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On December 21, 2015, Abby Johnson and her group And Then There Were None<\/a>\u00a0sponsored a\u00a0webcast<\/a>\u00a0in which former abortion center\u00a0workers\u00a0shared\u00a0their experiences working in the abortion industry.<\/p>\n

One of the workers who told\u00a0her story was Jackie, who worked in a private abortion clinic in Austin, Texas. At first, her duties consisted only of working at the reception desk and checking patients in and out. Then she was moved to the pathology lab, where the bodies of aborted babies were taken to be\u00a0examined. \u00a0Jackie describes what she saw there:<\/p>\n

I got selected to move to the pathology lab, and for anyone who doesn\u2019t know what that is, that is the lab in the clinic that basically inventories the body parts of the fetus that comes out of the woman. And, the first part of that job is, as I said, inventorying the parts; and the second also involves inventorying the parts to determine if they are intact enough to be harvested and sold. And then the third part is doing a checklist, such as the head, the arms, the torso, the legs, and you send it to the doctor to let him know that the abortion was complete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seeing the mutilated body parts of aborted children took its toll on Jackie.\u00a0Exposed to the gruesome reality of abortion, her illusions were quickly stripped away:<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s where I ended up, I trained in that lab three, almost four days before I had a very harsh realization that everything I believed about the abortion industry was wrong. So about three days into it I had had just about as much as my heart, and my soul, and my stomach could stand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most of the protesters outside the abortion clinic were nasty to Jackie and the other clinic workers, but one offered hope and help.<\/p>\n

Every day there are huge groups of people outside the fence and most of them, as Abby said, are screaming at you and calling you a murderer. But at the end of the parking lot where the employees parked, there was one person down there, just about every day, who turned out to be a representative of And Then There Were None.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d just tell people casually, as they walked by, going to their cars, going home, “You don\u2019t have to do this anymore. There are organizations that can help you, you know.\u00a0Feel free to reach out to us anytime.” And I heard that voice probably my third\u00a0day, and I went home just completely discouraged and disgusted with what I had done with myself\u2014 disgusted and discouraged. I didn\u2019t feel that I was in a financial place where I could necessarily leave my job, and I went home and I cried about it and I thought about it.\u00a0For probably the first time in 10 years, I prayed about something. And I thought about that person talking to me outside of the fence, and so I just googled \u201cabortion clinic worker help\u201d and And Then There Was None was the first page that popped up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jackie contacted And Then There Were None and was encouraged to put in her two weeks\u2019 notice right away. She was matched with a mentor who walked her through the process of leaving the facility.<\/p>\n

Jackie spoke about the incredible relief she felt when she left the abortion facility\u00a0for the last time:<\/p>\n

[It felt like] I had lost 500 pounds maybe\u2026 An enormous burden that you don\u2019t even know that you\u2019re carrying; the only thing I can compare it to, probably a horrible comparison, but it was like having cancer and feeling so sick, and not knowing yet that you have this problem, and then finding out and then the doctor comes in and tells you that it\u2019s benign, and we can remove it, and in 6 weeks you\u2019re going to be completely better.<\/p>\n

So that just \u2013 it is just an enormous cleansing, and weight lifted off of your spirit\u2026 You go from\u2026 I can\u2019t even think of anything that is a worse feeling than having experienced what you see in those clinics, and that\u2019s not something everyone can relate to unless you worked inside of one. Leaving there and leaving that behind and taking your first step towards healing and grasping the opportunity to be able to tell people and finally share that this is wrong. You know I\u2019ve seen some really nasty things and we have to do something about this. Because this isn\u2019t okay, this isn\u2019t all right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jackie’s story shows the importance of reaching out to abortion clinic workers with compassion. If it was\u00a0not\u00a0for that one person offering help, Jackie may never have learned about And Then There Were None. If the only pro-life voices she ever heard were voices of condemnation, she may never have found the courage to leave the abortion industry. Now she is sharing her story and is surrounded by people who will help her heal.<\/p>\n

As pro-lifers, we need to remember that all lives are\u00a0valuable, including those of people who work in\u00a0abortion facilities. Reaching out to them and empowering them to leave the abortion industry\u00a0benefits both preborn children and the workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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