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"PLANNED PARENTHOOD TERMINATES DR. WEN - WE SHOULD PRAY FOR HER" - by John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris, Beakpoint.org, July 22, 2019; http://www.breakpoint.org/2019/07/breakpoint-planned-parenthood-terminates-dr-wen/ [AS I SEE IT: This article is a great reminder to love/pray for our enemies (Matthew 5:44), that we may not know the full story of why they are/were engaged in wrong doing.
Her successor, who took the reins of the country’s largest abortion provider in November, is a surprisingly different person. Leana Wen, a former Health Commissioner and emergency room doctor from Baltimore, was the first actual physician to lead this so-called healthcare organization in half a century. When her appointment was announced last year, I called on-air for Christians to pray for Dr. Wen—that God would change her heart, bring her to faith in Christ, and end her bloody work. I’m not sure whether those prayers have been answered in the way I hoped, but her work at Planned Parenthood has come to an end.
In a Twitter post last week, Dr. Wen announced that the Planned Parenthood board had met in secret and decided to fire her. The reasons for her firing, she said, were “philosophical differences” about the messaging and future of Planned Parenthood.
Since then, we’ve learned a bit more about those differences. The New York Times reports that Dr. Wen just wasn’t “aggressive” enough about explaining and promoting abortion—at least in the eyes of many at Planned Parenthood. In light of new state-level pro-life laws, veterans of the abortion giant wanted a fighter. Not a physician.
It seems Dr. Wen might have tried to run Planned Parenthood as if it really were a healthcare organization. As part of that, she sought to appeal to people outside of the organization’s far-left donor base. For instance, Buzzfeed reports that Wen refused to use “trans-inclusive” language in her messaging, talking about “women’s” healthcare being for, well, women—and excluding men and non-binary individuals. And so, less than a year after hiring Wen, the Planned Parenthood board voted at a “secret meeting” to fire her. As one writer at Slate observes, “Planned Parenthood, it seems, didn’t fully grasp that by tapping a doctor with progressive chops but no political experience it was getting…a doctor with progressive chops but no political experience.”
For Planned Parenthood, this likely means a search for a new, radically pro-abortion, political firebrand to helm their organization—someone more like Cecile Richards. In fact, descriptions of the interim president are very much in line with this prediction. But here’s another question: What will this mean for Dr. Wen?
I’m with Abby Johnson—former Planned Parenthood worker and the subject of the recent pro-life film, “Unplanned.” When she heard about Wen’s firing, she addressed her in a tweet: “I know what this feels like; they did it to me too. If you’d like to talk, I’m here…” Later, Johnson pointed out something many pro-lifers missed: earlier this summer, Dr. Wen—already a mother—suffered a miscarriage. In fact, she wrote about it in The Washington Post.
Imagine for a second the mental, moral, and spiritual conflict of grieving for a lost child while running an organization that routinely kills children of the same age and level of development. And then, on top of it all, they fire you.
All of this makes me wonder: Could Dr. Wen be wavering in her pro-choice convictions? Even beyond the miscarriage, a change of career like this—being terminated—can really make you rethink everything. Now I don’t know that, and I have no way of knowing. But what I do know is that Jesus sometimes shows up in dramatic fashion, and that no one is beyond His reach, or the prayers of His people. So that’s what I’m praying—that Dr. Wen will meet Jesus, find His grace, and become a champion of life.
As Planned Parenthood doubles down on its abortion extremism and political activism, would you also commit to doubling down on prayer? Prayer that this evil organization and its evil practices would come to an end, and that Dr. Leana Wen would find a new beginning.
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RESOURCES
"Activists Use Videos To Take On Planned Parenthood" - Kathy Lohr, NPR , February 9, 2011';https://www.npr.org/2011/02/09/133614350/Anti-Abortion-Groups-Video-Targets-Planned-Parenthood
"Pray for Planned Parenthood’s New Prez" - John Stonestreet and David Carlson BreakPoint September 24, 2018; https://www.npr.org/2011/02/09/133614350/Anti-Abortion-Groups-Video-Targets-Planned-Parenthood
"Planned Parenthood Ousts President, Seeking a More Political Approach" - Shane Goldmacher The New York Times July 16, 2019; http://www.breakpoint.org/2018/09/the-point-pray-for-planned-parenthoods-new-prez/
"The Politics of Planned Parenthood" - Christina Cauterucci Slate, July 17, 2019;
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/politics/planned-parenthood-leana-wen.html
"Leana Wen: My miscarriage has made my commitment to women’s health even stronger" - Leana S. Wen The Washington Post July 6, 2019;https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/leana-wen-planned-parenthood-abortion.html
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"Remember Wen? Meet Planned Parenthood's More Extreme Boss" - Tony Perkins, Washington Update, July 19, 2019; https://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20190719/remember-wen
"Wen's Ouster and Ex-Planned Parenthood Insider Make It Clear: 'They're Really Not in the Business of Promoting Healthcare'" - 3-2019, Heather Sells, 07-23-2019, https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2019/july/wens-ouster-and-ex-planned-parenthood-insider-make-it-clear-theyre-really-not-in-the-business-of-promoting-healthcare
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PRAYER MATTERS:
"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against
the disorder of the world. - Karl Barth
"Prayer is inviting God into a seemingly impossible situation and trusting/resting in His love and grace to accomplish His perfect will in His perfect time and for His greatest glory. Intercession is one of the great privileges AND responsibilities for EVERY believer."- Stan
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