The Charade of Choice

Another wild day at Charlotte's busiest abortion mill, and another example of what a facade "choice" is. When we arrived, there was a mom and her 16-year-old on the pro-life ultrasound unit on an RV parked outside the clinic. One of the counselors stopped their car and offered the free ultrasound just a hundred yards up the street. The mother refused to drive her pregnant daughter to it.So the girl got out of the car and walked over there with the counselor.  At some point, the mother joined her daughter. They left the RV, after seeing the tiny baby, and headed to the abortion mill.

By this time, I had arrived. I stopped them on the road. The teen's mother took my literature, which shows fetal development, lists resources to help those in crisis pregnancies, and has Bible verses to guide and comfort. I asked the teen if she was the pregnant one. She nodded. I asked if she wanted the abortion. She teared up and said "No." My fellow counselor, who had walked her to the RV, concurred the teen had also told her she didn't want the abortion. The teen's mom just keep shaking her head, and started trying to drive past us.

 I told the teen she could not be forced to abort, and told the teen's mom it was illegal to force anyone to have an abortion. The teen's mom rolled up her window and drove to the mill parking lot, ignoring her daughter's tears. We counselors all called to them as they entered the mill. The teen got out of the car, slowed as she looked back at us, and then sadly followed her mother into the mill.

I called the police. Three police cars arrived. Good. The first officer got out of his car and came to me. I explained what had happened. He asked if the teen had been dragged in or any force used. No, I could not say physical force was employed, but it was coercion nonetheless. He said he could not then go in, since I had not seen the use of force. I told him it was clear she didn't want the abortion as she had told both me and my fellow counselors so several times. The ultrasound nurse then chimed in about how few frightened teens would challenge their parents in this situation, but that this was clearly coercion. He insisted he could not go in. I am afraid I have to admit that my strong willed, argumentative nature politely and respectfully disagreed.

Then PRAISE GOD, another policeman got out of his car and came to me. (Probably wondering why I was arguing so intractably.) Unlike the first cop, he listened, and agreed with us that he of course could go in and talk to the girl. He did so. He explained to her that she could tell the doctor she didn't want the abortion at any time. The cops seemed sympathetic, but said they could do no more. It was up to the girl now.

 Per our director's advice when I texted him about the ongoing drama, I read the laws regarding coercion to abort LOUDLY on the microphone, (with my own ad-libs regarding the legal AND moral AND ethical AND spiritual reasons why a mother should never force her daughter to go against her conscience and do this terrible thing.) By the time we left at 1:30, the car was still there.  I know the last abortions of the day are generally the younger girls. I wish I could have stayed, to see what happened, but I could not. I had an appointment with another woman who had chosen life and scheduled an ultrasound. It was in God's hands...which are far more capable than mine.

I pray the girl had the courage to say no. I pray God convicted the teen's mother that to impose this upon her daughter would do irreparable harm.

Meanwhile, another woman stopped her car for one of our counselors and told us she had to abort because of her situation. She agreed to the free mobile ultrasound, nonetheless. Both the nurse and I felt she was soft-hearted from the get go, and just needed someone to tell her she was not alone, remind her of Jesus (who she loves and knows, but as so often we find, shaky in her trust of, through all circumstances), and show her the little baby's beating heart. I told her, as we watched the little heart pulsating, it always seems to be shouting to me, "I am here! I am here!"  She chose life, tearfully prayed with us, and we promised to follow through on hooking her up with a good church, food pantries, and support in her area.

While we were on the  RV, another counselor stopped a woman leaving who chose life...because she was 36 weeks pregnant! She had no idea she was that far along. It was wayyyyyy too late for an abortion at that particular clinic, though unbelievably, even though the baby is completely viable at that age, she could have gone elsewhere for an abortion. How she didn't know that she was almost ready to birth a baby floors me. Fortunately, she was relieved not to abort, and took a blessing bag from us filled with gifts for her new baby.

I am always exhausted when I leave the abortion mill sidewalks. It is so draining, yet the best feeling on earth when someone would have aborted their child but instead, chose life because a few frail women and men stood in front of the abortion mill and said please, don't do this.
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Deuteronomy 30:19 

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Psalm 139:13-16 

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Jeremiah 1:5

“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.”