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\"Linda

Linda Couri<\/p><\/div>\n

Pro-life activist Linda Couri\u2019s first experience with Planned Parenthood was a lot like that of many young women. She turned to her local Planned Parenthood for her first gynecological exam, and it continued to be her clinic of choice for check-ups. The staff members at Planned Parenthood were always kind and professional towards her, and they became the first women Couri would entrust with her health.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, as she attended college to become a social worker, Couri chose Planned Parenthood as the non-profit at which she would volunteer. And it\u2019s also why, when she earned her degree as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Couri jumped at the chance to work at PP.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believed so much in the mission of Planned Parenthood,\u201d says Couri. \u201cBecause I was an LCSW and working with clients, I saw a lot of their issues, sexual issues. I felt Planned Parenthood was dealing with these issues and I decided ethically that I should take a pay cut to go work for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an LCSW, every so often, Couri would get called on to counsel women and girls regarding abortion. It was a normal part of her job and as a person who believed women should be able to choose abortion, going over that option wasn\u2019t vexing to her. Then one day things changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cA beautiful 16-year-old girl had just found out she was pregnant,\u201d Couri explains. \u201cWe sit in a room and we discuss options.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first option is to go through with the pregnancy and have the baby. Couri told the girl that this would be difficult, but that Planned Parenthood would be there to help her with their prenatal clinic.<\/p>\n

The second option is to have the baby and place the baby for adoption. If the girl chose this, she would receive the prenatal services and also be helped with adoption services.<\/p>\n

The final option is abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important for people to know that in my heart I really believed abortion was the best option for her,\u201d says Couri. \u201cAbortion was going to take care of her problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then the girl did something unexpected.<\/p>\n

\"7

7 weeks old. More than a “potential” human. (Photo from Endowment for Human Development, ehd.org)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cShe reached out and touched me on the arm,\u201d recalls Couri. \u201cShe said, \u2018Can you just tell me one thing? If I have an abortion, am I killing my baby?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Couri, who was firm in her pro-choice beliefs and had herself had an abortion, says that no matter how pro-choice she considered herself to be, she never wondered when a preborn human is a baby and when it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always a baby,\u201d she says. \u201cI could never say it wasn\u2019t killing a baby. That\u2019s dumb to me. [Abortion] was a necessary evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aware that she was ethically and morally bound to tell the truth, but stunned by the girl\u2019s question, Couri admits to evading it by responding, \u201cBaby<\/em> is really a loaded word and so is kill<\/em>. The procedure will be terminating the products of conception.\u201d<\/p>\n

That girl scheduled an abortion, and Couri headed straight to her supervisor. The two of them talked it out and talked each other into the righteousness of continuing what they were doing. They convinced themselves that this young girl was going to have a better life because of the abortion despite the fact that, yes, she would be killing the life inside her.<\/p>\n

While she walked away from the conversation satisfied that she and Planned Parenthood were doing the right thing, something still didn\u2019t sit right with Couri. Then came another life-changing incidence.<\/p>\n

A nurse, whom Couri calls one of the \u201csweetest women\u201d she has ever known, came to her crying. She told Couri that she had seen the tiny hand of an aborted first trimester baby. It was obvious that, despite having participated in abortions before, this experience was having a strong emotional effect on her. The two women sat together, comforting each other and encouraging each other that their work was good. But still, Couri had that lingering doubt.<\/p>\n

\"Baby

Baby in the first trimester<\/p><\/div>\n

Those two experiences, combined with the presence of prayerful young men and women consistently stationed outside of the clinic, and a new friendship with a Catholic priest, were slowly beginning to alter Couri’s position on abortion. Yet, despite her cognitive dissonance, she continued to work at Planned Parenthood. She knew abortion was killing, but she struggled with the idea that she thought it was good for women and society.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t really want to leave Planned Parenthood because I felt like I was the one engaging the important conversations. I felt like I would be a sell-out. But then I started seeing a spiritual director,\u201d explains Couri, \u201cShe was very smart and she said it would be a good idea to leave [Planned Parenthood].\u201d<\/p>\n

So Couri made the difficult decision to resign and said goodbye to the co-workers and job she loved. She soon discovered that without that constant pro-choice presence in her daily life, she had the space to really think about the issue on a deeper level.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very private endeavor on my part in terms of trying to work it out,\u201d explains Couri. \u201cAfter a while I just intellectually decided that I couldn\u2019t be pro-choice because if I was willing to say \u2018It\u2019s a baby,\u2019 then it\u2019s wrong – because it\u2019s wrong to kill a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Pro-life

Pro-life is pro-child and pro-woman.<\/p><\/div>\n

Afraid of being judged by her pro-choice friends and family as being \u201canti-women, non-compassionate, and intellectually dim,” Couri says becoming pro-life was a difficult choice to make.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife would be easier if I was pro-choice,\u201d she admits, \u201cbecause then I\u2019d be [seen as] progressive in my thinking and intelligent. It\u2019s hard. It\u2019s the right thing to do. Do I enjoy it? No. All the different people from different areas of my life, they\u2019re kind of knee-jerk pro-choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she has left Planned Parenthood for good, Couri is still surrounded by pro-choice friends and family. However, she now works at University of Saint Mary the Lake Mundelein Seminary as the Director of the Institute for Lay Formation. She also volunteers for the post-abortive support network Project Rachel, and gives pro-life talks called “The Choice Driven Life.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI do post-abortive healing work. The women that are coming to this group are the same women at daily Mass praying the rosary. There are 60-year-old women. Would you ever think that they had abortions? No,\u201d says Couri. \u201cKnowing you killed your baby is pretty hard to deal with, so you have to be sensitive to who the person is sitting in front of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

When reflecting on her years in the abortion industry and, in particular, that 16-year-old girl, Couri says she feels sorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I deceived her,\u201d she explains. \u201cI was the adult and she asked me a sincere question and I just, I did the wrong thing. I didn\u2019t answer her question. … I wasn\u2019t honest with her. I hid behind my cloak of authority and age. It was wrong. She deserved better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Couri refers to the fact that abortion is killing as \u201can awfully inconvenient truth.\u201d But she is secure in the knowledge that she is right, that being pro-life is right, and she hopes to hear her friends say the same someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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