Posted on 09/08/2011 2:08:21 PM PDT by NYer
Note: Jewels Green is a former abortion clinic worker who also had an abortion herself. She recently spoke out about her experiences as an abortion clinic worker for the first time. You can read that article here. In this column she reveals more details about her five years at the clinic.
September 8, 2011 (LiveAction.org) - So much became daily business-as-usual while working at an abortion clinic year after year: the tears, the shouting parents and boyfriends, the drivers who accompanied abortion patients who said they were “going out for a cigarette” and then disappeared—abandoning the pregnant mother they’d brought in, the jokes in the lunchroom about the one who showed up with her multiple other kids in tow (we did not allow children in the waiting room. Ever.)
Even the macabre became commonplace. The gallows humor I’d seen in movies about medical staff that work around disease and death day in and day out was right at home in an abortion clinic.
I vividly remember the cleaning lady who quit after finding a foot in the drain of the one of the sinks in the autoclave room (where the medical instruments were cleaned and sterilized after abortions) and how we all laughed and joked about it in the staff lounge for days and weeks afterward.
When the power went out one time for hours and we were all explicitly instructed NOT to open the freezer where all of the medical waste was stored (read: dead baby parts in bio-hazard bags) but inevitably, someone did open that freezer and I will never, ever forget the stench of decaying human flesh for as long as I live—but we all laughed as we gagged and joked how at least “they” had it better in that non-functioning freezer because at least they couldn’t smell it.
But one thing about the clinic never sat well with me, and maybe this is because in my heart I always knew it was wrong. All of it was wrong. Especially this: the dead baby in the refrigerator in the lab. It was touted as a “teaching tool” and a “medical anomaly” that this perfect 10-week-old fetus “survived” the suction abortion procedure perfectly intact. So he (I thought I could tell it was a he) was given the dubious honor of being preserved in formalin in a translucent plastic jar in the laboratory refrigerator. I think we called him Charlie, but I can’t really remember. I know he had a name, but blissfully I have either forgotten or repressed it. But he was there. Every day I worked there.
Occasionally I peeked in on him, fascinated by the bizarreness of it all, but also with a scientific curiosity—every other abortion resulted in parts, bits and pieces of human in the jar—but this miraculous little creature was perfectly formed and complete in every way, with the heartbreaking exception that he was dead. There was no amniotic sac, no placenta, just teeny-tiny perfect little baby. Floating in the jar. In the fridge. Forever silent witness to the march of death of his immature brethren.
How I now pray his soul rests in peace, and that someday he is given decent burial—or at the very least tossed out with the rest of the bio-hazardous waste—for that would be far more merciful than where I knew him to be.
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More like depraved indifference.
Still, I'm glad that she changed her life and shared her story.
Just heartbreaking. How do these people sleep at night? May the Lord have mercy on them.
I agree - I thought the article a bit too light hearted; but at least she changed. At the bottom of the linked article is another link wherein she answers questions; I haven’t read it yet. Maybe it sheds more light on her.
I have a feeling that she is trying to appeal to people who are pro-abortion, rather than preaching to the choir.
You may be right. Maybe I’m looking at this the wrong way. It was just more than a little disconcerting.
If you're going to have an abortion, or perform an abortion, you have to deaden your senses and shut off your conscience.
I’ll have to read the article linked at the bottom and see what she says. I think that she was trying to present facts without adding her viewpoint. It was disconcerting.
You are most likely right. It does take enormous courage to share a story like this.
This woman tests even God’s powers of forgiveness.
And while I personally oppose rape, I strongly support a man's right to choose.....
you are so right. Isn’t it so very sad that humans can choose to believe lies so that we can try to run from our sins? The only right to life given is through God. When a woman has an abortion, she chooses her life over someone else’s. Doesn’t matter the circumstances, it’s all about “her.” We want to be all powerful, all in control...and we refuse to submit to the authority and power of our creator, God. By aborting a child, a woman falsely uses her power to deny God His purpose in that child’s life. Life isn’t ours to throw away...nor are those smallest of lives in the mothers’ wombs,either. God will judge us all eventually, and this will be another of our nation’s common sins to bear.
It’s prudent to take every opportunity to celebrate good news.
I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
I would go out of my mind.
What evil this is. Makes me sick.
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