Sidewalk counseling is, in my estimation, the single most valuable activity that a pro-life person can engage in. When pro-lifers counsel at an abortion clinic they come between the baby who is scheduled to be killed and the doctor who will do the killing.
Counseling goes to the heart of abortion. Babies are killed in abortion clinics or hospitals or doctor's offices, and pro-lifers go there to intercede for the baby's life. Our job is to get more people on the streets to stand between the killers and the victims.
There is no one right way to do sidewalk counseling. The counselor has to know human nature to be able to understand the crisis the woman is facing, and appreciate what has driven her to this unnatural solution.
The counselor must believe that the woman can be turned back. In Chicago, 25 women were stopped from having abortions in a single morning at a clinic on Michigan Avenue, because there were sidewalk counselors present.
