She Worked at Planned Parenthood, Now She Saves Lives
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.”
Pregnancy and Workplace Challenges
Her pregnancy with her daughter was a turning point for her, both in terms of having life growing inside her and her treatment on the job. Caroline was expected to work more than her usual full-time hours and was pressured about taking time off for prenatal appointments.
“They didn’t want women who were pregnant with a plan to continue,” she recalled.
Things worsened 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 I had to deal with. I was growing bitter.”
Returning to Faith
She felt nudged to go to church one day, having been away since her teens. That day, she felt Jesus speak to her heart. Caroline began reading the Bible and returned to Christianity.
While traveling to training for a new contraceptive implant, 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 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.
Leaving Planned Parenthood
She worked at Planned Parenthood for years. Now she’s a life-affirming health provider.
“This is when God’s presence became so palpable,” Caroline said. “I was now looking through the lens of a Christian mother.”
She saw the women’s pain in their sullen, 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 said she did not see healthcare, but rather unprofessionalism, insufficient ethics, and a lack of compassion and informed consent disguised as care.
Caroline knew that day her time with Planned Parenthood was over. While traveling back with her manager, the manager discussed abortion quotas, telling Caroline, “Abortions are how we make our money.”
She began praying about how she could leave the abortion industry. Though she needed the income and benefits, 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.”
Confirmation of Her Decision
The first affirmation of her decision came quickly through 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 keep her. Despite an offer of more money, Caroline declined.
After accepting the new job—which paid significantly less and offered no benefits—Caroline’s family began receiving unsolicited checks in the mail, including an early birthday check from her father, who was unaware of her job transition.
“It helped with bills while we adjusted,” she said, another confirmation of God’s providence.
Although Caroline knew she’d made the right decision, she didn’t realize the trauma she carried until one evening during a Bible study.
“As others shared their testimonies, everything I knew about the tragedy of abortion and Planned Parenthood came rushing to the surface,” she said.
Afterward, a woman who had previously had an abortion approached her with open arms and said, “I forgive you.”
This moment became a third confirmation of God’s work in her journey.
Caroline later connected with the And Then There Were None ministry, which supports workers who have left the abortion industry.
Transition to Life-Affirming Care
It has been 11 years since Caroline left Planned Parenthood. In a field where hormonal and other forms of birth control are standard and profitable, she felt God nudging her to stop providing contraception and pursue a more holistic, natural approach to women’s healthcare.
“I told the practice where I worked that I would no longer be providing birth control,” she said.
Caroline learned about NaPro Technology (Natural Procreative Technology) and the Creighton Model FertilityCare System. She became certified in both, teaching women about their fertility, identifying menstrual cycle issues for medical evaluation, and helping couples achieve, space, or postpone pregnancy.
“It is especially rewarding and healing to help couples struggling with infertility or recurrent miscarriages to conceive and sustain their pregnancies,” Caroline said.
She also founded her own fertility care practice, Sophia’s Virtue, named after St. Sophia, whose daughters were 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.”
Midwifery and Full-Circle Care
Over the past two years, God has opened another chapter in Caroline’s journey as a midwife apprentice.
“I have gotten to see pro-life care come full circle—from helping clients conceive to walking with them through labor and birth,” she said.
“I’ve also been able to talk with women considering abortion, help change their minds, and watch them grow their families,” she added.
“What I’m doing now is real sex education,” Caroline said. “It’s about how the good Lord made us.”
Caroline often reflects on how much her life has changed since leaving the nation’s largest abortion provider.
“These are all miracles,” she said.
This article was originally written by Patty Knap and first published on Pregnancy Help News.
Patty Knap is a certified pregnancy counselor, faith formation teacher, ABA therapist for autism, and freelance writer from Long Island.