An Unexpected Visitor

  So Planned Parenthood has its own Internet Service Provider and is signed up to receive 40 Days for Life emails.  Well, welcome!  Are you familiar with Abby Johnson?  She was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic, after working there for eight years.  She knows that you want to help women, especially women in crisis.  She has this to say about the work that she did:

Did I help women?  Sure.  I remember many of the women that I helped…the woman who hadn’t had an exam in ten years, the woman who needed testing because her husband had been unfaithful, the woman who had never been checked for diabetes but was then diagnosed because we finally ran the test.  I remember all of these women.  I remember all of their stories.  I helped them.  I helped them received the healthcare they needed, the healthcare they deserved.  You know what else I remember?  I remember the day I watched a 13-week old fetus fight for its life during an abortion procedure.  I remember looking at the bodies of aborted babies while I accounted for their arms, legs, and head.  I remember being able to determine if the baby was a boy or girl.

Abby couldn't take it anymore and she left.  She was scared... scared of losing her income, her friends, her former belief system.  But she says that she has found great peace and she wants that for each of you.  So do I.  None of the pro-lifers I know vilify clinic workers.  When we see you drive by, we feel bad for you and so we pray.  You look so sad and somber.  That's understandable.  You're taking a pregnant woman in crisis and rather than solving her crisis, you're killing her baby. 

Wouldn't you like the joy that comes from helping a woman find real solutions to her problems and that allows her child to be born?  Prolife workers get that joy.  We get to see the relief on women's faces when we help them get food stamps or rent money or job referals.  Then we get to see the joy on their faces when they hold their babies.  No one has ever regretted her child, but many do regret their abortions.

So you're going to be seeing a lot of me.  If you ever feel like talking, I'd be happy to listen without judgment.  I won't curse at you or insult you.  I'd sure appreciate the same.  Let's work together to help the women and girls who come to your clinic because they feel like they have no other choice.  They shouldn't have to choose between their child or their life.  They deserve better.  So do you.