In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews David Dowd and Dr. Ronda Chervin on David's new book with commentary by Ronda Chervin: Sad Songs: A View from the Front Lines of the Spiritual Battle between the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life— A Sidewalk Advocate’s Journal

Working as a Volunteer Pro Life Sidewalk Advocate, the author recorded this series of reports. They were recently written over a period of six months during which he and others were praying and counseling as Sidewalk Advocates to women who entered an abortion clinic. As you read this collection of sad stories, the denial, hardship, struggles and desperation of some 20-30 women a day, 3 days a week might begin to register. These are not the stories that you hear or read from abortion advocates. The chapters of this book are based on observations, quotes, conversations, estimates and, yes, some speculations by the author as to what happens on the sidewalk.

The killing of babies by surgical and chemical means in our country is an ongoing NATIONAL DRAMA. Clearly, the abortion clinics are the Front Lines of an invisible Spiritual Battle, waged where the worldly Culture of Death collides with an undermanned, under-financed, misunderstood yet hopeful band of volunteer sisters and brothers, representing the Culture of Life, provides resistance against the imminent death of unborn children in the womb of their mothers–resistance to that March of Bloody Death every day a woman transacts a business decision with an abortion clinic. It’s a sad, sad song that must be heard. We must look at the world as the world truly is before we look to God for the solace of our troubles.

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