Categorical Confusion

When you don't know what box to put someone in because they act different than you expect a person in said box to act.  
What does a pro choice person care about?  Let's say for the sake of my point here that it is simply women.
What does a pro life person care about?  Stereotypically only the baby, not the mommy.

Pro lifers definitely deserve the stereotypes they have earned.  There have been countless so-called pro lifers who have spent their time accusing or uncaringly arguing the facts with an opponent, indicating a lack of love for the woman who ultimately makes the decision to abort or keep her baby.  I have made that mistake.  I have unfeelingly argued without listening to the heart of the person I am talking with.

So, what if a new category of people were to emerge?  A people who expressed care for both the baby and the woman?  Then what box would onlookers put them in?  They wouldn't know whether to call that person pro life or pro choice.  And this would give them a voice among both populations.

Getting Physically Closer

I appreciate Laura Peredo's opinion article "How NOT to convert people to being pro-life," on Live Action's website, see link below. 
I didn't used to think standing outside the abortion clinic was an effective strategy, but recently I felt compelled to get physically closer to where this abomination is occurring.  And I wanted to do SOMETHING.  So, I've gone a few times and held a sign, hoping to be loving to the women going in and out, hoping to make some difference for the little lives.

http://liveactionnews.org/how-not-to-convert-people-to-being-pro-life/

Ultrasounds

Sounds like one way to love unborn babies, especially those whose mommy is considering an abortion, is to let her mommy see her on an ultrasound.  The below is from Jill Stanek's Blog where she quotes from Live Action's Sarah Terzo:

"In Planned Parenthood’s world, allowing a woman to see an image of her baby on the ultrasound screen is a “dangerous agenda.” Many women who have abortions do not know the truth about fetal development….
The language of abortion counselors is often crafted carefully to avoid any reference to the baby. Even the term “fetus” is not always used. A 2012 NPR radio program interviewed abortion workers at a facility in England. In the interviews, the clinic workers never mention the word “abortion.” Rather, abortions were referred to as “treatments” – e.g., “the treatment room,” “treatment counseling,” etc.
Ultrasounds cut through all this evasive rhetoric. They show the reality of the unborn baby. As for abortion providers’ statements that ultrasounds are “cruel” and “torture weapons,” anyone who has listened to women who regret their abortions has heard, over and over again, “I wish I’d had more information.” “If I’d known what abortion would really do to my baby, I wouldn’t have had one.”…
So why do abortion providers avoid showing ultrasound images to women? Perhaps this is because up to 78% of women who see an ultrasound of their babies choose not to have abortions.
~ Sarah Terzo, Live Action News, February 6
[Image via Alpha Pregnancy Center]"

So, how often are abortion-seeking women seeing the little babies before they can go through with the abortion?  Guttmacher Institute has a great brief as of Feb. 1 2013.  Ultrasound Requirements across the states.  Basically,

• "12 states require verbal counseling or written materials to provide information on accessing ultrasound services.
• 21 states regulate the provision of ultrasound by abortion providers.
• 2 states mandate that an abortion provider perform an ultrasound on each woman seeking an abortion and requires the provider to show and describe the image.
• 6 states mandate that an abortion provider perform an ultrasound on each woman seeking an abortion, and require the provider the opportunity to view the image.
• 9 states require that a woman be provided with the opportunity to view an ultrasound image if her provider performs the procedure as part of the preparation for an abortion.
• 5 states require that a woman be provided with the opportunity to view an ultrasound image."

Sad thing is when it says that sometimes the women are allowed to look away from the image or not listen to the description of it...poor poor women.