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WATCH: A day with a sidewalk counselor at Planned Parenthood in California

Icon of a hand with a gavelActivism·By Cassy Cooke

WATCH: A day with a sidewalk counselor at Planned Parenthood in California

A newly released Live Action video shows a visit to a Planned Parenthood facility in Sacramento, California, to see what pro-life sidewalk counselors experience there on a daily basis.

Key Takeaways:

  • California is one of the most pro-abortion states in the country, and the Planned Parenthood facility in was in the state capital, Sacramento.

  • Kenneth, a pro-life sidewalk counselor who ministers to abortion-minded women and Planned Parenthood employees, was the focus of the video.

  • Though Kenneth said he and his group are able to save some lives, they also face regular harassment and threats of violence.

The Details:

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Kenneth said has saved hundreds of lives from abortion, and stays in California because it's where he can make the biggest difference.

"They're killing babies here, they're perverting children, and so there's not a better place to be to try to reach the lost and to love your neighbor," Kenneth said. "We're seeing well over 100 babies saved every year. We're seeing babies saved every single week."

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Thursday is the usual day that surgical abortions are reportedly committed at the facility, potentially as far along as 26 weeks. Kenneth attempted to minister to abortion-minded women with a loudspeaker that allows his words to be heard even inside the building.

" I had one young lady, she got up off the operation table and came out," Kenneth recalled. "She said that she could hear us all the way in the back room [while her abortion] was happening. She was just about to go through with it, and then she came out. She knew it was wrong, and then she could still hear us. And she's thinking about her baby. And that's how we got her up off the operation table."

Zoom In:

While some of the interactions were civil, others were hostile, aggressive, and borderline violent.

Two women approached Kenneth and not only verbally attacked him, but attacked his wife and children as well, who were present, saying of his children "Your wife should have killed them."

From there, the two women spoke directly to the children, repeatedly swore, and began circling Kenneth's wife and children, making the pro-life group fear for their safety.

Another man got angry and began screaming at Kenneth, even threatening to fight him, though he ultimately didn't. However, the man had a friend approach the facility on a bicycle, carrying a lead pipe in his pocket.

The Bottom Line:

Kenneth said that overturning Roe v. Wade wasn't enough to fight abortion.

"If we're going to say that America is a nation that's under God and it's a Christian nation, then the laws of this land should respect the Christian language, which says that a person is a human being and a human being is a person," he said. "So it doesn't matter what stage of development they are, you cannot murder them. The child inside of them deserves personhood rights."

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