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“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is a common question we ask our little ones. Firefighter, teacher, lawyer, gymnast, mom or dad, writer, astronaut.
The answers are very varied, but one specific occupation you don’t hear is that small children want to work in abortion clinics.
why? Because working in an abortion clinic is not normal.
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Yet thousands (most) of women do. I have been one of them for eight years, and for the past ten years I have traveled to Washington, D.C. every January for the March for Life to be a witness to all of us who have chosen to work in abortion clinics.
We may not understand why we did what we did, but thankfully thousands of others have come to embrace a small cohort of former abortion workers who have quite a story. March with people.
When I was a kid, I loved being asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. Because I knew exactly the answer. She wanted to become a doctor. I used to run my baby doll in the crib and pretend to be a gurney.
In a morbid twist of fate and misguided morals, when I grew up, I did so much worse than my heart that a little girl could understand those babies.
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I chose to work in an abortion clinic because, like many people who work in abortion clinics, I thought I was helping women.
Abortion is not cheap and the money working in these clinics is pretty good. Providing safe abortions for women is the most caring thing I can do and get pregnant when I don’t want to. It helped solve the problem of
Working within an abortion clinic is not normal. It is not normal to see a woman in the recovery room with a completely blank stare and hollow eyes after an abortion when she looked completely different hours earlier. workers have nightmares and participate.
I understand it’s hard to imagine why someone would choose to work where they lost their lives instead of saving them, but what many people don’t understand is that we are just like them. It is very common for
We have families to feed, groceries to buy, school fees, electricity bills and other bills. We like hanging out with friends, going shopping, relaxing on the beach, and going to the movies.
Honestly, there aren’t that many differences between someone who works in an abortion clinic and someone who has a regular job. I mean, I ran a family planning clinic in Texas. A few days after my abortion, I came home with blood on my shoes. I have seen and done things that I should never have done.
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But working in an abortion clinic is not normal. It is not normal to join the body parts of an aborted baby together. It’s not normal to assure a tearful woman sitting at a table when she’s bleeding profusely after an abortion that everything will be fine.
It is not normal to see a woman in the recovery room with a completely blank stare and hollow eyes after an abortion when she looked completely different hours earlier. workers have nightmares and participate. They often feel lonely, depressed, angry, and misunderstood.
But they themselves are normal and should not be banished from the pro-life movement.
After leaving Planned Parenthood, I realized that no organization specifically addressed the needs of former abortion workers. To my surprise, working in an abortion clinic is not normal.
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I ultimately found a way for former abortion workers to quit their jobs, help them financially, provide retreats and counseling, and connect with them and other women who intrinsically understand what they’ve been through. I started a ministry.
After 11 years, we have helped 645 people leave the abortion industry. To help our ministry serve those leaving the industry, we informally asked them about their experiences and discovered shocking results.
Thirty percent of those surveyed witnessed forced abortions of women and girls without their consent. 36 percent saw abortions performed on suspected sex trafficking victims. 49% said their clinic has an abortion quota. Thirty-six percent said they were sometimes or regularly under the influence of drugs or alcohol during working hours at the clinic.
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Several women left comments on our survey, and it brought tears to my eyes remembering my own experience with Planned Parenthood.
One woman said, “We manipulated women into coercing them to have abortions and similarly discouraged and prevented men from supporting their partners.”
Another said she didn’t want her worst enemy to do the job, while another said, “I still can’t believe you threw an aborted baby down the drain and then started the garbage disposal.” I was.
These are the women who march in the March for Life on Friday. They are women, like you and me, who have made a very bad decision to work in the abortion industry but have the courage to retire and start over.
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end of row v. Wade does not mean the end of abortion. In fact, I would argue that it is the abortion workers who we most need to reach out to, because if they quit and start talking about themselves, the clinics will be closed as we have already seen. all over the country.
My hope is that each year at the March for Life and state marches, more former abortion workers will be among those crowds until abortion is unthinkable.
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