Woman’s New Life Clinic Honors Partners in Work of ‘Saving Generations’

Woman’s New Life Clinic celebrated with its employees, volunteers, and benefactors their mission of saving lives from the ravages of abortion at its recent “Saved in Hope” gala.  The event was held at Ashley Manor in Baton Rouge.

Attendees learned more about WNLC’s services for mothers in crisis.

Since 2024 WNLC nurse practitioner April Madere, FNP, has provided prenatal care to 17 women, all referrals from its unplanned pregnancy care side. She has provided abortion pill reversal services to 13 women. She assisted 185 patients who came to the clinic for women’s health services, including well-woman care, STI testing and treatment, urgent gynecologic care, Nexplanon and IUD removal, and more.

In his welcome message, Bishop Michael G. Duca greeted attendees by lauding them for their support of WNLC.

Top right photo: Ashley Manor was filled with people in support of life at “Saved in Hope.” Photos by Debbie Shelley | The Catholic Commentator
Above photo: Bishop Michael G. Duca spoke to the attendees and led them in opening prayer.
 “It gives me great joy to see this room filled, not just with supporters of Woman’s New Life Clinic, but also a room full of hope,” said Bishop Duca. “When you're with other people of hope, we get more hope. We just get encouraged. That's why it's so important that we come together to witness and to support and to proclaim that Jesus is the center of our lives, but also that we want to be a world, not of a culture of death, but a culture of hope.”

Patricia Sandoval shared her riveting story about her escape from drugs, homelessness, and the back doors of a Planned Parenthood clinic.

After having had three abortions, Sandoval is an international pro-life and chastity speaker.

Sandoval, whose family moved from Mexico to California, grew up with happy childhood memories. She was baptized in the Catholic faith, yet her family lived an “earthly life.” Her family didn’t pray together or talk about faith or virtue.

Her parents, however, registered her for CCD classes.

“That's where I knew who Jesus was, that he died for my sins, and I grew a beautiful relationship with God the father,” Sandoval said.

One day she wrote a love letter to God, tied it to a balloon, and released it to heaven.

After Sandoval received her first Communion her mother became heavily involved in the New Age movement and Sandoval eagerly joined her. Her parents divorced and she lived with her father.

In sixth grade, Planned Parenthood came into Sandoval’s classroom and gave a presentation on sex education. The abortionist did not talk about the beauty of motherhood or fatherhood, but about having safe sex. He dispersed condoms and birth control pills and said that if they become pregnant, abortion was a good thing to do.

Sandoval was 19 years old when she had her first serious relationship. She became pregnant by the boyfriend three times but hid from him the fact that she aborted the first two babies. She was traumatized by the experiences. When she asked the boyfriend to accompany her for her third abortion, he begged her not to have it and that he wanted to be a father. She yelled at him that it was her body, and she was going to have the abortion. She had the abortion, broke up with her boyfriend, and moved to Northern California.

Sandoval worked at a Planned Parenthood clinic as a back office bilingual nurse. She said the clinic knew she had never been to nursing school, but the staff trained her on the spot.

Patricia Sandoval talked about her journey from having had three abortions, being addicted to drugs and being homeless to being an international pro-life speaker. Sandoval was trained on assisting with surgical abortions. She described the violent act of the procedure on her first patient, a 15-year-old girl.

She described it as a “blind procedure” because there was no way for the abortionist to see what he was doing. A nurse trained her how to count the body parts of the babies after the abortions in an effort to make sure the abortionist “got everything out.”

The breaking point for Sandoval was when a mother who was six months pregnant with twins came for an abortion. Sandoval left Planned Parenthood and became addicted to heroin and lived on the streets for three years.

One day she cried on the streets, wondering what happened to the little girl who was in love with God. She repented of the life she had lived, and soon after a waitress from a nearby restaurant came to her.

Sandoval said, “She looked into my eyes with so much love and mercy, and she said, ‘Jesus loves you. Jesus loves you. I'm a waitress at the restaurant on the corner and I was taking an order, and I saw you crying through the window. I started to pray for you and God told me to tell you that even if your father or mother shall abandon you, he will never abandon or forsake you. He will be with you until the end of time; and everything that you have done, he truly forgives you.’”

The waitress took Sandoval to her father’s house, and he welcomed her home. Her mother, who had quit the occult and had been praying for her in front of the Blessed Sacrament, came to get her and take care of her.  She assured her she was “the daughter of the Most High.”

Sandoval concluded her talk by thanking the attendees for courageously supporting life.

“I believe this is one of the most beautiful ministries of our times. It is the hardest one. It takes a lot of courage to be pro-life and to stand for justice and to defend the unwanted. You will find people that laugh at you, you will lose friends sometimes, you will have confrontations. It takes a lot of courage. But the beauty of it is not only are we are here because we want a life saved, a baby saved, a mother saved from abortion … We are saving generations.”

To learn more about Woman’s New Life Clinic and to support its work, visit womansnewlife.com.