They said it.
Margo, who spent five years working at both Planned Parenthood and a private abortion clinic, said:
“It literally took my breath away… I helped murder almost a football stadium of people.”
She says she has assisted in “tens of thousands” of abortions.
Ellen J Reich “An Insider’s Look into the Abortion Industry” The American Feminist Fall/Winter 2016
The burden former clinic workers carry is indeed a heavy one.
Share on FacebookA former abortion clinic worker quoted by Abby Johnson says:
“We’ve all had them: one of those days, the type of day that causes us to seek refuge in the safety of our homes, curl up in a chair with our fuzzy blankets, and pretend that tomorrow will never come; that we won’t have to deal with a coworker’s passive aggressive behavior, hear the latest chapter in the never-ending drama of so-and-so’s life, or endure another lecture from an unreasonable and out of touch supervisor.
During my years at the abortion clinic, I had more than my share of those days, for all of the aforementioned reasons and more… Gossip, slander, jealousy, and general cattiness were simply par for the course.”
Abby Johnson The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2016) 115
Perhaps the pressure of seeing aborted babies every day causes clinic workers to be stressed and irritable.
Share on FacebookOne abortion clinic worker says:
I am not an RN, I am a nurse. I am an LPN, and I was doing RN level work. I was administering push medications, conscious sedations for the women who were having the two-step late-term abortion procedures. And I think that’s something that has come out very clearly recently is that people who are not really adequately trained to do the tasks that they’re doing. And that endangers women to such a degree, because when something goes wrong you don’t know what to do.
And we almost lost patients due to complications. And even though the doctor appeared to be very compassionate we did everything we could not to call an ambulance, because we just didn’t want that, the optics of an ambulance outside of the abortion clinic. And we never told the women how close they came to almost dying.
Webcast entitled “Exposed: Clinic Worker Stories” on Monday, December 21, 2016, quoted in Sarah Terzo “Abortion Worker: We Endangered Patients and Never Called Ambulances” Live Action News July 20, 2017
Share on FacebookEllen Reich, who interviewed numerous abortion clinic workers for her article, found the following out when interviewing one worker named Julie:
In her private clinic, the products of conception were drawn into a bottle “covered with a cute calico cover” so the woman wouldn’t inadvertently catch a glimpse of a foot or an arm.
Ellen Reich “An Insider’s Look into the Abortion Industry” The American Feminist Fall/Winter 2016
An article in the American Feminist told the story of Annette, a former Planned Parenthood worker. The article says:
On many occasions, [Annette] saw women expressing doubts [about abortion], but observed the staff response as uniformly encouraging…. Once, Annette observed the clinic director meeting with a client. To Annette, the woman was asking endless questions and seemed anything but certain about her decision. The patient kept repeating, “I’m really not sure.”
When Annette and the director left the interview room, the director told the staff that the patient was “just fine” and ready to proceed. Annette spoke up and said she didn’t see it that way. … Annette got such heat for speaking up she did not do it again.
The article goes on:
While Annette didn’t again challenge another staff member’s assessment of a client’s readiness to proceed, she did routinely tell clients to reschedule if they were uncertain about going ahead. “I got reprimanded for that because I wasn’t scheduling enough abortion procedures.” She was supposed to schedule 40 abortions a day.
“We were always told that it’s all up to the woman,” Annette said, yet the behaviors at Planned Parenthood were designed to encourage women to choose abortions. “The emotional manipulation of others is what got to me the most.”
Later, at a meeting, Annette spoke up:
“Do I have an abortion quota?” she asked. “Because that’s really what it feels like.”
Her employers first denied there was a “quota.” But as she argued, they admitted that workers were expected to sell 40 abortions a day.
Ellen J. Reich “An Insider’s Look into the Abortion Industry,” The American Feminist Fall/Winter 2016.
Share on FacebookFrom one former abortion worker:
“In my facilities, I always gave options counseling. Of course you make the abortion the most appealing. I told them about adoption and about foster care and about (when there was welfare) assistance. The typical way it would go is, “Well, you know you can place your baby out for adoption” but then, in the same breath, you would say, “That’s an option available to you, but you also have to realize that there’s going to be a baby of yours out here somewhere in the world you will never see again. At least with abortion you know what’s happened. You can go on with your life.”…
The longer I was in it, the less I cared, so I really didn’t care what my conscience said. My conscience was totally numb anyway. But what it did do was public relations wise. You were able, when a reporter or TV crew came, to pull out a packet of information for the patients to read and they received it. So what can anybody say? Publicly it looked good – in reality it was another tool that was used to force a woman into an abortion. It’s typical – I would give them an option and then shoot it down. The only option you didn’t shoot down, obviously, was abortion.
Richard and Rhonda White Confronting Abortion Distortions (Xulon Press, 2013) 61
Share on FacebookDr. Shirley Bond, an anesthetist who works in an abortion clinic, writes about the lack of counseling for adoption in the abortion clinic where she works.
“I think the counseling for adoption is abysmal – it’s virtually nonexistent. Sometimes adoption is raised all right, but in such a negative way – “I don’t suppose you want it adopted”, kind of thing. Or “Have you thought about adoption?” And that is adoption counselling.”
Most of the pregnancy counselling, Dr. Bond points out, is “done by people who are very pro-abortion. Basically, it’s geared to pro-abortion. I don’t think there are enough people around who know about adoption, so women are put off the whole procedure….I just think the whole climate about adoption is wrong in this country. It’s negative….
Adoption is not fashionable. Abortion is fashionable. You can sit and have a cup of tea with someone who will say they have had an abortion and no one thinks anything of it. But if a woman says she has placed her child for adoption, people are shocked. “What a terrible thing to do!” is the attitude.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 88-89
Former abortion nurse describes how she disposed of “fetal remains” i.e. aborted children:
I used a simple kitchen strainer, over a sink, and sifted through the contents of the collection jar after an abortion. I had to make certain all the body parts of the baby were accounted for. The garbage disposal was available and used for the placenta and any other tissue that had fallen into the sink. At that time, I was instructed to place the babies into a simple plastic container and packaged to be sent to a lab for disposal. The clinic reportedly hired a company which would send a truck to pick up the babies. Maybe this is a way the state could tell the abortionist how to dispose of the bodies.
Nurse Misty Coburn. who worked at Fort Wayne Women’s Health Organization, an abortion facility
“Fetal Remains Bill Clears Senate Hearing” Indiana Right to Life February 18, 2015
Quoted in Sarah Terzo “Abortion facility workers explain how they disposed of aborted babies” Live Action News March 15, 2017
They were tiny arms, legs, finger and toes.
See pictures of what fetal remains (aborted babies) look like here
Read more about what happens to the bodies of aborted children.
The “fetal remains’ above are the legs of an 8 week old aborted child. This is around the time when most abortions are performed. So this was what Nurse Coburn was sifting through.
Abortions are legal at 20 weeks in many states. At this stage, fetal remains are very developed. Nevertheless, they are treated the same way.
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Norma McCorvey was the plaintiff in Roe vs. Wade, the woman whose case two ambitious attorneys used to strike down all abortion laws. McCorvey would later become pro-life and campaign to end abortion until her death. When McCorvey found out that the case had been decided at all abortion laws were invalidated, leading to unrestricted abortion in all 50 states, she felt so guilty that she attempted suicide. Afterwards, she would fight her feelings of guilt and go to work in an abortion clinic. An article in Focus on the Family says:
When she found out that the case had gone all the way to the Supreme Court and resulted in legalizing abortion in all 50 states, she was stunned. “I sat in the dining room that night and just kept rereading the newspaper story and drinking – drinking and thinking,” she says. “It made me sad to know that my name, even though it was a pseudonym, would always be connected to the death of children.” McCorvey got a straight razor and started cutting her wrists a little at a time. “That didn’t work, so I went out and got as many pills as I could. I took all of them and chased it with a quart of Johnny Walker, thinking I would die, and I would never have to talk to Sarah Weddington or Linda Coffee again. But that was not God’s plan for me.
Tom Nevin “Roe V Wade: 30 Years of Lies” Focus on the Family, January 1, 2003
Read more about Norma McCorvey here.
Share on FacebookFormer abortion clinic worker Norma McCorvey:
“As marketing director for A Choice for Women [abortion clinic], I had my hands full. I was supposed to sell abortions – we didn’t make a dime on an appointment, only on an actual procedure – so I had to overcome all the OR [Operation Rescue] paraphernalia that now gathered outside our front door.”
Norma McCorvey Won by Love (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1997) 84
To read more about how clinic workers sell abortions to vulnerable women, go here.
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