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Abortion manager receives humanitarian award
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February 1, 2023Recently, Tammi Kromenaker, manager of the Red River Women’s Clinic, was bestowed a humanitarian award by the Moorhead City Council after a unanimous “yes” vote by the Moorhead Human Rights Commission.
Though Kromenaker didn’t show up to receive the award herself, at an earlier council meeting just before Christmas, Sarah Hader, a local abortion worker, smiled before cameras in receiving the humanitarian award on behalf of her supervisor.
Unfortunately, you read that correctly. The manager of our area’s only abortion facility has been publicly honored for her “good works” to facilitate the ending of little lives. No, that isn’t the way the nomination was put forth, but it is the truth.
Deeds such as this seem often to be accomplished in quiet. We didn’t learn of the award until after the fact. Someone happened to see the Moorhead City Council notes from Dec. 12, and noticed the section naming humanitarian award recipients.
One of our local sidewalk advocates felt a response was needed, so she helped organize a petition to protest the move, and began making plans to attend the council’s Jan. 9 meeting to thoughtfully state our grievances.
Shelly Bill was joined by Janine Hanson to represent the pro-life community, but before they were able to offer their three minutes each of testimony, the council’s recently-elected members were sworn in. A TV camera was on hand to record this momentous event, but left as soon as the four mayors from previous terms, the evening’s special guests, had exited the room.
To us pro-lifers, the most urgent item of the evening had yet to come. Unlike the other formalities, we had no smiles or accolades to share; only the sad fact that babies are dying and women are crying every week, just a few miles down the road.
As Hanson noted in reading the petition, “…we are voicing our opposition to this award,” serving as a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves, “the unborn and the post-abortive women who are too traumatized (to do so).”
Bill noted how changing words, such as from “abortion access” to “healthcare access,” sugarcoats the truth, and that healthcare is technically defined as “various services for the prevention or treatment of illness and injury,” and that abortion doesn’t qualify.
The local abortion facility, she continued, ended the lives of 20 to 25 children weekly last year, and offers two methods for this: by burning or starving them to death by chemicals, or tearing them apart surgically and sucking them from their mother’s womb. “That is not protecting human rights.”
Bill invited the council members to come to the facility to witness for themselves the women walking out in tears. “In every abortion, a woman walks in, and someone dies,” she said. “The babies have no form of self-defense.”
Recently, hundreds of thousands gathered at our nation’s capital to speak out on the egregious practice of abortion, as they have been doing since the Supreme Court case Roe vs. Wade was decided in 1973. Despite that case’s revocation in June 2022, our land remains tarnished by the blood of the innocent, and the millions—nay, billions—of dollars exchanged for human souls.
In the nomination letter, a clinic worker of eight years wrote that Kromenaker “didn’t skip a beat when Roe fell.” Instead, “she just dug in and knew she needed to do something to ensure abortion access in our area.”
Not only did she “put herself out there” for abortion access, the letter continued, but “risked her own home life and finances to purchase a location across the (Red) river,” prioritizing patients by using funds raised to help them with fees, hotel, gas, and daycare. “She and her partner have worked almost every single day to make this clinic a reality.”
My question is this. What if we took all of those tireless efforts to help women and men in these situations, along with the piles of money, and, instead of killing off the children we find inconvenient, seek solutions for aiding the flourishing of life?
Though frustrating to air our views that day and receive only blank stares and awkward grins in return, I’m glad the 20 or so of us pro-lifers showed up. It’s been said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
God willing, and with his grace, if each of us does something, we can help change the course of the abortion stream filled with dead bodies and broken hearts, once and for all.
