At least one woman turned away and didn’t go through with an abortion, Red Rose Rescue spokeswoman Lisa Hart told LifeSiteNews. The woman’s mother was forcing her to have the abortion.
“I was in the process of trying to get her [the] number of an attorney to call...I gave her some good information to get help and offered to take her to my house, actually, but her mother came up and started yelling at me,” Hart recounted. She told LifeSiteNews that over 10 police cars came to the scene and the pro-lifers “were dragged off into” them.
“When we tried to film it, they forced us to get off the property,” she said. The pro-lifers managed to get short videos of police carrying some of the arrested rescuers to their cars. The activists are now at the police station, Hart said.
The abortion facility the pro-lifers entered is Garden State Gynecology, which is on the first floor of a large office building that also houses New Jersey’s “premier” freestanding birth center. This is the 14th Red Rose Rescue that’s taken place in the United States since September 2017.
“The Rescue that we did in September was on the feast of St. Michael, dedicated to him. Then, the December Rescue was close to Christmas. We dedicated it to Our Lord and His birth. The March Rescue was on the 19th, dedicated to St. Joseph,” Father Fidelis Moscinski of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal told LifeSiteNews. This morning’s Rescue was “dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary” because July 13 is “the anniversary of when she revealed the secret at Fatima,” he said, referring to Marian apparitions in Fatima, Portugal when the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three peasant children and warned them of the need for prayer and reparation for sin.
Accompanying Moscinski, who has participated in several previous Red Rose Rescues, were two other veteran rescuers, Father Dave Nix and Will Goodman. A fourth rescuer entered anonymously in solidarity with unnamed babies in the womb.
“We’re really calling upon the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary this morning,” said Moscinski. “We are trusting in the power of God’s grace to affect people’s minds and hearts.”