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Former abortion worker Joy Davis originally worked in one abortion facility, then left to set up a new facility with abortionist Thomas Tucker. By the end of her time in the abortion industry, she was the director of six abortion facilities and making $100,000 a year. Eventually, a patient died in her facility due to medical negligence. “We were not there to help women,” Davis says of the first abortion facility where she worked. “We were a business \u2014 a money-making organization\u2026. The conditions in the clinic that I worked at were very, very poor. We had no life support systems. Our people were not very well trained \u2014 most of them did not even have a medical background.”<\/p>\n

Tucker asked Davis to help him open a new facility, and she agreed. At first, the abortionist hired competent people. But then:<\/p>\n

After just a few months, his greed took over. He wasn\u2019t making enough money, so the first thing to go was the anesthetist, because they made a lot of money. Through just the few months of watching them put patients to sleep, we started putting patients to sleep ourselves and we had no idea what we were doing. We just knew what we had seen them do, so we started doing it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then our registered nurses that worked in our recovery room were the next people to go. Then our lab technician and on and on.<\/em><\/p>\n

READ: Abortionist admits to botched abortions: ‘All of us… have complications’<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Davis was put in charge of hiring new employees. She says she “started interviewing people that had no medical background at all, bringing them in to do the job of anesthetist, lab technicians, nurses and even physicians.” And, she adds, she looked specifically for women who “needed us and needed the money” because she believed she “would have their loyalty and… they would stick with it no matter how tough it got”:<\/p>\n

The people that I looked for when I was interviewing would always be one thing and that was a single mother. If they had a husband that made a good living, I wasn\u2019t interested in them.<\/em><\/p>\n

By now, Tucker, the abortionist, had set up six different abortion facilities, scattered across several states. To avoid hiring another doctor, he flew from one facility to another, doing abortions. But the airline wasn’t fast enough. He could not get from facility to facility in time to do all the abortions he wanted. His solution was to train Davis to do abortions herself. Davis says:<\/p>\n

I never spent the first day in medical school. I was just an ultrasound technician. I really knew nothing about medicine, other than what I had seen other doctors do, but\u00a0<\/em>I started doing abortions. I started actually performing surgery on women. I did norplants, cryosurgery, pap smears, pelvic exams \u2014 anything he did, I did.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tucker had a chain of facilities where people with no medical experience were giving anesthesia, conducting tests, and doing surgery on unsuspecting women.<\/p>\n