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The pro-life movement is witnessing one of its greatest national victories in decades. Following the passage of President Trump’s budget reconciliation “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which includes a measure defunding abortion providers of Medicaid dollars, dozens of Planned Parenthood clinics have closed or are preparing to close their doors.

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According to SBA Pro-Life America, at least 41 Planned Parenthood facilities have already shut down or will soon, with projections that as many as 200 clinics could ultimately be forced to close. This comes as taxpayer support for abortion businesses is being phased out. SBA president Marjorie Dannenfelser called the measure “the biggest national pro-life victory since the Dobbs decision.”

The impact of this shift cannot be overstated. For years, Planned Parenthood received nearly half a billion dollars annually in Medicaid reimbursements, even though federal law prohibits direct funding of abortions. While the Hyde Amendment blocks federal dollars from paying for abortions themselves, pro-life advocates have long argued that funneling money to abortion providers indirectly sustains their operations. The new law aims to end that practice.

Planned Parenthood is fighting back in court. The abortion giant has filed suit against the Trump administration, and a federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama has temporarily blocked the defunding measure while litigation continues. Planned Parenthood has claimed that 200 of its facilities could be at risk, but for pro-life Americans, this represents a long-overdue correction in federal policy.

The closures reveal another important truth: Planned Parenthood’s non-abortion services have dramatically declined in recent years. Cancer screenings, pap smears, and breast exams have fallen by more than 50 percent, while contraceptive services are down almost 40 percent. Meanwhile, community health centers outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics by a ratio of 15 to 1 nationwide, offering more comprehensive care to women and families without ending the lives of unborn children.

Planned Parenthood’s own annual report highlights the stark contrast: in 2023–2024, the organization performed a record 402,230 abortions while receiving $792 million in taxpayer funding — a near $100 million increase from the prior year. At the same time, abortion numbers climbed, and life-saving health services shrank.

Pro-life leaders are hopeful that this defunding marks a turning point. With more states, like South Carolina and Oklahoma, successfully blocking Medicaid dollars from flowing to abortion providers, momentum is building across the nation.

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(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

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Kathy Miller
September 3, 2025

I have actively fought abortion for 49 years. 1st with Right to Life then opening a facility that gave pregnant young women a viable alternative to abortion. I am now 77 and not in the best of health, but l thank God for giving me life long enough to see the demise of Planned Parenthood. Praise God!

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DOUGLAS NICKELSON
August 28, 2025

Lord let us not keep up the fire, let the flames of burning national scourges, especially abortion continue. The centers are closing but the killing is increasing, let every State be an Abortion Banned state. In Jesus’ name.

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Sharon
August 28, 2025

It’s wonderful news and a very, very long time coming. May God grant favor to these measures to once and for all time stop taxpayer funded abortions and ultimately all abortions. In Jesus’ name. Amen

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Gail Segars Rainey
August 28, 2025

Dear Abba Father,
I praise You and thank You this day for all these prayers lifted up to You against all abortion. I thank You that these intercessors are like-minded and have Your heart for the most vulnerable of Your creation. We cry out for repentance of these crimes from America and that in the name of Your Son, Yeshua HaMashiach, all murders will stop and all abuse of women, men, boys, girls, infants will cease!

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Roberta
August 28, 2025

Saints, make sure to contact your Representatives in government, state and federal, that none of our tax money will ever again fund abortions. If people want them, let them pay for it themselves! Let so few decide to have them that the entire industry of murder of our babies dries up and dissappears in JESUS NAME! Amen!

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Jodi
August 28, 2025

Thank you Father God for your great love and mercy for us, the American people. Thank you for your forgiveness of our complacency and sin against the unborn. Please continue to restore us in right relationship to you and bring down those who so willingly kill the unborn. Open the eyes of those who are deceived by the enemy, that they may be saved. Continue to give us courage and boldness to stand up for the unborn and move in your love to help those mothers who know not what they do, in Jesus’ name.

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Carol
August 28, 2025

Hallelujah! Amen!

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Jen
August 27, 2025

Lord God we pray all Planned Parenthoods, abortion clinics, facilities, providers and abortionists be shut down and stay shut down, never to reopen or practice this evil barbarism in any way, shape or form. Lord we pray all in authority have the light and understanding about its various forms, pill form, etc and that it be banned, made illegal and appropriately punishable. We pray it never again be funded by Medicaid or any other means. We pray all their sources, resources, funding, etc. be cut off and dried up. We pray for great awakening and awareness of truth on this issue and that no one will be funding it, even unknowingly. May our leaders continue standing for righteousness and life, especially the lives of the unborn. Protect them and all standing for righteousness on this issue and especially those on the front lines. May there be greater awareness for pregnant girls/women to know they can choose to give birth to their babies, have the help and resources they need to care for them, and/or have the grace they need to give them up for adoption by godly, loving caring parents. We ask this all in Jesus Name.

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Tonya
August 27, 2025

Thankful to Our Father, through Jesus Christ, we still have the right, now currently to speak out, to pray aloud about this and other related issues that
needs our prayerful consideration, and intervention! Yet, there are still those in prison because they did publically pray aloud, read scripture , tried to witness to those trying to obtain an abortion at clinics. Colo still deciding to fund Planned Parenthood in their stste with Medicaide funds, that is only one blue state mentioned this week! United Way is one of the largest funders of Pkanned Parenthood! Hardly anyone pays attention to this, while donating freely through paycheck deductions from their employers, directly! If one has this happening and not aware, look at automatic deductions on your paystub. Many have had this done, unaware, thinking the company was doing a ” good” thing giving back to the community.
So many over 70,000, 000+ Babies have been killed since 1977,when tallies started to be kept, and that is only the number of ” logged” in women at clinics, not necessarily at hospitals, or taking the ” pill” in any form that not only killed the baby, but many times tbe mother too. I worked with a young 20yr old gal who was taking morning after, and plan b pills regularly! She was to the point of interrupted monthly cycles, and near hemorhaging events! Constantly nauseous and many other issues, yet The dr kept prescibing, and she kept taking them. Ive spoken with her as many occaissions as possible, Invited her to see Sound of Freedom the year it came out, to just give us another way to have a conversation on the massive crimes against children and babies are taking over our world! Her response was so sincere, a light went off and just kept praying she would consider these Truths soon. Doorways have to be opened to a knock upon the doors to the hearts and minds of these lost souls! Lord, we just need Courage to knock, Readiness to Teach, Reach and help us to Save the souls carrying the babies, stealing the children, and the rest of the evil doers in this sewer of an industry!

https://sacredselections.org/

here ^^ is a group working hard to help on part of the problem, ability to financially help Christian married couples become an adoptive family!
Im not advertising, just sharing another way we can help, beyond praying and sitting still.
We pray and hope Dear Father,
help each of us to do something to change our lost world for the better until He comes!

In Jesus Christ’s name
Amen

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    Peggy Robinett
    August 27, 2025

    Ptl and may God use all the efforts and intercession. Prov 18:1 we speak life!

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      Peggy Robinett
      August 27, 2025

      Sorry quoted proverbs 18:1 earlier. The scripture is prov 18:21 Death & life r in the power of the tongue & they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. I speak life!

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Fern Lake
August 27, 2025

Please do not forget the battle of abortion pills. Their use and distribution has skyrocketed and is being wildly distributed, even to states in which it is illegal.

We pray that all forms of murder are revealed, and removed. And that the sanctity of life would prevail. In the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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Phil Zeitler
August 26, 2025

100% all abortions illegal, stop these evil money motivated humans for good!!!!!

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Anne D.
August 26, 2025

There should not have ever even been one – factories for sacrifice to satan and his demons – God help us, Jesus help us – in Jesus Name we pray.

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Sheri
August 26, 2025

I agree with some of the comments already made about the fact that abortion numbers have really not declined in many ways. Here is the victory we must hold onto and not lose sight of. We are one NATION under God. Through Christ, our Nation has a covenant with Him. When abortion was the law of the land, that is the lens through which our Father saw this nation. No longer does he look through his lens and see a Nation that has made it lawful to kill the unborn., but instead a nation that has repented and removed that heinous law. That makes a huge difference regarding God‘s hands being untied toward our Nation in order to go forward and begin to now address abortion on an individual personal level with those who continue to perpetrate it.
This is a good thing!

Let’s continue to hold down the fort!

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Bonnie Payne
August 26, 2025

Thank you Lord for stopping these abortion clinics to close
This is your heart..thank you for answered prayers. We glorify your name in all the earth. Praise your name. Thank you Father.Amen

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Hj
August 26, 2025

Lord,thank you for this milestone in defeating molech in our times. Now we need to pray against the crossing state lines escape route of those who who have not yet been delivered into the glorious Grace of Jesus, still traveling across state lines to abortion states. It was just reported in this recent week that in a handful of states, the murder of the innocent has increased many times in retaliation to the Dobbs decision, by the enemy of our souls, in deceiving the heartbroken and weary souls of women who have either been convinced they cannot have their child, or are facing outsized obstacles in various ways in this broken life that cause humanity to be crushed under the weight of agony that is this life, that we as believers constantly war against. Lord help these women to be aware of your presence and healing, and enlighten their minds with your truth Lord, the only truth.
In Jesus mighty Name, Amen

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Jerome Hebert
August 26, 2025

Oh Lord, thank you for the progress that has been made closing down Plan parenthood clinics. I pray, Lord, that the value of a person‘s life would be reinstated to a great value. Make it known to those whose hearts are blinded from what you have to offer to mankind; eternal life! Continue to protect the innocent, The Trump Administration and to manifest your truth in the midst of our nation in Jesus name amen

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Judy Cissell
August 26, 2025

I praise our God and Father, and thank Him for helping people to realize that all life should be protected from abortion. And in Jesus’’ most Holy Name, I pray that this momentous movement to stop all abortion continues to every state and we will rid the USA of this despicable practice of killing innocent babies in the womb! And I pray that all women take care of their selves and take responsibility for any pregnancy! Amen

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Marilyn
August 26, 2025

Thank you Lord! 🙏❤️✝️

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P
August 26, 2025

yes, it’s fantastic news that Planned Parenthood butcheries are shutting down; but the abortion pill is still keeping the bloodbath going. Never stop praying.

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Helen Hunter
August 26, 2025

Yes, it’s a time to praise God for the closure of many PPH clinics across America. But it is still a time of prayer to get the abortion numbers under control. Young people can go on line and get an abortion pill with no questions asked, no consent needed and with very little direction about taking the pill. Iowa, one of the heartbeat states, is down in abortion numbers, but they women can quickly schedule one in Illinois or in Minnesota. So, while it sounds good – abortion numbers are up, not down.

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Ninamarie P. Shinta
August 26, 2025

Praise God! Hallelujah!

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Joe
August 26, 2025

Planned Parenthood claims defunding them is unconstitutional. Is there a provision saying they have to receive taxpayer funds? When Uncle Sam is paying the bills, he calls the shots. Happily , Planned Parenthood is finding this out

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Kathy
August 26, 2025

We praise God for the defunding of Planned Parenthood & decree there will NEVER be funding for abortions or trans-surgeries in the US budget again – NEVER EVER!! And, Father, we thank You for the wisdom You’ve given our President & Your Congressmen. We declare they have wisdom from heaven in future federal budgets to assure Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done! AMEN!

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Jo Stephens
August 26, 2025

Shut them down!!!! Stop killing babies!!!!
Praise God for Pres. Trump

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Jamie
August 26, 2025

I am so pleased to read this article. I just read recently that in spite of RoevWade being overturned, the amount of abortions being done in the US has not gone down. Women are flocking to pro-choice states to get an abortion. We continue to pray the Lord would bring strong conviction to the lawmakers in these states and remove the spirit of deception off them so they can see the heinous act of abortion for what it is: murder!! Change their hearts oh Lord and turn this thing around, in Jesus Name!

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    Kathy
    August 26, 2025

    Yes, Lord – the hearts of people in our nation must be changed! It goes way deeper than the budget – repentance is REQUIRED! Move, change – YOUR KINGDOM COME TO THE US!!!!

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Mark Nicklas
August 26, 2025

Praise God!

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RJ
August 26, 2025

DEAR LORD GOD
THANK YOUFOR ALLOWING THE END OF THIS TRAVESTY. FORGIVEME FOR USING THEM MANY YEARS AGO.
I ASK IN JESUS’ NAME
AMEN

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    Mary Beth S
    August 26, 2025

    RJ, His forgiveness is extended to all who repent in sincerity. Receive His grace and mercy. And continue to be a voice for the unborn.

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Darlene Estlow
August 26, 2025

Praise you, Father. My this continue beyond the year of defunding. I pray that the lives of many babies would be spared by this defunding. I pray for women who think abortion is the answer to their dilemma to look to you, to cherish the gift you have given them. Turn them to you. Give those who do abortions repentance and a heart to seek you. Thank you, Father.

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Amy
August 26, 2025

Praise be to God, the creator of all!

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Russ
August 26, 2025

Thank you Jesus!

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Larry Weiler
August 26, 2025

O God keep guiding our pro life leaders defeat satan’s evil. May all who work in or support abortion clinics repent and ask for God’s forgiveness. I trust in God.
🙏😇🙏

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Veronica DENNIS
August 26, 2025

American stand on the promises of God in Exodus 23:26

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Willett Amie
August 26, 2025

Everytime I see the number of Abortions mentioned within Articles or speeches from Oro-Life Advocates, it still astonishes me.
Even in this IFA Message, we are faced with nearly half a Million (402,000)of God’s Precious Legacy just discarded like scraps off a dinner plate. Satan is still busy and the Demonically led are still active in his work!
It is my personal prayer 🙏🏾 that one day soon, in my lifetime I’ll be able to Behold and See that number become zero. That we’ve chosen LIFE! LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY❣️

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Mike Baker
August 26, 2025

Lord, please turn our hearts and minds back to you in true repentance. As a nation and a people, we are and have been in rebellion to Your Law, and Your Word. Turn the your church back to you, turn your people back to you, turn this nation back to you! We thank you for what you have done and our doing in our midst. Don’t stop Lord. Bring true revival to our land! In Jesus name I ask this. Amen.

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Penny Carpenter
August 26, 2025

This is wonderful news, but the next battle is the abortion pill that is taking many lives that used to choose surgical abortion.

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Cindy Walker
August 26, 2025

I dont believe in using abortion as a birth control. Anyone can go to a government health clinic for condoms or other birth control options for free. With all the diseases if I was having casual sex a condom definitely. The only abortion can agree with is life threatening, or race. I know of a young girl in middle school that already has had 3 abortions. It’s sad. What happened to saving yourself for true love and marriage.

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    Darlene Estlow
    August 26, 2025

    You said the only reason you agree with abortion is life threatening or race? I think you meant rape. But women who carry a child from rape to birth heal faster than those who abort the baby.

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    Mary Beth S
    August 26, 2025

    Cindy, sexual promiscuity and selfishness is at the root of this crisis – and hence the need for a transformation in this mentality that abortion could even be thought of as “birth control” – it is murder, plain and simple. It is rooted in the lack of self-control, and attempting to dodge the consequences of those choices. The only truly 100% effective method of birth control is abstinence, and yet even in “Christian” circles that is sometimes considered idealistic and unattainable. You know what YHVH said, through Moses, regarding His Torah instructions? – Deu 30:11  For this mitzvah which I am giving you today is not too hard for you, it is not beyond your reach. . . therefore, you can do it! Deu 30:15  “Look! I am presenting you today with, on the one hand, life and good; and on the other, death and evil— 
    The real decision is truly will I choose life? or death? Let’s quit giving an excuse to those who whine, “It’s too hard for me!” and stick to Godly values and expectations.

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David Posey
August 26, 2025

Praise God! Less babies killed is always a praise! Father shut them all down for good in Jesus name amen!!

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glenn colby
August 26, 2025

About time for closing baby killing clinics.
THANK YOU JESUS!!!

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Becca Mease
August 26, 2025

This is all well and good, but why aren’t we as vocal regarding premarital sex? Perhaps if Christians decided that sex was to remain between husband and wife the abortion industry wouldn’t be necessary.

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Mary Beth S
August 26, 2025

YHVH, we are thankful that PP clinics are closing – may they all! Now Lord, I ask that You provide strategies to stop the sale of the abortion drugs, because as Cynthia pointed out – the battle is not won unless that, too, is accomplished. And the battle for the souls of a generation steeped in “abortion rights for women” propaganda also rages on – and that will require the transformational power of Holy Spirit, and the testimonies of the Truth that babies have a “right to life” be accomplished. Thank You for sustaining us in the continued battle for the unborn!

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Bill Maupin
August 26, 2025

Praise Jesus! And thank God for President Trump and his administration, as well as the Republicans in Congress, who have stood for life.

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Harry Bradford
August 26, 2025

We LOVE YOU and PRAISE YOU, LORD, for the many conservative warriors who worked to bring about this wonderful victory! ALL GLORY TO YOU, O LORD.
Please forgive America for this terrible sin against you and your creations these many, many years. And,
please give us a second chance to SERVE YOU, AND LOVE YOU WITH ALL OUR HEART, MIND AND
SOUL and be the standard you wish the United States of America to be to the entire world.

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E Carroll
August 26, 2025

Praise God, and may he grant us the help needed in the courts to continue to fight this evil that takes the lives of unborn babies.
And then go further, into the hearts of the mothers and the providers that commit such acts.
God cleanse the wicked acts of murder from our Nation.
God bless the children. 🙏

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Nicole
August 26, 2025

Over 400,000 abortions in one year… God, forgive us. Forgive our blood soaked land. I know this breaks your heart. Jesus, thank you for your blood that covers even the gravest of sins. Holy Spirit, bring revelation and cause people to value all of the babies you created. Create a surplus of babies so couples like my husband and I can adopt a baby without having to pay a fortune. Bring reformation to the adoption industry in America and stop them from selling babies to the highest bidder. Stop the lawyers from using infertile couples and young pregnant women to get rich. Our country is broken, Lord. We need your help. Your are the only one who can fix it. Come, Lord, in all your glory and do what needs to be done. Amen.

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    Tonya
    August 27, 2025

    Just sharing a a website Sacred Selections, Its not an orphanage, it is a Christian organization to help married Christian couples adopt. There is help for you out there, without having to rely on any gov. run facility. There has been much success with this Biblically Christian guided group so far. I believe they are in TN, but help many from other states. Praying for you and your family 🙏✝️and for all those babies, waiting to be born to live a life God has planned for them in Psalm 139!

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Michele S.
August 26, 2025

PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD!!! 😃🙏🏻😃🙏🏻😃

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Ron Glenn Deere
August 26, 2025

It is about time.

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Janet M Craig
August 26, 2025

Than you Jesus for sending your Holy Spirit to convince law makers the wisdom to shut down abortion clinics. Our babies are a gift from God and murdering babies even in the womb is murder.
ABBA FATHER, please continue to encourage those where the abortion clinics are being closed to stand strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Blood of the slain babies are crying out from the earth. We. Stand together saying no more murdering our babies. In Jesus Mighty Name Amen

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Brian Lynch
August 26, 2025

Praise God! By your grace, Lord, I pray that ALL abortion clinics will be forced to shut down because of this defunding. This is something that needed to happen long ago.

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Cynthia Lee Baker
August 26, 2025

This is a wonderful answer to prayer. However, we also need to pray that the morning after pill. Would be abolished because women are not even going to clinics.They’re just taking the morning after pill. And there are terrible side effects for both mother and baby.

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Allena Jordan
August 26, 2025

Lord of all, the God who forms us in the womb, who knew us before we were knit together in our mother’s wombs, I give you praise and glory for drying up the federal funds that provided abortions on demand across this country, and around the world. We praise you for this progress. Yet, Lord, we cry out for complete reformation of minds and souls regarding life itself. Oh, that people would love what You love – human life. You loved human life so much that You sent Your Son to die for us that we might live with You forever. He died for the children. Lord, bring Holy fire reformation upon the people of this nation. Transform us completely. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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Jimmie Lancaster
August 26, 2025

I Totally Agree and Praying and DECREEING GODS PLAN FOR ALL UN BORN HIS PRECIOUS LIFE TO BE . THANK YOU ALL. ILL SUPPORT WHENI CAN

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Pamela Johnson
August 26, 2025

God of life, protect our babies. Cover the generations to come. Restore compassion and a love for children that organically ends abortions. Change the heart of America, to love the next generation and sacrifice to grow them, train them and grant them a future in this nation.
Thank you for hearing our prayers

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Lesa Winn
August 26, 2025

Praise our Almighty God!!!

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Theresa Evans
August 26, 2025

Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing our government to correct this horrible act by our country in taking the lives of the unborn through government funding. We pray that all planned Parenthood locations, as well as other locations that offer this service, permanently close, and that we instill Christian values within our country that honor life. We pray for an end to child sacrifice and we repent for the support of this horrible sin through the use of government funding. Thank you Heavenly Father for allowing this wonderful victory, and may we promote abstinence and the sanctity of marriage within our society. May we also provide prayer, love and support to women so that they will never consider abortion as an option. We ask this in the name of your son Yeshua.

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Barbara Rew
August 26, 2025

Lord God, Almighty Father, You alone are the Creator and Giver of all life. We praise and thank You for this precious gift and beg Your Mercy upon us and upon our world for rejecting Your Supreme Dominion over all human life. Forgive us Lord and have mercy upon us! Amen.

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Shirley Hoskins
August 26, 2025

Lord we declare that by every suit filed by planned parenthood against the administration under President Trump (in any court in this nation)
in regards to taxpayer funded abortions is null & void/canceled &
defeated by the power & authority of the Ekklesia of The Lord of Hosts.
We release God’s Spirit of revelation into the hearts of every judge in this nation to submit to the Truth that life originates in You & You alone. Open their eyes to see that life in & outside of the womb must be protected at all costs.

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    Mary Burt
    August 26, 2025

    Dear Heavenly Father, God Almighty, Ruler over all,

    I pray in total agreement with Barbara and Shirley. You are God over all. We love You and adore You. I ask that You have total control over all those who are attempting to save lives who You and You alone create. Thank you for what President Trump is doing to foster LIFE in our country.

    I ask TOTAL forgiveness for all the sin that our country as caused via the sin of abortion, in the precious and holy name of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

    In Your precious and holy name I pray this.

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