Marcel over at Aggie Catholics shares the heart-wrenching story of a girl who was physically dragged by her mother to an abortion clinic to kill her unborn child. Thankfully, the courageous young mother resisted:
The girl’s mother “was shoving her, hitting her, pushing her. She actually fell on the ground and scraped her leg.”
“At one point she actually was holding onto the bed of a pickup truck in the parking lot but her mom was yanking on her to go inside.”
Pro-life advocates who witnessed the coercion called the Texas Alliance for Life and asked what they should do.
“Dial 911, that is a crime occurring,” they were told, according to Pojman. “No one can be coerced, it may be an assault.”
“We stayed on public property, we didn’t trespass,” McClung told CNA. “We called police and were peacefully praying.”
When police arrived, the counselors told the police they were available to help. When the girl and her mother came out, the sidewalk counselor emphasized to the young woman that it was her decision not to have an abortion. She gave the girl her name and phone number.
While the teen’s mother did take her to Planned Parenthood a few days after the incident, she again decided not to abort, McClung reported. A local maternity home has offered to help the young woman.
When that baby grows up and learns this story, she will be overwhelmed by the love of his or her mother. This is just one example of the prayerful, non-violent “40 Days for Life” movement that has been saving thousands of lives across the country.
(Shawn Carney, campaign director for “40 Days for Life”, is contributing a chapter in the “Church and New Media” book on how the group is using digital technology to advance the pro-life movement.)