Cleveland, Ohio
Starting today I begin a part-time job caring for a 95-year-old woman, so my
time at the abortuary will be cut short on Thursdays from now on. Since we were having car and scheduling
issues, I needed to take my husband to work and use his truck, allowing my
daughter to take my van to work. My
husband starts work at 8am, so I decided
to head straight to the abortuary knowing I would be there by myself for at
least a half hour.
It was 8:30 am when I arrived to see two women already standing
at the front door trying to get in. As I
pulled up and parked on the street, they were walking back to their
vehicle. They kept looking at me,
wondering if I was one of the clinic workers.
I picked up some of my items and walked towards where we set up. They approached me and the taller lady asked
if I knew what time the building opened.
I told her they wouldn’t be open for a while yet and asked why they were
here. She told me that she was here to
get an abortion. When I asked her, “Why?",
she replied that she was 45 years old and had already had all the kids she
wants and wasn’t going to go through another pregnancy at her age. I was so sad.
Instead of seeing this as a blessing, a miracle from God, she only saw a
burden, something to be discarded to move on with her life. I continued to speak with her about other
options such as adoption and she became angry.
Just then one of the workers came speeding down the driveway honking her
horn and yelling at them for standing in the driveway. They asked me who that was, so I let them
know that she is one of the wonderful workers who will be helping to kill her
baby. As the worker approached, the women
told her why they were there and she took them to the front door. I followed along speaking to them and
pleading with her for her baby’s life.
They still could not get in the front door, so I had a captive audience
as I stood on the sidewalk a couple of feet away. The clinic worker told the ladies that I get paid to stand out there. Though I told her that it was untrue and that I was there on my own dime and time because I care about women and their children and want them to know the truth, she still did not believe me. Finally, after several minutesof me pleading with the woman and her yelling at me, the worker
told them to go wait in the car so they wouldn’t have to listen to me any
more. This encounter reminded me of a woman named Kathy, whom I met in the church nursery when my first daughter was a baby. I was 28 having my first baby and she was 42 having her "surprise" second baby. I kept thinking about them and thinking how sad it would have been for Meredith to not have been born just because Kathy thought she was too old. We cheapen life for everyone when we decide some aren't worthy.
“But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live. Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?" ~ Ezekiel 18:21-23 ESV
Pastor Dale arrived around 9 am and Jillian and her two children around 9:30 am. There were nine women who entered the killing place today…6
black, 3 white. Only one took
information from me. Eight were in
before I left and one entered later, but Jillian said she did not take
information.
There was a very pregnant woman who entered with her backpack and pillow. She had to be late second trimester or early third. I pleaded with her and her friend, but they wouldn’t even look at me. The friend kept coming in and out and we continued to plead with her that she would be a real friend and save her friend and the baby from this horror, but she wouldn’t listen at all.
One lady pulled up in front of the door and started swearing and screaming at Jillian and Pastor Dale. She walked the younger woman in and then came back swearing and shouting and telling us how we were going to hell for judging. Through the expletives she told us she goes to church every Sunday and she is forgiven and we are the ones in danger of hell. She continued screaming at us for a while and screamed all the way as she drove away. How many people who consider themselves Christian are in real danger of hell themselves as they live with the idea that they can live however they want on earth as long as they go to church or prayed some prayer? “Judge not” is the mantra of those who love their sin and don’t want to be confronted abut them. Do they not know that they are being warned of the judgment and wrath to come for those who practice such deeds of darkness as murder of the innocent? There are so many tares among the wheat.
Finally, I see that God’s hand was in all of this. Having to arrange cars, schedules, and cut my time short was annoying to me; but I see that God allowed all those things to get me there early to speak to those two women and, ultimately, to Anita. Please pray for Anita. Pray that God would continue to trouble her with the sin she is committing against those precious babies. Pray that her eyes would be opened to the little bodies being ripped apart and her heart softened to the silent cries. Pray that she would repent and believe and leave that hellish place. Pray that, if God is willing, He would use me to continue to speak his truths to Anita and, hopefully, see her salvation.
There was a very pregnant woman who entered with her backpack and pillow. She had to be late second trimester or early third. I pleaded with her and her friend, but they wouldn’t even look at me. The friend kept coming in and out and we continued to plead with her that she would be a real friend and save her friend and the baby from this horror, but she wouldn’t listen at all.
One lady pulled up in front of the door and started swearing and screaming at Jillian and Pastor Dale. She walked the younger woman in and then came back swearing and shouting and telling us how we were going to hell for judging. Through the expletives she told us she goes to church every Sunday and she is forgiven and we are the ones in danger of hell. She continued screaming at us for a while and screamed all the way as she drove away. How many people who consider themselves Christian are in real danger of hell themselves as they live with the idea that they can live however they want on earth as long as they go to church or prayed some prayer? “Judge not” is the mantra of those who love their sin and don’t want to be confronted abut them. Do they not know that they are being warned of the judgment and wrath to come for those who practice such deeds of darkness as murder of the innocent? There are so many tares among the wheat.
Finally, I see that God’s hand was in all of this. Having to arrange cars, schedules, and cut my time short was annoying to me; but I see that God allowed all those things to get me there early to speak to those two women and, ultimately, to Anita. Please pray for Anita. Pray that God would continue to trouble her with the sin she is committing against those precious babies. Pray that her eyes would be opened to the little bodies being ripped apart and her heart softened to the silent cries. Pray that she would repent and believe and leave that hellish place. Pray that, if God is willing, He would use me to continue to speak his truths to Anita and, hopefully, see her salvation.
"Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy." ~Proverbs 28:13 ESV
There are a couple weeks that I did not write about my experiences. I couldn’t. Life was too overwhelming. I may get back to it, or not; but on a good and happy note, Pastor Dale reported that last week when I couldn’t be there that a woman who was about to abort looked at his pictures of the aborted babies and said she couldn’t go through with it. He found out she was going to have twins. She changed her mind and decided to keep the babies. Two precious little lives saved and a mother saved from a lifetime of pain and regret. Praise God!!!
Thank you for your faithful prayers and support. May God get the glory.
Standing in the gap,
Laura
There are a couple weeks that I did not write about my experiences. I couldn’t. Life was too overwhelming. I may get back to it, or not; but on a good and happy note, Pastor Dale reported that last week when I couldn’t be there that a woman who was about to abort looked at his pictures of the aborted babies and said she couldn’t go through with it. He found out she was going to have twins. She changed her mind and decided to keep the babies. Two precious little lives saved and a mother saved from a lifetime of pain and regret. Praise God!!!
Thank you for your faithful prayers and support. May God get the glory.
Standing in the gap,
Laura
- Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,
Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave;
Weep o’er the erring one, lift up the fallen,
Tell them of Jesus, the mighty to save.
- Refrain:
Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.
- Refrain:
- Though they are slighting Him, still He is waiting,
Waiting the penitent child to receive;
Plead with them earnestly, plead with them gently;
He will forgive if they only believe. - Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter,
Feelings lie buried that grace can restore;
Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness,
Chords that were broken will vibrate once more. - Rescue the perishing, duty demands it;
Strength for thy labor the Lord will provide;
Back to the narrow way patiently win them;
Tell the poor wand’rer a Savior has died.