{"id":259670,"date":"2021-12-23T12:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=259670"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:23:44","slug":"sue-thayer-planned-parenthood-manager-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sue-thayer-planned-parenthood-manager-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"In memory of Sue Thayer, Planned Parenthood manager turned pro-life prayer warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sue Thayer, the former Iowa Planned Parenthood center manager who later became the Director of Outreach for prayer-focused pro-life group 40 Days for Life, died on December 21 after a battle with cancer. Born on March 23, 1959, she was 62 years old.<\/p>\n

“Mom always said that God only makes good days and today is no different. Last night, Mom lost her earthly battle with a rare, aggressive form of cancer but won the final war when she woke up in the arms of our Heavenly Father,” Thayer’s daughter Kim wrote on Facebook<\/a>. “She went Home on her own terms, outlasting every projection and baffling doctors along the way with her steadfastness and grace. Mom lived her few last months the same way she lived before her diagnosis – loving Jesus, loving us, loving her friends, loving her job with 40 Days for Life, and loving babies, both born and unborn.”<\/p>\n

Thayer was a pro-life witness even until her final days, posting updates to Facebook<\/a> about the 40 Days for Life campaign this fall and the 588 babies saved by the campaign’s end. Thayer became the outreach director for the ministry in 2018. According to her 40 Days for Life\u00a0bio<\/a>, she was a birth, adoptive, and foster mom. The group has posted a video tribute in her memory:<\/p>\n