When I worked at Planned Parenthood, there was something that we were not allowed to talk about. If we didn’t talk about it, then maybe no one else would either. It was called the Jaffe Memo. In 1969, Planned Parenthood was asked by the government to produce some ideas to help with overpopulation. They did just that. What is in the memo as a “solution” to overpopulation is astonishing. And, I’m sorry to say, it looks like the Jaffe Memo is starting to show its face in our culture.

Jaffe Memo - Click on this <– link

That is the memo, in its original form. Scary, isn’t it? What is scarier is that some of these things are happening…and they have begun to happen under Obama’s reign. “Reduce/eliminate paid maternity leave or benefits.” Sound familiar?

This memo was put out just over 50 years after the first Planned Parenthood clinic was opened. We are now a little over 40 years out from the publication of this memo. Look what has happened in those 90 years. Abortion has been made legal and continued to increase. Planned Parenthood is a non-profit giant in this country (and others)…just last year they grossed 1 billion dollars in revenue. They are pushing for no restrictions on birth control and abortion. And guess who is right alongside them leading the charge? Our Commander in Chief, Barack Obama.

Don’t be naïve. This memo is still Planned Parenthood’s ultimate desire. Abortion and contraceptives on demand…that is their goal. They will do anything to make it happen…including coercion, breaking the law, underhanded deals, and dirty politics.

It is time to fight back. I do not want to live in a communist country. That, of course, would be no problem for Planned Parenthood…they would end up on top in a communist regime. Just think of what could happen in the next 50 years if pro-lifers don’t stand up against this organization! FORCED abortion…it could happen. LIMITS ON CHILDREN…another possibility. Spread this message to other people who value life. Show people what Planned Parenthood is really about. Don’t be silent! Get the word out. Go pray at a clinic. Reach out to abortion clinic workers. Only vote for candidates that clearly state they will remove funding from Planned Parenthood. This memo is real…and it is really happening in our country. This is not just a fight we have on our hands…it is a war. Let’s put on our armor. Truth still matters.

OPERATION CONVERSION 11/26/11: DR. MARTIN RUDDOCK. Dr. Ruddock helped to develop the partial birth abortion procedure. He performs abortions up to 30 weeks gestation. He currently works in the state of Ohio. Please commit with me to pray for Dr. Ruddock and cover him in prayer every day for 7 days. This is not a call to contact him or his facility.

**Please post this on your Facebook wall, send to your prayer groups, talk to your minister, post on a prayer chain, or do whatever you can to get this message out. The goal is to have as many people praying for this physician at one time. We know the power of prayer is amazing and can change any heart. Thank you for your commitment!

“Pro-lifers are only out to harm you and your families.”
“Make sure you don’t take the same route home every day from work. A pro-lifer could be following you home.”
“The goal of the pro-life movement is to stop abortion at all costs…even blowing up our clinics.”
“Pro-lifers don’t care about people in the clinic. They are only out there to make themselves feel good.”
“All pro-lifers are the same. The ones that shoot doctors are the same ones that pray outside of your clinics.”
“Don’t go to the clinic alone. There could be a pro-lifer hiding out, waiting to attack you when no one is looking.”
“Pro-lifers HATE you. They would never want to help someone that works in the abortion industry.”
“If you don’t have one, you should probably get an alarm system on your house. You never know what those pro-lifers could do to you and your family.”
“Pro-lifers are hoping you will lose your job and you won’t have any money. They think you should be punished.”
“When pro-lifers pray for you, they are praying you go to hell.”
“You will never find another job outside of this clinic. No one wants to hire someone that has helped with abortion.”

These are the messages that I heard for 8 years. These are the messages that all clinic workers hear inside the abortion industry. Doesn’t make pro-lifers sound very inviting, does it? Now, is there some truth to some of these statements? Yes. Are some “pro-lifers” violent? Yes. Do some “pro-lifers” shoot doctors and clinic workers? Yes. Do some pro-lifers yell out hateful things to clinic workers and women going into the clinics? Yes. Do some pro-lifers harass clinic workers at home? Yes. Do some “pro-lifers” wish death and hell on clinic workers? Yes. But is that the majority? Of course not. And, I would of course argue that the people who engage in that type of behavior are not really “pro-life”…but that is another post.

Pro-lifers can certainly seem like a scary bunch of folks to people who work inside the clinics. Of course, the way they are presented to the clinic staff is intentional. So, would these workers every come to a pro-lifer and ask for help? Yes. That’s what I did. But why? They must seem so scary to them. Well, we have to hope that the pro-lifers they are going to did not fall into the pro-life stereotype that the abortion industry tries so hard to peg on all of us. Second, these workers have nowhere else to go. They have no one else they can trust. They find themselves having to trust the unknown. Scary.

When a clinic worker decides to leave the abortion industry, it is usually because they suddenly realize they have been living, believing and speaking a lie. They have been betrayed. They have betrayed others. It is a terrible feeling. I can’t think of any feeling that is worse. You thought you were the good guy. Now you realize you were the enemy all along. So, these workers now have to put their trust in a group of people who they have been taught, over and over again, was their enemy…pro-lifers. They take their first leap of faith and ask for help.

Hopefully, they find a group of pro-lifers that are ready and willing to help. Hopefully, this group of pro-lifers will get them in contact with people that can help them get a job, get them on the pathway to spiritual and emotional healing, or get them in contact with someone who can help. But what is the clinic workers biggest fear? MONEY. How will they support their family? How will they pay their mortgage, buy groceries, pay doctor bills, pay for utilities? These are REAL issues that must be addressed.

It is incredibly unfair for the pro-life movement to say things like, “just take a leap of faith and God will provide for you.” Really? Most hard core Christians I know wouldn’t take that sort of leap. And now you are asking someone who is probably new to the concept of God to take that kind of leap. Not fair. And quite honestly, it is kind of irresponsible. They do need to have a backup plan in place. You can’t just jump without a safety net. That would be foolish. If you had never walked a tightrope before, you would want a net underneath you, right? Well, these people have never (or have not in a long time) walked with God…they need a net under them.

Here’s where the problem comes. There is no net. There is actually nothing for clinic workers. No ministry. Nothing. We have hundreds of ministries for women who have had abortions, we have pregnancy centers, but nothing for those that have actually been inside the clinics themselves.

That is changing.

I have known since I left Planned Parenthood that I was supposed to reach out to clinic workers, I just didn’t know how. Now I do. I am starting a ministry for them. It is called, “And Then There Were None.” This ministry will focus on providing a safe place for clinic workers to land if they decide to leave their jobs. It will be a place to safely share, to heal and to find courage. And we are not simply waiting for them to come to us…we are pro-actively reaching out to them. These workers did not grow up wanting this for their lives. We can help change that.

Right now, I am in the early stages. We are working on our website. We are building our strategic plan. We are looking for donors. It is not always easy to convince people to give to a ministry where you may never meet the people you help. You may never know their names. You may never see them face to face. But your support is saving them…saving them from a road of darkness, of pure evil. Your support is bringing them into hope.

Planned Parenthood is terrified of former abortion workers. They are terrified of their own…the defectors. “Traitors,” they call us. We have betrayed women in the worst way, they say. But we know better. We have heard the truth, and we have followed a path that we didn’t even know we had the courage to walk. They call us names because they fear us…and they should. We become strong warriors for life. We have seen the ugliest side of this movement of “choice.” And, most of the time, we want to talk. And when we talk, people want to listen. Yes, abortion industry, be scared. Be scared of what we will expose. Be scared of the truth. The truth is what will bring you down.

I am asking all of you reading this to please pray for those still working in this evil industry. Pray that they will be touched by truth. Pray that they will find a place to turn and that they will be embraced by the love of Christ. Pray that they find the peace and joy that only He can bring.

OPERATION CONVERSION 11/19/11: DR. VANESSA WRIGHT. Dr. Wright works at Royal Cornwall Hospital Treliske in the United Kingdom. She performs abortions up to 24 weeks gestation. Please commit with me to pray for Dr. Wright and cover her in prayer every day for 7 days. This is not a call to contact her or her facility.

**Please post this on your Facebook wall, send to your prayer groups, talk to your minister, post on a prayer chain, or do whatever you can to get this message out. The goal is to have as many people praying for this physician at one time. We know the power of prayer is amazing and can change any heart. Thank you for your commitment!

I am going to be honest…when I first left Planned Parenthood, I hated the idea of the “rescue” movement. I didn’t see the point. I thought it was a black mark against the pro-life movement. Then I started meeting people who had once rescued. I started to see something that I had not before…these were normal people. Men, women, old, young, White, Black, Hispanic, Priests, Pastors, Laity…so different, but all one goal…to save babies. These people had been convicted to do SOMETHING because nothing was being done. There were no peaceful vigils…very limited sidewalk counseling…not many laws to guide pro-life activity. I started to wonder…what if I had been pro-life during the rescue movement? Would I have been willing to sacrifice my freedom in order to save babies and take a stand against abortion?

When I became director of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, my life changed. All of a sudden, I was acutely aware of the responsibility that sat on my shoulders. I was now the face of that clinic. If something went wrong, it was now on my head. I worked all the time…usually about 70 hours per week. I was addicted to my job…addicted to the responsibility. I carried heavy burdens…many were self inflicted. I will share with you my heaviest.

Every day I would arrive at work and check the schedule. Not because I had an enormous amount of employees or because I wanted to micromanage and see who was late…nothing like that. I wanted to look and see who was there that day. I wanted to place them in the clinic…where would they usually be? Why would that be important? Every day I prepared for someone to come in and harm us. Maybe they would bomb our clinic. Maybe they would shoot us. I didn’t know how it would happen, but I was ready. I wanted to know where my employees would be in the clinic so I could rapidly get them out and keep me in. I figured that if someone wanted to harm one of us, it would be best to go after me…I was the most responsible for the abortions that happened in that clinic. Surely I would be a good enough sacrifice. That was my burden every day. I was willing to DIE for the sake of abortion. I look back now and realize how selfish I was. I had a child. I am a wife…a daughter. How could I have even entertained that thought? Be a martyr for abortion? Ridiculous. But back then, I would have done it without question.

So, would I have been involved in the rescue movement? You bet. I was willing to DIE for abortion when I was pro-choice. It would have been an honor to risk jail time in order to save lives if I would have been pro-life.

Luckily, I don’t have to worry about that risk. None of us do. We are able to go and peacefully pray outside of abortion clinics whenever we choose. We are able to sidewalk counsel. We can thank the rescue movement for that. The rescue movement came about like most…people were frustrated and they wanted to do something…anything. There was no such thing as effective and strategic sidewalk counseling. There were few places where you could go and stand in a “public right of way.” Abortions were happening and there seemed to be nothing anyone could do about it. How could pro-lifers reach the women? If they stood out on the sidewalks, they would most likely be arrested and they wouldn’t be able to talk to anyone. How can they talk to them inside the clinics? They had to get in those abortion clinics. Yes, it was trespassing…yes, it was illegal…but so was standing out on the sidewalks in most cases. So, they organized and they went. They trespassed…they broke the law…they were arrested…they saved thousands of babies. They were not violent. How could they be? They were there to show women the alternative to abortion…the most violent act committed against a child. In fact, during the rescue movement, 75,000 arrests were made…not one of those arrests were made for any violent act.

The rescue movement came, laws were broken, new laws were made, organized sidewalk counseling began to form, and the rescue movement died. The pro-life movement evolved, as it should. The pro-life movement continues to get better. If we were still doing the same thing from 20 years ago it would show failure. Ideas change. Technology changes. Laws change. People change. If there is one thing we can be sure of it is this…never be sure of anything. This world is constantly evolving…just like this movement. Some things work, some things don’t. The rescue movement worked for the time. It is not a viable option now…not in this country.

I am so grateful for those that risked their freedom to save the lives of children. I wish all pro-lifers had that same courage. I am thankful that they did something…they didn’t just sit around and wait for abortion to resolve itself. They made a difference. They saved lives. I don’t think many of us realize how much we owe to this group of pro-lifers. My life was changed because of an ultrasound and sidewalk counselors. Both parts were equally important in my story. Without the laws that came about from the rescue movement, those sidewalk counselors probably wouldn’t have been there. And without those sidewalk counselors, their prayers and their constant outreach, I couldn’t have crossed that line. It takes all of us fighting this battle…different techniques, different groups, different types of people. And even now, many of us are “rescuers.” We just rescue in a different way. We are out on the sidewalks, talking to women moments before they walk into an abortion clinic. Or maybe we are counselors in a pregnancy center who talk to women after they have a positive pregnancy test. Maybe we are hotline operators who counsel young women during a time of crisis. Yes, rescues still happen, but they happen in a very different way now. And even though times have changed, we must look back and be thankful for our past and for those dedicated pro-lifers who paved the way for us today.