The photo above is a 3D ultrasound of a baby saved from abortion. Her mother heard our Cities4Life team calling out on the sidewalks of the abortion center, looked through our information and changed her mind. She is being helped through Cities4Life and Lovelife Charlotte Every few weeks she sends me updated photos from ultrasounds as her baby grows inside her. She frequently texts to thank us for being there. She is horrified that she ever considered abortion.
Yesterday, I spoke with a woman who wants to volunteer with us. She met us on the sidewalks of the abortion center. Her daughter was there to abort last week, despite every effort by S, the girl’s mother, to prevent her from doing so. Yesterday, S shared the story with me of how God intervened.
She had stopped to get our literature but the pregnant daughter wanted nothing to do with it and flung it back out the window. The daughter went in the abortion center while S sat in the car. Initially, she thought the “pro-choice” people were with us. She was grateful for the help we tried to offer. She was bereft over her daughter’s decision, and had lost all hope for her grandchild. As she sat in her car listening to me on the microphone explaining the resources we could offer, she heard the clinic “escort” tell women entering and leaving the clinic, “Don’t listen to them.”
Suddenly it was as though God lifted a veil, S told me. She was furious.
“There you were with your team offering hope and help, and they were trying to block that message. Right then, I decided I’m going to stand with those people trying to save lives. If I lose my grandchild today, I will stand there with them and maybe another child will be saved.”
She got out of the car, came to talk with me, and then stood with us on the sidewalk praying. Almost immediately, her daughter left the clinic having decided not to abort.
As S told me about her desire to continue to volunteer with us each week, she said, “I have felt a burden for a long time to help others who are trying to abort. I have been praying for God to put me where I can help a woman NOT to kill her child. I have to do that.”
I understand. So do I. I feel a deep burden for the babies and for the mothers who feel so desperate that they would kill their own child. I have been doing this 4 1/2 years now and I know that many women are conflicted. Many women just need a voice speaking of the blessings of following God and loving that innocent baby in their womb. Many just need to hear that there are people who will walk alongside them, and help.
“When I had my abortion,” S told me, “Everyone was telling me to abort. They were all saying to think of myself, my career...my plans. I was crying in the clinic when I went, and the nurse there told me abortion was a good choice and I needed to stop crying or the doctor might not perform the abortion. She calmed me down so that I would do it...
...If only one person had spoken up for the baby, encouraged me....I might not have done it.”
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Luke 3:4-6
As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”
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