{"id":78111,"date":"2015-10-26T16:58:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=78111"},"modified":"2015-10-27T00:34:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T04:34:36","slug":"why-i-admire-pro-life-sidewalk-counselors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/why-i-admire-pro-life-sidewalk-counselors\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I admire pro-life sidewalk counselors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Most people would back away from anyone threatening them while they stood for preborn children outside an abortion clinic – but not pro-life sidewalk counselors like Michele Herzog<\/a>.\u00a0Michele represents a number of pro-life warriors who faithfully stand as the last defense to cry out for children about to be killed by abortion. Every one is a hero and should be commended.<\/p>\n

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In the interest of full disclosure, I know Michele Herzog very well. We both reached out to women\u00a0for years outside South Florida abortion clinics. She and I also had the unfortunate opportunity to attend the funeral of a woman who died from a legal abortion –\u00a0Carolina Gutierrez. I wrote about that experience to some degree here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michele has experienced abortion, so\u00a0she has compassion for the women seeking abortion. But after becoming aware of the reality of what abortion does to the child, she now\u00a0also takes an unrelenting stand for the babies. She has been the recipient of all sorts of threats over her many years outside abortion facilities. But Michele remained unyielding even when rocks were being thrown<\/a> at her. She also stood up to an abortionist who had given<\/a> her obscene gestures.<\/p>\n

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Abortionist Randall Whitney shoots the finger at a pro-life activist because she refused to call him “doctor”<\/p><\/div>\n

Often, sidewalk counselors stand alone and a majority of the response they receive is negative – yet they return day after day after day. I am aware of this both because I know some personally and because I follow many on Facebook, reading their daily reports.\u00a0Many share stories of how they are\u00a0mistreated\u00a0– sometimes by law enforcement, sometimes by abortion workers, sometimes by patients, and sometimes\u00a0even by\u00a0citizens just passing by.<\/p>\n

It was one of these stories\u00a0that prompted me to write this piece. Herzog\u00a0and others were crying out for a baby whose mother had come to the EPOC abortion facility\u00a0in Florida. She\u00a0wrote about what took place:<\/p>\n

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\"abortionThis woman came with her abortion bound friend to the Epoc abortuary on Saturday and was as vile and wicked as they come. She laughed and encouraged her friend to go through with killing her baby and then left her there. Sandra and I wanted to make sure to plead with her one more time to do what she could to get her friend out and to save the innocent baby, so we waited at the corner<\/p>\n

When I first got there she told me she was going to kick my *** if I didn’t move away. I had given the ministry phone to Sandra’s daughter [another pro-lifer present] so she could take pictures and video throughout the afternoon and in this video the woman in the car was ready to jump out after Sandra’s daughter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n