AboutBill Stephens Expertise I am definitely pro-life and can explain that position very well, along with related issues such as economic, sociological, emotional, and biblical.
what % of women who make an appointment for an abortion show up for the appointment?
what % who show up have a change of heart while waiting?
(and dont come back)
can this be broken down more specifically by the reasons y they r contemplating abortion?
what affect doe s intervention or counseling ahve on a woman changing her mind and not ahving an abortion or an uncertain person deciding to have one because she resents the intervention attempt by the pro life advocate?
Answer I have no data to answer you the way that you would like, but I am sure that many women who contemplate abortion vacillate on that decision at many times during different stages of their pregnancy, even up to the day of the appointment. Some likely change their minds that day. There's a God-given conscious in us that sometimes wins over, but not always.
Regarding intervention, I know that this issue like many others that involves what is happening to an individual, is a testy one, so intervention can sometimes make matters worse, with the person who is confronted even holding stronger to his/her view, whether it is morally correct or not. Sometimes loving intervention though can be used, and even if it only works a few times (or even once) out of many that we try, it is worth it for that one person, especially in a case where a baby is being saved.
