Louisiana antiabortion groups seek to ‘change heart and minds’ even amid wave of strict laws
Antiabortion activists have trained advocates to frame their cause as supporting women. And they’ve helped push state legislatures to pass hundreds of restrictive measures in hope of Roe’s repeal.
(The Christian Science Monitor) Most Saturdays, first-year college student Taylor Gautreaux gets up at 6 a.m. and goes to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to join a group that gathers just outside the property lines of Delta Clinic, one of the last three abortion clinics in the state.
She dresses neutrally—no slogans or religious symbols—and keeps her voice low, avoiding words such as God or hell. She tells the women—and their partners or mothers, whomever they’re with—that she understands they’re in a difficult spot. Do they know there are resources to help them so they don’t have to kill their child? There’s a center with those resources right next door.
“We don’t want to scrutinize a woman,” she says. “We don’t talk bad about the abortionist. We recognize their humanity, just as much as we recognize the humanity of the unborn.”
