{"id":186846,"date":"2018-08-21T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=186846"},"modified":"2018-08-16T17:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T22:51:03","slug":"abortion-workers-fears-effective-counseling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-workers-fears-effective-counseling\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion workers: Magnifying women’s fears was ‘effective counseling’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brenda Pratt-Shafer was a worker at a late-term abortion<\/a> facility. In 2016, she wrote a book about her experiences working there. In her book,\u00a0Pratt-Shafer wrote about the way she and other abortion workers were taught to “counsel” women. She was given instructions to encourage women to abort. She writes, “I was told in no uncertain terms to always validate the mother’s reasons for having the abortion.” She described it this way:<\/p>\n

If the mother was still in school, we\u2019d tell her she didn\u2019t need to be a mother right now; rather she needed to finish school and then start her family. If she was having financial problems, we would not offer her other solutions; we would just tell her that she could not afford a baby and that she was doing the best thing. If she was young, we would tell her she was too young to have a baby and it would probably ruin her life. Having this abortion was the right thing to do; then she could get on with the rest of her life. We also told the women that abortion was a simple procedure, and it was the answer to their problems and that they would be relieved afterward.<\/strong> After all, this abortion clinic was in the business to make money from abortions, not to offer solutions for crisis pregnancies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Any excuse the mother had to want an abortion, we were in agreement and supportive of that reason. Options like adoption or even carrying the baby to full-term were never discussed.(1)<\/em><\/p>\n