An interaction with a 71-year-old pro-life advocate outside a provincial hospital in Canada provoked a young mother-to-be into making a life-changing decision: reading his sign, she changed her mind and opted not to abort her baby.
In November last year, advocate Barney Sullivan was protesting peacefully on the sidewalk outside Saskatoon City Hospital in Saskatchewan, Canada, holding a sign—“Unborn babies matter”—when a woman believed to be in her 20s approached him.
While Sullivan belongs to a community of advocates, he braced himself, having grown used to confrontation with people of opposing beliefs. But this conversation was different.
Sullivan firmly believes that the location of his peaceful protest was crucial in helping the young woman change her mind. Yet, having protested in the same spot within 50 meters of hospital property every day for two years, in silent prayer, he is concerned that recent changes to Saskatchewan legislation will prohibit pro-life campaigners from furthering their cause.
Sullivan says the young woman who changed her mind after reading his sign might never have had her epiphany if Bill 48 had already been in place.