by Annie Whaley

“Why don’t you just go back to where you came from?  We don’t need any more @$$#*!=$ around here; we have enough as it is!” The abortion clinic volunteer snarled as she fastened her COVID mask.  She had intentionally parked her car in front of the abortion photo I was holding.  This was not an uncommon reaction to our presence outside the Preferred Women’s Health Center in Charlotte, N.C.

This was my first time standing outside an abortion clinic.  All summer, we had targeted motorists and their passengers at busy intersections, and in their faces we could see that our signs affected them.  But today, we watched as women were escorted from their cars into the child-killing center, and this had a profound effect on us.

I was overwhelmed with horror as I watched each woman enter that building with a tiny baby inside, knowing that either the baby would be killed immediately or the mother would be given poison to kill the child later.

My horror was heightened by the coldness and brashness with which the clinic volunteers carried out their duties.  At the entrance, they ordered the women not to stop for the Cities for Life missionaries.  They ushered the women from their cars into the clinic with colorful umbrellas and loud music to drown out the pleading  voices of the Cities for Life sidewalk counselors.

My immediate reaction was revulsion, rage, and disgust, but then God convicted me of my own pride.  I realized that these clinic volunteers and abortion-minded women probably do not know God and have not been  convicted by the Truth.  It is only because of God’s mercy and grace that I am not blind myself.

I pray that the Lord will continue to soften my heart toward them.  I pray that He will convict them to turn from the path of spiritual darkness, death, and destruction, to the path of light, life, and love!

Annie Whaley is a freshman at East Tennessee State University and was one of our outstanding 2020 summer interns.

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