I was standing directly in front of the abortion mill’s door; so, I had no view into the parking lot on the north side of the building. Alicia, stnading about fifteen yards down the sidewalk, signalled to me that “two” were leaving their cars and were about to come around to the door. When they emerged, there were two groups, not two clients. Immediately I was in the midst of a crowd of five or six people. I tried to focus on one, but her boyfriend tried to slap the material out of my hand. The open doorway scooped them in, and that was that.
Ove the next hour we continued to pray. Twice we called out to the clients in the waiting room, just on the other side of the door. Mike and Alicia spoke extensively with a boyfriend who waited in his car. Alicia also had conversation with a petite Hispanic woman who came late. She was in and out in about ten minutes, promising to call us as she left. At about 9:20 I was thinking it was time to go; we had promised to meet some mothers at La Rosita in order to give them some diapers. Just then, though, the door of the abortion mill opens, a middle-aged woman comes out with a young girl and teenage boy, and the woman says, “Well, you saved one today.” We had a little follow-up conversation over at the edge of the parking lot, then they pulled out and left. Ten minutes later they return–we are afraid. The girl goes alone into the abortuary, while her mother and the boyfriend wait in the car. We asked if they had come back for a refund, which they affirmed. Get her out, get her out, is all I am thinking. How much? $200.00. We’ll give it to you, just go and get her out of there. The boyfriend, then, does exactly that. Meanwhile, though, the abortuary had refunded her $100.00. We offered to make up the rest, but they declined. We gave them more pamphlet material, exchanged numbers and they again left. The girl, the mother said, was only 16 years old.
We stayed in Detroit another three hours. We took our 17 year-old shopping for a winter coat ( at the age of 16 she aborted her first child ) and made a quick stop at the home of Maria and Raoul. With her newborn, she came home from the hospital yesterday. She had called from the hospital, telling us she had nothing for the baby. She was so happy to see Alicia.
