The Writing on the Wall: The “Pro Choice” Group Prevented a Mom Who Needed Our Help From Getting It, But God Prevailed

This picture is of me with Kitty, a spry 87-year-old who comes to the sidewalk of the abortion clinic three times a week to speak on behalf of the babies who cannot speak for themselves. The “pro-choice” crowd, who tells us how much they care about women, called her an “old hag”. I am sure they meant that kindly. Maybe they care about women except certain exceptions... such as the very young unborn girls or women more advanced in years like Kitty.

Another woman who experienced the love and care of the “pro-choice” crowd called me yesterday. I had just finished several hours on the sidewalk with our Cities4Life team on a really cold day. (That is why I am dressed like Nanook of the North in the photo above.) I will call this woman Jane to protect her privacy.

“Miss Vicky? My name is Jane. I have a pamphlet with your name on it.”

I instantly knew she was a mom from the abortion center and had one of our pieces of literature we give out to encourage Moms to choose life over abortion. We also counsel and point post-abortive women to resources to help them.

“That’s great,” I told her. “We would love to help you.”

She unveiled an amazing story. In December, she had come to the abortion center to kill her baby. She had just moved to the area and had no family or friends. Her boyfriend, upon hearing she was pregnant urged her to abort. She lost her job when the employer learned Jane was pregnant. She felt utterly alone and abandoned with little choice but to abort.

As she pulled into the abortion center, she met me briefly, took the pamphlet with my name on it, but couldn’t talk with me. The “pro-choice” crowd told her to drive on, drive on, don’t talk to them. She drove into the parking lot and hurried into the clinic. She had been warned by the people who schedule the abortions NOT to talk to us as well. The “Pro-choice” crowd swirling around her with umbrellas to block us continued the warning not to talk to us. Jane clutched the pamphlet and went into the waiting area. She sat down and began leafing through the pamphlet.

“It was terrible in there. It was crowded. So many people. Some people were crying, but some were laughing, and watching TV...like this was no big deal. I looked at the Bible verses in the pamphlet, and then the photos of babies in the womb, and then the picture of an aborted baby and how it was ripped apart. I realized God was telling me get out now. I could not do that to my baby.”

“Did you stop to talk with us when you left?” I asked, “Did you tell us you had chosen life?”

“No...I didn’t see you, and they told us don’t stop, don’t talk to you all. So I drove home. Every day, I looked at that pamphlet and your name and number. I wanted to call...I needed help...but I didn’t want to be a burden.”

“Our ministry exists to help you and your baby,” I said, “It is a privilege to help you. Please know you are not a burden.”

“I should not have been there, but I didn’t know what else to do. I love my baby so much already. I can’t believe I ever thought of doing that to my precious baby. I am going to Hell for sure.”

That was the opening I pray for every day as I head off to my work as a sidewalk counselor. I shared the glorious truth of the Gospel with her and she wanted to ask Jesus to be Lord of her life immediately. We prayed together and she committed her life to God. Then I shared the wealth of resources and help we could provide. She was overcome with gratitude. I even had a job opening for her from a friend who had just contacted me about the need for good workers. I shared that information with her and she said she would call my friend immediately.

“I am so glad I called you!”she said.

Do not miss this. The “pro-choice” crowd did everything in their power to prevent this woman from talking with us. This is a woman who didn’t want to abort but saw no way out of her situation. She needed and wanted our help, but was warned repeatedly not to talk to us. By the grace of God, I managed to get our literature into her hands, even as the “pro-choice” crowd waved her on, told her not to block the driveway, and urged her not to talk to us because we were “crazy”.

I texted her some verses to encourage her later in the day. This was her response: I'm so excited and so very grateful! Thanks so much!

This story should encourage sidewalk counselors everywhere. First, there are people who go into abortion centers who really do not want to abort. They simply see no other option. When truth and resources are offered, some do make choices for life. Secondly, the so called “pro-choice” crowd is not about choice. They actively block the choices other than abortion. Thirdly, more women choose life than we know about. They do not always stop to tell us.

So many people hop on the “pro-choice” bandwagon because it sounds so noble to be pro-choice. What they don’t understand is the truths I outlined above that were revealed clearly through Jane’s story. A choice for death is not choice. It is the end of choice...certainly for the baby. How many babies and women’s lives are destroyed who could have been saved if they had been offered a real choice?

Praise God that His truth can prevail even in the midst of such darkness and delusion as abortion. Despite those groups so eager to usher women in crisis to an irreversible and devastating choice, God grants us the privilege to shine His light, and sometimes, a wounded soul escapes the path of destruction.

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Joshua 24:15

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 30:19-20

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, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”