{"id":322677,"date":"2024-12-06T16:46:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T22:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=322677"},"modified":"2024-12-05T17:54:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T23:54:53","slug":"sidewalk-counselor-never-met-regret-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sidewalk-counselor-never-met-regret-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidewalk counselor: ‘I’ve never met someone who says they regret their child’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Oregon Right to Life<\/a>) When Idaho\u2019s pro-life trigger law took effect after the overturning of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, many observers anticipated an \u201cabortion tourism\u201d phenomenon to occur in neighboring Oregon. And Planned Parenthood wasted no time preparing for the increase.<\/p>\n

Within a month of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, the abortion corporation began work opening a new clinic in Ontario, Oregon \u2013 a rural Malheur County town on the Idaho border about an hour northwest of Boise.<\/p>\n

Now positioned between AutoZone and a Cenex gas station, the new Planned Parenthood is the only abortion facility in the county. During its short time in operation, it\u2019s already become a destination for abortion-minded women from Eastern Oregon and Idaho, as well as other states with laws that protect the unborn. According to updated 2023 numbers from Oregon Health Authority (OHA), 427 abortions were performed<\/a> in Malheur County last year, 381 of which were for out-of-state residents. There had been no reported abortions in Malheur County in 2022.<\/p>\n

Isaac Sheldon, a U.S. Army veteran and father of six children (including one unborn baby) stands outside the Ontario abortion facility Tuesday through Friday most weeks. He\u2019s a pro-life sidewalk counselor with the international Christian organization Love Life<\/a>, which is committed to \u201cuniting and mobilizing the church to create a culture of love and life that will result in an end to abortion and the orphan crisis.\u201d Sidewalk counselors are pro-life outreach team members who urge moms to choose life for their babies (the term \u201ccounselor\u201d conveys the life-affirming counsel they provide, and isn\u2019t meant to imply that they are state-licensed mental health professionals).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s becoming more and more difficult to deny the scientific, empirical evidence that what exists within the womb, the unborn, is a child,\u201d Sheldon told Oregon Right to Life. \u201cThat it\u2019s a stage in development for each and every human being. They\u2019re fully human, fully alive from the moment of sperm-egg fusion.\u201d<\/p>\n