The Abortion Mill Entrance

August 08, 2004

If you get away from the door and meet the mother as she comes to the abortion mill, you will have more time to speak to her while walking along with her on the way back. What follows takes about 12 seconds to say. “If you do this terrible thing you’ll never be able to get your baby back. Please talk to us for a few seconds won’t you? Please talk to us. Isn’t your baby worth a few seconds.. We care what happens to you. You don’t have to face this problem by yourself. We’ve helped lots of women, we can help you too.”

Enlisting supporters

Make mental notes of the mother’s companions as she enters the mill. Often you’ll be able to talk to them later when they come out by themselves. Do your best to find out what is going on with the mother. Sometimes you can persuade the companion to go back in and get her friend to leave. Many babies have been saved by counselors who did not give up on a mother inside a mill.

Male sidewalk counselors

Male side walk counselors are an asset to any group of counselors. We need more of them.

Prayer

Many counselors pray while they waiting for clients to come to the abortion mill. This is good. However don't let it become a distraction by ignoring your suroundings. Sometimes it’s possible to pray mentally while waiting to talk to mothers with crisis pregnancies. This is a great blessing.

Religious reasoning

Religious reasoning against abortion can be effective. Know what the Bible has to say about the killing of innocent children.

Results to be expected

At least one out of a hundred mothers you try to talk to will change their minds and have the baby. However the odds increase to about one in twenty if you can get her attention and she gives you a hearing. This is why it’s so important to involve her in conversation.

Follow up

If you don’t follow up and the mother doesn’t take constructive steps to deal with the crisis pregnancy, the original pressures that led to the abortion decision will reassert themselves and she will return to the abortion mill.

If you can get your turn-around to a good crisis pregnancy center your act of intervention will be greatly aided. Assuming that you have confidence in the people working there your job is pretty much over. You may want to look in on her only once in awhile to see how she is doing and to check up on what the crisis pregnancy center is doing for her.

But if you have to work without the help of crisis pregnancy center follow up becomes even more important. It’s now up to you to get the mother started in solving her problem. The first thing to do is to find out about pro-life resources in your area. Pro-life doctors, attorneys, homes for unwed mothers, free pre-natal programs are all useful. As you gain experience in counseling try to develop a file of reliable contacts. You want to deal with solid people not institutions that may be pro-life in name only.

Post mortums

If you fail at some point along the way try to figure out what you did wrong and what you could have done differently to save the baby. Write this down and save it in your files.

General rules

Be prepared in every way. Dress for the weather.
Be fearless.
Interfere when something bad is going on
Don’t interfere when something good is going on
Always maintain eye contact
Don’t leave couples alone for more than a few minutes. If you do they will consolidate the original abortion decision.
Never take a pamphlet back
Follow up with your turn-arounds.
Don’t touch or block anyone.

Conclusion

A good counselor is one who gets people to open up and who then listens with sympathy and intelligence not one who speaks the most. You must get the mother to trust you, show her a way to have the baby, follow your direction and then be trustworthy by following through. The errors you make are not usually what you do, but what you don’t do. You must be pro-active.