Linda For Life Stories From the Sidewalk

❤❤  Easy Access Death  All is well doesn't always end well. This was a vividly demonstrated truth last week when we had a mom choose life after speaking with several of us for days straight, wanting originally to choose life but ultimately chose to take the abortion pill to abort her child. A horribly hard situation for all of us. Four of us poured our hearts out, offered every resource we could think of and expressed our compassion and support only to have her tell us that she thought it was best to abort her baby. Early in the days she told us she couldn't imagine life without her baby and in fact pictured herself in an SUV with all of her kids and she and her partner couldn't imagine giving the baby away so adoption was off the table. This gave us hope that she was turning the corner completely. We asked her to throw the satanic pill out. We believed that if it was harder to access an abortion there would be more time to gain this mother`s trust.  In the end we lost the

  ⚘Full Bloom⚘ She walked into the outreach building very unsure of what to do. She was a mom in crisis that I met outside of Planned parenthood. She has other children and her partner is in jail. She said he would not want her to abort their baby but she feels desperate. She is caring for her children the best that she can and she feels like she can not handle another mouth to feed. Fortunately we were preparing for a baby shower for a mom who`d also been in a crisis situation. This mom just happened to be in the building early for the shower and was happy to provide some encouraging words for this other mom. In fact there were several people helping with the shower who were also happy to share their loving words of encouragement. This struggling mom was able to see she was not alone and she was able to see our organization in action. Her story is not uncommon unfortunately. She does not  want to abort her baby but does not know where to turn for help. We were able to show our support