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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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But when that conversation wrapped up, Kay escalated things. I turned to go back to my spot, and she stepped right in front of me to block my path. I said nothing and went to walk around her, but she blocked my path again. She laughed and said something about how she “wasn’t going to let me harass women.” I replied that I wasn’t harassing anyone and that I was just offering information about free pregnancy resources. Kay laughed again before whispering something to another clinic escort standing near her. I decided not to engage, moved to a different spot, and kept trying to engage women and pass out the cards in my hand.

Then something else changed. Around noon, more pro-life advocates began to arrive. Most of them prayed or handed out information about free resources, but one middle-aged man took an extremely hostile approach.

“I Don’t Want You to Get Hit.”

He walked up with a large picture of the Virgin Mary, stood right in front of the clinic, and yelled the Hail Mary prayer over and over. 

“Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”

Then, after a while, he started going up to the clinic escorts one by one, jabbing his finger in their faces. 

“You’re a murderer!” 

“You’re demonic!”

“You’re killing babies!”

One blonde-haired pro-life girl who was standing next to me and praying the rosary raised her head.

“You shouldn’t talk to the clinic escorts that way.”

I chimed in in agreement, telling the man that, even if I didn’t agree with the pro-choice volunteers, his actions were unhelpful. He yelled something about how the clinic escorts were all demonic and marched over to a young clinic escort who looked like she was about 5’5”, his much taller frame towering over her.

Without thinking, I launched myself between the two of them, holding my hands up in a peaceful gesture as I tried to reason with the man. 

“Yes, I agree with you that abortion is wrong, but this is not the way to advocate against it.” 

He muttered something incomprehensible. I kept trying to talk with him, but my words didn’t seem to be getting through. He tried to step around me to yell at the clinic escort some more, and I asked him again to please stop and think about what he was doing. He ignored me. As he started moving toward the other clinic escorts to insult them, I tried once again to gain his attention by standing in front of him. Only this time, I heard someone behind me call my name.

It was Kay.

Throughout the day, I had introduced myself to the women entering the clinic, so it wasn’t that surprising that she knew my name. What did surprise me, though, was the soft, unguarded expression on her face. “From the bottom of my heart, thank you,” Kay said. “But I don’t want you to get hit.”

While the man’s behavior had been aggressive, I didn’t think that he’d hit me, and I said as much to Kay. She thanked me again for defending one of her fellow clinic escorts, but repeated that she didn’t want me to get hurt.

As Kay and I stood talking to one another, the man gathered up his materials and left without another word. I told Kay that she and I may disagree about abortion, but I didn’t think what that man did was right. I said that even if we disagreed, I thought it was important to treat one another like human beings. Kay nodded, saying, “And just so you know, if someone who’s pro-choice does something like that to you, the rest of us will defend you.”

And She Did. 

After that day, Kay and I developed a cordial relationship. We started saying hi and smiling when we saw each other outside the abortion facility, and even making small talk when things were quiet. Kay would give me make-up tips, or we’d talk about the weird boys we knew in college. Even though she was a pro-choice clinic escort, and I was a pro-life sidewalk counselor, we’d developed a level of trust.

I don’t know if Kay did this intentionally, but when she walked women to the abortion facility, she wouldn’t make it harder for them to hear me by telling them to ignore me like some of the other clinic escorts did. And every time I left after a day of sidewalk counseling, Kay would call out “Be safe!” as I gathered my stuff and headed back to my car.

And then I didn’t see her for awhile. As the months went by, I started experimenting with other ways to share information with pregnant women and their partners through sidewalk chalk. I’d start each morning by writing things like “Pregnant? Need Help?”, along with the phone numbers for Option Line (a pregnancy help hotline) and Support After Abortion.

After I finished writing, several clinic escorts would usually try to smear the chalk with their feet or dump out their water bottles on it. A few times, one would even try to stop me from chalking in the first place by walking over and standing on the sidewalk square that I was writing on.

I don’t know if those clinic escorts were expecting an explosive reaction, but I didn’t give them one. I’d usually just redo the chalk writings that they had erased, or focus on sidewalk counseling.

One cloudy morning, as I was walking up to the clinic, Kay appeared again and immediately approached me. She asked how I was and commented on the possibility of rain, noting that it might make it more difficult for me to do my chalk writing. But what she said next stopped me dead in my tracks. 

“Listen, I had a talk with the other clinic escorts, and I reminded them that we’re not supposed to mess with your stuff,” she said. “I told them that if they had a problem with that, then they could go reread the volunteer manual for clinic escorting. You should be able to do your chalk writing uninterrupted today, but if anyone gives you any trouble, let me know, and I’ll talk with them,” Kay assured me.

Surprised, I stuttered out a thank you. Just as Kay said, no one bothered me that day as I chalked.

There weren’t a lot of women arriving at the clinic that day, so at one point, I found myself talking with Kay as I leaned against the railing of the stairway leading into the facility. It was nearing the time when I usually went home when another pro-lifer showed up, screaming into a bullhorn that the facility didn’t care about women and only wanted to profit from killing their babies.

“But we care about you!” she shouted, reciting the phone numbers of several organizations that women in need of resources could call. 

I’m sorry, but screaming “But we care about you!” into a bullhorn doesn’t exactly come across as caring.

I’m not saying that this pro-lifer doesn’t actually care about women—I’m sure she does! But it’s insanely difficult to sound gentle, inviting, and caring when there’s a bullhorn involved. It’s more likely to make the women you’re trying to help feel nervous, and it makes you look unapproachable, whether you intend to or not, and that’s the last thing you want to do in front of an abortion facility.

A security guard with the clinic stepped outside, shaking his head and smirking as he watched the pro-lifer continue to scream. 

“Y’all really piss me off,” the security guard said, looking at me. “It’s none of your business! Why do you have to be out here chasing people, making them feel guilty, and making them cry?”

“I will vouch for her,” Kay said, coming to stand beside me. “She doesn’t do that.”

Eventually, the sidewalk counselor stopped yelling into the bullhorn, and the security guard went back inside, with Kay following closely behind.

My Friend, Kay

Shortly after that day, I left for a vacation with my family, so I wasn’t able to sidewalk counsel for a few weeks. When I came back, I went to my usual spot near the clinic entrance and got ready to pass out my cards.

I heard the facility’s front door open, and out walked Kay and another clinic escort. Kay saw me right away. Without a word, she came over and pulled me into a hug. The clinic escort she was with looked surprised, as did the two pro-life sidewalk counselors standing nearby.

“Do as I say, not as I do,” she said as she pulled away. “I know we’re not supposed to, but, oh well.”

I certainly hadn’t expected a hug from Kay when I resumed sidewalk counseling, but it wasn’t unwelcome, and I hugged her back. When things were slow, Kay and I talked like we usually did, and I noticed she also made an effort to include me in any conversations she was having with her fellow clinic escort.

The other clinic escort, a young girl who appeared to be in her twenties, seemed unsure what to make of this. I tried talking with her, but she mostly gave me one-word answers.

But Kay’s willingness to socialize with me encouraged the other two pro-lifers who were present on the sidewalk. The two college-aged girls didn’t hesitate to strike up a conversation with her, and she happily chatted with them, even offering advice on the best moisturizers to use.

Later on, they asked how I had developed such a good relationship with her. I told them about the incident where I had felt the need to step in when another pro-lifer became aggressive, and how Kay and I were always friendly and respectful towards each other from then on.

The Way Pro-Lifers Treat Clinic Escorts Matters

“Yeah, we tried talking with some of the other clinic escorts, but they mostly ignored us,” one of the girls said. “But not Kay. She was super nice, and she kept talking to us.”

I truly believe most clinic escorts are good people. They genuinely believe they’re protecting women from a confrontation that will only make an already stressful day even worse. They’re here because they have immense compassion for women, and they’re willing to put their bodies between these women and screaming bullhorns, finger-pointing, and aggressive behavior to protect them. Their presence should make pro-lifers consider how they’ve approached women entering abortion facilities and whether it’s time to change tactics.

If you’re a sidewalk counselor, consider how you try to start a conversation with the people entering the facility. Are you acting in a way that would make someone turn to one of the clinic escorts for protection? No one is going to listen to what you have to say if they don’t feel safe coming near you.

And if you’re sidewalk counseling outside an abortion facility with clinic escorts, then interacting with them will probably become a part of your outreach efforts. It’s understandable that some pro-lifers may feel frustrated when a clinic escort prevents them from sharing information with an abortion-minded woman. But how does it make pro-lifers look if we antagonize clinic escorts by calling them “deathscorts,” or scream at them that they’re terrible people? It’s extremely counterproductive—in order to show women that they can turn to us for help instead of the clinic, we have to show that we are peaceful and approachable. 

And it’s also just plain wrong to antagonize people.

Yes, I know some clinic escorts are not exactly kind to pro-lifers, and I’ve experienced that myself. I also know some pro-lifers have encountered clinic escorts who became threatening and physically violent, and you should absolutely call the police if that happens.

I’m not saying pro-lifers should just be silent if a clinic escort is behaving rudely or aggressively. I am saying we should keep a few things in mind when we’re deciding how to respond: 

1. Does your response embody the peaceful and loving approach you’re using when sidewalk counseling? If you’re quick to anger and snap back with an aggressive response, then how can you genuinely embody these traits when approaching women on the sidewalk? 
2. And how can they expect you to? Consider how the women walking into the clinic are going to feel if you respond to a clinic escort’s taunts with yelling and name-calling. Not exactly someone you’d want to talk to, right? Remember that you don’t want to be seen as the aggressor. If you respond at all, it should be to de-escalate the tension, not add to it.
3. How are you behaving when a pro-life person antagonizes the clinic escorts? Even if you aren’t hostile towards them yourself, do they know that you don’t support aggressive behavior by other pro-lifers? Are you willing to speak up if another pro-lifer’s behavior is inappropriate? 

We have an opportunity when we’re sidewalk counseling to show abortion-minded women and clinic escorts that the pro-life movement is about supporting non-violent solutions to the very real difficulties that women and families face. Even if they don’t change their mind about abortion right away, we can build trust by demonstrating that we’re kind people who want women to feel supported. We want them to see that there are pro-lifers who genuinely care about women and who are mindful of what they’re likely going through as they approach the abortion facility. And we don’t support violence, regardless of whether that violence threatens an unborn child or a pro-choice clinic escort.

The first day I met Kay, she laughed at me, blocked my path, and did everything in her power to keep me from talking to the women entering the clinic. But today, I can genuinely call her my friend. I believe that if we openly treat all people—even pro-choice clinic escorts—with the same dignity and respect we want for the unborn, we can change hearts like Kay’s. And someday, we can change minds too.

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Based on my own experience, I can tell you with confidence that many times the person who is coming to the abortion facility for their appointment will actually talk themselves out of the abortion if they are given the chance to process their situation out loud. Even a beginner to sidewalk counseling can help to save lives in circumstances like that because it doesn’t take experience or much training to help in this manner. Let me tell you about a time when I had that happen at the abortion facility:

We were at the clinic. It was cold that day and they had an older brown Honda Civic, ugly-as-can-be car. They parked in the lot pretty close by us. They sat in their car for 20 to 30 minutes, just talking. You could tell they were just talking, not fighting or anything. At the abortion clinic, talking is a very good sign. It seems like when people are talking, they are usually talking themselves out of the abortion. The couples who are not talking at all are harder to reach.

The other volunteers and I were really encouraged because they were talking for so long. When they eventually got out of their car I got the guy’s attention by saying, “Hey, come on down here and talk to me, tell me your story.”

He replied, “We talked about it and decided that we are not going to have the abortion.”

“Why are you here? What are you doing?”

He said, “We are just going to get the ultrasound.”

I told him, “This isn’t the place you want to go, I have a place down the road where you can go for free.”

They were interested in saving some money and getting their ultrasound elsewhere, so I took them down to the local pregnancy resource center and sat with them in the waiting room. I talked with them while we waited. They told me they were very stressed and gave me details about some of the choices they had made which lead them to this situation — choices they said they regretted. They were just kind of freaking out. I could tell they just needed someone to listen.

One thing that I was very concerned about for this couple was what would have happened if they had gone into the abortion clinic instead of the pregnancy resource center. In my experience, when people change their mind about the abortion but decide to go to the abortion facility for the pregnancy verification and ultrasound, the staff at the clinic will talk the couple into having an abortion. That’s what I have seen them do: they talk people into having the abortion by normalizing it. I don’t think every individual who works at an abortion center intentionally pressures people into choosing abortion, but if you look at the big picture statistics, you will see that parents who receive pregnancy tests at abortion facilities receive far more abortions than adoption referrals.

Just the fact that I was there to offer them another place, one they could go to for free, helped to save their baby from abortion. They had already talked themselves out of the abortion, they just needed to get away from there. I was able to offer them the ultrasound they needed at pregnancy resource center and off they were. It was that easy.

Imagine how many families are in a situation like this, except when they come to abortion facilities there is no one waiting outside to hear their story and offer them another place to go. In my personal experience sidewalk counseling for almost a decade, I can tell you I have met many women and men who arrive for their abortion appointment when they’re still on the fence about their decision. Many times these families will leave the abortion facility if there are loving people waiting for them, offering resources and another way out of what feels like a stressful, overwhelming situation. You could be that person.

The couple in my story had decided against having the abortion before they even left their car; however, many times when I ask people to tell me their story, they haven’t made up their mind. They start talking to me about their lives, their pregnancy, how they feel about it, and what brought them to the abortion clinic. Many times all I do is stand there and listen. I offer sympathy and ask questions, but don’t need to talk beyond that. Without me saying anything significant, the couple decides they do not want to go through with the abortion.

I am sharing this secret with you because people greatly underestimate how much they are needed out on the sidewalk. That is why we developed the Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass. If you have never done sidewalk counseling before, then this course will help you gain the confidence to realize, “Hey, I can do that!” or maybe just motivate you to start as a peaceful witness with a sign. If you have some experience with sidewalk counseling, but want to learn from someone with more, this course will take you to another level with my detailed, conversation-oriented method. I have the curriculum to share with people at both beginner and intermediate skill sets, and just as importantly, I want to learn from you too! Hopefully those who complete the course will share their experiences from the sidewalk with us and we can continue to pass it on to students as we grow.

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The primary scene we want to comment on is the scene at the abortion facility. It depicts a harmful caricature of the reality of sidewalk counseling and could be no further from what ERI teaches in the Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass. The abortion-minded woman is met by a group of Christians when she arrives at the clinic. They call out to her asking her to pray with them and telling her God loves her and her baby. Then a woman approaches her wearing an orange vest labeled “Clinic Escort” and she says, “Come on, let’s walk past the crazies,” and clearly acts like she is with the abortion clinic, not the Christian group. The pregnant woman’s boyfriend says to her, “This day is hard enough” to which the woman in the vest responds, “It should be hard. Killing is a sin.” In this moment the pregnant woman realizes that she has been deceived by the woman in the vest, who is actually one of the protestors in disguise. Then, the fake escort says “Take this” and puts a bloody fetal model in the abortion-minded woman’s hand and pleads with her to not go through with the abortion. 

This is not at all representative of sidewalk counseling. We have worked with many sidewalk counselors across the United States as well as pro-life organizations who train sidewalk counselors, and we can say with confidence that deception of abortion-minded women is openly condemned. In our own training course, we instruct sidewalk counselors who wear vests for their safety because of incoming traffic to always try to choose a vest that is a different color of any escorts who are at the clinic. The vests that we will be selling online for the safety of pro-life advocates say “Pregnancy Resource Advocate” with the purpose of distinguishing them from the abortion facility because we believe it is wrong and harmful to deceive the abortion-minded person into thinking we are a clinic escort. 

Sidewalk counseling is not about protesting abortion or shaming women coming to the clinic. It is about offering information and resources to those who would like to make a different choice.

Furthermore, the scene at the pregnancy resource center depicts a center that intentionally misrepresents what it does until the last minute. The pregnant character has had an ultrasound and is well into a counseling session before she finally figures out that this is not an abortion clinic. That’s partially because the pregnancy “counselor” the show depicts is very evasive about what they do and don’t do. This is not good practice for a PRC and is not how national PRC organizations train their centers. At many of the pregnancy centers that we have served at ERI, they have told us about how they immediately tell clients that they don’t perform or refer for abortions, and then explain what they do offer. Women know that it isn’t an abortion clinic before they book their appointment. They’re not being deceptive in the way 13 Reasons Why represented in the show. 

Our Director of Training, Rachel Crawford, worked at a Pregnancy Medical Center before she came on at ERI. Here is what she said about her experience: “I was a receptionist that booked appointments for clients at a pregnancy medical center which frequently served abortion-minded women. It was clearly stated on our website, and I told them on the phone while scheduling their appointment, ‘we do not refer or perform abortions at our center.’ This narrative of ‘fake abortion clinics’ is so different from my experience. I never saw a client that seemed like she felt deceived, pressured, or uncomfortable. I consistently witnessed clients thanking us and telling us they felt cared for by our staff and empowered by the resources and information they were given. I was trained to be honest and upfront with the women we served and never witnessed anything deceptive or inaccurate.”

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Sidewalk counselors have two goals when they go to an abortion facility. First, they want to save babies and help families. Second, they want to shut down the abortion facility. Advocates who choose to be “Non-talkers,” also sometimes referred to as “Prayer Warriors,” can help advance both goals through their peaceful witness. Non-talkers help with the primary goal by supporting talkers through prayer, by holding signs, or as a witness to what is going on, especially if the police need to be called. Non-talkers help with the secondary goal by being a witness to the community. We go into detail about how this works and how much optics matter in the Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass but I will be focusing on the primary goal in this article.

Holding Signs

Non-talkers can hold welcoming signs that offer help to the families coming to the facility. I recommend signs like, “Free Ultrasound and Pregnancy Verification,” “Here to Help, Not to Judge,” or “Today is a Hard Day, We are Here to Help.” Signs like these are conducive to helping the sidewalk counselors start conversations with the abortion-minded woman. They offer sympathy and resources. We talk more about signs in the course as well, including how some can seem helpful from the pro-life perspective but may be off-putting to the families coming to the abortion facility, making it more difficult to start conversations.

Signs add to your presence because they can communicate to those driving by or driving in that you are there for a purpose. This can raise awareness in the community, especially if you are there on a consistent basis.

Recording Incidents

I have been sidewalk counseling since 2012 and unfortunately, there have been times when it was necessary for me to call the police. We shouldn’t do this frivolously, but we also shouldn’t hesitate when there is a serious risk. There have been multiple times when cars have purposefully and recklessly driven right up to and past us, coming very close to hitting me and my fellow sidewalk counselors. I have also had a clinic escort become threatening and physically shove me while I was at the clinic. (For that full story, see my blog post, Why I Called the Police at the Abortion Facility Last Month)

In times like these, for the safety of everyone, it can sometimes be necessary to call the police and make a report. Unfortunately, when you are making a report it can turn into a he said/she said situation unless there is some sort of video evidence. This can be one of the key roles for peaceful witnesses that can go overlooked. Non-talkers should be ready to record with their phones if something happens because third party videos from a small distance can usually show more of the story than a video being recorded by the people involved.

Quote from the Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass.

Moral Support

The very presence of pro-life advocates showing up to the abortion facility can boost the morale for sidewalk counselors. It can be an emotionally draining process to participate in this ministry, but knowing that there are other people who care enough to be there with us and do something about what is going on can sometimes make all the difference. Not only does your presence help uplift the sidewalk counselors, but it can be a visible sign to the abortion-minded mom coming in that we are here to support her and stand with her if she decides she wants to leave the facility.

In our training, I highly recommend that pro-life advocates never go to the abortion facility by themselves and they should have at least one other person with them, but it is much better to have multiple people there, if possible. If there is a larger crowd it can be best to have the non-talking peaceful witnesses to stand across the street. The sidewalk counselors should stand in the opportune spot to wave down cars coming into the parking lot, but it all depends on the layout of the facility you are at and the public right-of-way in that area.

Prayer Support

For Christians, we understand that prayer plays a massive role in this ministry. While at the abortion facility, many peaceful witnesses come to bring prayerful support. They can pray for the sidewalk counselors and the families who have abortion appointments that day. 40 Days for Life is an international prayer campaign that organizes prayer outside abortion facilities so you should try to get connected with them and if there isn’t a chapter in your area, you should consider starting one!

If you have never been to an abortion facility before, I encourage you to give it a shot and bring a friend with you when you go. Most people are afraid of going because they worry they will say the wrong thing or not know what to do. But anyone can go and be a peaceful witness to what is happening there. By holding a sign or simply building a presence on the sidewalk, you can make an impact on the abortions taking place in your community. [Tweet that]

If you want to learn more about how to be a better peaceful witness or sidewalk counselor, you should become a member of the Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass, available September 2019 and available for preorder now. I created this in depth course because in my time as a sidewalk counselor I have learned what really works and doesn’t work in front of the abortion facility to accomplish our goals as pro-life advocates and I want to share that with you. We have 18 lessons of training content that cover everything from how to start conversations with abortion-minded women to what to bring with you on a counseling day.

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