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CV NEWS FEED // The Pro-Life Action League is organizing “Peace in the Womb” events around the country, where pro-life advocates will sing Christmas carols outside of abortion clinics.
The league explains, “The idea is simple: we bring the hope and joy of Christmas to one of the world’s darkest places—the abortion clinic—in hopes that the familiar sounds of Christmas carols will save a life.”
It continues, “And, in fact, lives have been saved by our peaceful, prayerful witness when women heard our songs from inside the abortion facility and chose life for their children.”
The Pro-Life Action League’s executive director, Eric Scheidler, shared one such story with the Christian Post in 2020.
“In Jacksonville, Florida, a woman showed up with her daughter for an abortion and the daughter heard the singing, got real upset, went back to her car and said to her mom, ‘Find out what the heck’s going on.’
“And when they heard that we were there singing Christmas carols trying to appeal to the moms to choose life, the mom and daughter left the abortion clinic and then the pro-lifers followed up and found out that the girl had absolutely chosen to keep her baby,” he recalled.
The national events began in 2013, but the caroling started on a local level in Chicago, where the headquarters of the Pro-life Action League is located, in 2003.
Scheidler told the Christian Post he was inspired to start the events after a conversation he had with Christian feminist Katrina Zeno.
“She was talking about it getting closer to Christmas and how sorrowful it is to think of someone getting an abortion at Christmastime,” he said. “But then an act of charity would be to go to abortion clinics and sing Christmas carols as a reminder to the women of the hope of Christmas and also kind of planting a seed for the future.”
According to Scheidler, the conversion of the woman may happen immediately or years later, as the Christmas season reminds them of the abortion.
