Abortion Clinic Worker Quits: “No Two Week Notice,” “I’ll Never Set Foot in There Again”
by Abby Johnson | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 10/15/13 4:58 PM
We got this message from woman who is now part of our ministry: “I quit this morning. Effective immediately…no two week stuff. I’m done. Never to step foot in there again.”
You have helped us make this happen. In fact,
84 workers have come through our ministry, thanks to all of you and your support! Below are some of the updates from our ministry!
Recently on Facebook, I shared about a clinic worker who left her job after becoming a Christian. She was homeless for over a week. She found out about ATTWN and immediately contacted us. Her story was so courageous. She had a very intimate moment with Christ one evening and decided to give her life to Him. When she walked into work the next day, she knew that helping to facilitate the deaths of the unborn was NOT part of God’s plan. She walked out that day with nothing. She left behind her paycheck, picked up her children and tried to start a new life. But after the money she had ran out, she found herself jobless, penniless and homeless…with her two daughters.
With the help of ATTWN and your prayers, she is now in a safe apartment, her children are enrolled in school and she has an AWESOME, life affirming job!!
Just another story to remind us that God is ALWAYS faithful!
In September, a group of women came together for an ATTWN former abortion clinic worker healing retreat. They were of different religions and different life backgrounds; some left the industry recently and some left several years ago. What they all had in common, though, is they all took a huge leap in a journey towards healing from their time in the industry.
None of them started out in the industry wanting anything to do with abortions. They started out as receptionists or working as a translator, so they felt more at ease justifying their jobs. However, it didn’t take long for Planned Parenthood and the abortion clinics to pull them back into the operation rooms to assist in abortions. ”Sandra” began her work in the abortion industry as a translator, but eventually, she was “there holding the instruments as the baby came out, alive.” Sandra continued, “The largest I saw done illegally was 28 weeks. They were supposed to go up to 25 weeks… the doctor would fudge the numbers on her chart.” The recollection of those particular abortions brought on tears.
“Ellen” recalled her time working at Planned Parenthood. Like many others, she felt uncomfortable with her job there, but it paid the bills and offered the benefits she needed. She was hired on as a patient educator and was reprimanded for quietly giving patients information on adoption services and resource centers in the counseling rooms, because she was not pushing the sale of abortion onto women who weren’t sure what they were going to do. ”It took a huge physical toll,” Ellen said. “I would always come home from work and cry.”
Opening up about the activities that they partook in at the abortion clinics were very difficult on the retreat attendees. Flashbacks, nightmares, and visions of aborted babies and baby parts are common among former clinic workers. “Christa” worked at Planned Parenthood in the back rooms where clean-up after abortion procedures took place. ”I’m guilty of counting body parts and freezing the, only for them later to be burned,” she said.
“Rebecca” worked as a receptionist in an abortion clinic for years. She had been reassured she would have nothing to do with abortion when she began working there. She recalled the especially difficult cases of women who would call to schedule abortions into their third trimesters. She started to cry when she admitted “I didn’t do abortions, but I was the accomplice. I scheduled them. I took the money.”
This was the first real step to healing that most of the women on the retreat had taken. One of the biggest obstacles a converted clinic worker has is the feeling of isolation and believing that there is no one else like them. These retreats that ATTWN hosts throughout the year work to break down that obstacle and allow former clinic workers to open up to each other; to open up to others who have been in their exact situations and know what they are feeling.
Without your financial contributions, we wouldn’t have been able to put on this healing retreat. Thank you to our supporters who donated and sponsored a former clinic worker to go on this retreat. Your prayers and your generosity make it possible for us to put people on a path to healing.
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