Since the beginning, we’ve had a list on our website of 10 ways people can help Abort73’s influence grow (a list which, just like everything else on our site, will soon be expanded and improved). One of the items on that list is a plea for prayer. Last month, we added to that general request, a list of specific things people can be praying for. As we embark on the massive overhaul in front of us, prayer for our efforts is as crucial as it’s ever been. Please lift those efforts up in prayer as often as you’re able...

Every day in America, roughly 4,000 women are scheduled to have an abortion. • Pray that God intercedes before they go through with it. Pray for a crisis of conscience that puts them online, desperate to know the truth. • Pray that an Abort73 T-shirt, sticker, pen, DVD, or personal referral gets them to Abort73.com. • Pray that everyone who is looking for abortion-related information online, whether they’re doing a school report or are actually in a crisis pregnancy, would wind up at Abort73.com. To that end, pray that Abort73 would climb the ranks of all the major search engines and would be a page one fixture for key abortion-related search terms. • Pray that when someone reaches Abort73.com, they will become convinced that abortion is a massive injustice and would be compelled to join us in the effort to reach others. • Pray that visitors to Abort73 are able to find the most appropriate and compelling sections of our website quickly and easily.

Pray for those visitors to our site who support abortion rights and are enraged by the content of Abort73.com. • Pray, that by God’s grace, they would be turned, softened, and changed. Pray that our responses to their emails would be filled with humility and genuine concern. • Pray that as visitors to the site consider the deeper questions of human purpose and existence, they would see the vanity (and peril!) of shallow, earthly pursuits, and would turn their gaze upon Jesus Christ, by whom we can be reconciled to God and gain access to His presence for all eternity.

Pray for the women who come to our site having already had an abortion (and for all the post-abortive women who haven’t come to our site!). Pray that sorrow would lead to repentance. • Pray that they come to terms with what they did, and find healing in the blood of Christ. • Pray that more students (individually and through campus...

• RELEVANT NATION CONTEST - In October, Abort73’s Mike Spielman was named one of the five finalists in Relevant Magazine’s “Change the World” contest. Online visitors could vote for their favorite, and Mike was the People’s Choice winner.

• JOHN PIPER ENDORSEMENT - In November, Abort73 received a tremendous endorsement from John Piper, the internationally-known pastor and author whose influence on Abort73.com has been so significant.

• THE UPS AND DOWNS OF MYSPACE - Last summer, Abort73 opened an account on MySpace and quickly started introducing all sorts of new people to Abort73.com. Six months (and 5,000+ friends) later, MySpace deleted the account. As best we can figure, they took issue with the graphic nature of our abortion video. Though it had been posted from the start, its viewership sky-rocketed at the very end. In the 2 days before we were removed, the video received close to 300 comments and 100,000 views. We’re now back on MySpace (without the videos), but it’s a little painful to start over. The network that was six months in the making now has to be rebuilt. MySpace.com/Abort73

• NEW SHIRTS & WEB BANNERS - We’ve added 8 new shirt designs since our last report, with 3 more ready to roll. We’ve used those same designs to update our Abort73 web banners as well.

The following comes from a December 13, 2006 blog posted by Loxafamosity Director, Michael Spielman.

This morning, I stumbled upon an astounding report from the American Medical Association (AMA), one which specifically addresses the topic of abortion. You need to read the following excerpt (their assessment of where abortion providers fit into the broader medical community):

[These are] men who cling to a noble profession only to dishonor it; men who seek not to save, but to destroy; men known not only to the profession, but to the public as abortionists... These modern Herods, like their prototype, have a summary mode of dealing with their victims. They perform the triple office of Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive, and, to crown the tragedy, they become the executioners. They seem impatient for the sacrifice... those innocent and helpless victims are not permitted ever to breathe that vital air which God in His providence has destined for their use in common with the rest of the human family. Their resting-place is rudely invaded, and that which would grow and ripen into manhood is cut off from existence by the hand of an educated assassin. Mark the monster as he approaches his work!... Does any compunction assail his corrupt soul, as he gazes on the field of his labors? Does he measure the extent of the foul deed he is about to commit? Or does he not fear that the uplifted hand of an avenging God will suddenly fall on his guilty head? No; Judas-like, he solaces himself with the prospect of thirty pieces of silver, and this forms the climax of his aspirations!

But, as is found in many other cases of murder....

Continued at abort73.com/blog/?postid=68

The influence of Abort73.com has grown significantly over the course of its 2 year life. In January, 2005, our website hosted 3,570 unique visitors. That number jumped to 30,816 in January, 2006, and totalled 45,712 in January, 2007. All told, there were 270,761 unique visitors in 2005, and 382,199 unique visitors for 2006 (who viewed more than 2 million pages of content). And that’s just the first tier influence. Remember that each of the roughly 750,000 people who have visited our website take with them a better understanding of abortion (which will eventually influence the people they spend time with). Remember, also, that the Abort73 abortion video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on 3rd party websites like YouTube and MySpace. Remember that more than 14,000 Abort73 DVDs have gone out the door for distribution, and remember that all of our broadcast-quality videos are available to download, free of charge, for use in group presentations. The Abort73 website is certainly the anchor of our educational efforts, but it is by no means our only avenue of influence! Having said all that, it is becoming increasingly apparent that, in order to maintain the rapid rate of growth we’ve enjoyed to this point, we need to double our staff (ie. hire a second person). We’ve come just about as far as we can as a one-man operation. If you’ll take a look at the Traffic Report on the right, you’ll notice that our growth rate is shrinking. The gap between this year’s traffic and last year’s traffic isn’t what it once was (especially for November and December!). We could probably leave things where they are and enjoy modest gains in the years ahead, but where is the faith or ambition in...