Fri Sep 16, 2022 – 9:44 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Thursday, Sept. 15 marked the five-year anniversary of the first of many courageous Red Rose Rescues to take place across the country, encouraging mothers sitting in abortion clinics to choose life for their unborn babies.
During that time, dozens of rescues have been conducted in numerous states, often resulting in the arrest and imprisonment of the pro-life activists who sacrifice their freedom to become a voice for the voiceless. In a rescue, volunteers join the women waiting for an abortion procedure and offer them a rose as well as information about the truth of abortion and the other options available during a crisis pregnancy.
“I believe it’s the right thing to do, to put a grown-up, parent, mother, person between the knife and the child and say no, put the knife down, stop killing children,” Red Rose rescuer Laura Gies told LifeSiteNews in a phone interview. “No. Don’t do this. So, by putting myself in harm’s way, and being able to take whatever they do, that to me is the right thing to do.”
Gies, who has been involved in pro-life activism for 30 years, has
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