage you to use the 40 Days for Life to focus in your church or community on prayer for life, education, and service to mothers and children. We must continue standing for life and supporting moms!

See below for some recommended action steps for 40 Days for Life in your church and community. As we have shared in the past, it is critical that churches become an oasis for those facing unplanned pregnancies. Read this article on our website about what churches can do in a post-Roe world.

Thank you for standing and praying for life and for moms!

The 40 Days for Life NOLA Team

40 Days for Life Action Steps

Prayer for Life

We encourage your church to be praying regularly for an end to abortion in Louisiana and across America. While abortion is illegal in Louisiana, we know some women will either travel to have abortions or seek illegal “mail-order” abortions at home. We also know abortion remains legal in many states. We must pray for life!

• Prayer Cards: Louisiana and New Orleans Right to Life will have prayer cards available for distribution that has a prayer for life on one side and pregnancy help centers on the other side. Contact us to get them!

Service to Moms and Babies

We must be supporting moms, babies, and families in a post-Roe world! Here are a few things you can do at our church.

• Set up a ministry for pregnant and parenting moms: Through programs like Walking with Moms in Need or Embrace Grace, your church can be an oasis for those in need.
• Hold a Diaper Drive: Collect diapers and other baby supplies to help local pregnancy centers! Get a local school involved in the effort as well.
• Have a Baby Bottle Campaign: Raise money for a pregnancy center in your community through a baby bottle campaign!

Educate Hearts and Minds

We cannot stop educating about pro-life issues! It only takes one generation to lose our pro-life culture!

• Host presentations at your church
• Set-up pro-life displays
• Lead an “Every Life Counts” educational initiative where you address the following topics:
  • Protection of lives conceived from rape and incest
  • Protection of unborn babies with disabilities that can currently be aborted under the “medical futility” exception.
• Work with Footprints for Life and/or Louisiana Right to Life to implement pro-life educational efforts in grade schools.

Engage Legislators!

It only takes one legislative session to lose our pro-life laws, whether whole or in part. We expect legislators to bring legislation to legalize abortion in cases of rape and incest in the 2025 Legislative Session. We encourage church groups to hold meetings with area State Senators and Representatives to ask them to…

• Oppose any legislation that legalizes abortion, including legislation to legalize abortion in cases of rape and incest.
• Pass legislation to protect unborn babies with disabilities that can currently be aborted under the “medical futility” exception.

Learn More and Order 40 Days for Life Prayer Cards For Your Group, Church, or School