PRO-LIFE GREEN BAY WITNESSES BABY SAVED IN MILWAUKEE
By Pro-Life Wisconsin Affiliate, Pro-Life Green Bay
On Tuesday, April 13, a group of four of us took a trip down to Affiliated Medical Services (AMS) on N. Farwell Ave. in Milwaukee. AMS is one of two abortion facilities in Milwaukee.
From 2:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. we were on the sidewalk, truly in the trenches. At least 31 women entered the facility while we worked hard to dodge the facility’s escorts and speak truth, life, and encouragement to the (mostly young) women. We were so thankful to have Dan Miller, State Director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, and sidewalk counselors September and Mark meet us on the sidewalk.
There were a variety of different sidewalk counselors and public witnesses who came throughout the day. Two of us from Green Bay are post-abortive, and we discussed the varying tactics people on the sidewalk were using and what we would have found most or least helpful in our situations. No matter the tactic, our impressions were all the same: we need to be regularly praying for the hearts of women tempted by abortion. Only God can soften hearts!
One of us from Green Bay felt God putting the word “blue” on her heart all morning as she was getting ready for the trip down. Once we arrived, she knew why. Woman after woman coming in were wearing the same shade of bright royal blue. Several had blue in their hair. Even one of the AMS workers, Robert, was decked out head-to-toe in royal blue scrubs.
Why did God keep placing “blue” on our friend’s heart? We might never fully know, but it did make us realize that we DO know that God saw every one of the women who entered the abortion facility that day. He knows what decision they did or didn’t make. He knows what is in store for their future. He has always known these things. Even if we can’t change someone’s mind, our God is sovereign over all.
We went down with the realistic expectation that we would likely not see a baby saved yesterday. We know some days multiple women will decide to keep their babies and some days none will. We spent four and a half hours on the sidewalk, watching 30 of 31 women march unphased into the belly of the beast only to exit in glossy-eyed defeat.
It was 15 minutes past when the facility closed with one woman left inside. We had planned to stay until the last person left; however this particular woman had been inside for over two hours. She was hard to forget – she had come with her husband and young child in tow. We had begun to wonder if the abortion workers had slipped her out the side door. With a long drive ahead of us, we decided to go to our vehicle and start to pack up. We swung back around in front of the facility and rolled down the window in time to hear that in the five minutes we were gone the young mother had emerged from AMS stating she had decided to keep her baby! She gave September a big hug and shared her name (omitted for anonymity). We all had a big laugh that we missed the day’s only save by a few moments. Either way, WE PRAISE GOD FOR HIS WORK IN THIS WOMAN’S HEART! Please keep her in your prayers.