YOUR SISTER’S KEEPER
By Dan Miller, State Director of Pro-Life Wisconsin
This week I went sidewalk counseling in front of the abortion facility in Milwaukee on Farwell Avenue. I had a pretty full day already, but the Holy Spirit was calling me to go. What I wanted to do was go home, put my feet up, and relax, but I went anyway.
When I arrived, the other sidewalk counselors had already witnessed three babies saved from abortion that afternoon! I was looking forward to adding to those numbers. After counseling four women on their way out, who confirmed that they were NOT GOING TO KEEP THEIR BABY, I had to step back and reexamine what I was doing. After some discernment, I had concluded that it wasn’t what I was doing or saying; I just happened to run into four women in a row who were convinced abortion was the answer for them. I pleaded for their babies. Hopefully it was enough to keep them from ever coming back.
Not but 30 minutes into my time on the sidewalks, a big truck pulls up and out pours two women. One was obviously pregnant and the other seemed to be the “support person.” I offered both of them pro-life literature and told them about the free help across the street.
“Hi! My name is Dan. I have some free information for you. I just wanted to let you know about the free help across the street. They have free pregnancy tests, free ultrasounds, free diapers, free clothing….whatever you need to choose life for your son or daughter. We are here to help. If you need anything, please come out and talk with us. God bless you and your baby.”
Once they went inside, I turned to the big truck. The man driving it had the window rolled down. That to me is an open invitation to go speak with that person! He said that if it was up to him, if the child was his, that preborn baby would be strapped into a car seat in his truck when he or she was born.
“I don’t think abortion is right, but how can I tell someone else what to do with their body?”
I’ve heard this from men thousands of times.
“I’m just the driver.”
“Nothing I can do about it.”
“Whatever she wants to do, I’m behind her.”
I asked him if he would feel the same way if that woman wanted to shoot up heroin in his presence. “Would you try to stop her, knowing that it might kill her?” He responded that he would try to stop her from doing that. I replied, “So, what’s the difference? A baby is going to die if she has the abortion. There is no difference between you, me, or her baby except time and nourishment. We are all made in the image of God. We all are given a soul at fertilization. That little baby is OUR sister in Christ. You have to now be your sister’s keeper!” I told him that God put him here for a reason. The reason is to save that baby from abortion. I continued, “You need to do everything you can to save that baby. You have to be able to look Jesus in the eyes when you die and are judged by Christ and say to Him, ‘I did all I could.’ If you can’t do that, then you need to try harder.”
After about a half hour conversation, I was able to take a man who was neutral about his wife’s friend having an abortion, to being a man of conviction and protection for that baby. I don’t know the outcome, but I do know that he is convicted. That was a victory.