Last Saturday morning very shortly after we arrived, a women walked out the back door of Emily's and stopped next to me like she was waiting for someone to pick her up. I thought it was odd that she had already come and left. Like always, my first question was, "Are you pregnant?" and the second, "Are you here to terminate the pregnancy?"
Her response? "I was."
Praise God! My next question was. "What made you change your mind?"
Turns out that when she entered the clinic at 7am, she passed one of our faithful prayer warriors. Sign number 1.
Then she went inside and her insurance didn't go through. The same insurance she used for her first abortion. There was no reason it shouldn't have worked. Sign number 2.
Then she came outside and we, the EMC interns, were there. Sign number 3.
She told me God was clearly using us to tell her not to do it. When God spoke that clearly, she couldn't ignore it.
When she told her husband she was pregnant, he told her she would have to get an abortion because they weren't ready for another baby. Their son is only 15 months old. Now she was waiting for him to pick her up so she could tell him she wasn't going to do it. She had tears in her eyes when she was telling me that she didn't care what her husband said, he would have to live with the fact that she was not having an abortion. He had wanted her to abort their son, too, but she had said no. And now she was saying no again. Praise God for this mother who is protecting her children.
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