After turning away from the clinic, the pregnant woman and her father then went to get an ultrasound. They discovered she was carrying twins.
“The father was just in shock. Before, he was just that close to choosing abortion. Now, he’s a grandfather of two.”
He described the incident as a moment of “real conversion” through the youth.
“When people see young people really taking a stand, hearts and minds get changed. It’s pretty amazing.”
CNA also asked about an incident at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado where a park ranger initially stopped three female walkers from entering the park. According to Nolan, the ranger said the shirts “might offend other people with opposing views” and needed to be changed.
While the situation was resolved after half an hour, Nolan commented, “just the fact that young people wearing pro-life T-shirts were stopped from entering, just in itself, is an outrage.”
“There is no doubt in our minds that this was a case of thinly veiled harassment based on nothing more than political ideology,” Nolan said of the incident.
Though Nolan told CNA that the park ranger did not mention President Barack Obama specifically, he said the incident is indeed evidence of mounting pressure on pro-life groups under the Obama administration.
Nolan reported that Crossroads walkers had faced “harassment” under the Clinton administration but had a “break” under President George W. Bush.
“With the Obama administration, we’re just seeing a ramping up of pressure on pro-life groups. It’s clear that there has been a change in administration.
“That harassment has started up again,” he charged, citing the Rocky Mountain National Park incident as his group’s first “real clear example.”
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However, Nolan was optimistic about the future.
“The pro-abortion position is definitely in the minority now,” he said. “The youth of the country especially are returning back to the religious and the life-respecting roots of earlier generations.”