Germantown, MD – Operation Rescue and the Maryland Coalition for Life announce that an office space has been placed under lease directly across the parking lot from LeRoy Carhart’s late-term abortion business in Germantown, Maryland.
The office will be used as a place of prayer for pro-life supporters, but will also act as a resource and referral center for vulnerable and needy pregnant women as well as post-abortive women. The Maryland Coalition for Life will be coordinating efforts with local pregnancy care centers and a nearby physician who has offered to provide free ultrasounds to abortion vulnerable women.
Operation Rescue first discovered that Carhart had been hired last December to do late-term abortions at Germantown Reproductive Health Services. Since then Operation Rescue and has worked behind the scenes to secure the office and provide support for local pro-life groups. Operation Rescue has also worked publicly to help organize and lead protests, and provide training and encouragement to area activists.
“Locating an office like this across from the most notorious late-term abortionist in the country was a high priority for us. We wanted to do more than just ask women not to abort their babies. We wanted to provide them with practical assistance, spiritual guidance, and true friendship so that abortion would no longer be a consideration. This office will do all of that,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
The new pro-life center will not be a place where protests and pickets take place, but will focus on helping women and on prayer. However, hundreds of pro-life supporters will continue to maintain a peaceful First Amendment presence on the public sidewalk outside the business park where the abortion business and the pro-life Center are located.
“This Center is going to have a profound impact on Germantown by offering women a life-affirming alternative directly across the parking lot from Carhart’s late-term abortion mill. The churches and the community of Germantown have really come together to make this a reality,” said Michael Martelli, Executive Director of Maryland Coalition for Life.
The Maryland Coalition for Life plans to move into the new office on April 2, 2011.
The main webpage for the Center is mdcoalitionforlife.com/germantown and photos of the Center are at mdcoalitionforlife.com/officepics.
Donations are now being accepted to help with the expenses of starting this new and vital pro-life work. The Center’s donation page is http://donate.KickOutCarhart.com.
