With the clock ticking on the seeming last days of Roe v. Wade, pro-abortion rage is being directed at pregnancy help organizations throughout the U.S.
This wrath will not deter pregnancy help organizations from fulfilling their mission of serving women facing unplanned pregnancy, the president of the nation’s largest network of pregnancy help said.
This is because the pregnancy help mission derives from a call from Lord to serve and the implications are not merely temporal, they are spiritual.
As the nation awaits the Dobb v. Jackson Women’s Health ruling, which is expected to overturn Roe v. Wade and send abortion law back to the states, some U.S. states are championing life while others are campaigning to protect legalized abortion.
The changing landscape in the U.S. is challenging, said Heartbeat International President Jor-El Godsey.
“But what's most challenging is the fact that there are those who are rising up in the name of so-called rights for women,” he said. “They are actually hurting and threatening pregnancy centers.”
These individuals don't seem to understand that the pregnancy help community is well acquainted with the violence surrounding the abortion issue, Godsey said, “the violence that has been perpetrated upon women.”
“Most of us in the pregnancy movement have had that experience of praying for that young woman, of walking with her, only to have her make that heartbreaking decision to actually go through with that abortion,” Godsey said.
“And we have wept over the loss of that child over the loss of that family and that future,” he said. “And we have been heartbroken at those situations.”
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Godsey released a video message to the pregnancy help community as pregnancy help organizations, churches, and other pro-life organizations across the U.S. were continually targeted for violence, threats, and vandalism in the wake of the draft majority opinion leak in the Dobbs case May 2.
Abortion extremists have waged the terror campaign toward pregnancy help centers even as the centers offer women facing unplanned pregnancy assistance and support.
The pro-abortion threats contain the theme that the centers that support women in unexpected pregnancy with life-affirming assistance should be made to pay for the impending Roe reversal.
Heartbeat International issued an unprecedented safety advisory in mid-June as a result of the attacks aimed at pregnancy centers. The international pregnancy help network has remained in contact with centers, offering assistance, resources, support, and prayer.
Despite the danger, pregnancy help organizations have likewise reacted with prayer and resolve to continue serving women and families.
Godsey felt called in the current climate to send a personal message of support to pregnancy centers.
“Unfortunately, there are those who think that somehow threatening us with death and violence is the answer,” Godsey said. “And it's never been an answer.”
“It's never been an answer that we've agreed with,” he said, referencing abortion. “And it's certainly not an answer we agree with now.”
The pregnancy help community has faced this sort of thing on a regular basis, he said, not so much through harm or violence committed toward pregnancy help centers, but in the decision for those that work in the abortion industry, for the hurt and harm that comes to women in their abortion regret and in the challenges that follow for them.
“And in some cases, in how they have physically harmed and emotionally impacted by an abortion decision,” said Godsey.
“So, we're not necessarily going to be moved by threats of violence,” he said, “because we know that this is a gasp of a dying abortion industry and it needs to die, because frankly no one should profit off of abortion in any circumstances.”
It doesn't threaten pregnancy help servants to lay it on the line for what they, he said, because it is answering a call to service from God.
“Because what we do is really not something for the moment,” said Godsey. “It's something for eternity.”
“It's something that God has called us to, and we will simply not be moved,” he stated. “In fact, we are more committed to this than ever.”
Godsey rallied the pregnancy help community.
“And so, despite those that would rise up and threaten us to do the only thing that they would find acceptable - to quit and walk away – we cannot do that. We will not do that.”
“We will continue to serve those who need us most,” he said, “who need us to do more, to be more.”
In fact, the pregnancy help movement will need to provide more because the needs will only increase, he said, particularly as some of the crowd that says pregnancy centers should not be doing what they do make it harder for women to get what they truly need.
“And that's help and hope,” Godsey said, “which is exactly what we offer.”
“We, meaning the pregnancy help community, we, meaning the pro-life community and the church community. That's what we're here for,” he said.
“And that's what we'll continue to do regardless of what they think we should do,” said Godsey. “We will continue to follow what God has called us to do.”
Godsey pledged prayer, commitment, and tenacity.
“We are walking confidently in this situation,” he said. “We want to act wisely in this situation, but also, we are totally committed to the call that God has placed on us to help her to save the life of her baby and to preserve the life of her family.”
“And that's exactly what we're going to do,” Godsey added, “regardless of what kind of threats we receive, what kind of challenges are made.”
“We will walk with the confidence that God has called us to this and anointed us for it,” he said. “So, know that we're with you. We pray God's blessings upon you in all that you do and know that you'll stand firm and recognize that the call is greater than the moment. It's one for all eternity.”
Editor's note: Heartbeat International manages Pregnancy Help News.
