Bob from Idaho Falls came for the weekend (as he does one weekend during each 40 Days for Life campaign vigil) and prayed at the Meridian Planned Parenthood from 1:00-5:00 pm. Part of the time he was on the public sidewalk, and part of the time he was with Alice or Karen (both Sidewalk Advocates) on the sidewalk next to the back Stanton lot. There was one woman who came to him and spoke nicely, saying “you know, they do other things besides abortions” and they talked briefly. Another woman approached him to ask if he had a cigarette…
At about 4:45 a staff person came out of the employee door, leaned over briefly, then stood up and went back into the building. About 10 minutes later, a Lab Corps vehicle arrived, the driver stepped out with a cooler, walked over near the employee door, used a key to open a white box there with the words “Lab Corps” on it (apparently the box that was accessed a few minutes earlier by a staff person), took out a pink bag to put into his cooler, returned to his vehicle and drove away.
That evening, Bob and 6 others from Boise and Vallivue took the first two training sessions of SAFL. On Saturday morning, they returned to take the remaining two sessions to complete the training. Following that, Bob spent the afternoon praying at State Street Planned Parenthood, because they are open the 2nd Saturday and Meridian Planned Parenthood is not. He had permission to stand by his car in the Stanton parking lot where he prayed and had one interaction from a girl who also approached him and they had the same conversation as the one at Meridian Planned Parenthood the day before — “you know, they do other things besides abortions”. Then about an hour and a half after he arrived, the police were called by SSPP. The officer was very nice, saying that PP owns property in that business development so “he couldn’t stand there”. It’s true we have not “worked that angle yet at SSPP”, so Bob said “no problem” and finished his prayer time on the sidewalk between SSPP and State Street. Thank you, Bob, for making the trip to Boise to join us in public prayer witness as we long for the day when there is an end to abortion.
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