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Ramona Trevi\u00f1o is a former manager of a Planned Parenthood facility who left her job and is now pro-life. In her book, she shared the story of how a Catholic radio show helped open her eyes to the truth about abortion.<\/p>\n

Before she left Planned Parenthood, Trevino began having doubts about her work there. In her book, she writes:<\/p>\n

For some time, I had been experiencing an unrelenting, secret turmoil.\u2026 I felt like someone engaged in an intense game of tug-of-war.<\/em><\/p>\n

At work, ‘every child should be a wanted child’ was a constant message. \u2026This idea that every child should be planned, or not exist at all, provided the basis for what we did each day.<\/em><\/p>\n

But something about that mantra wasn’t ringing true. New pushes at work to pack more and more clients into each day, and without additional resources, seemed to contradict our verbalized commitment to those we served.<\/em><\/p>\n

While driving to Walmart one day, Trevi\u00f1o turned on the radio and flipped through stations, only to wind up listening to a Catholic show on Guadalupe radio. It was a two-hour talk show on abortion.<\/p>\n

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Ramona Trevi\u00f1o (via LifeNews.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

As she listened, a guest on the show describe the trauma she\u2019d endured because of her abortion. Trevi\u00f1o explained:<\/p>\n

One of the guests had gotten pregnant at age 12 after being raped by a family member. Through tears she talked about how her mother, to protect the family secret, had forced her to get an abortion. Since abortion was illegal at the time, the family had gone to extraordinary measures to kill the child. The woman spoke of her feelings of powerlessness and how long it had taken her to get over not only the rape but the abortion on top of it. If she had had a choice, she said, she would\u2019ve had the baby.<\/em><\/p>\n

The fact that the girl, now older, regretted her abortion directly contradicted<\/a> the pro-abortion narrative of Planned Parenthood. “I was stunned,” said Trevi\u00f1o. “The story went against everything we have been led to believe was right. She was young and a rape victim. From the perspective of Planned Parenthood, this was the perfect candidate for an abortion. And yet here she was, saying otherwise. Had it been a choice for her? It didn\u2019t seem so.”<\/p>\n

What the next guest said resonated even more strongly with Trevi\u00f1o. The woman spoke about being “treated like cattle” by the abortion facility, saying that no one there made the women feel loved or allowed them to truly consider their other options. “It seemed clear they just wanted to get us in and out as quickly as possible,” she said.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0\u2018The baby is not to blame\u2019: Rape survivor\u2019s family to raise baby girl after she survived abortion<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It sent shivers through Trevi\u00f1o because she could relate<\/a> to the woman\u2019s story. She was seeing the same thing happening at her Planned Parenthood facility. Trevi\u00f1o was being pressured to rush women through their appointments in order to fit more women into the schedule. She explained how hearing the radio guest\u2019s story gave credence to her own misgivings:<\/p>\n

Hearing [the guest] talk, I felt my heart jump. Her story seemed to match my experiences as a staff member feeling pressured to push the clients through, hearing all the cautionary notes about low numbers and the need to work harder to reverse that. Deep inside, I had questioned the way we were treating our clients, and now here was this woman \u2013 the kind of woman we served and supposedly cared for \u2013 validating my concerns\u2026.In spite of my good intentions, I was becoming a cattle herder too.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although Trevi\u00f1o did not leave her job at Planned Parenthood immediately after hearing the radio show, listening to it increased her doubts about Planned Parenthood. Learning that women regretted their abortions, even when abortion seemed like the perfect solution, made her question whether she was really helping women when she referred them to abortion facilities. Trevino had already been uneasy about Planned Parenthood\u2019s insistence that she rush women through their appointments. She learned from the radio show that this was actually a common practice at Planned Parenthood. Although it took some time before Trevi\u00f1o worked up the courage to quit her job, hearing the radio show was a pivotal point in her conversion. It helped her realize that her work with Planned Parenthood was hurting women, not helping them.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: Source: Ramona Trevi\u00f1o Redeemed by Grace (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2015) 65, 66<\/em><\/p>\n

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