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This post was written by a pro-life sidewalk counselor who preferred to remain anonymous.
The first time I sidewalk counseled at Kay’s abortion facility, she blocked my path.
Kay was a volunteer clinic escort, meaning it was her job to escort women from their cars into the abortion facility. I was there to calmly and kindly invite women into conversation, and offer them a card with information about free pregnancy resources and after-abortion support. Kay was there to stop me, or at least to stop women from getting the information I offered them. Every time a woman pulled up, Kay walked out to the woman’s car, stepped in front of her as she got out to make it hard for me to talk with her, and led her away into the facility as quickly as she could. That certainly made things difficult, but I still managed to get into a longer conversation with one woman.
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