More information and tips on sidewalk counseling – SIDEWALKCOUNSEL.ORG
Our brochures are a great place to start for facts and testimonies to share on the sidewalk, and can be used to facilitate conversation. To help you expand on that content, we have compiled the following resources:
- Help Available
- Pregnancy Resource Centers Provide Millions in Free Services: (brief summary from Live Action of the impact PRCs have had in the U.S. and around the world) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBsjvfQA3k&t=173s
- Pregnancy Resource Testimonies: (from clients, donors, and staff of Guiding Star Wakota in West St. Paul) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ovCqXEwXxsTnfr7yby5nlZ9EbUQ3iJM.
See especially:
- Video 2: Family served by Wakota (grandparents, mother, and four granddaughters)
- Video 7: Man and children served by Wakota’s resources and Good Father Program
- Impact of Pregnancy Resource Centers: (a brief, nationwide report summarizing the help PRCs have offered) https://lozierinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pregnancy-Center-Update_2022.pdf
- Humanity of the Child
- The Endowment for Human Development: (superb photos and videos of fetal development) www.ehd.org Click on “Movie Theater” and “Image Gallery”.
- Brief Video of 8-Week-Old Unborn Baby: (powerful, 8-second video of an 8-week-old unborn baby moving her head, arms and legs outside the womb) www.lifenews.com/2019/01/14/amazing-video-shows-unborn-baby-in-first-trimester-moving-her-arms-and-legs/
Sadly, this baby had been removed (ectopic pregnancy) and did not survive. Perhaps you can have this video available on your phone to show abortion clients while you are sidewalk counseling. If the video is no longer available on-line, you can get an MP4 file by sending an e-mail to: debra.braun@plam.org.
- “A Window to the Womb”: (3D and 4D ultrasounds of early fetal development, about 3 minutes) www.truthbooth.org/video.asp
- Harm of Abortion
- Abortion Procedures: (Narrated by former abortionists, these brief, animated but medically accurate videos show how abortions are committed and list possible complications for the mother.) www.abortionprocedures.com
- What the abortion pill can be like for the woman: (Powerful 3-minute abortion pill scene from the movie “Unplanned”) www.abortionpillhurts.com
- St. Paul, MN Planned Parenthood would break neck of abortion survivor:
- Photos of Abortion Victims:
(Ten-week- old baby aborted by abortion pill died in mother’s hand.)
- Post-Abortion Testimonies:
- “Crossroads of the Heart” (mostly testimonies of post-abortive women, 20 minutes, English and Spanish versions) www.spectsvideo.com
- More post-abortion testimonies (women, men, grandparents, siblings, abortion workers, etc.) www.silentnomoreawareness.org
- Testimonies of former abortion workers: https://abortionworker.com/quitter-stories/
Additional Resources:
- Babies Saved by Sidewalk Counselors: (learn how particular children have been saved through the years by sidewalk counselors like you) https://plam.org/babies-saved/
- Abortion Pill Reversal Success Stories: (just a few of the thousands of children saved by APR)
- “Spiritual Foundations of Sidewalk Counseling”: Inspiring 36-minute talk by Frank Pavone at the 2011 National Sidewalk Counseling Symposium. This presentation is well worth your time! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9JVRrfD-ss
- Sidewalk counselor’s testimony before U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee: Eleanor McCullen is a long-time sidewalk counselor and the plaintiff in a 2014 free speech case, McCullen v. Coakley, in which the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 9-0 decision, upheld the right of sidewalk counselors to talk to women freely outside of abortion centers. Watch her powerful March 24, 2022 testimony: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR4b_7J50m8
