A Letter to PayPal

Posted on October 22, 2025 By Rachel MacNair

by Fr. Jim Hewes

This letter is lightly edited. PayPal is one of many companies that have the problematic employee abortion policy, so all the thoughts here would apply to the other companies as well.

Dear PayPal:

My perspective comes from directing Project Rachel, a post abortion healing program, for 18 years. I saw a ton of women who had deep wounds and were absolutely brokenhearted because of their abortion. I would sit quietly with them as the tears flowed out from them, as they shared their overwhelming experience with me. One woman described her abortion, as if her leg wascaught in a bear trap and she gnawed her leg off to get out. Another woman described her abortion as someone crawling through a field of sharp broken glass and trying to get to the other side. I witnessed firsthand that abortion wasn’t good for women.

Another experience that had a profound effect on me was when I received a call one day from a couple that I had married over a year before. They asked me to come to the hospital to baptize their son Jose who had been born prematurely. I met them in the waiting room and then we went into the neo-natal unit. My jaw dropped when I saw Jose because he was born at only 22 weeks gestation. Even though I had been involved with the pro-life movement for many years and had seen all the pictures of the pre-born child at various stages of development, this was the tiniest human being outside the womb I had ever seen. He was so small that I could literally hold him completely in my hand. At the time it made me think of the passage in Isaiah where God said that “God will hold us in the palm of His hand.” The nurse brought me an eye dropper and I baptized this incredible gift of life. After this experience, I went outside and the cool air hit me, it struck me that in another part of this hospital, a pre-born child at THE EXACT SAME GESTATIONAL AGE, life was ended through an abortion and the only difference between the two identical lives was that one was wanted, and the other was unwanted. This experience affirmed for me why pre-born children are the most invisible, voiceless, defenseless, powerless, vulnerable, innocent lives in our society, as well as the most unequal and excluded of any human beings in the world. When we treat human life at its beginning in such a way, because he or she is unwanted with no intrinsic value, it explains why our society is in such deep trouble with all the violence that we are drowning in.

Look up Dr. Anthony Levantino, Dr. Steven Hammond, Dr. John Bruchalski, Dr. Haywood Robinson, Dr. McArthur Hill, Dr. David Brewer, Dr Beverly McMillan. They have all done many abortions but later changed, and now not only no longer do abortions (after they saw what exactly happened in their grisly procedure), but now speak out strongly against abortion, from their first-hand experience. These former abortionists (along with Abby Johnson, former director of a Planned Parenthood center) will show you a clearer picture of what abortion really is, rather than have others, including the media, try to frame abortion as an abstract concept (products of pregnancy, termination of a pregnancy, reproductive freedom, women’s health care, etc.), rather than the brutal reality which happens in any abortion.

In light of all of this, I am wondering if Pay Pal has offered the same amount of money to support your employees wanting to keep their baby, as they will offer for traveling expenses to have an abortion. Why does Pay Pal want to “bribe” your employees NOT to have children, to be childless? Why does Pay Pal offer financial support and give incentives for this?

There is a total blindness with PayPal to the fact that such support or even promotion of abortion are in actuality paying abortionists to eliminate so many of your future customers. In addition Pay Pal doesn’t stop offering money for travel to enable women to have abortions your company could lose the Christian market, including the Catholic market, of 70 million Catholics in the U.S. and over one billion Catholics worldwide.

Is it because Pay Pal knows that there is the cost of maternity leave and finding a person with the same skills, knowledge, and ability to fulfill the employee in their maternity leave, as well as that having a baby increases the health care plan for your employees?

Is it because PayPal knows that employees who have families want a sufficient salary and benefits which may increase wages and lower companies bottom line of greater profits? Is it because Pay Pal knows that employees may not give the same attention to the company before giving birth (especially if they were single) than after birth, when their child contacts them for health or other situations that need their focus? So, having children may become more rewarding for that employee and “compete” with their former total loyalty to the company.

It is not only wrong for Pay Pal to support having abortions from a business ethics standpoint, but it is unwise from an economic viewpoint to risk losing so many of your customers in such a competitive economy, as well as loosing potential future customers who will have had their lives ended by abortion. I am sure Pay Pal spends a significant amount of money for customer acquisition, but it will continue to risk losing customers because of their support for abortion.

There are 107 million of Evangelical Christians in our country, and other Christians as well, whose support Pay Pal could lose, if they continue to support in any way financial expenses for abortions.

Life Decision International whose mission is to decouple companies from Planned Parenthood, the leading supporter of abortion, has moved 343 corporations to stop funding Planned Parenthood whose business you support by paying for travel expenses to have an abortion at one of their facilities.

I know that is why as a former customer, I no longer do business with PayPal.

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For a satire from Live Action on this policy for employees, see:

Pro-Choice Bosses – A Generous Offer To Our Pregnant Employees