About 24 years ago in Manassas, Va., the A-A-A Women for Choice crisis pregnancy center opened right next door to an abortion clinic, the Amethyst Health Center for Women.

“Same brick building, same sign, same generic office decor,” the Washington Post notes.

The goal of owner Pat Lohman was simple. Save lives. Save babies and their mothers from the horrors of abortion. Writes the Post:”Confused women seeking abortions would wind up in Lohman’s place, where she threw all she had at them — pamphlets, pleas, prayers, promises of help, used baby gear, bloody imagery, God — to change their minds.”

Last September, the abortion provider retired and put her practice up for sale. Operation Rescue celebrated the closure, noting, among other things, that health inspections of the facility in 2012 “discovered 48 pages of violations including multiple violations of infection prevention protocols that left women at risk of becoming sick.”

Within two weeks, the property sold. The abortionist never met the buyers, only lawyers who said they represented medical office investors. The Post reports what happened next:

Just five minutes after signing the final papers at closing, the doctor called her office to check her messages.

 “Triple A Women for Choice,” a voice answered.

The doctor thought she made a mistake and redialed.

“Triple A Women for Choice,” the voice said again.

Whoever bought her practice had the phones forwarded to the pregnancy center within minutes of the sale, before the lawyers even had a chance to close their briefcases.

Yes, Lohman and her pro-life supporters had purchased the abortion clinic. Technically, the property is now in the hands of BVM Foundation in Indiana — or Blessed Virgin Mary Foundation. “They want to get a doctor in there who believes like we do,” says Lohman. In the meantime, the Amethyst Health Center for Women sign remains, the abortion clinics calls are transferred to A-A-A Women for Choice, and walk-ins seeking an abortion find the door locked and an open door next door.

The Washington Post, with pro-abortion snark, calls the purchase Lohman’s “grandest deception yet.” In fact, “deception” is the word it uses to describe Lohman’s quarter-century effort to protect the unborn.

“Deceptive? People say we’re deceptive? OK,” Lohman told the Post, “But what are the other guys doing? That’s deceptive, too. Those girls have no idea what abortion really is. When I hear pro-choice, that is a deception. And this country has forgotten about God.”

According to their website, Women and girls who come to A-A-A Women for Choice are provided free pregnancy tests, free information about their pregnancy, abortion procedures, parenting and sexually transmitted diseases. They are also shown a graphic and disturbing abortion video. Lohman tells the Post “99 percent of the women who see it say they would recommend it to others.”

But, the Post wondered, what about those who had been intending to go to Amethyst Health Center for Women? “Do women ever get angry when they realize they went to the wrong office?”

“Oh yeah, they get angry, there’s yelling at us sometimes. But they just don’t want to hear the truth,” Lohman answered. “But we’re the ones telling the truth.”