Crying Wolf at 40 Days for Life

This Lenten 40 Days for Life is different than our vigils in past years. Mainly because we have changed the location of one of our vigil sites. While we are still keeping watch and offering options at Dr. Emily's, the largest late term abortion clinic in the Bronx, we are now praying at Planned Parenthood in the South Bronx. This is the same PP that was recently caught on under cover video by Live Action, willing to aid and abet purported sex traffickers of minors. It's also across the street from EMC's South Bronx Pregnancy Center.

We have been out in front of the abortion business for many, many hours! We have had passers by give us the thumbs up and have seen people stop by on a daily basis just to tell us about their children and about their pro-life views. But not everything has been so positive. From the beginning of our 40 Days, the door man of the building (we will call him Tim) has sought to make us go away. By no means does he want us there. He has made it very clear, that our presence is not welcome!

He began calling the police on the very first day, I can only imagine what he said about us. All we were doing was praying peacefully. The cops showed up and told us that we had the right to stand and pray there, turned around and left. This continued several times a day. At one point Tim very rudely asked me to move to the side, in a place where I would not be as visible to patrons of the building. When I told him that I had the right as a tax payer to stand on the public sidewalk, he retorted, "Okay than I'm calling the cops". When they arrived I explained the situation to them. I let them know that he was fully aware that we were allowed to be there, and knew that he was wasting their time. The officers spoke with him and left within ten minuets.

Recently Tim threatened to call the cops again, on our 40 Days participants and a funny thing happened, the police never came. They haven't been back either! I wonder if his mother ever told him about the boy who cried wolf.