The Austin Coalition for Life is a community-based, grassroots pro-life organization made up of local volunteers dedicated to ending abortion peacefully and prayerfully in Austin.
The Brazos Valley Coalition for Life was created in 1998 when Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas announced it would build an abortion facility just two miles from the Texas A&M University flagship campus in Bryan-College Station. The Brazos Valley Coalition for Life continues to impact the community with its prayer, peaceful activism, education, and better alternatives.
In 2004, the Brazos Valley Coalition for Life created the powerful 40 Days for Life campaign, which has now grown into an international movement. This loving approach to ending abortion is a campaign composed of prayer and fasting, community outreach, and a constant peaceful prayer vigil at local abortion facilities.
40 Days for Life has yielded great fruit as a result of the peaceful approach and the foundation in prayer. Since 2007 when 40 Days for Life went national, over 100,000 Christians across the world have participated in a 40 Days for Life campaign. The blessings have been tremendous:
- Over 2,800 women chose life for a child they were going to abort
- 6 abortion facilities have shut down or stopped performing abortions
- 38 workers in abortion facilities have had conversions and left their jobs
- Hundreds of men and women with abortions in their past have finally found healing
- Over 300 cities in all 50 states have conducted a 40 Days for Life campaign
- Seven different countries have joined in the 40 Days for Life efforts: England, Northern Ireland, Brazil, Peru, Canada, Australia, and Denmark
Austin jumped on board with the 40 Days for Life Austin phenomenon in the spring of 2009. This effective campaign is now serving as the launch pad for the Austin Coalition for Life. Modeled after the Brazos Valley Coalition for Life, the Austin Coalition for Life has a mission of prayerfully and peacefully ending abortion in Austin. This will be done by maintaining a focus on the two ministries of the Stand and Pray and Sidewalk Counseling.
The Brazos Valley Coalition for Life has helped other cities across Texas start their own cohesive organizations dedicated to maintaining a year-round presence at local abortion facilities. The San Antonio Coalition for Life, the Houston Coalition for Life and the West Texas Coalition for Life are all working from the ground up to end abortion one woman at a time in their respective communities. Austin is now one of the cities blessed enough to have an entire organization dedicated to motivating Christians city-wide to take their pro-life convictions to the very places where the abortions are happening.
Together with Christ, we will end abortion in Austin… peacefully and prayerfully.
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