{"id":201552,"date":"2019-05-09T13:47:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=201552"},"modified":"2019-05-08T23:17:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T04:17:57","slug":"former-abortion-worker-have-abortions-feel-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-abortion-worker-have-abortions-feel-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Former abortion worker: We needed women to have abortions ‘to feel better about our own’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Live Action News has documented many cases<\/a>\u00a0in which\u00a0abortion workers<\/a> pressured\u00a0women to have abortions<\/a>. Many former abortion workers have admitted<\/a>\u00a0that they were trained to aggressively sell abortions<\/a> to women, even women who were ambivalent or unsure they wanted them. In some cases, pressure came from the owners of these facilities or from Planned Parenthood supervisors<\/a>. Some former Planned Parenthood workers have claimed that Planned\u00a0 Parenthood\u00a0established quotas<\/a>\u00a0or goals for the number of abortions to be committed, and reprimanded abortion workers who did not meet those quotas. In these cases, abortion was pushed on women<\/a> because it was profitable<\/a> and contributed to the abortion facility\u2019s bottom line.<\/p>\n

But there is another possible reason why abortion workers pressure pregnant women to abort.<\/p>\n

Former abortion worker Rita, who worked as an abortion “counselor,” was post-abortive. Without her realizing it, subconscious feelings of guilt from her own abortion influenced the way she dealt with pregnant women:<\/p>\n

I was completely driven to help other women to obtain abortions. I was totally invested in keeping abortion safe and legal. I never recognized how pushy and one-sided my counseling was until I became pregnant and wanted a child. Everyone around me was so critical of my own pregnancy. I realized then that I had been the same way toward every pregnant woman who entered our clinic. It\u2019s almost like we needed them to abort so that we could feel better about our own abortions.<\/strong> I was too busy justifying what I had done to be aware that I carried any grief about it.<\/em><\/p>\n