Yesterday at the abortion mill I noticed a woman in a big 4×4 pickup truck turning to watch us as she passed; she then turned the wrong way down a one way, and entered the rear of the Dearborn grill parking lot, next door to the abortion mill. I alerted the sidewalk counselors on that side, who approached the truck. One of them talked to her briefly through the truck’s driver-side window, then she backed out and pulled away. Of course I was curious, so I walked over and asked Tom about it. He explained she had stopped to thank us; she had come to the abortion mill last week, saw us there and–without any debate or convincing–simply decided to give life to her child.
That was our little piece of cake in the early part of our sidewalk vigil yesterday. The rest of the morning was very wet. The precipitation looked like snow but felt like rain; we knelt in the slush, our coats became water soaked. There were, maybe, eight total clients; however, fewer than half of them stayed. Other than the woman in the truck, though, no one talked to us.
The Alma described in the Feb.5 entry called later while we were at breakfast. She wanted company. With her two children she met us at the restaurant and sat with us a while. We gave her a few groceries and a few diapers, but I think the companionship was far more important to her.
We made two stops after breakfast to help two mothers with rent payments. In the early part of the morning, while driving to the abortion mill, our head sidewalk counselor was writing down names and numbers. She calculated that, in order to keep our promises, we will have to raise about $2,500 every month.
This morning one of our helpers will be driving into Detroit for a very difficult assignment. It’s a 17 year-old whom we met at the abortion mill last week. She herself does not want the abortion, but she is being pressured by her mother and her boyfriend. A 17 year-old girl will not last long under that kind of pressure. Our helper has already taken her to the crisis pregnancy center; the ultrasound, however, was not able to detail the baby, who is still very young.
