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Chattanooga megachurch joins fight against Planned Parenthood influence

Staff photo by Wyatt Massey / The cross inside the National Memorial for the Unborn in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is pictured on March 23, 2021. The city's only free-standing abortion clinic was converted to the memorial in 1994. Chattanooga has not had an abortion clinic since.
Staff photo by Wyatt Massey / The cross inside the National Memorial for the Unborn in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is pictured on March 23, 2021. The city's only free-standing abortion clinic was converted to the memorial in 1994. Chattanooga has not had an abortion clinic since. Staff photo by Wyatt Massey / The cross inside the National Memorial for the Unborn in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is pictured on March 23, 2021. The city's only free-standing abortion clinic was converted to the memorial in 1994. Chattanooga has not had an abortion clinic since.

By Wyatt Massey 6 min read

A nondenominational megachurch near downtown Chattanooga has entered the local fight against Planned Parenthood, with a petition opposing any influence by the organization on local schools and a fundraising campaign to provide abortion reversal treatments.

Critics of the church’s effort say there is no effort to change school curriculum and that Planned Parenthood’s programs have support among local families.

Also, there is little scientific research on the effectiveness of the abortion reversal treatment that the church is promoting. A 2019 study of the treatment was shut down due to safety concerns for the female participants.

Over Mother’s Day weekend, Seth Gruber, an abortion opponent at the national level, spoke at several Calvary Chapel Chattanooga services. He told the congregation the abortion industry was “knocking at this city’s door” and that God uses people to address social problems.

“As long as our government denies and ignores the natural right to life of an entire class of human beings, we cannot trust that government to protect any other right that flows from the first and most important of all rights,” Gruber told the congregation during the Saturday service.