All you dedicated pro-life sidewalk counselors out there, listen up. If you have ever been abused and berated by people outside clinics, if you have ever wondered if all those longs hours make a real difference, take heart and read this story.
A 26-year-old Duluth woman, who pleaded guilty to second-degree assault after holding a knife to the throat of a sidewalk counselor, admitted that she never had her planned abortion because of what took place outside the clinic that day.
From a story in the Duluth News Tribune:
“Thank you for being there,” she said. “If they weren’t there, I probably would have gone through with it and regretted it for the rest of my life. It probably would have gone the other way. I’m sincerely sorry for doing that to her.”
Leah Winandy, 21, said she was outside the abortion clinic asking pregnant women not to kill their babies: “She was walking toward me. She pulled out a knife and waved it at me saying ‘Don’t come near me.’ I said, ‘Please don’t kill your baby. Fear God.’ I came to the edge of the courtyard. I said, ‘Look and listen to your ultrasound.’ She turned around and came back with a knife and held it up to my throat.”
Winandy says that she has already forgiven her attacker because "God has given me forgiveness in my heart for her."
Powerful story. Read it in its entirety HERE.
