A woman came in with her boyfriend today, she simply needed someone to talk with. She knew nothing about abortion, but she had briefly considered it after getting into an argument with her boyfriend. She spoke with Julie, and Julie sent this woman into our South Bronx Center.
I brought her into one of our counseling rooms and started a conversation with her. She quickly showed me the ultrasound picture she had gotten from her doctor. This woman is eight weeks along. (By this time her baby already has measurable brainwaves.) The ultrasound technician at the health clinic she went to told her, “the fetus has no arms or legs. It only has a head and a torso.” As she saw from our new fetal models, that this was a lie.
The boyfriend was sitting out in our waiting room, and the South Bronx Center Director Liz put on a few videos for him. We didn’t hear anything from him until he started watching one of our informational videos.
Sure enough, after that was started, the woman and I started hearing exclamations of surprise from him. We tried to keep our laughter quiet, but he was very vocal about what he thought of this procedure. This woman was very sure by that time, she wanted to keep, however she wanted to know what her boyfriend thought. So we went out into the waiting room. They looked at each other, that was all it took. She now knows, he will support her. She now knows, he is committed to this baby and to her. And now he knows she really does want to keep their child.
Yes, we see thousands of women every year in our centers. Yes, sometimes it feels like we see them all at once. But as I look back on today, I know why women come to us. I spent over two hours counseling this one couple. They received the best I had to offer. And for two hours, no one else existed. Our clients know this, and so they tell others about us and about the reality of abortion.
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