By Michael Ashcraft –
She’d live in a tent with her kids before she helped the killing of innocent babies.
“I came home saying, I’m not going to do that, so if we have to live in a tent, we will,” Sue Thayor said.
What would make the Storm City, Iowa, mom leave her steady, well-paid job with benefits after 17 years?
Well, it wasn’t the ideal gig for a woman who believed abortion is murder. Sue was the manager of the local Planned Parenthood.
“They must’ve been really desperate to give me the job,” she explains. She made it clear in the hiring interview in 1991 that she opposed abortion.
While Planned Parenthood was desperate, Sue was naive. She believed that Planned Parenthood was more about helping ladies avoid getting pregnant out of wedlock. In Storm City, they didn’t perform surgical abortions and only referred ladies who asked for an abortion to the big city.
So it was, at best, an ugly part of the business she never promoted. And that’s how, Sue worked her way up to center manager. She hired and fired. She counseled girls, handed out contraceptives and tried to avoid making referrals to surgical abortions.
Meanwhile, she provided well enough for her two biological children and foster/adoptive kids (who came as time moved on).
But then in 2008, Planned Parenthood phased in “web cam” abortions, which were made possible by the introduction of the abortion pill. A doctor in a major city would talk to the pregnant mother via web cam, which would satisfy the doctor’s consultation requirement. Then she would remotely open a drawer with the push of the button to dispense the abortion pills to the patient.
Planned Parenthood charged as much for the web cam/pill abortion as it did for surgical abortions, Sue said.
Sue wanted no part.
In other cases, a mother “aborted” her fetus into a McDonald’s toilet and left it there. Another mother threw the fetus into a garbage container, where it was found. Another mother brought her fetus in a plastic bag back to Planned Parenthood.
“I wasn’t told I was going to see this,” the distraught mother reportedly said to the center workers.
So Sue quit (technically, she was fired). She had no backup plan.
Not immediately but eventually, Sue joined the Right to Life movement. She hosted a Forty Days for Life prayer vigil in her city outside the very clinic where she used to be manager. The next year, the clinic shut down completely in 2012.
She testified before the Iowa Senate to help pass state legislation banning web cam abortions.
“What Satan intended for evil, God certainly used for good,” she says.
After battling aggressive kidney cancer, Sue died Dec. 21, 2021.
