“Keep Your Women Safe”
In a presidential campaign submerged in lies, one mantra of the Democrats kept surfacing. Aimed at male voters, the words, “Keep your women safe” and “Men, protect your women” were repeated over and over. The safety and protection of women would come from voting for candidates who supported the right of women to abort their children at any time, by any means. Vote for reproductive rights, men were urged. It would protect their women.
Exactly how does a vote for reproductive rights work out as protection of women? A look at how Minnesota handles abortion issues might explain this. Minnesota is a sanctuary state for abortion. In fact, there is a Whole Woman’s Health facility conveniently near the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for clients who want to zip in from elsewhere to destroy an unborn child. According to their website, Whole Woman does medication abortions in person or through telehealth, and they commit first and second trimester abortions in clinic. Because the Minnesota court struck down laws requiring the reporting of abortion statistics, there are no official numbers of how many pills are prescribed, how many babies sucked out or sliced apart at this or other clinics. Minnesota also struck down the requirement for certain types of abortions to be done by doctors or in hospital settings.
All legal, but is it safe? Is it protecting women who are given abortifacient pills (which induce heavy bleeding) through the mail without a doctor’s consultation? Without follow-up? Without consideration that a chemical abortion is just like any other abortion and will abruptly disrupt the sequence of hormonal response to pregnancy? The connection between breast cancer and individual genetic irregularities that might be triggered by abrupt changes in hormones after abortion is an issue still awaiting full study.
And trauma occurs – not reported by the media, of course – at these clinics in Minnesota and elsewhere. Pro-Life Action News (October 2024) reported on some incidents which occurred since August of this year in Minnesota:
“When a woman goes to an abortion facility she doesn’t expect to end up in the hospital, but it happens more often than the abortion industry and mainstream media want the public to know. It happened recently to at least two more abortion clients in the Twin Cities.
“On August 14, around 2:45 pm, an Allina Health ambulance was seen at the back door of Whole Woman’s abortion facility in Bloomington. According to the 911 transcript, the Whole Woman’s staffer explained, ‘Um, calling from Whole Women’s Health, um, we have a, um, 29-year-old patient, um, who had an abortion procedure, um, and experiencing hemorrhage.’
“Then on September 24, an ambulance picked up a 28-year-old woman around noon from the St. Paul Planned Parenthood (PP) to transport to MnHealth Fairview West Bank (formerly Fairview-Riverside) for a ‘traumatic injury…possible perforated uterus from a procedure,’ according to 911 records.
“We pray for these women and mourn the deaths of their children. Also, less than a week prior, on September 18, another ambulance was filmed outside that PP in St. Paul. No details are available about that situation.
“Finally, a sidewalk counselor saw a woman collapse outside the Mankato PP on a Wednesday (abortion day) early in October. Two PP employees and a male companion helped her get up and into the car. The sidewalk counselor said that they didn’t take her back into PP for observation or to check her vitals.”
In another story in the October issue of Action News, Pro-Life Action Ministries CEO Brian Gibson recounts a physical altercation at the main PP clinic in St. Paul. Brian is not an office slave, he stands the line in front of clinics, offering sidewalk counseling, literature, and calling out words of help and hope to those being victimized by the abortion industry. As he reported:
“About a half hour into my time there, a young couple came walking out of PP toward us. The clinic escort intercepted them before they were halfway down that long driveway and redirected them to cut across the property adjacent to PP. That private property houses a nonprofit business very sympathetic to PP. In other words, I had to stay on the public sidewalk somewhere 40-50 feet away from the couple crossing that parking lot.
“At this point I did not know whether they were leaving having had aborted or were going out and would be coming back to abort their precious child. I called out letting them know that there was help available. They stopped in the middle of the parking lot and the young man called out back to me. Because of the loud trucks that roll through this industrial park neighborhood, I could not hear what he was saying – at first.
“Then I did hear him say something to the effect they he would hit me if I kept talking to him. I assumed I only had one or two more chances to tell them about the free help so I gave them verbal directions to the nearby pregnancy resource center. It was then that he started to walk toward me over the objections of his girlfriend. He walked right in front of me and told me that if I didn’t stop talking to him he would hit me. I told him that all I was trying to say was that we have free help for them. Since that was still talking to him, he repeated his threat and I repeated that I was just offering them free help. Once more he stated he would hit me if I kept talking to him so I turned slightly toward the young woman and told her of the help. That’s when he punched me in the face.”
Punching out a guy offering free help, not even mentioning abortion, leads me to think that the “boyfriend” is likely to have punched the woman he was with as well. This is protecting women? She’s violated by this man, violated by the abortionist, the male “friend” punches out a pro-lifer and won’t let her listen to his words: Is this protection of women or control?
This is definitely not what “women’s rights” should be about. Women have been victimized and brainwashed by the women’s movement as seen in the election campaign into believing killing their children is their right and – dare I say it? – duty.
Thus the battle for life continues. We need to be there at the clinics to offer the right to choose life. We need to kneel in our churches in prayer and in the sanctity of our own homes to beg God to change souls. We need to open our own souls to the direction of the Lord and Giver of life that we may serve Him in the ongoing battle still before us.
(The excerpts above were used with permission and were reprinted from the October 2024 issue of Pro-Life Action News, published by Pro-Life Action Ministries, St. Paul, Minnesota.)
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