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BABIES SAVED (that we know of)
TURN-AWAYS
ABORTION WORKERS WHO HAD A CONVERSION & QUIT
About
The Central Texas Coalition for Life is a grassroots community-based organization that draws attention to the injustice of abortion through prayer and fasting, community outreach & education, and peaceful prayer vigils on the public right-of-ways in front of abortion facilities in Austin, Texas.
We network with numerous pregnancy centers, community healthcare clinics, medical professionals and other resources to help women and their families find real, life-affirming alternatives to abortion.
We connect women and men with abortions in their past to resources for hope and healing. We direct anyone working in the abortion industry to resources to help and encourage them to leave. The Central Texas Coalition for Life is the bridge from the abortion/abortion referral facilities to these community resources.
The heaviest presence on the sidewalk is during our 40 Days for Life campaigns which consist of hundreds of volunteers from across central Texas praying for 40 consecutive days in front of the local abortion facilities. These campaigns occur twice a year – once during the spring and once during the fall. As many as 600 local volunteers participate during the campaigns. Most volunteers sign up simply to pray for one hour a week in front of a local abortion facility. Some attend Sidewalk Advocate trainings to learn how to effectively reach out to women at the abortion facilities to offer them alternatives and educate them about fetal development, abortion, and all their options. Sidewalk Advocates are the voice for the voiceless. Our Sidewalk Advocate training is sought out by other pro-life groups across the country; occasionally we offer our training in other cities to help them get their own sidewalk ministry started.
Not only are we there for the women, men, and babies, but we offer help to abortion workers too. Many former abortion workers have left the industry and had conversions to the side of life. With their witness and willingness to help, we have more insight into the abortion industry.
We visit as many as 15 churches on any given weekend to promote, encourage, educate and recruit people of faith to join us. Over 100 churches are represented on the sidewalks. We seek to keep a close relationship with other pro-life organizations to work together and build a culture of life. With our unique perspective, we are also able to provide trainings to pregnancy center counselors/advocates to better equip them, to affirm their ministries, and to build relationships.
Since 2009 we have witnessed hundreds of women (that we know of) choose life for babies scheduled to be aborted (at least four women were pregnant with twins)! Pregnancy centers report a significant increase in clientele when our efforts are more concentrated on the sidewalks. We have given information to thousands of men and women about healthcare alternatives. At least twelve abortion workers have had conversions and quit their jobs. Hundreds of women have been connected to post-abortion healing ministries, including several of our own volunteers. We are seeing abortion end before our very eyes and we are excited for what God has in store!
Recent Blog Posts
Plants vs Prayer Warriors!
Earlier this month the abortion advocates from one of the buildings in the same complex as the Whole Woman's Health abortion facility attempted another tactic to try (key word: try) to deter us from being on the sidewalk. They ripped up the grassy area on the public...
“I’ve been there!”
Janet, Juana and Mike were praying this morning when a young woman drove into the parking lot and summoned Janet to come talk with her. She's 20 years old and was scheduled for her pre-abortion "counseling" appointment that she was 20 minutes late for. She told...
A Sidewalk Advocate’s first encounter
From Catherine: I had my first true encounter today. I was at WWH and I reached out to a young woman named "R." She walked all the way down to speak with me. She listened intently and was very open with me. She is 17 y. o. and 7 weeks pregnant. She said she hasn't...
She burst into tears
Roger called to tell me he spoke with a young woman before she went into the facility this morning. When he told her she didn’t have to go through with it and we could help, she burst into tears and went inside. 15 minutes later she came outside and walked over to...
Radio station shame blamer
A woman from the radio station across from the Whole Woman's Health abortion facility yelled over to me from the driveway across the street a few day ago and said that abortion was "15 x safer than childbirth" then walked away. Today she was walking across the WWH...
no other option
I just talked with a young woman who said that she has no other option but to abort, that doctors and family have convinced her she will die if she doesn't go through with this. However no doctor has diagnosed her with anything specific. She has lost weight and thinks...