By PEGGY MOEN
ST. PAUL — Sue Thayer told her February 15 audience here that “an immediate stopper” in a debate with a pro-abort is this quotation from President Reagan: “I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
Thayer was addressing the Legislative Dinner of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, held here at the historic Landmark Center.
A sellout crowd of over 200 heard Thayer recall how she began working in 1991 at Planned Parenthood, Storm Lake, Iowa, “thinking I was doing good things.” She began as an entry-level assistant, but was quickly promoted to office manager.
“Several things happened,” Thayer said, to turn her against Planned Parenthood. Chief among these factors was the advent of webcam abortions and a 2007 announcement at a staff meeting that all facilities, including her own, would soon be offering them. Previously, her facility did not offer abortions.
The Alliance Defending Freedom describes webcam abortions as follows:
“A ‘webcam abortion’ is a chemical-induced abortion when, after a quick ultrasound, review, and consultation, a doctor in a remote facility talks with a patient over video chat. When the woman agrees to the abortion, the remote doctor pushes a button to release a drawer that reveals two sets of pills. The woman is instructed to take one set of pills at the facility and the other set of pills 24 hours later at home. In case complications arise, the woman is given a card to call a number and ultimately told to go to the ER to report she was having a miscarriage, not an abortion.”
Thayer’s Planned Parenthood facility was going to send her to learn to do transvaginal ultrasounds, even though she was a non-medical staffer.
“Who are they going to call in the middle of the night?” in case of problems, she began to think, knowing it would be her.
Her boss told her the goal was to get 500 to 1,000 webcam abortions performed before anyone knew what they were doing.
She thought: “I just can’t imagine doing” webcam abortions and told her family she might get fired.
At that point, Thayer belonged to a church that supported abortion, but she soon joined one that was pro-life. She also started listening to Christian radio (even while she was at work), which taught her a lot about abortion.
“God really touched my heart.”
Thayer called a right to life group and told them “what a webcam abortion is.”
“Ultimately, I did end up getting fired,” she said in her MCCL talk. But “if you have to be fired, Planned Parenthood is a good place to be fired from.” She worried about the loss of income and benefits, but “God provides. I can’t really explain how He does it.”
Later, Thayer led Storm Lake’s first 40 Days for Life campaign, held in front of her previous PP facility. It was awkward for her to be there, among former co-workers.
She recalled thinking, “Lord, I’m just going to pray from my van.” But “He said, ‘Get out’.”
Soon after the 40-day prayer vigil, the Storm Lake PP closed its doors permanently.
In her talk, Thayer also told a number of moving pro-life stories. The mother of five children, two biological and three adopted, said, “I can’t imagine my life without Zoe,” whom she adopted when Zoe was three months old.
Zoe’s biological mom was 17 years old and scheduled for an abortion, but her ride never showed up. Therefore, Zoe lived.
Thayer also mentioned Melissa Ohden, a survivor of a failed saline infused abortion and prominent pro-life speaker. Obama — an opponent of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in the Illinois Senate — wouldn’t “have given her a blanket.”
And Thayer praised the work of those who created the recent Planned Parenthood videos, revealing the seamiest aspects of the abortion giant’s work. Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, she recalled, infamously said: “I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above,” to get intact fetal organs to sell.
Now, after the 2016 elections, “this is the best chance we’ve had” to end abortion, said Thayer. But victory won’t come if we don’t pray for President Donald Trump and Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
As previously reported in The Wanderer, in 2011, ADF attorneys filed a “whistleblower” lawsuit under the federal False Claims Act and the Iowa False Claims Act (FCA) on Thayer’s behalf. The suit claims that Planned Parenthood’s Iowa affiliate submitted “repeated false, fraudulent, and/or ineligible claims for reimbursements” to Medicaid. See www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/8054 for information and updates.
About 50 state legislators attended MCCL’s 2017 Legislative Dinner.
“It’s just wonderful to see so many people here tonight,” said Leo LaLonde, president of MCCL.
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