11/7/23
Arrived at 9:00 and relieved Rebecka & Ethan.
They reported ~ 4 couples and 4 singles on their shift, having engaged with several couples with one Hispanic couple (late 30’s) definitely going in for an abortion.
That same couple did exit later in the morning with the nurse escorting the wife out the door. I was able to give the husband a post-abortion card and
Bible tract as he took his wife to their car to leave. He was offered material earlier as he was in/out a few times “waiting” for his wife, but refused and didn’t want to talk.
Prayer warriors from church arriving ~10:20 to pray the Rosary….. All departed ~11:30.
Most today refused materials and didn’t want to talk, several that did take handouts, only listened for the <30 sec pitch and continued on into PP.
One friendly young man (early 30’s) who was there with a male friend came out to wait, and I was able to share the gospel with him.
He said he had a girlfriend who had had an abortion but he felt that was really wrong and didn’t want her to go through with it, “it was their responsibility”, but she had insisted etc. Anyway we had a good chat about being saved (Born Again) and that someday if he chooses to believe in and follow Christ he would see his child in heaven.
11/9/23
One couple (late teens) allowed me to talk with them for several minutes. They took all the material and politely listened. I tried unsuccessfully to try & convince them not to go in and to go to CAPS up on 5th Ave at 9:00. They said they were there for only a check up to see if she was pregnant, of which I told them CAPS will do that for free too.
I warned them what they’ll try and do in there if she is pregnant, that they’ll try and push an abortion on her and what the consequences will be to them both. They were polite but they just wanted to make their appointment. I was hoping they’d come back out before I left but they did not.
Another couple (early 20’s) arrived by Uber. The young girl refused & her male escort did the same but I was able to catch him quick enough to get him to turn and take the handouts in with him.
One single lady (late 20’s) was polite, took materials and said she appreciated the handouts. She went in/out several times and then was observed later in the morning walking up the street.
11/10/23
Pam mentioned a discussion with one woman who had a bruised face and said she had been raped several times. Pam tried to communicate the baby was innocent and that having an abortion was just going to add to her trauma. She insisted on going in.
Around 11:00, 2 couples exited with their male escorts, both women were in pain holding their stomach as they left the front door.
“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.”
– All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
Prayer warriors keep on praying.
How would you like Jehovah’s Witnesses or Mormons hanging out on the sidewalk in front of your church every Sunday handing out literature and trying to persuade you not to go there but to go to their Kingdom Hall or Latter Day Saints church down the street? You’d probably get really sick of it and resent them.
Dear sir/madam: If you are ashamed of these servants of God doing the hard work of Jesus, I solemnly assure you, Jesus will be ashamed of you when you stand before him at judgment.
Every baby that dies in those abortion clinics is another sacrifice to the diabolical, I shudder typing it out. The “male escorts” who go with them, perhaps persuade them to get abortions, are not real men.
The culture created in the United States has made it hostile for a mother to bring a baby up into the world. Oh, how I pray for a theocracy, a real nation under God, to be formed! Where laws are formed according to the timeless word of God, and not the word of radical “Founding Father” deists from three hundred years ago. The French Revolution and its ideals were the foundation of our secular, lifeless, and borderline Satanic society today.
Fight against our society …. Let’s get our history correct – Our Declaration of Independence was declared in 1776 and the Constitution was approved in 1787. The French Revolution was in 1789. Our revolution was one of the inspirations for the French to revolt. While I don’t like abortions either, our culture isn’t hostile to a mother bringing a baby into the world. There is general agreement, however, that women should have a choice about the matter. Having a choice may be against our “religion” but the majority in the country want exceptions for rape, incest, and the health of the mother.
“There is general agreement, however, that women should have a choice about the matter. ” I don’t think so, Bob One. Abortion advocates are doing their best to destroy crises pregnancy centers in particular and the pro-life message in general. Same on college campuses. If there were truly a pro-choice position this would not be so, but all sides of the issue would be given a fair, sympathetic hearing. I don’t know what “religion” you are, Bob One, but the Catholic Church is Christ’s voice on earth. Do not be ashamed of that voice, Bob One but pray that Voice gets a wider and deeper hearing.
Ah, yes, Integralism and theocracy are more Trad fantasies. Trads would never fit in at a Novus Ordo parish unless they gave those views up. Pope Francis was right that the TLM has become a source of organization for bad leaven with views against Catholicism, dividing the Church.
There is no such thing as a Novus Ordo parish.
They have infected you.
Novus Ordo parishes are about 99.5% of Catholic parishes in the United States.
Fight…you are part of the problem.
American society is very supportive of mothers, even single mothers.
i do not think the Catholic Church is that great at it though.
Other denominations have day care and baby care banks.
Help people. Don’t say mean things about them.
If you know a struggling mother, send her to a good church.
Where I live, the Methodists and the Baptists are the best at it.
How would you like it: What I don’t like is the hundreds of abortions going on at each Planned Parenthood.
And others in America don’t like the Catholic Mass. Heck, Trads don’t like the Novus Ordo Mass. If you’re a Trad, how would you like it if Novus Ordoans stood outside your TLM SSPX FSSP ICKSP parish and handed out bulletins for the neighborhood Novus Ordo parishes and told you that what you were doing was wrong because you weren’t supporting Vatican II and the liturgical reforms and the new Mass? How would you like it if he told you to get with the program?