“We tell them to step up to the plate and protect their child,” Upshur said. “And many guys will go into the clinic,” and walk back out after convincing their girlfriends not to go through with the abortion – often a procedure the men talked the women into in the first place. “”We tell them we’re there praying for them, that there’s real help available, that we want to help them.
“”Tunawaambia hatua ya juu ya sahani na kulinda mtoto wao,”” Upshur alisema. “”Na guys wengi kwenda katika kliniki,”” na kutembea nyuma nje baada ya kushawishi rafiki wa kike yao si kwenda kupitia kwa utoaji mimba – mara nyingi utaratibu wanaume aliyesema wanawake katika katika nafasi ya kwanza. “”Tunawaambia tuko huko kuomba kwa ajili yao, kwamba kuna msaada halisi inapatikana, kwamba tunataka kuwasaidia.