Warning, rant ahead: I just got back from Planned Parenthood for the 1st time for a breast exam. Reason one being that they’re basically the only place that accepts my insurance and because they were the easiest place for walk-ins for that. Here’s my ridiculous experience:
To start off, in the front of the shopping center the clinic was in, the street was just lined with protestors. All of them wielding signs with scary and hateful messages. Do they literally do this every day? Like their job is to just spread hate for a living? Anyways -
We pull into the parking lot and see that there’s PP, and right next to it, it says “Women’s Clinic”. I assume they are the same thing. A woman from that clinic is standing outside with a paper. She comes over to us and very forcibly asks what we’re here to do -
Once I say breast exam, she calms down and tries to get me to go inside. As this is happening, a group of people wearing pink vests come out of PP and start warning me not to go in. The lady from the other clinic starts to get agitated and angry
Obviously I get freaked out and since we were here for PP anyways, I go with them. As soon as that happens, crazy lady from other clinic starts just yelling nonsense. We get inside and they tell us that that clinic is secretly a religious clinic that preys on girls
and tries to “convert” them. Found out later that they don’t even have a medical license. They can’t treat or diagnose anything. They just force shame on girls! The people at PP were SO nice and welcoming and ended up being such genuine people. Now fast forward to leaving PP -
We get escorted to our car by the PP people, and when we get inside we sat for just a small second to get our GPS up. As this happens, another lady from the other clinic RUNS up to our car and stands outside my window with a paper about Jesus and is just screaming like a lunatic
I’ve literally never been so appalled in my life by how animalistic these people who were supposed to be representing Jesus were. I saw Christ’s love today more in the people at Planned Parenthood than ANYONE who was claiming his name in that parking lot
It just shows you that you cannot side with something just because they have the same religion as you. Evil people claim they know Jesus. And I absolutely cannot imagine being a petrified pregnant girl who is seeking help and advice having to experience that evil.
This is why people don’t take God seriously. Just because you side with religion doesn’t mean you side with Jesus. I don’t really know what to say other than I’m disappointed in the church for turning away from this problem -
If you can’t justify Planned Parenthood because you are against abortion and whatever, that’s fine. But this tactic of scaring and shaming girls to Jesus WILL NOT WORK. Christ is bigger than that. Do better church.
Y’ALL I can’t believe how big this tweet got! So many of you have shared your stories and my heart goes out to all of you who had similar situations! I’m glad my sucky experience ended up shedding light on this issue. Jesus is bigger than that darkness, friends.
Also while we’re here I’ll shamelessly self promote; check out theonefrontier.com for LGBTQ-Christian resources 💕
