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I am not a very passionate person, which makes me an excellent pro-life activist. I do not normally get exited or loose my temper about anything so why would you expect me to get passionate about this thread? Anyhow, I was adressing the original question of whether the demonstrator's tactics accomplished anything. I stated that I did not think the "harlot " comment would accomplish anything. I would never say anthing like that to anyone and I doubt if anyone of my fellow pro-lifers would. It was a nasty comment.
Everyone is capable of being nasty, including so-called "pro-lifers".
We do treat all women entering "our" abortion clinic on Saturday morning as abortion bound because Saturday is abortion day at the mill. The women normally have on baggy pants and have someone else driving them. They are very often crying. These are red flags for abortion intent. On the slim (very slim - this place is an ABORTION clinic) chance that someone is not there for an abortion - and we hand them abortion literarature when they stop - there is no harm done.
Wait, is this a clinic that only performs abortions? Or is it a regular clinic or an OBGYN ("women's") clinic that only performs abortions on Saturdays? Also, it is wrong-headed to assume someone entering a clinic on a Saturday is heading for an abortion - I know plenty of young women (and men) who go to walk-in clinics on Saturdays for regular exams because school and/or work interferes with regular medical clinic hours, and/or they just haven't found a doctor's office in their area. Many of those women going into the clinic may just be going to get regular exams. Even in that case, it would be very stressful to have to be bugged by people giving out flyers. Some of them may be finding out they have a miscarriage... or are sterile... or have become pregnant because of a date rape... or who just are very stressed because of an unusual PAP smear (not uncommon!) or a precancerous mole.
The same could be said of any abortion mill, if a lady sees some literature and she is going there for some other purpose - so what?
So what? SO WHAT? A person going into a medical clinic is going for three reasons: a regular exam, a prescription refill, or because of a medical problem. The last thing they need are people bugging them, handing out flyers, stressing them out over a medical issue!
Anti-abortion protesters should understand this: abortion is a medical issue between a doctor and a patient. A protester doesn't know the individual circumstances of the case. They don't even know why a person is going into the clinic. A man or woman may be entering it to find out any number of tragic things and adding more stress is cruel and useless.
I do not know what "most girls" think or what their motivations are. I do know that some are not absolutely sure and some are just worried or scared. We are there to educate them and offer an alternative, and some do take us up on our offers. The ones that change their minds make our efforts worthwhile.
What those women need are information on adoption, and the knowledge that the adoptive parents will be good parents, not just rich ones. That is, they need to know that solid middle-class families can afford medical services, the initial overly-priced adoption fees, and so on.
Actually, most (if not all) of the people who pray/counsel at the abortion mill we go to do participate in several activities. I was the Respect Life coordinator at my parish and our group sells roses and collects baby items every year for an aid organization. We have also held baby showers for pregnant women who have chosen to not kill thier unborn children. Several of the people also volunteer at crisis pregnancy centers. All of us are faithful Catholics who support the charity efforts of our Church. We also distribute polictical/legislative information at the parishes.
Baby showers? So cute little baby items. What about the nitty-gritty of life, such as health insurance, or money to tide over the mother during her maternity leave? Diapers? Water bills? How about the absent fathers? I guess they don't get anyone yelling at them or expecting them to raise a child for the rest of their lives, are they?
Our activities outside of the abortion mill are effective as we usually have at least one turnaround a week. Just this last Saturday a young lady drove in , looked at our literature and drove out. She had planned on having an abortion and changed her mind. One of the workers came out last year and told us that we were driving away the clinic's business

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Did you she tell you that she was going to have an abortion? Or could she have been going for a GYN exam?
We also distribute informative literature to the cars that are stopped for the train. We usually get to hand out about 35 peices on a Saturday morning. we really do reach alot of people with abortion info.
Just what most places need - more pollution. Because once those kids are born, they don't deserve to live in an area with clear air and lots of trees... they only have rights before they are born!
Even if we did not have turnarounds, our efforts would be benificial because the little humans being slaughtered will at leas thave someone to pray for them. The prayers for the mothers, fathers, abortionists and clinic workers will also do some good.
You can pray anywhere and it will just as valuable. What those "little human beings" need are adoptive - not foster - families. For most families, adoption is out of the question because of the intial price tag of adoption. Perhaps a better use of the time on Saturday mornings would be helping solid families raise money for the initial costs of adoption.