{"id":183606,"date":"2018-06-11T13:16:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T17:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=183606"},"modified":"2018-06-13T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T15:11:35","slug":"abortion-workers-counseling-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-workers-counseling-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Former abortion workers reveal ‘abortion counseling’ is really manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson edited a book called “The Walls are Talking<\/a>,<\/em>”\u00a0which presented stories from former abortion workers. One of the common themes in these stories is how workers were expected to convince ambivalent women to go through with their abortions. The workers were told by their facility administrators to make abortion look like the most attractive option for pregnant women. They were supposed to pressure women into having abortions.<\/p>\n

It is not hard to guess why abortion facility administrators want women to go through with abortions. These facilities are not charities, but businesses which make a profit selling abortion. If a woman changes her mind and leaves the facility, the facility loses money. Each woman who decides against abortion represents lost revenue for the facility.<\/p>\n

In “The Walls are Talking,” an abortion worker recalled a pregnant woman who came to the abortion facility and asked many questions about her baby. The woman spoke only Spanish. The worker described their conversation:<\/p>\n

I asked her in Spanish if she wanted to see a picture and know the gestational age.<\/p>\n

\u201cS\u00ed,\u201d she responded.<\/p>\n

She asked many questions about the baby and the procedure. Did the baby have a heartbeat? Would the baby feel the abortion?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that you are sure,\u201d I told her. \u201cThis is a human being. You obviously need time to think about this.\u201d(1)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shockingly, the worker acknowledged that the abortion would kill a human being<\/em>. This is not standard procedure in most abortion facilities. In fact, many former workers have said they were strongly discouraged<\/a> from ever using the word \u201cbaby\u201d or in any way humanizing the preborn.<\/p>\n

READ: Stunning photo of baby at 7 weeks shares humanity of preborn children<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The former worker said her coworkers were not happy that she spent so much time answering the woman\u2019s questions:<\/p>\n

My coworkers were less than thrilled that I was holding things up. \u201cShe\u2019s here, isn\u2019t she? She has made up her mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the doctors who spoke a smattering of Spanish heard what was going on and charged in. In a short time, he convinced her. I remember feeling so defeated. (2)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trained to sell abortions, not to counsel<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the book, another worker claims the abortion facility director actually tested the workers to make sure they were effectively pressuring women into abortions. She says:<\/p>\n

The director frequently made a point to remind us that phones were tapped and that we were to expect \u201cmystery shoppers\u201d to be calling from the main office. The purpose of the calls was to make sure that we were towing the company line. We needed to answer by the third ring. If the woman seemed reluctant to follow through with the procedure, we were expected to respond with canned pro\u2013abortion rebuttals. (3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Former Planned Parenthood director Sue Thayer describes how she convinced women<\/a> to schedule abortions:<\/p>\n

I trained my staff the way that I was trained, which was to really encourage women to choose abortion, to have it at Planned Parenthood, because that counts, you know, towards our goal. We would try to get the appointment scheduled for the abortion before they left our clinic, We would say thinks like \u2018your pregnancy test, your visit today, is X number of dollars. How much are you going to be able to pay towards that?\u2019<\/p>\n

If they\u2019d say \u2018I\u2019m not able to pay today,\u2019 then we would say something like \u2018Well, if you can\u2019t pay $10 today, how are you going to take care of a baby? Have you priced diapers? Do you know how much it costs to buy a car seat? Where would you go for help, there\u2019s no place in Storm Lake\u2013or whatever town they were in\u2013you know, where you can get help as a pregnant mom. So really don\u2019t you think your smartest choice is termination?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n