Woman Pregnant with 5 Month Baby Leaves Abortion Clinic Keeping

This week at Dr. Emily abortion clinic there were many cold and rainy days. Luckily however, it is days like this that proves to the community that we are serious about helping woman and committed to limiting abortions and making sure women know they have other options. Although the rain may give us a certain amount of 'street cred,' it unfortunately often makes it harder to talk to the abortion bound women scurrying to enter the clinic and get away from the elements.

However I spoke to a woman on one such day as she was leaving the clinic. She said she was 20 weeks pregnant and left because she felt unsure about the two day procedure. In my opinion, at this point she was still very abortion bound but in her uncertainty about the procedure she was more than willing to talk to me, in the rain at first and then in a corner store.

Through our talk I think she achieved some moral clarity. For instance, she had expressed that she knew abortion was wrong. I suggested that in times when there is a right thing to do versus a wrong thing to do it is always best to do the right thing, even if it makes life harder. She believed that life is a gift from God and when I said that if that is the case, then there is no way God would give us that gift for us to deliberately take it away. Again, these were all things she knew, at least subconsciously, but to talk about it, and to hear it, seemed to cut through the prevailing mindset of - I have to take care of this problem, now.

Perhaps the most encouraging to her was the practical advise I could offer her on account of the numerous women I have worked with in similar situations - pregnant with already a baby less than a year old and small living spaces. Before she left for home she thanked me numerous times and promised that she would call me in the future sometime.

As opposed to what the other side says, it isn't a matter of 'forcing our beliefs' on anybody - it is often just a matter of helping people understand their own beliefs amidst a very desperate time. And in this case as in many others, sidewalk counseling isn't 'intimidating girls as they exercise their reproductive right,' or whatever nonsense the other side wants to call it - it is having a conversation with a more than willing participant.

The fact is, many girls that go into abortion clinics are not already dead-set on having one. And the presence of sidewalk counselors greatly increases their chance to see the light. In this case, a baby that has already been alive for 5 months (a very big pregnancy) now has a much better chance of survival.