JT Klimek has gone to the Planned Parenthood Chapel Hill Health Center almost every Saturday since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24.
Klimek is one of the handful of other pro-life individuals who were at the center on Saturday morning, although there have often been dozens of people there in the past. Some have even spent their Saturday mornings standing outside abortion clinics for years.
Klimek said his main goal when visiting Planned Parenthood is to talk with people seeking abortions and provide them with information and resources available in the area that could help them in their pregnancy.
He and other pro-life individuals point people seeking abortions to crisis pregnancy centers such as Gateway Women's Care, which has locations in Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Durham. According to its website, Gateway provides pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, STI testing and "options counseling."
However, pro-choice organizations like Pro-Choice North Carolina state that crisis pregnancy centers often use misleading advertisements and medically inaccurate information to attract patients.
Lydia Taylor, president of Campbell Students For Life at Campbell University, has also stood outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in Chapel Hill to speak with those seeking abortions.
"Both my organization and I go to abortion clinics to provide pregnancy resources to women seeking abortion and inform them of how abortion will only hurt them and their baby," she said.
Chelsea Smith, a graduate student at UNC, is president and a founder of Pro Life Future of the Triangle, an organization that caters to young adults in the area who want to be involved in pro-life activities.
She said when her organization speaks with people on the sidewalk of the Chapel Hill Planned Parenthood, they promote and represent Standing With You, a national database that includes pregnancy resources alongside information about food banks and shelters.
