Legal/Statistics
This 1973 landmark decision of the US Supreme Court legalizing abortion was overturned in 2022.
What is Roe v Wade?
These are the two Cedar Rapids pregnancy resource centers.
What are Birthright and Bridgehaven?
This is the length of a typical prayer campaign.
What is "40 days"?
Life begins at this stage of development.
What is fertilization?
(or conception)
What is Exodus 20:13?
This Iowa House File 732 was signed into law in 2023 and prohibits most abortions after the detection of cardiac activity.
What is the Heartbeat bill?
This city in Iowa has two abortion clinics that still offer surgical abortions.
Bonus points (100) if you can name the two clinics.
What is Iowa City?
Planned Parenthood
Emma Goldman Clinic
These two individuals are the Cedar Rapids 40 Days for Life campaign leaders.
Who (what) are Pat and Vanessa?
A baby's gender, ethnicity, hair color, eye color, and other traits are already determined at this stage of life.
What is fertilization?
(or conception)
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.
What is Jeremiah 1:5?
As of September 2025, this number of US states have banned abortion at all stages with little/no exceptions.
What is 12?
Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virgina
This local non-profit's mission is to defend the sanctity of human life from conception throughout all stages with prayer, education and raising awareness.
What is the Coalition for Life of Iowa?
This is the source for the number of days (40) of prayer in our vigils.
What is the Bible?
(or Scripture)
A baby can suck her thumb, swallow, grasp an object, touch her face, sigh, and stretch out in her mother’s womb at this stage of development.
What is 10 weeks?
For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.
What is Jeremiah 29:11?
Since 2007 (and as of 11/1/2025), 40 Days for Life has confirmed this many unborn lives saved.
What is 25,795?
These two local organizations co-sponsor an annual pregnancy loss memorial service.
What are Mercy Medical Center and Mt. Calvary Cemetery?
A baby has unique fingerprints, which start forming during this stage.
What is 12 weeks?
For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
What is Psalm 139:13-15?
Going live on Nov. 15th, the hotline number of this organization is 319-535-0470.
What is CR Walking With Moms in Need?
This new Archdiocesan (and national) program assists mothers through a phone team and a parish contact, connecting them to local resources while accompanying them every step of the way.
What is Walking With Moms In Need?
The 40 Days for Life National Team asks that vigil participants complete these two requirements before praying on the sidewalk.
A baby can recognize the voices of her parents, her eyes can respond to light, and her sense of smell has developed.
What is 27 weeks?
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to me? For as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy.
What is Luke 1:41-44?