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Former clinic worker Deborah Henry gave this\u00a0testimony at a conference sponsored by the Pro-Life Action League.<\/p>\n

Henry started off working\u00a0at a clinic that did not perform abortions, but did give referrals to abortion providers. In her own words:<\/p>\n

After a while, I wanted to get out of the clinic because they just weren\u2019t paying enough money. A doctor offered me a position in his own private practice in Livonia, so I took the position. He explained to me that they did the abortions, but again, I didn\u2019t think too much of it. At that time, I was pro-choice, or pro-abortion as now I would say it, and I didn\u2019t really think much about what abortion was. I used to think of abortion as eliminating a problem, instead of killing a baby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In retrospect, Henry feels that many of the reasons women gave for having their abortions were \u201cunreal.\u201d She refers to herself as being \u201cbrainwashed\u201d:<\/p>\n

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The reasons that women had for having an abortion were totally unreal. I can see this now; but at that time, the brainwashing helped me to understand why they had to have these abortions. We were told as medical assistants that we were there to help the women, no matter what the reasons were.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In her testimony, Henry revealed that one woman came in for 9 abortions.<\/p>\n

Under the pretext of \u201ccounseling,\u201d the clinic workers would pressure ambivalent women to have abortions:<\/p>\n

Many women could not afford to have babies, so we would use examples\u2013like the price of babies\u2019 shoes, the price of clothing, how much it cost to raise a baby. If they weren\u2019t finished with their education, the hindrance it would have on their education, how they would have to find a baby sitter, who was going to take care of that baby for them? We would find their weaknesses and work on them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clinic worker Kathy Sparks revealed similar tactics<\/a> in the abortion clinic where she worked.<\/p>\n

The clinic workers also sugarcoated the abortion procedure:<\/p>\n

After the basic questions, they were told briefly about what was to happen to them after the procedure. All they were told about the procedure itself was that they would experience slight cramping similar to menstrual cramps, and that was it. They were not told about the development of the baby. They were not told about the pain that the baby would be experiencing or the physical effects or the emotional effects that it would have on them. They had no idea who was going to be there to help them when they fell apart afterwards. They were taken into the room then, and, as I said, there was no counseling done. These women basically had no idea what they were getting themselves into. They were just told to lay on the table; they were undressed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Henry\u2019s clinic performed both first trimester suction curettage abortions, where the baby is torn apart via suction machine, and 2nd<\/sup> trimester D&E\u2019s, where the baby is dismembered with forceps. You can see diagrams of suction abortions<\/a> and D&E abortions \u00a0a<\/a>t the Priests for Life website. You can also see the remains of unborn babies aborted by suction at 9 week<\/a>s \u00a0and the remains of D&E abortions done at 20 weeks<\/a>\u00a0(warning: these are very graphic pictures).<\/p>\n

The counselors referred to unborn babies as \u201cclusters of cells\u201d or the old abortion clinic standby, \u201cproducts of conception\u201d:<\/p>\n

Some of the women were a little apprehensive about it. We were told that in explaining to them that we could never use the word \u201cbabies.\u201d It was always tissues, tissues of cells or clusters of cells or products of conception<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Henry goes on to say:<\/p>\n

The women were never given any type of alternatives to the abortion. It was just automatically assumed that they knew what they wanted. They were never told about adoption agencies. They were never told about people out there who were willing to help them\u2013to give them homes to live in, to provide them with care and even financial support. The euphemisms that are used \u2014 clusters of cells, products of conception, or just plain tissue \u2014 are all lies.<\/p>\n

I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as 10 weeks, a couple of inches long with a leg missing, or with their head off. These are things that I have to live with now. I know the Lord has forgiven me, but I can never erase those things from my mind. The sounds of those bones breaking, The sight of those babies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Henry reveals that many of the women cried after their abortions. She describes what the abortionist\u2019s wife said to them by way of \u201ccomfort.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the famous lines that the doctor\u2019s wife used to use after the procedure, when she would come in and the women were crying\u2013she would pat them on their shoulder and say: \u201cIt\u2019s okay, honey, everybody makes mistakes\u2013that\u2019s why pencils have erasers.\u201d How can you erase that thought from your mind? Where is she going to be when that woman is threatening suicide because she realizes that she killed her child, and there is no bringing that baby back. Where is she going to be then? She is off, counting her money and buying new cars, or whatever. She doesn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read Deborah Henry\u2019s full testimony here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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