While the national
media narrative of abortion focuses on the women, babies, protestors, and the
vast political peripheral impacts of defunding Planned Parenthood (PP),
contraception mandates, and the U.S. Supreme Court, there is one group of
individuals consistently left completely out of the conversation: the abortion workers
themselves.
Sometimes
abortionists will snatch the spotlight, often not in positive stories … like
late-term abortionists Kermit Gosnell. But
what about the unseen nurses, counselors, secretaries, managers, and janitors –
all of whom make their living at abortion clinics around the nation? What of their stories?
There are an estimated 3,200 abortion
workers currently in the United States. That’s not a huge number for the nearly 1-million
abortions performed each year. Each of
these workers has a story as to why they ended up working in the abortion
industry … none of whom saw themselves doing this line-of-work as a child
contemplating a career.
At And
Then There Were None, over 380 abortion workers have been helped in leaving
their jobs – quit the industry that had become the source of nightmares – and starting
over financial, spiritual, and emotional.
Abby Johnson worked as a manager of a
busy PP in Texas for 8-years. “I was
even noticed for the good job I was doing by the national leaders with employee
recognition awards. But it wasn’t
enough, and one day, I walked out and never returned,” said Johnson. She went on to say, “It was the love and
constant, kind contact from the pro-life community that ultimately helped me to
walk out. And I’ve been telling my
story. There are many others like me,
others who have finally walked away from a job that was killing them, from the
lies they were forced to tell women to the unimaginable horror they saw every
day at their jobs.”
It’s these workers that are frequently
left out of the national narrative. Yet,
what if these workers got to tell their stories? The secrets of their former lives as abortion
workers are devastating to the abortion industry.
The abortion industry builds its
reputation on claiming to care for women in their most vulnerable time, when
they are facing an unplanned pregnancy with no support. They claim to invest in modern and safe facilities
and build themselves up as heroes to women who have no place else to turn. But when former abortion workers get a chance
to tell all, to unmask the abortion industry, the building blocks of these
so-called advocates for women come crumbling down.
Abortion workers are the ones in the
operating rooms that see instruments left uncleaned, tables stained, bodies
unceremoniously handled, sensitive medical documents discarded, and mistreatment
of women. They are the ones that have
witnessed women being pushed to choose abortion and parents left out of important
decisions. Their voices are missing in
the national conversation.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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