{"id":243526,"date":"2021-04-25T13:03:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T18:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=243526"},"modified":"2021-04-23T00:37:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:37:43","slug":"woman-coerced-deceived-traumatized-aborted-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-coerced-deceived-traumatized-aborted-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman coerced and deceived into abortion traumatized after seeing aborted baby’s head"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an article in People magazine<\/a>, Lorijo Nerad, who was the president of Women Exploited by Abortion (WEBA) \u2014\u00a0an early group of post-abortive women who regretted their abortions \u2014 told her harrowing abortion story. Although the article is from 1985, many of the elements of Narad\u2019s story echo more recent accounts from post-abortive women.<\/p>\n

Nerad was 18 when she had her abortion. \u201cIf I knew what I know now, I never would have had my abortion,” she said. “I thought it was the only way out.\u201d\u00a0Nerad and her husband were poor, and they were pressured to abort by their welfare caseworker:<\/p>\n

My husband was unemployed\u2026 and we were on welfare. The caseworker thought I was irresponsible. She called Planned Parenthood and made an appointment for me to have an abortion. I was scared to death they were going to cut off our payments.<\/em><\/p>\n

Her husband wanted the abortion, but Nerad didn\u2019t. He said, \u201cChoose. It\u2019s either me or the baby.\u201d Nerad said she \u201cfelt trapped, scared, and alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Former Planned Parenthood worker: We \u2018coerced\u2019 and \u2018lied to\u2019 women so they would abort<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Coerced abortions are common. For a 2013 study, women were asked whether they were \u201ccoerced or pressured into having the abortion,\u201d and 48% of the women answered \u201cyes.\u201d1<\/sup> Another study<\/a> found that 64% of women having abortions were coerced.<\/p>\n

Nerad was almost three months pregnant when she had her abortion, and her child was fully formed, with arms, legs, fingers, and toes. But the abortion facility deceived her:<\/p>\n

I was given a pamphlet that showed a drawing of a little blob of jelly inside of a womb and I thought, \u201cOh great, that\u2019s what it looks like. I\u2019ll go for that.\u201d They didn\u2019t inform me of the development of the child, and there was no discussion about the emotional or psychological problems.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nerad isn\u2019t alone in being deceived by an abortion facility.<\/p>\n

In an amicus curiae brief<\/a> submitted by the Justice Foundation in the Supreme Court case Whole Woman\u2019s Health vs. Hellerstedt<\/em>, 3,348<\/strong> post-abortive women gave first-hand accounts<\/a> of how they were deceived by abortion facilities.<\/p>\n

Nerad describes her traumatic abortion:<\/p>\n

My obstetrician did the abortion in the hospital. I had no anesthesia, no local, no tranquilizers. I lay there on the table and cried. A sheet was draped across me, and the doctor wiped pieces of the baby on it.<\/em><\/p>\n

But the worst was yet to come:<\/p>\n

Two weeks later I was in severe pain, just horrible. I went to the bathroom and there, in the toilet paper in my hand was my baby\u2019s head \u2014 a little bit smaller than a golf ball and all black and tarry. They hadn\u2019t removed it during the abortion. I called the doctor, and he said it was normal, throw it away, no big deal.<\/em><\/p>\n

Retained fetal parts are, of course, not<\/em> normal and can result in life-threatening infection for the mother. Lied to about fetal development, Nerad was shocked and traumatized after seeing her baby\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

In 2020, former abortion worker Mayra Rodriguez revealed that an abortionist she worked for left the head of a baby inside a woman<\/a>, and only took the woman back into surgery to remove it when Rodriguez insisted.<\/p>\n

Although Nerad told her story decades ago, the things she recounted are still happening to women in abortion facilities today.<\/p>\n

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    Jessica Stanton \u201cProtecting Women and Girls from Coerced Abortions\u201d\u00a0The American Feminist<\/em>Fall\/Winter 2016<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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