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I would encourage all sidewalk counselors to continue their ministry and invite their friends, family, and church members to pray alongside them.  Sidewalk counseling is a vital ministry in the pro-life movement.  In many cases, we are the last voices a mother hears before she enters the abortion clinic.  Many babies’ lives have been saved and many women (and their loved ones) have been spared the regrettable abortion experience because of faithful sidewalk counselors and people praying outside of abortion clinics.  I sincerely tell moms walking into the clinic that I am there because I care about them, and I want to share important information with them.  We offer them choices that they may not have access to in the abortion clinic and refer them to people and services that are able to assist them throughout their pregnancies and also after the baby is born.  We are always peaceful, and I hope that anyone who reads these words (pro-life, pro-choice, or undecided) will go out to a local abortion clinic when a sidewalk counselor is present and observe the work being done.   People on all sides of the debate need to be open-minded about sidewalk counseling.  If a person is truly pro-choice, then he or she should have no problems with fully educating a woman considering abortion.  This education should include all alternatives and available assistance programs as well as materials on fetal development, an ultrasound, and a description of the abortion procedure.   Reducing the number of abortions in this country will begin with education, and sidewalk counselors across this great country provide this information on a daily basis.   So, please take 30 minutes or an hour out of your schedule in the next month to observe your local sidewalk counselors.  And if you are a pro-life Christian, consider praying at an abortion clinic when someone is sidewalk counseling for “The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth”  Psalm 145:18.