How You Respond to Conviction is What Counts

   “Honey die, Honey die, I’d hate to tear you up in that little dress!”

   Those were the words an outraged lady shouted at me as I asked her to rescue her friend from the abortion mill. This type of encounter is not uncommon in sidewalk counseling but what the infuriated women said right before this, was what made it memorable. 

   I had walked down the sidewalk to talk to the woman as she walked back to her car. I asked her to go back and rescue her friend who she had brought to the mill.  That is when she went off saying “Are you going to pay the bills? Are you going to take care of her? Are you going to put food on the table?” 

   I replied, “I know people who would love to adopt her.”  She cut me off again and said “get out of here, I don’t have time for this. Go back over there (to the front of the abortion mill.)” 

   I said “abortion is the killing of an innocent human being.” What she said next was heartbreaking. She said, “Don’t be out here trying to make her feel worse, she knows what she is doing, of course she has thought about it.”

   I asked her the most simple question, “why would she do it then?” She then proceed to threaten me, so I backed off.  A few minutes later, my mom and I stopped ...

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