And, while there are hurting people out there--the poor, the homeless, the unemployed, the immigrants, the sick, etc., etc., etc. you would rather "minister" to women until you feel they've said, "*I'm a murderer" enough times for you to be satisfied?
Uh, me, personally? No. I just made the post because I am so frustrated with pro-life groups who want to tout statistics about how women who have abortions are so
miserable, suffering from depression or bad relationships or what have you... which I don't believe are anywhere near as common as pro-life groups would like us to believe. I wanted to know how such groups would address the women who have no guilt about the choice they made, when they do not exhibit any of the misery that pro-life groups want us to believe that all women will have after an abortion.
Personally, I dislike almost all tactics used by pro-life groups to gain converts because I don't think they really work. Holding up signs calling women murderers, with pictures of eviscerated fetuses (which are often misleading), warning them of the inevitable darkness and misery that awaits them if they have an abortion... shock and scare tactics at best.
If pro-life groups want their voice to be heard, they need to make personal connections with the women. Support groups that offer more than vague promises and assurances of having made the right decision. Social programs that can actually support young, unwed mothers and offer them assistance. Since many statistics indicate that abortion is highest among women who already have children, maybe some programs in place to help families in financial difficulty (not welfare).
When I asked the question, "How do you minister to them?" to the Ottawa group, they treated me like I was pro-abortion and gave me the standard lines about how abortion kills babies. It was insulting to me - did they think that, as a Catholic, I don't already know everything about pro-life arguments and such?
In order to truly protect and support life, the movement has to do much more than talking and arguing and convincing. Once you get a woman out of the abortion clinic, that is only the beginning! What is she going to do when the baby is born? How will she finish her education? How will she find the funds to feed another mouth? Who will help her through the loneliness and isolation that often accompanies the raising of a first child? It isn't a real success at all unless that life that was "saved" from abortion can grow and flourish.