 The Clinic |
Today I went with a group from my church to pray at an abortion clinic in Long Beach. It was my first time doing something like this. It was easier than I thought. We met at a local coffee shop and rode together to a Family Planning Associates clinic on Long Beach Blvd. We were to pray outside the facility, making sure to stay on the public sidewalk, from 8-10 AM. There were others with us that had been trained, by His Nesting Place (a center for alternatives to abortion) and they would be the ones to approach the people going into the clinic with offers of information and alternatives. For about the first hour we went through a booklet that His Nesting Place provided. It had lots of scriptures and prayers and songs. For the next hour we just prayed for the clinic and people going in. At times it was hard to concentrate on prayer and not get distracted by other things. When that happened I would just walk up and down the sidewalk and pray. There were no major confrontations, and for the first hour the clinic wasn’t very busy thankfully. Some people accepted the literature, and others just averted their eyes and went in. It was sad to see so many young women going in the clinic to kill their children, when I know so many other women who are trying desperately to have children. Hopefully some of the women will change their minds and either keep their children or give them up for adoption.