Caroline was a nurse and fallen away Christian when she began working at an abortion center before changing jobs to Planned Parenthood. There she performed STD exams, HIV counseling, and other services, along with abortion referrals.
Caroline would see the Lord’s hand throughout her journey from the abortion giant to providing actual life-affirming care for women.
“Planned Parenthood paid for my master’s degree,” she said. “I loved my job and thought I would retire there.”
Her pregnancy with her daughter was a turning point for her both in terms of having this life growing inside her and treatment on the job.
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Caroline was expected to work more than her usual full-time hours and pressured about taking time off for prenatal appointments.
“They didn’t want women who were pregnant with a plan to continue,” she recalled.
Things got worse when she requested to work part-time after her daughter’s birth.
“They knew I had experienced breastfeeding problems. I couldn’t believe their response to me,” Caroline said. “I knew the feeling inside was something that I had to deal with. I was growing bitter.”
She felt nudged to go to church one day, having been away since her teens. She felt Jesus speak to her heart that day. Caroline began reading the Bible and returned to Christianity.
It was while traveling to training for a new contraceptive implant when Caroline began to have a stronger reaction to her work at Planned Parenthood.
“An aching in my spirit,” she said. “I couldn’t seem to shake it.”
She prayed about what she was about to experience inside at the training.
“I saw women sitting shoulder to shoulder, waiting for their abortions and my heart began to wrench,” she said. “I no longer saw just one person affected by abortion, but the life within as well.”
At that moment Caroline felt like a coward.
“This is when God’s presence became so palpable,” said Caroline.
“I was now looking through the lens of a Christian mother,” she said.
She saw the women’s pain in their sullen and gray faces.
“I saw and heard things at that place which no one should experience,” Caroline said. “I saw the faces of these young girls and knew their decision would have generational impact.”
Encountering the abortion doctor, she did not see healthcare, she said, rather, unprofessionalism, insufficient ethics, and lack of compassion and informed consent disguised as care.
Caroline knew that day her time with Planned Parenthood was over. Traveling with her manager back to their Planned Parenthood location her manager began to discuss abortion quotas, telling Caroline, “Abortions are how we make our money.”
She began to pray about how she could remove herself from the abortion world. She needed the income and the benefits, but she surrendered to the Lord.
“God was calling me out of Planned Parenthood even though I was the primary earner and held our family’s healthcare benefits,” Caroline said. “I wasn’t sure how my husband was going to respond.”
The first affirmation of her decision came just then with a potential job opportunity with the local health department.
When Caroline announced she was leaving Planned Parenthood, they asked if there was anything they could do to get her to stay. Despite the offer of more money, Caroline said no.
After accepting the new job, which offered far less money and no benefits, Caroline’s family began receiving unsolicited checks in the mail, for example, an early birthday check from her dad who was unaware of her job transition.
“It helped with bills while we adjusted,” she said, another confirmation of God’s providence.
Caroline knew she’d made the right decision but didn’t realize the trauma she carried in her heart until the evening of a Bible Study.
“As others shared their testimonies, I suddenly felt everything I knew about the tragedy of abortion and Planned Parenthood came rushing to the surface,” she said.
Afterward, a woman who had had an abortion approached her with her arms outstretched, telling Caroline, “I forgive you,”
This was a relief and the third confirmation of God’s work in her journey.
Caroline would then connect with the And Then There Were None ministry for workers who have left the abortion industry.
It has been 11 years since Caroline quit from Planned Parenthood. In a field where hormonal and other types of birth control are standard and profitable, Caroline felt God nudging her to stop being a contraception provider and pursue a more holistic and natural approach to serving women.
“I told the practice where I worked, I would no longer be providing birth control,” she said.
Caroline learned about NaPro (Natural Procreative Technology) and the Creighton Model Fertility CareSystem. She is certified in both, teaching women about their fertility, helping to identify problems in the menstrual cycle for further medical evaluation and care, and how to achieve, space or postpone pregnancy (using Creighton).
“It is especially rewarding and healing to help couples struggling with infertility or recurrent miscarriages to conceive and sustain their pregnancies,” Caroline said.
In addition, Caroline started her own fertility care practice called Sophia’s Virtue, named after St. Sophia, whose three daughters were named Faith, Hope, and Love.
“It is my goal to bring these virtues back into women’s healthcare,” she said. “I trust God to lead me, and I know He will.”
God lined up her newest adventure over the last two years as a midwife apprentice.
“I have gotten to see pro-life care go full circle in helping clients with infertility conceive and then labor and birth their baby,” Caroline said.
“I have also gotten to talk with women considering abortion, help change their mind and go on to grow their families,” she said.
“What I’m doing now is real sex ed,” she said. “It’s about how the good Lord made us.”
Caroline often reflects on the many ways her life has changed since working for the nation’s largest abortion business.
“These are all miracles,” she said.
LifeNews Note: Patty Knap is a certified pregnancy counselor, faith formation teacher, ABA therapist for autism, and freelance writer from Long Island. This originally appeared at Pregnancy Help News.
