Above: A Cemetery of the Innocents at Carroll College in Waukesha. The crosses symbolize the lives lost to abortion.
Affiliated Medical Services, located at 1428 N. Farwell Ave. in Milwaukee, is one of the four surgical abortion facilities in the state of Wisconsin. It is the only facility in the state that performs late-term abortions. 40 Days for Life has been observed at Affiliated for a couple years, and vigilers have seen the sad, the joyful, the unexpected, the heart-breaking and the truly awful.
This morning, a male Milwaukee County Sheriff deputy and a female security agent brought a female prisoner to Affiliated. An additional male sheriff deputy arrived to deliver her paperwork. The male deputies were in uniform, and the prisoner was in shackles and handcuffs.
A recent email from a post-abortive woman, published by Jill Stanek on her blog, illustrates all too well how abortion hurts women, how women feel they have no other choice, and how women are coerced into abortion. Please take a moment to read it. Recent statistics indicate that one in three women will have an abortion by the time she is 45 — if you’re not one of these one in three, it may be your best friend, your sister, a co-worker, etc. Be educated on how to talk to women in crisis, and encourage those who are post-abortive to seek counseling.
Today is St. Patrick’s Day. We ask all of you to pray for this woman and the officers who delivered her to the abortuary.
“If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.” – St. Patrick.
Update, 3/18: Two women did choose life for their babies, in response to sidewalk counselors’ efforts. Sadly, the female prisoner was prevented by the deputies from even speaking to pro-lifers, by way of a “Shut up.”