Also, this was the second time that the front door of the abortion clinic was closed by a woman going into the clinic.  Because of this, we again had an advantage to talk to the people for a little while longer.  However, shortly after the door was closed, a man who was by himself attempted to go inside.  The doors wouldnt open, and he violently kept trying to open them.  When he realized that they wouldnt open, he turned and asked us if we locked the doors.  We told him we didnt have keys to the door to possibly lock it.  We also said that have never touched the doors, let alone even gone up the abortion clinic front steps to be able to.  He accused us of doing so the last time it happened and this time as well, even though we never did anything of the sort.  He claimed to be a police officer, however he was dressed in civilian clothes and accused us of things without any evidence.  It didnt bother us much and we continued as usual, but it was something interesting that happened that Saturday.

Although this was, so to speak, in our advantage, the day did not go very well.  Nobody decided to keep their child and the people who did talk to us, spoke with much hostility.  One of the themes that seemed to run throughout our time there was “lack of experience.”  The End The Slaughter street representatives are relatively young, around the age of 20.  Some of the women who went in for abortions this Saturday were much older.  A few asked us about our age, if we had children, or if we had any “life experience.”  They asked us these questions assuming we cant understand them simply because we haven’t experienced what they’re going through ourselves.  It seemed as though they assumed we thought their decision was an easy one.  Even though we never claimed keeping and raising a child would be easy, they assumed that we could not speak on the issue because we did not experience it.  In regards to that I have only one thing to say, you don’t need to be vastly intellectual or extremely wise and experienced to know that murder is wrong.  Murder is wrong regardless of my experiences, wisdom, age, or any other irrelevant factor.  And as much as it hurts to say, it seems that women will find any excuse to not hear us out.  But what hurts even more is that these women feel that we are there to judge them and be angry with them.  So they do everything in their power to not listen to us.  So they never come to know our true motives which are to help them, and more importantly, help their child.

I like to call this Saturday at the clinic, “The day of the ‘I know’s.” This is because more than once, when people walking into the clinic were told that they were going to be murdering their baby, they turned around and said, “We know.” One said it with a smile on her face, one while rushing his girlfriend in (or whoever she was), and another followed it up with a lovely, “Don’t make me.” Yes, ladies and gentlemen. A threat. A grown and rather large man threatened a young, almost-20-yr-old girl.

Anyways, after each “I know,” my only reaction was, “And you’re fine with that?!” That’s all I could say. How could anyone be fine with knowing they are killing a human being??!! And so this is where Schaeffer’s points begin to make a great deal of sense. Humanism. That’s the only way to explain it. All people care about is their own self, their own comfort, their own well being. So much so that they are willing to MURDER. It’s humanism that is brining the quickening end of morality, and it is humanism that is the cause of thousands of murders a day. When are we going to realize that human life is valuable? That human life is worth suffering for? Sadly, not soon enough.

-Ani Demirjian

That was when our little miracle baby arrived. Christopher D’shawn Terry II was born by C-Section at the Valley Presbyterian Hospital to very happy and excited parents. However, they didn’t always feel that way about this baby.

You see, Christopher was going to be aborted on February 11, 2009. Two of our sidewalk counselors were able to talk with his parents and help them with whatever they needed in order to choose life. It was a difficult decision for them, especially since the mother was kicked out of her house after letting her mother know about the pregnancy. But we were able to provide a place for her to stay while she found somewhere more permanent.

After a number of other great difficulties, the couple was finally able to find some stability before the birth of their baby. Also, as stated in a pervious post (“My New Role”), our co-founders were declared godparents for this miracle baby! He was born 7 pounds and 21′ in and is just the cutest thing! Here are some pictures…

The newborn hours after his birth!

The baby with his godfather and ETS co-founder, Sako Kassabian

The baby and his godmother, ETS co-founder Ani Demirjian

This baby is just one example and display of who it is that we kill in the name of abortion. Let us conitinually fight for these babies and help their families in any way that we can. Christopher is just one of the reasons why End the Slaughter keeps going!

Throughout the 30 minutes or so that we talked to them, other women came in and out of the abortion clinic.  Not very many, but there was still some traffic.  As we were talking to the couple, many couples came out where the women looked horrible.  One women came out crying to herself and clinging on to the man that was with her.  One women came out with a very confused and dizzy look on her face.  She looked like she would not have been able to walk, had she not been leaning on the guy who she had came with.  And one woman, was particularly angry when she came out.  She kicked our sign and cursed at us.  We didn’t pay much attention to her because at the time we were still talking to the couple who was considering life.  This was one of the things that confused me as well.  Almost every time one of these women came out, the woman that we were talking to had a horrified look on her face.  She didn’t want to look like those women.  I was practically sure she didn’t want to have an abortion.  But in the end, she pushed all that aside and did anyway.  After that, we didn’t have much left in us to stay any longer.  I know it drained me out.  I didn’t know what to say or do anymore.  It was just a very difficult day, and is still difficult to write about.

As an organization, we are really excited about him being able to facilitate a conversation about the issue of abortion and working through some of the issues that go along with this. We are looking forward to things that you are going to learn and bring back because this conference is such a great tool for us. Especially since it’s free too!

If you can make it out to Washington DC, you need to be here August 28 and 29!

Good luck Sako and make us proud!

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One girl came out though, decided not to kill her child. That was awesome. The group before us spoke to her. We had a chance to speak to her and were very glad she had decided to change her mind. She definitely made the right choice!

There is one thing that I would like to make clear about these blog posts.  They are short summaries of what went on throughout the day.  But I hope it is understood overall that we don’t treat all these women as if they were the same.  There was a number of different responses to our presence at the abortion clinic.  Some violent and some more open.  But overall more open than usual.  Although sometimes these posts are kept short, I want to go into a little detail about some of the women we talked to.

There were some women there were very hostile towards us this Saturday.  This is no surprise to us.  One woman was clearly coming in to pick up someone and I don’t think any of us even attempted to go talk to her.  But before anyone even had the chance to do so, she threatened to punch us if we approached her.  As bad as that was, it was not as shocking as what another woman had stated.  As she was on her way inside the clinic, I said many things to her in an attempt to change her mind and apparently one of my statements hit a nerve.  I said that “there are people who are willing to help you financially.”  I don’t know why this would offend or anger someone but the way she responded shocked us.  She bluntly stated, “I would rather kill my baby than have another person take care of it.”  She did not deny the humanness of her child as most do, but rather simply chose that killing a child was a more appropriate option than having someone else help her take care of it.  I did happen to ask the simple question “why?” before she entered the building.  All she said was that it was her choice and walked out of sight.  We stood in silence for some time, surprised at her comment.  I think it’s just sad that people think this way.

On the positive side, there was another girl who is also worthy of note.  One of the girls who was on her way to the abortion clinic alone stopped to talk to us before she went inside.  She seemed like she didn’t want to have an abortion but that it was her only option.  She looked like she was pretty convinced of her decision, but that she didn’t like the situation she was in.  She had recently gotten married and felt that it was too soon for a child.  We talked to her for some time before she went in.  The last thing I remember her saying was that she’ll think about it more while she’s in there.  We tried to keep her from going in at all but she ended up going in anyway.  About a half hour later she came back out.  At that moment, I questioned whether she was going in for an abortion or for testing, but prior to her coming out I was sure she was going in for an abortion.  One of the girls with us asked her what she’s going to do, and the woman replied saying that she was going to think about it further.   I don’t know if that’s considered a baby saved because the possibility is definitely still there.  But we can be happy that she didn’t go through with the abortion that day and that she’s going to think about it further.  Hopefully she will call us if she needs anything.  And hopefully she will choose to love and protect that baby rather than going through with the abortion.  But at this point, all we can do is hope. If you are of faith, please pray.