{"id":62814,"date":"2016-11-29T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=62814"},"modified":"2016-12-02T15:36:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T22:36:57","slug":"patricia-sandoval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/patricia-sandoval\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Planned Parenthood employee becomes pro-life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/uQfaAmTZgd8\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/>If you&#8217;ve been involved in\u00a0the pro-life movement, chances are that you&#8217;ve come across\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbyjohnson.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abby Johnson<\/a>, the former Clinic Director of Planned Parenthood who is now an outspoken pro-life advocate. In the abortion debate, Abby&#8217;s testimony carries particular weight\u00a0given her former employment by the nation&#8217;s most well-known abortion provider. Well, I recently heard about someone with a similar story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0few weeks ago a reader told me about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciasandoval.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Sandoval<\/a>, a lady who was also once an employee of Planned Parenthood. Like Abby, she is now a pro-life advocate and travels internationally sharing her testimony. Most of the videos on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciasandoval.com\/\">her website<\/a>\u00a0are in Spanish, but here&#8217;s one in English where she describes her (rather traumatic) journey:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uQfaAmTZgd8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think stories like this need to be heard more often for a couple of\u00a0reasons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, I have\u00a0been told many times by pro-choice friends that the abortion debate is over, abortion is legal now and that&#8217;s never going to change. I&#8217;m told\u00a0that nobody&#8217;s opinion is going to be swayed on the matter. However, this is something which Patricia&#8217;s story clearly disproves.<\/p>\n<p>The other reason why I think stories like this are important is that they remind us of the forgiveness, goodness and grace of God. They show\u00a0us that it doesn&#8217;t matter how dire the situation or how dark our past, Jesus actively seeks out those who are hurting, to heal their wounds\u00a0and to do something beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>So with that in mind, please\u00a0share this video on social media to\u00a0remind the world that (a) the abortion debate is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">not<\/span> over and (b)\u00a0there&#8217;s nowhere that God&#8217;s grace cannot reach.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been involved in\u00a0the pro-life movement, chances are that you&#8217;ve come across\u00a0Abby Johnson, the former Clinic Director of Planned Parenthood who is now an outspoken pro-life advocate. In the abortion debate, Abby&#8217;s testimony carries particular weight\u00a0given her former employment by the nation&#8217;s most well-known abortion provider. Well, I recently heard about someone with a similar story&#8230; A\u00a0few weeks ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3209,232,3948,685,3986,1728,1601],"class_list":["post-62814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","tag-abby-johnson","tag-abortion","tag-patricia-sandoval","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-planned-parenthood-clinic","tag-pro-choice","tag-pro-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62814"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62851,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62814\/revisions\/62851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}