{"id":88501,"date":"2016-02-23T17:41:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=88501"},"modified":"2016-02-23T17:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:00:39","slug":"former-abortion-clinic-worker-reveals-details-of-abortionist-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-abortion-clinic-worker-reveals-details-of-abortionist-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Former abortion worker reveals details of industry tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a recent conference call<\/a> organized by the pro-life group And Then There Were None, four former clinic workers shared their stories on how and why they left the abortion industry. And Then There Were None<\/a>\u2019s founder Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood facility director, facilitated the call, which exposed clinics for the dirty tricks and lies they use on women.<\/p>\n

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Jackie, one of the former abortion workers, told callers that she has a degree in the medical field and worked at the front desk of\u00a0at a privately owned abortion facility in Austin, Texas. While her job was checking patients in and out of the office, she saw and learned a great deal.<\/p>\n

She told callers that when women left the abortion clinic, it never mattered how confident or strong they were when they walked in the door – every single one of them walked out changed. They were either crying, sobbing, or completely hysterical. They needed sedatives and oxygen to help calm them down.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very evident on their faces that they\u2019ve lost something,\u201d said Jackie.<\/p>\n

Jackie shared the abortion center\u2019s biggest rule: no men allowed in the recovery room. It didn\u2019t matter if he was the father of the patient, the spouse, or the father of her baby. This meant that most women were alone in the recovery room, which Jackie referred to as the emotionally darkest room in the facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe women were always just really upset that their partner couldn\u2019t go back in the room with them,\u201d she said. \u201c[\u2026if] they take their partner in the room with them then after they procedure they want to have a big emotional display and it takes too much time. [The facility staff] wants them in and out. If they\u2019re in the room and isolated from their partner, they get the feeling that they\u2019re alone and are put in the position of having a negative perspective of having to raise a child alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

This feeling reconfirms their decision to abort because they think they have no support. Women also weren\u2019t allowed to see their aborted babies after their abortions, and 10-12 patients were in the recovery room at one time with only one nurse to attend them all. By the time the women were cleared to leave the facility, Jackie said they were totally emotionally drained.<\/p>\n

In the call, Jackie also revealed some startling numbers. The abortion center\u00a0where she worked was seeing 100 or more patients each day with just one<\/em> abortionist. About 75 of those appointments were for abortion, while about 25 were abortion consults. The abortionist was with each patient for only about 5-7 minutes, according to Jackie. If it took longer than that because the patients weren\u2019t ready for the abortionist on schedule, the staff members were reprimanded.<\/p>\n

Despite this, it wasn\u2019t until Jackie was trained to work in the pathology lab that she began to feel a change inside.<\/p>\n

The pathology lab was where the clinic staff took inventory of the body parts of the aborted fetuses. They determined whether\u00a0any of the parts were intact enough to be harvested and sold, and had a checklist of parts including head, arms, legs, and torso to ensure all of the baby was removed. That checklist was sent to the abortionist\u00a0to let him know that the abortion was complete. After just 3 days, Jackie realized she couldn\u2019t do it anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized everything I thought about the abortion industry was wrong,\u201d she said. \u201cAfter three days I had just about as much as my heart, soul, and stomach could stand.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the pro-life women who would consistently stand outside that abortion center\u00a0was a representative from And Then There Were None. Jackie didn\u2019t feel that she was in a strong enough financial standing to quit her job, but she decided to pray about it, which she admits was the first time she prayed about something. After praying, she thought of that woman outside the clinic and she googled \u201cabortion clinic worker help.\u201d That\u2019s when she found And Then There Were None.<\/p>\n

And Then There Were None assigned her a counselor whom she spoke with the next day. Jackie was determined to stay at the clinic until she found a new job, but her counselor convinced her to submit a two-week notice the next day under the condition that she wouldn\u2019t have to work in the lab.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt like I had lost 500 pounds maybe,\u201d explained Jackie. \u201cAn enormous burden that you don\u2019t even know you\u2019re carrying. An enormous cleansing and weight lifted off of your spirit and soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those two weeks were extremely stressful to Jackie, knowing and feeling what she did but still having to walk through those doors each day. However, she knew that she had made the right decision and she never looked back. She said that it was an amazing feeling \u201cleaving there and leaving that behind and taking your first step toward healing, and grasping the opportunity to tell people and finally share that this is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n