Hurt

During our Prayer Vigil Protest on Aug.23, Sat. outside Planned Parenthood on Lincoln St., Nina, Marie and I were praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet, Jim and Fred were conversing, and Mark was waiting to hand out information about abortion alternatives when a young couple came from the other side of Planned Parenthood, and walked towards the entrance. Mark spoke to them, saying they did not have to end the life of the child in her womb…

Now the young couple, with the girl leading, had purposely walked between the parked cars and the wall of Planned Parenthood, in an attempt to be as far away from us as physically possible – we standing in the parking lot of the former Problem Pregnancy, they walking through the Planned Parenthood parking lot right next door. As Mark recounted that her baby had a beating heart at 3 weeks, and brain waves just like us, the woman stopped, turned towards us and screamed the F word at us, as in F* you.

She then did something telling, she walked just past the entrance of Planned Parenthood, bent her head, and began to cry loudly.

Mark stopped talking, the rest of us regained our composure after a moment and then continued to pray softly again. The boy with her went up to the crying girl, put his hand on her back, and “guided” her into the entrance, while the Police officer who works for Planned Parenthood stood ready to close the door as soon as they both were inside, so she would not hear Nina’s offers that we could help her.

Sometimes a cry is a cry for help, and a hand on the back is not for comfort but for a push. The false teachings about Choice were evident that morning – it was not the girl’s free choice to have the abortion, but it was the choice those close to her wanted her to make. Planned Parenthood has convinced their Legislative lackeys that Pro-Life people are so dangerous that we must be kept an inordinate distance from women who must make this so-called difficult choice. The difficulty is in assuaging their conscience, and the only danger posed is to Planned Parenthood profits.