{"id":217174,"date":"2020-01-22T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=217174"},"modified":"2020-01-20T18:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T00:19:41","slug":"abortion-trains-workers-suicidal-teens-abort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-trains-workers-suicidal-teens-abort\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion industry trains workers to encourage suicidal teens to abort their babies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2014 book “Abortion Care” was written to teach future abortion workers how to work in the abortion industry. In a section on abortion “counseling,” the book tells the story of a teenager named Michelle. The abortion facility’s interaction with Michelle is held up as an example for abortion workers-in-training on what to do if a similar situation arises in their abortion facilities.<\/p>\n

Michelle was 16 years old and in foster care when she came to the abortion facility. According to the textbook, she was \u201ctense, anxious, and trembling.\u201d She was pregnant, but had taken multiple pregnancy tests, hoping for a negative result, and was having difficulty coming to terms with her pregnancy.<\/p>\n

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Michelle was also struggling with serious mental health problems. She\u2019d recently made a suicide attempt, which had taken place before she realized she was pregnant. She was seeing a therapist. The book did not indicate whether the therapist knew of Michelle\u2019s pregnancy.\u00a0According to the book:<\/p>\n

[Michelle] said she could not continue with her pregnancy, and had chosen to have an abortion; but also stated that she didn\u2019t want to have an abortion, feeling it would be \u201ccruel\u201d; and that an abortion was abandoning and abusing her own child. This information was blurted out rapidly \u2013 an indication of how conflicted she was about this choice.<\/em><\/p>\n

Clearly, Michelle was deeply ambivalent about having an abortion. She knew that an abortion would be killing, \u201cabandoning,\u201d and \u201cabusing\u201d her child. This was a clear sign that she would feel very guilty if she had an abortion. Michelle already had a history of suicidal thoughts and a recent suicide attempt.<\/p>\n

Despite these obvious risk factors for post-abortion trauma, Michelle had an abortion after being \u201ccounseled\u201d by the abortion facility. There is no indication that the abortion facility shared any options other than abortion with Michelle, offered her any suggestions about how to have her baby, or informed her of the psychological and physical risks of the procedure.<\/p>\n