They said it.
Former abortion clinic director Abby Johnson:
“Abortion is the only surgical procedure I can think of where its success is determined by the death of another human being.”
Webcast: Abby Johnson “Exposed: Clinic Worker Stories” on Monday, December 21 at 7:00 pm CST.
Share on FacebookCarol Everett, former owner of two abortion clinics and directer of four, on the Precious Feet pins prolifers wear:
“You know those little feet pins? Those things used to irritate me to death when I was in the abortion business. I couldn’t stand them. In the grocery line, a girl of about 16 was wearing the feet. That just about drove me crazy because, of course, she was shining the truth on me. I didn’t understand that then, but I hated them.”
Judy Madsen Johnson Stories from the Frontlines: the Battle against Abortion (2014) 55
Share on FacebookAbby Johnson: If the woman asked you specifically what does the baby look like, or is the baby going to feel pain, is the baby going to feel anything during the abortion, what were some of the things that you guys were instructed to say to the women who asked these questions?
Jackie: At our clinic we were instructed to tell them a number of things. And a lot of it depended on the gestation of the pregnancy. Most of our patients were early in the pregnancy… Things like, that the central nervous system hadn’t developed yet so it wouldn’t feel anything, and the second one was for patients that were further along, that the baby feels what they feel. So if they choose to do the more expensive sedation method, you also limit the pain that the fetus would feel also. That’s what we were instructed to tell patients.
In this way, abortion workers were able to sell costly general anesthesia to late-term abortion patients who were afraid their babies would feel pain. Playing on the women’s fears, the facilities were able to make more money. General anesthesia is not only more expensive than local anesthesia, it carries with it much greater risks.
If endangering women’s lives and using their fears to increase profits wasn’t enough, the abortion workers were lying to the women. The theory that anesthesia given to the mother reduces the pain her baby feels was thoroughly debunked before the Supreme Court in the partial-birth abortion ban trials. The pain the preborn baby feels is not affected by the anesthesia given to the mother.
Webcast on December 21 sponsored by And Then There Were None
Share on FacebookOn former clinic worker, the late Joan Appleton, and her healing.
So each morning — in order to aid her spiritual and psychological healing — Appleton imagines a child. “I name it. I pray for it. I ask a life for it,” she said. “I’ll do this for the rest of my days.”
In addition, Appleton said, she goes to abortion clinics twice a week and talks to the babies in the womb rather than to their mothers.
“I tell them I’m sorry they have to die today. I hope they’ll forgive us and go to God,” she said.
PATRICIA LEFEVERE “Ex-abortion providers: conversion tales “ National Catholic Reporter, January 16, 1998
Share on FacebookNita Whitten, a former abortion clinic worker:
“I took drugs to wake up in the morning. I took speed while I was at work. And I smoked marijuana, drank lots of alcohol. . . . [T]his is the way that I coped with what I did. It was horrible to work there, and there was no good in it.”
Mary Meehan, “The Ex-Abortionists: Why They Quit,” Human Life Review 26:2–3 (Spring-Summer 2000), 19.
Whitten had to see babies like the one below torn to pieces every day. It’s not surprising she turned to substance abuse.
From a former clinic worker:
“I remember our abortionist joking about how ‘stupid’ the women were who came into our clinic. He would tell us to make sure and ‘shut them up’ during the abortion. He said that he didn’t want to hear the ‘stupid things that came out of their mouths.’
One day, he was talking about these women in a particularly vile way and I sat there listening to him realizing that I was no better than he was. I wasn’t standing up for these women. I wasn’t defending them. In fact, I had become a traitor to women by not defending their dignity.
I knew from that day forward that I would begin to stand up for women in crisis. But I knew that I couldn’t just care for a woman without also caring for her unborn baby.
When I told my coworkers that I was leaving, one of them actually called me a ‘traitor.’ She said that by not advocating for abortion, I was standing against women. I told her that it was the abortion industry who was betraying women…
Every single woman that came in for our ‘services’ was being betrayed by us. We didn’t see her as a person. We saw her as a line item…a tally on our budget sheet.”
Testimony of clinic worker from ATTWN
Posted on facebook Oct 29, 2015
Share on FacebookFrom former abortion clinic chain owner and administrator Carol Everett, on how she had to get rid of one employee at an abortion clinic when she took over:
“An immediate problem concerned Barbara, [a] young medical assistant who did not like abortions. She actually had a fetal development book in the clinic and often showed women how developed their babies were at various stages inside the womb. I stopped that practice immediately. Although Barbara was a good employee, if she could not sell abortions, she had to go.”
Carol Everett. The Scarlet Lady (Brentwood: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1991),146
Quoted by Abort73.com
Share on FacebookFormer abortion clinic worker Laurel Guymer said:
Women who were poor, unemployed, too young, too old, working in the sex industry, not married, had no steady partner, or suffered any mental instability were reassured by the clinic staff and society that it was best they have an abortion. It is clear that society fears a certain type of woman having a baby and I found that many of the doctors and nurses I met in the abortion clinic were not any different despite their supposed commitment to feminist principles.
Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 31
Share on FacebookFrom former clinic worker Laurel Guymer:
What if they [the abortion patients] said “no” when entering the operating room? In this instance I felt compelled to reassure them they didn’t have to go through with it and walked them back to the change room. This was not welcomed by my colleagues at the clinic. I was reminded that this is a business and any slowing in the production line costs money. Constant threats were made that the anesthesiologist had another list at another hospital and any more discussion with the uncertain woman was wasting precious time. Their patronizing remarks that some women will never be 100% sure, and that I should encourage them to go on and get the abortion over quickly, were not comforting: I could no longer participate.
Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 170
Share on FacebookLavonne Wilenken, former Planned Parenthood clinic worker:
The counselor would say to the teenager, “Well, where’s the $250,000 that it takes to raise a child in society today?” And “What are your parents going to say when they find out that you’re pregnant?” And “What is your boyfriend doing? Is he going to help you? Where is he?” and “How are you going to finish your education if you have a baby? Don’t you know you can’t go to school if you have a baby?” Things like that, very subtle things that will push the girl over and make her decide.
Then they sort of do a “Mutt and Jeff” routine. First will come those questions. Next will come the very motherly, the very soothing, “But we can help you. We can help you out of your problem. Your parents don’t have to know. We can help you with the money. You don’t have to have any money and we can help you out of your situation because we know that you don’t want to be pregnant. You just want to be not pregnant and we know that you know that you can’t take care of a baby right now. You know that you’re not ready and we want you to do these things when you’re ready.” So they play on the emotions of the young girl who scared, frightened, doesn’t know where to go, but she’s been told this is the place to go to get help.
Douglas R Scott Bad Choices: a Look inside Planned Parenthood(Franklin, Tennessee: Legacy Communications, 1992) 154
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