A Child’s View of Abortion

The wonderful daughter of a Cities4Life sidewalk counselor gave me this picture she drew. It is of us ministering on the sidewalks of the busiest abortion center in Charlotte. I love the picture and will cherish it always. She told me I am the one holding the megaphone and saying, “We have help for you!” She and her dad are the two people holding hands near me. The building is the abortion center. Notice the lines along the front of the abortion clinic... like a jail cell. I don’t know if the little artist Maddie did that intentionally to resemble a jail cell, but how appropriate!

On the opposite curb are the “pro-choice” women, holding a sign that says “Clinic parking.” The arrows are pointing in opposite directions on their sign, which is a funny detail and actually happens a lot. We often chuckle over that. They are smiling...though one looks a little worried, and clearly they are confused. Which way IS the right way???

Look at the face of the abortion-minded mama across the parking lot from us. She is about to enter the abortion clinic. She is weeping as she clutches her midsection. What a poignant portrayal of what we see, but also especially what we feel in the abortive women.

How observant of this 9 year-old artist, and how eloquently she captured the moods and psychological condition of each member of the little scene. 

I love her picture of me. The everpresent Cities4Life blue megaphone to my mouth, knowing my quiet voice will not carry to the parking lot without it. And my pleading offer of help. I LOVE that Maddie chose to capture me in that moment.

And perhaps the most telling vignette of all, the picture of Maddie and her dad. Facing the evil of abortion together. Holding hands. Showing what the bond of a child and a parent should be.

Ephesians 6:4 

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:6   

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

1 John 3:1   

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.