Guest Post by Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
Everything we need to know to end abortion is found inside the abortion clinics.
In other words, if you want to turn the public away from this act of violence, or convince those who don’t think abortion is violence to think again, you only have to open the doors of these clinics and look inside.
Not only does a look inside the clinics reveal the weak spots of the industry, but it likewise reveals the many laws that are being broken by abortionists and their staff. If we enforce the laws scrupulously, we can end abortion without even outlawing it. See www.ClinicWorkers.com for a sample of what I mean.
This past weekend I was a keynote speaker at the annual symposium of 40 Days for Life, a movement I helped to grow in its earliest years some two decades ago. This movement of prayer and fasting brings people out, in an organized and peaceful way, to these places of death, for two 40-day campaigns each year, and an increasing number of 365-days-a-year campaigns. Tens of thousands of lives have been saved, and hundreds of clinics have closed. Hundreds of abortion clinic workers, moreover, have decided to leave their jobs.
The symposium at which I spoke was in many ways a celebration of the many victories the Lord has given us. Former abortion workers like Dr. Haywood Robinson and Ramona Trevino again gave praise to God and witness to their journeys of conversion and healing.
And, of course, the group celebrated the many closings of Planned Parenthood facilities and other killing centers (33 so far this year as of this writing) due in large part to the provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill that stops the Medicaid funding of organizations that perform elective abortions.
One of the centers closing in the weeks to come was just a few miles away from where we were gathered in Houston, Texas. It is the Planned Parenthood mega-clinic, that has been the largest abortion facility in the nation.
Another abortion facility that closed was the one that Abby Johnson once directed in Bryan, TX. God used 40 Days for Life to bring her out of the abortion industry, and in a powerful display of God’s Providence, that very facility, having closed its doors as a killing center, was re-purposed as headquarters of 40 Days for Life!
We spent time at that headquarters on Sunday, when our symposium meetings had concluded. Dr. Haywood Robinson, in showing the attendees one of the rooms in which abortion procedures had been performed, talked about the handling of the body parts afterwards.
So as to avoid people seeing them carried through the hallways, they were put in a “pass-through” on the wall, an opening into the pathology lab.
Then he told us what that lab room was called.
“The nursery.”
The attendees, who are no strangers to the horrors of abortion, gasped in disgust.
As should we all.
Yet this is the mindset – the “heart-set,” if you will – of abortion workers. Dehumanizing the baby, they dehumanize themselves. It twists the mind and heart in unnatural and bizarre directions.
It leads them, as my contact with these workers has taught me, to play ball with the body parts in the hallways of the clinic after hours, and even to play games of “wishbone” with the limbs of aborted babies.
Indeed, everything we need to know to end abortion is inside the abortion clinics. We only have to bring it out into the open.
Prolife Leader Frank Pavone is the National Director of Priests for Life and President of Prolife Vote.
For more information on the political work of Priests for Life, see our c-4, ProLife Vote.
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