For You Who Claim Empowerment of Abortion

This post is for those of you that believe abortion "empowers" women. This post is for those of you who feel that abortion gives a woman "choice" over her own body. This is for those of you who think that the abortion sidewalk counselors are bullies, preying on anguished women.

Yesterday, only moments after I arrived at the abortion mill, I saw a young lady on the phone, sitting on the sidewalk in front of the mill. I smiled, and beckoned to her with my hand. I could not believe it when she stood up, as though pulled by an invisible thread moving towards me.

As she came close, I heard her last words to the person on the phone, "I am about to make the most horrible decision of my life."
"You don't have to," I said, touching her shoulder.
I asked her name, and told her my name, and the counselor's name beside me.
"We can help you," I said, "How far along are you?"
"19 weeks," S replied.
Instantly, I thought of the little 19 week model I had made just a couple of weeks ago. I pulled the little clay baby from my bag.
"This is what your baby looks like," I told her.
She burst into tears, and held out her hands. As she cried, she cradled the little baby in her palms.
"Would you like our free ultrasound?" asked Celia, the other counselor.
S nodded, and walked with us. While Celia talked with the ultrasound nurses, I asked S if this was her first baby. It was not. She did not want to abort the baby, but didn't know what else to do.
I opened our little pamphlet of resources and showed her the list of services that could help her. I gave her my phone number and told her if she needed any help to call.

We reached the ultrasound unit, and she was still clutching the baby model.
"Do you want to keep it in there?" I asked. She nodded.

While S was in the ultrasound, a young man was walking frantically around the parking lot, on his phone. His phone was not receiving a signal and he approached us, asking if we had a phone he could use.
"Do you need it to call a woman out of that abortion center?" I asked.
"No," he said angrily. I offered him our literature but he brushed me away, telling me to leave him alone. Celia caught my eye, and I realized he was looking for S, and I also knew this man was pushing for the abortion. I did not offer him my phone.

Unfortunately, some other people gave him a phone, and he found out S was in the free ultrasound RV. He knocked, and they let him in. We counselors prayed that when he saw the image of his baby, his heart would change. When the couple emerged, I hurried to S.
"What did you decide?" I asked.
"I am going to keep the baby," she said.
The man exploded. He told me to leave them alone and stop talking to her. He grabbed S's arm and tried to drag her to the abortion clinic.
"Leave me alone!" she told him, "These people want to help me!" Later the RV nurses told me she had told them that she praised God we had been there to stop her from making an awful decision she did not want to make.
She still clutched the little model I had made. I asked her,"Do you want to keep that?"
She nodded.
"It is my gift to you," I said. I knew God had prompted me to make the model, and He had known all along that S would need it. As the man shrieked at me, I stuffed the cities4life pamphlet in S's hand, "My number is in there, too!" I told her.

The man screamed at her, and screamed at us, while continually grabbing S's arm and trying to pull her to the clinic. All the counselors now had gathered and told her she did not need to go with him.
"He cannot force you to get an abortion!!!" I cried, "You can refuse. Come to us, we can help you. We will take you anywhere you want to go." All of us urged S to come to us, to walk away, to NOT go in the clinic against her desires.

The man cajoled and pulled her towards the clinic, but she refused to go in. He got her to go with him to his car, parked around the side of the clinic. Do we call the police? None of us were sure. He had not struck her, but in my eyes, she was being abused and I feared for her should she leave with him. While the other counselors talked with the RV staff about whether to call the police, I ran to a neighboring business with a hill that overlooked the side of the property where the car was parked. I set my camera to video, fearing he was beating her up in the car.

I videotaped from the hill. I could hear him screaming at her as her car door was still open. Through the window I could see that he would forcefully put his arm around her and yank her towards him. Finally he got out of the car, glanced up and saw me.
"I don't care if you videotape! She is my future wife!"
"And you are about to kill your future child!" I shouted, "Something she doesn't want to do and will regret the rest of her life."
"We all have regrets!" he shouted.
"But you don't have to!" I pleaded.
S got out of the car, and moved away from the man, telling him not to scream at me, that I was helping her. I called to her several times, telling her it was illegal for him to force her to enter that clinic or submit to an abortion she didn't want. I urged her to run to us. He grabbed her arm then, and tried to pull her to the front door. She yanked her arm away. I got that on tape, and knew I had enough to call the police. S called out to me that she was just going to get her ID from the clinic and then she would leave.

They walked in through the front door of the clinic. I dashed back to the other counselors and called the police. They arrived shortly afterwards and looked at my video. They listened to our description of what we all had witnessed, every one of us convinced this was an abusive situation. The police went in, and shortly after, the man came out. The police were apparently talking to S for some time. Meanwhile, another counselor was on the microphone, pleading with the man to do what was right in the eyes of God.

When the police came out about a half hour later, they told me that S had said she had not been forced, and she didn't want to press charges. There was nothing the cops could do. Even with all of our certainty and testimony and video that S was indeed being forced, and was a victim of domestic abuse. As we stood in front of the mill, all of our hearts breaking, Celia approached me and I sobbed my heart out. S didn't want the abortion. She wanted the baby. She had told all of us she wanted the baby. There was so much cities4life could have offered her, including a safe place to stay.

THIS, you pro-abortion people is what has happened. You have empowered not the women, but the men who prey on women. S had a choice, but it would take a very courageous woman to stand up to the anger and violence of the man that she has so sadly placed herself under the power of. And that is not even to mention the sex traffickers, who force the young women they hold in sexual slavery to abort the product of their trade! Abortion increases the potential for the abuse of women, and scars them for life when their conscience shrieks at the violence imposed upon their own child.

A few minutes later, S and the man came out. Had it been enough time for the first day measures of the two day procedure a 19 week abortion requires? We didn't think so. As they pulled out of the driveway, I called out to S, "Honey, are you ok?"
She rolled down the window, "We didn't do it."

We don't know if that is true or not. We know she was being bullied by pure evil, and may have been saying what he told her to say. I ask all of you to pray for S and the precious life within her. And if you have been pro-abortion up till now, I beg you to reconsider your stance. Come stand on the sidewalks of the abortion mill and witness the anguish of those who don't want an abortion but are being forced by powerful men in their lives, mothers, and even grandmothers ... while the woman wants what God created every woman to want: to nurture and love the fruit of her womb.
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Isaiah 49:15 

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

Psalm 127:3 

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

James 1:14 

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

John 8:32 

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Titus 1:15-16 

To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

Jude 1:18 

They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”