Everyone is capable of being nasty, including so-called "pro-lifers".
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.
Saturday is abortion day at this abortion clinic. So is Tuesday and Thursday. This is a huge metro area and there are plenty of hospitals and doctor's offices around for the people to go to. We see the abortionist come and go and he does not have time in the couple of hours he is there to give real exams. Twenty-thirtyfive women show up on any given Saturday and the abortionist shows up and stays at most three hours.
About 99.9% of people going into that clinic are going in for an abortion (one exception was the young lady who thought her baby was dead).
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!
They might not "need" to be bothered by us but so what if they are? They do not have to stop their car to talk to us if they are not interested.
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.
You know, I ran into a young lady who stopped to talk to us at the clinic last fall the other day. She chose to not kill her baby. We took her to the crisis pregnancy center, gave her a beautiful gift basket and a couple dozen roses. She is seven months pregnant and she gave both of us (me and my sister) a big hug and a thank you and told us that she was carrying a boy.
Useless?
Perhaps you read the story (on this thread) of the young lady who was wrongly informed that her baby was dead. We stopped her from going in to abort her baby and she was simply thrilled that her baby was not dead.
Useless? Tragic???
What would have been tragic was if these two (and many others) had gone through with their abortions.
What is tragic is that so many women do kill their unborn children.
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.
The centers we refer these women to provide this info.
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?
No ones future economic needs are assured. These women (and men - not all have absent fathers). There is government and Church assistence for the truly needy. Many of the women have family support.
If we killed everone who did not have an their entire life needs provided for there woud be very few, if any, people alive.
Did you she tell you that she was going to have an abortion? Or could she have been going for a GYN exam?
She told us.
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!
The abortion mill is right across the street from a forest preserve and a lovely river. The only polllution is the booze bottles left by the homeless guys who camp out there. They talk to us and they are very pro-life.
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
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You know - I think that he turnarounds we have makes our Saturyday morning time very well spent. So apparently did the young mother of the little boy we ran into the the other day.
