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Cleveland’s Echo on the Edge of Darkness and Light: “Love Will End Abortion”, by Kevin Wells – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine, April 15, 2026

Kevin Wells’s latest book, Coached By the Curé: Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney was just released by Scepter. His memoir, The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family was released by Ignatius Press last autumn. For more information on his books, writing, and speaking, visit kevinwells.org.

An unlikely pairing—pro-life whites and inspired blacks—have merged as allies in front of Ohio’s deadliest abortuary.

Just steps from Preterm, Ohio’s blue-ribbon winner each year for most murdered babies, the scene outside resembles a kindly pop-up country fair. Slices of pepperoni pizza, snack bags, racks of sharp-looking maternity wear, shiny new toys, rosaries, and Miraculous Medals circulate like borrowed cups of sugar—passed hand to hand among white volunteers and their black friends outside LaRonde Apartments, a seven-story public housing project in a high-crime area of east Cleveland.

Preterm’s misfortune is that it shares its public space with blacks and whites who have gathered as one, transforming the scene outside Cleveland’s most notorious abortuary into something like a pre-Lenten Brazilian carnival. The unlikely family brims with cheer and falls easily into conversation—trading backslaps, talking Browns football, debating whether Jordan or LeBron is the greatest, and praising their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, side by side. During Advent, they huddle close to sing Christmas carols that rise like incense and carry with the winds off Lake Erie and into the shadow of death. …

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