"She Laughed at Me"
On Saturday morning, Aug. 8, I assisted at a prayer vigil outside the Planned Parenthood at the corner of First and Grape, San Diego.
I arrived around 7:45 a.m. and began to pray with the other two people present. Later two more prayer partners arrived.
Around 9 a.m., I noticed a woman standing in the shadow against the building to the south of the driveway.
I approached to see if she was ok and noticed her crying.
We spoke and prayed together; her 22-year-old daughter was in the clinic to have an abortion.
The mother was distraught. She had worked for an ob-gyn in the past and had "held an aborted child's face in her hands."
She cried and was distressed that she had consented to drive her daughter here today.
I got Deacon Ken Finn on the phone to speak with her. We all prayed that her daughter would come out.
The clinic had told the mother she could not go in to see her daughter.
Miraculously, her daughter came out about 10 minutes later and spoke with both of us. She had a very poorly imaged 10-week sonogram of her child with her. It was all blurry. Deacon Ken spoke with her on the phone as well.
She was so concerned because the father was in jail, and they were living with the father's mother, who had threatened to kick her out if she had the child.
After a few minutes, she was ready to keep her child and visit Culture of Life Family Services on Monday. She only "had to go back in to get her papers."
The PP staff had told her she had to return for her papers.
Her mother questioned her why and said they could just leave. I also expressed this. But the young woman wanted to go get the papers and come right back. She wanted her mom to go with her, and she did.
They both walked up the ramp and a woman, who appeared to work there but was not in uniform, met them at the door.
They sat on the bench outside the door, 50 feet from the sidewalk on the facility grounds.
The woman stood in front of them and spoke energetically to them for several minutes. I could see the mother shaking her head some of the time. I asked the security guard to escort me so I could speak with them also, but he refused to allow me on the grounds.
A few minutes later another pregnant woman came out and then the security guard joined them as well.
All three of them were standing talking to them as they sat there on the bench.
On a few occasions I shouted over the distance that "we already had a place for her to stay" and "we have already helped over 100 women this year," but it was to no avail.
About 10 minutes after sitting on the bench, they were escorted through the door.
A few minutes later, the mother came back out, again weeping.
She could not talk to me. She headed back to the parking area in the rear of the building, presumably to mourn alone in her car.
We did not see either of them again that morning.
Please pray that another miracle occurred and no abortion was committed, or that they seek post-abortion counseling at Rachel's Hope.
They were both Hispanic Catholic women.
I was appalled by two things the PP staff did: (1) the shoddy and deceptive sonogram and (2) the persistent three-man pressure. What was the big hurry?
Also, pray for the security guard. The woman who had pressured them was Black. I asked her if she had ever heard of the Negro Project by Planned Parenthood. She laughed at me, joked with the Black security guard, and went to her car. The guard and I spoke for a minute or two. He is a young, intelligent, war veteran. Before we left, he agreed to look at the www.blackgenocide.org website. Please pray for his conversion.
-- Steve
