Sidewalk Counseling Group Has Saved over 22,000 Babies From Abortion

One of the things Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry hate the most is sidewalk counseling. When pro-life advocates appear outside abortion facilities and offer women better solutions than abortion, their abortion sales numbers plummet.

One group, Sidewalk Advocates for Life, is celebrating saving 22,000 babies from abortions. The group trains pro-life advocates across America how to effectively assist pregnant women outside an abortion center.

In a new interview, its president, Lauren Muzyka, celebrated saving those 22,000 babies who otherwise would have been killed in abortions.

She said the sidewalk counseling is necessary even in some pro-life states because, while heartbeat laws save most babies from abortions, they don’t save them all. And women are still going to Planned Parenthood and other abortion companies to get abortion referrals out of state.

“In some of our states where abortion is limited, like a six-week ban or a heartbeat ban, it’s really interesting because we’re actually still seeing a great amount of traffic,” she said. “I wish the country could see what we’re seeing in some of these more pro-life states.”

“Even in our pro-life states, we still know that there are women in crisis in our communities that, at the very least, are considering driving 300 or 600 miles away to the next nearest abortion facility,” she told CNA in a phone call. “A lot of people don’t realize, even in the pro-life states, that we still have Planned Parenthood Family Planning Centers on the ground that serve as abortion referral facilities.”

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Muzyka gave the example of the state of Georgia. “It’s surrounded by pro-life states,” she explained. “A lot of women are going to Columbus, Georgia, or Atlanta to see if they made the six-week cutoff. If they didn’t, then they’re getting referred to the Carolinas or to Virginia or the Panhandle of Florida.”

“Sometimes you have very distraught, angry women [who are] overwhelmed because they drove all through the night to see if they made this cutoff,” Muzyka further explained. “Some of them will turn around because they’re met by a sidewalk advocate there, but this is why our states really need to protect life at conception, because sometimes the six-week ban isn’t doing as much as I think the people of that state would desire to protect life and to protect women from this trauma.”

Muzyka said her group combines a pro-life and a pro-woman perspective to help mother and baby.

“The goal of Sidewalk Advocates for Life’s interaction with an abortion-minded mother is to soften her crisis such that she’ll consider life-affirming help,” she has said.

“I’ve dedicated my life to this cause, discerning how best to help abortion-vulnerable women choose life. After 22 years on the sidewalk, I can tell you that, to truly reach the heart of a mother in crisis, we have to go out of our way to create a safe, confidential space,” she continues. “Our peaceful, prayerful, law-abiding presence has helped us build relationships with thousands of women and their families when they encounter us in a dire moment of need, thereby saving their precious children.”

Muzyka says her group has also helped abortion center employees quit their jobs.

“Peaceful, prayerful sidewalk advocacy has proven to be effective, and we have trained thousands of people to connect with women using this tool, leading to 22,000 preborn children saved. Not to mention, our presence has given us opportunities to form friendships with abortion workers, encouraging 88 of them to leave their jobs. It has moved women who have experienced abortion to find healing and to report their sometimes-horrific experience to legal counsel, all of which helps shut down these facilities for good. We are now celebrating 55 abortion facility closures, in fact,” she added.

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