Jenny Jerrome has a page where she rates abortion clinics for women, advertising those that she feels best serve them. Here is some of the advice she gives pregnant women considering abortion:
“Don’t get sucked into one of those abortion options counseling centers. They will hound you and heap guilt on you and pound on you until they break down your spirit and force you to wait until it is too late. Then, they will abandon you and look down their noses at you.…
Don’t wait. Make your decision quickly it’s a hard thing to do, but the longer you wait, the fewer options you have. Take a day, (no more than one day) and make your decision. A favorite tactic of those who don’t want you to have a choice is to delay, find excuses for you to delay a little longer, and finally tell you, “tough luck honey, it’s too late!”
Crisis pregnancy centers have helped tens of thousands of pregnant women and new mothers, offering both emotional support and material help, including referrals for medical care and social services. Some crisis pregnancy centers follow the women for years, providing daycare assistance and parenting classes, and job training, whereas an abortion clinic will do her abortion and sent her home. Putting pressure on a pregnant woman to decide what to do about her pregnancy quickly is a common technique that abortion clinics use in order to convince women to have abortions. Studies show that the longer a woman waits to have an abortion, the more likely she is to change her mind and have her child. Abortion clinics know this.. They will often say that it will become too late to have an abortion if the woman does not abort immediately. In reality, abortion is legal for all nine months of pregnancy and over half of all abortion clinics perform abortions after 12 weeks.
Jerrome continues with her “good advice”:
Under “Who Will Know I Had an Abortion?”
“First, don’t tell anyone. If you told someone you were going to have an abortion, lie! Yes, lie! Tell them you started bleeding and it was suddenly all gone. Cry a little, if you can, and say you feel better and don’t want to talk about it… Remember, you can’t trust anyone with this. If you really don’t want anyone else to know, you have to keep it from your closest friends and family. You might be able to trust them now, but over time, things will change. Your relationship with them might change… Don’t tell and no one will know!”
Isolating the pregnant woman from her support system is one of the cruelest things that can be done to her. A woman should not be forced to go through an abortion decision on her own. Friends and loved ones can help a woman talk things out. Fear and and a sense of being alone often drive a person to choose something in a moment of crisis that they will regret for the rest of their lives. A woman should find out what support is available for her and her child if she chooses to carry the baby to term. Making a decision in isolation, without reaching out to anyone for help, can lead to devastating guilt and grief as well as undue pressure to have an abortion.
Not content with simply isolating a woman from her support system during her pregnancy, Jerrome takes it further and encourages her to lie about her abortion. This can set the course for a lifetime of denial and shame as the woman feels that she needs to hide this terrible secret from everyone she knows. It can be a major block to healing which needs to take place after an incident as traumatic as an abortion.
http://www.jennyjerrome.com/pg_i_doctell.html
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