One recent morning, as the Mobile was parked outside of Planned Parenthood in Victorville, I had an unexpected encounter!
After our team got the Mobile set up and ready for business, I walked out to the sidewalk to pray. I prayed for the women I saw going in and out of the abortion clinic, prayed for the workers there to be awakened to how wrong the option is in the sight of God, and continued praying for God to bring us more nurses.
As I stood there praying, I saw a woman dressed in nursing scrubs come out of the building. She jumped into her car and sped by me. She was obviously upset; I prayed that the Lord would help her find peace.
Her car stopped abruptly just behind the Mobile.
I began walking as fast as I could toward the clinic, assuming we were about to have an encounter with a zealous pro-abortion nurse.
Read MoreHope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12
For many activists and ministers in the pro-life movement, January is a mixture of hope deferred and longing fulfilled.
It was January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision, found that a woman’s decision to end a pregnancy was a matter of privacy and a fundamental right. They inferred this right from other Supreme Court cases that interpreted the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In one such 14th Amendment case, the court wrote that the right to privacy “emanated from the penumbras”, which means, it is like the glow that you see around a candle, but it isn’t actually there.
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