A First-Hand Account of What Goes on Inside a Chula Vista Abortion Clinic
[Editor?s note: The abortion mill mentioned in this article was picketed for many years by Operation Rescue missionary Cheryl Sullenger and other pro-lifers in the San Diego, CA area. This mill is part of a chain of six mills owned by the notorious abortionist Nicholas Braemer, who had his medical license revoked in 2001, for injuring women during abortions. Braemer once ran up to 10 abortion mills in Southern California and was the focus of a one-year project by Operation Rescue to expose his slipshod abortion practices. During that year, two of his abortionists also lost their licenses, and four of his mills eventually closed.
The abortionist mentioned in the article, Phillip Rand, whose medical license was recently suspended, was picketed by Sullenger and others over the course of two decades at a number of different mills where he was employed. To read more about Phillip Rand, click here.
In 2001, the Chula Vista Clinica Medica was forced out of their office space and closed for a period of six months. The clinic bore the stigma of innocent bloodshed, due to the constant exposure in the community by the pro-lifers, and had much difficulty finding a landlord who would lease to them. Finally, they were able to obtain the office pictured here. Operation Rescue commends Phil Magnan and the other faithful pro-lifers who have continued to minister at this death camp and are seeing an amazing work of God there. Please join us in prayer that this horrific abortion mill will close permanently.]
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BY MIGUEL VASQUEZ, San Diego News Notes
Yeni is a medical assistant and receptionist at the Clinca Medica para la Mujer de Hoy, an abortion clinic in Chula Vista. She’s taking care of a customer, a very thin young Mexican, 28 years old, and of disheveled appearance. He’s come to get information. He smiles nervously all the while. Yeni deals with him coldly. In Spanish, she greets him, “Hi, good afternoon.”
Customer: “Is this where you do abortions?”
Yeni: “Yes.”
Customer: “How much does it come out to? She’s got about two-and-a half months.”
Yeni: “If it hasn’t been over three months, the cost is $300. The doctor’s not coming in today. He won’t be available until Saturday of next week, but what you don’t want to happen is for it to go over three months.”
Customer: “It’s a little over two months.”
Yeni: “You can come in a week from this coming Saturday. Come in with the patient and it’ll be $300. Do you know her blood type?”
Customer: “No.”
Yeni: “No? Well then, if it turns out her blood type is negative, there will be an additional $75 charge. Okay, I’m going to give you a number for you to call in case you want to make the appointment later on since we don’t have a doctor right now. But if you want to make the appointment next week, this is the number for the clinic.”
Customer: “I can make the appointment by phone?”
Yeni: “Uh-huh. You can make the appointment by phone, but for a week from this Saturday. This coming Saturday you won’t be able to do it because we’ve got a lot of patients.”
Customer: “Is it safe?”
Yeni: “It’s very safe. It takes five minutes for the termination.”
Customer: “Five minutes?”
Yeni: “Five Minutes.”
Customer: “Is there any treatment, afterward?”
Yeni: “Yes, she needs to come back in two weeks for a checkup to make sure she’s doing okay. We will prescribe medication for pain, and an antibiotic. It’s very safe, but she needs to follow the treatment and come back in two weeks, okay?”
Customer: “Yes. Thank you.”
Yeni: “Have a nice day.”
This young man was her last customer for the day. It’s almost dark outside, and the clinic is about to close. Yeni is staying to tidy the reception area. She agrees to an interview next week away from the clinic. What follows is her testimony from that interview.
“I started working at the clinic in 2002. I had just graduated as a medical assistant. I had applied at a lot of places, but I didn’t get a job because I didn’t have any experience. Then someone told me that Sonia, an acquaintance of mine, needed someone. When I talked to her, she made it clear that it had to do with a clinic where they do abortions, but that they do other things, too. My goal was to gain at least six months’ to a year’s experience in the medical field. Sonia told me to go to the clinic to try to help out the doctor, and that if I couldn’t take it, it was no problem, they would have me do something else. I didn’t like the idea, even though having an abortion isn’t something I’m unfamiliar with. I myself had an abortion a year before. Sonia had the same thing happen to her, though it wasn’t as voluntary as mine. Her parents took her to get the abortion.
“I agreed to try it out,” Yeni continued. “The first time I helped the doctor, I almost fainted. I couldn’t see, and I couldn’t hear. I was overwhelmed by the blood and the girl’s screams. They took me out of there and I told Sonia that I couldn’t do it, but they advised me to try it once more. By the second abortion I found that I could deal with it. The weeks went by, and even though the job is ugly, I was learning a lot about medicine.
“I made up my mind to withstand the work at the clinic until I got a little experience I could apply somewhere else. Then came the abortions of babies who were five or six months, and it became impossible for me to continue. After three months, I resigned. But the pressure to pay my bills, all my debts, and my situation as a single mother, forced me to go back to work at the clinic.
“To this day, I have left and returned three times,” she said, but added, “I myself can’t believe that I’m here for the money. That’s what is so absurd. I make $8.50 an hour here. But because I wanted a career as a medical assistant, I stayed.”
Yeni checked a small notepad where she has made a few notes for the interview. In this little notebook she has written important points she wants to mention, “So,” as she put it, “that it can be of use to someone.”
She then continued her account. “At first I thought most of the patients would be young, single mothers, but it’s not that way. The great majority are married women; say around 29 years-old, the typical woman who doesn’t want another child. The ones who are separated, or don’t have a man in their life, also come to us. We hardly get really young ones. I think that younger girls appreciate becoming a mother more than the ones who are on their second or third pregnancy.
“We get patients on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. On average, five or six women come in each day. However, since the doctor hasn’t been able to come in until tomorrow, which is Saturday, we’ll be getting 16 patients,” she said.
Yeni then explained what her work entails.
“Basically, what I do is to assist the doctor in the terminations [abortions]. After the patient fills out the forms and waits for her turn, I lead her into the private room where the procedure is carried out. I tell the patient to take her clothes off from the waist down. I tell her where she needs to sit and ask her to wait for the doctor.
“As soon as the doctor arrives, he has her lie down for the ultrasound to see how many months she is pregnant. If the baby is less than three months, the abortion can be done the same day.
“The doctor sits in front of the patient. The patient is lying there conscious ? as if she were about to give birth. I hand the doctor the local anesthesia and I hand him the instruments as needed. I am seeing everything.
“Our doctor is quite old. He’s 84 and uses an antiquated method.” (The doctor to whom Yeni is referring is Dr. Phillip Rand. On Sept. 29, the California Medical Board suspended his license to practice medicine, noting that Rand is “incapable of practicing medicine safely.”)
“First he puts the mirror in place. Then he measures the depth of the uterus. Next he opens the neck of the uterus with a dilator to make it easier. Then he introduces a small rod with an abrasive ring at the end. The ring isn’t sharp, but the scraping hurts a lot of women and they cry or scream.
“When the baby is less than three months, the baby disintegrates completely. When the doctor feels that the baby has been dislodged completely, he introduces something similar to a straw. The exterior opening of the straw connects to a vacuum. Then he vacuums up everything that has broken apart. All that he vacuums goes into a jar. You see blood, and bits and pieces of tissue that look like chopped meat. It all comes out in pieces.
“This is the procedure for eight weeks or less, ” she said. “When they’re about 12 weeks, then the doctor takes the baby out with forceps. He takes the baby out in pieces. He checks each part and he places each one in a tray down below. When he finishes the procedure, I have to drain everything. We drain it to separate body parts from blood. We place all the parts in a jar that goes to the laboratory.
“It’s impressive how well-defined they are. You can’t believe what you are seeing. You see perfect little hands, tinier than those of a Barbie doll. You can see intestines, tiny ribs, their little faces, and their tiny squashed heads. You can distinguish among the parts if the baby was a boy or girl.
“It makes me so sad to see the jars. It’s very hard for me to do all this. To see all that falls on the floor, or for example, to remove a tiny foot from the instruments. A girl who worked here told me that she came home with a tiny foot stuck to her uniform, close to her shoulder. She, of course, hadn’t noticed until her husband told her.”
Yeni continued getting off her chest what happens inside the clinic: “When the patient is less than three months pregnant, we have to prepare her so that she can come back the next day when she is dilated. The really large terminations are impressive. I have seen three fetuses come out whole. In one instance, you could see the little hand coming out of the uterus. The little hand was moving. But the most impressive thing was the baby that came out breathing. That time, the doctor got sick.
“The girl lived in Tijuana. They put dilators in her for two days. The baby was five and a half months. She didn’t have a car and came walking to the clinic. Then it seemed like she was going through labor. When the doctor started to work on her, the baby came out without any help. The child came out breathing and died right there. After a minute, he changed color. He turned purple. The assistants felt very bad. They didn’t want to put him in the receptacle. The doctor had to do it. All of us were very affected by it.
“Later, I saw the doctor in his office. His gaze was lost and fixed on the wall. Afterward, he was on the phone with someone telling them what had happened.”
Yeni pauses. She wants to continue talking, but it’s as if she has a lump in her throat. The interview took a bitter and sad turn.
“Since a few days ago,” she said, “a substitute doctor has been coming in. He’s younger and has a different technique. He doesn’t scrape the uterus, he just uses the vacuum. Last Sunday, he couldn’t take it any more because we did some rather large terminations ? around four months. He used a technique I hadn’t seen. He divided the ultrasound screen in two parts and used an apparatus during the entire procedure. Usually, what you see with the ultrasound is the child sucking his finger, or playing, but on this occasion when the doctor began vacuuming, you could see the baby was moving as if he hurt because it was pulling him or tearing something off. It was horrible, horrible.
“During the procedure, I feel as if they were doing it to me. I want it to finish quickly. I don’t want to see it, and yet I have to see it. It’s as if it were a penance for the abortion I had myself. With every patient I relive the same thing, and I feel the same thing. It’s as if they’re doing it to me again. It’s as if it were so that I never forget, that I never forget what happened. And it hurts. Every day I wake up thinking, ‘I have to go work there again.’
“When I started working at the clinic, Sonia and I made up our minds to help people. We were going to try to persuade them not to get an abortion. We often tried to secretly do a good deed. We’d ask the girls, ‘Are you sure?’ We would tell them to think it over carefully. Sometimes we would tell them it was going to hurt them terribly. We scared them. A few here and there would regret it and not go through with it. We even helped a few of them, who arrived under pressure from their mother or their husband, to escape out the back door.
“But this attitude of helping out was off and on for short periods of time. This is because you see how, when a patient has made up her mind, there’s not much you can do. That has discouraged us. What’s more, I would tell the ones who got an abortion, ‘Be careful; make sure you don’t have to go through this again. Look at me; I did it and it has really affected me.’ According to me, I was providing them with therapy. That has passed in me. I don’t feel sorry for them, as I did at first. Now they make me angry.
“In most of the cases we handle there is no really pressing need. We used to ask them what their situation was, but I don’t ask them any more because they’re the same dumb responses. I’m angry that they come to get an abortion so unashamed, joking, and laughing. One that was in the reception area told me, clowning around, ‘Kick me, why don’t you, so it comes out.’
“When I did it [had an abortion], I was totally in shock. I can’t justify it, but here I see almost all of them come in as if they were getting a facial. They’re very selfish. One 38-year-old woman told me, ‘It’s either the baby, or it’s my daughter’s quinceañ¥²¡ (A traditional Mexican debutant party for 15-year-old girls). It’s not my daughter’s fault that I got pregnant.’ Some of them have gotten mad at us because they’re seven months pregnant, and we can no longer do it. We have had women who come in as patients and later bring their daughter. We have patients who come back here in three months. There’s one patient who has had eight abortions. Even the doctor said the tenth one will be free. Another one came because she was going to get married and wanted the abortion before the honeymoon.
“One woman was afraid and said, ‘Oh my God, please don’t let it hurt, don’t let it hurt.’ Sonia answered, ‘Ma’am, you leave God out of these things.’
“Others ask, ‘How did it come out?’, like they want to see it. I don’t answer them. I only say to myself ‘Don’t worry, the baby came out in pieces. What do you want to see? The baby in pieces?’ After the abortion, they’ll ask, ‘Can I go to a party? Can I drink alcohol?’
“I can’t help being angry ? at the patient, at the doctor, and at myself. It’s useless to be here. We aren’t doing anything good. I’m very mad at myself. I feel wasted away. I feel as if I’m not the same person.”
At another time in her life, Yeni was part of a youth group at a Tijuana parish. Imbedded in her mind are many happy moments, innocent and full of hope. One recent event has made her think long and hard about the meaning of her life.
“Three days after it opened, we went to see Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. Believe me, it was very hard. When we saw how they beat Jesus and the instruments they used, we compared it to the instruments the doctor used. I saw everything we did in the clinic in that movie ? so much blood spilled. I couldn’t stop crying in the theater. I also saw the devil portrayed as a fetus. I wanted to die. The following day, I told Sonia that we had to stop working at the clinic. She also saw the movie and we remembered that in the picture they said ‘He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.’ We were very afraid because just a few months before, the manager of the clinic was killed by her husband. We felt something was going to happen to us because of what we were doing”, she said.
“Before my abortion, and before working here, I wasn’t afraid of death. Whenever I thought of the day God would come for me, even while knowing I have sinned, with all of my sins, I wasn’t afraid. Now, I live with that fear. I feel that I don’t want to die because I wonder how I would face God if I should see him. I don’t have peace.
“Last week, I visited my brother and wanted to hug my nephew. The child was crying almost hysterically. My sister-in-law said the child was scared because he felt I have the devil inside because I kill babies for a living. I was really angry at my sister-in-law, but I felt it was true to some extent.”
Yeni wants to leave her present situation and has started to take the first steps.
“A few days ago, I went to see a guy from the church group that I used to go to. He told me that he was happy that I worked for God and that I was doing well. I felt as if I were choking! I told him I worked at something that I had to leave before I can get closer to God again. He told me to talk to a priest, but I’m afraid. I can’t see how I can in all conscience walk into a church. I know the trouble that I’m in. I know the situation I’m in, and what it is I need to do.
“I applied for a job where they take care of the elderly in San Diego. I told the woman who interviewed me about the type of work I do at the clinic, and I pleaded with her to help me get out of here. I told her my hope was with this new job. She was very kind, and she said she would do all she can. No matter what happens, if I don’t get the job, I’m going to look for a job in whatever I can. It doesn’t matter if it’s not as a medical assistant. I’m fed up with the situation here.
“Sonia also had an interview somewhere else. It is for a totally different job. She told me that when she was walking back from her interview, she was telling God, ‘My dear God, please, you don’t want me to return to the clinic. Give me this job. Please give it to me.’ She also told me, ‘You’ll see; they’re going to give us those jobs.’
“We’re both sick of our jobs, but for one reason or another, we’re still here. I agreed to talk to La Cruz because I think it’s necessary that people know the horrors that we have experienced here. Both of us feel a great need to do something good to start compensating God for everything we have done in this job.”
Yeni said she wanted to make one important comment before concluding the interview:
“I want to add that some religious groups deliver pamphlets to women before they enter the clinic. I’ve seen that they look at those pamphlets that show the formation of a baby week after week. Some reconsider and leave the clinic. They are few, but sometimes it happens.”
Yeni and Sonia left their job at the clinic a week after this interview, which was conducted on September 27, 2004. The woman who was their supervisor is considering resigning, as well. She has told this to the coordinator of one of the two prayer groups that get together in front of the clinic. They continue to pray for the clinic to be closed permanently.
Contents (c) 2005 by Jim Holman.
We need to find more people like Yeni and Sonia they must be hundreds. The truth trucks are a start but we need to go main stream with this in the biggest way possible. We need a panel of doctors, nurses, and previous patients and somehow make it compelling enough that the news stations must pick up the story.
This was an incredible story and I pray that all the new Pregnancy Medical Clinics will offer these young girls front desk reception/medical assistant positions to get them out of there. Afterall, the abortionists shouldn’t work without an assistant but I’m imagining they’d do just about anything for the money. The abortion industry has made me not trust doctors and I’ve been a medical professional for over 20 years. One life at a time is a great thing to remember here…congrats to these two girls for seeing the true evil in this industry and for getting out. Thanks goodness our God is merciful and Jesus has already cleansed us. :)
Jennifer Cartell
LCDR, MSC, USN-Ret.
Executive Director
Corona Life Services
I must buttress a poignant aspect of Yeni’s story here: Post-abortive angst (i.e., clarity) is the end of innocence.
Far more than losing one’s virginity…infinitely more than fading youth and idealism…..post-abortive realization augurs a singular disillusion that is difficult to adequately quantify. And just as painful to bear.
I would urge the courageous young women in this case to seek out a wise and compassionate clergyman – be they Catholic or non-Catholic. I, too, was so frightened that I could not confess for a full year after converting in 1976. (Thus, I could not take Communion as a result.) This was unfortunate, to say the least. But it had to be done. That repentance, coupled with my own inner fortitude, was the only tenable remedy I could enact.
I truly wish the best for the young women here – and for the countless other medical professionals who face the same agony. No one – no matter what religion, race or vocation – should be pressured into participating in an arena of medicine they find abhorrent.
And…..I often wonder: Was this discomfiture the determining factor in the near-total silence of the staff at Asbury Hospital who attended me nearly 30 years ago? They weren’t cruel. They weren’t condemning. They weren’t disdainful.
They just weren’t anything.
I wish for more for my younger sisters – and for generations yet unborn.
Thank GOD that there are people like Yeni and Sonia. I pray for these little victims every day. I can’t see how anyone with a breathe in their lungs can look at there selves in the mirror. To get paid for killing! I pray that there will be more people awaken to the reality of what they are doing. Thanks to our Savior Jesus for forgiving and forgeting our mistakes.
Here’s what I don’t understand. Although I’m grateful that the women of this story decided to get out of the business of killing children, what took them so long? I know that at $8.50 an hour, she could have easily gotten another job somewhere else and she wouldn’t have had to participate in the brutal destruction on innocent human beings.
Frankly, $8.50 and hour and “experience” seems like a poor excuse to remain in a death camp, once you’ve been faced with the truth about what you’re doing.
Not that I’m knocking her, specifically, but I wonder how many other medical “professionals” are continuing to work in the business of death, while secretly wanting to get out? Just my 2¢
I think the fact that this assistant came from a religious background made her more aware of the evil she was involved with.By using her testimony you can enlighten those who have forgotten this issue.Please keeep up the good work! You are all my heros! God Bless!!
These 2 women, while it’s commendable they left, still have blood on their hands. They sound like the camp guards who were just doing what they were told. Here are 2 women who particapated in mass murder for a paltry 8.50/hr. and “experience”. They should be ashamed of themselves. If they wanted experience I’m sure there are any number of medical practices that need receptionists, medical assistants, etc. They did not have to return.
What about the fathers? Does’nt anybody use condoms? While all this is going on these bums could care less. I knew one jerk who told me about his girlfriend’s abortion and was proud he had it done. Needless to say I severed that friendship right quick. I dont associate myself with murderers.
James:
As more than one calculation has placed the percentage of American post-abortive women at 40-43%, I would hope that your inner skank-ho’ detector is operating with the precision of a heat-seeking device.
As someone far wiser (and sinless) than myself once forbade our sitting in judgment on repentant sinners (a category which encompasses all of us), I would hope that “make mine cymbal-sized” exudes from your throat on your next trip to McDonald’s.
Do you have any perception (i.e., do you care?) how hurtful your remarks would seem to the individuals involved here? I agree with you – wholeheartedly – about the horror (and anger) with which we should deal with callous individuals – such as the post-abortive man you cited. It is fairly obvious – it is manifestly obvious – that the medical professionals cited in this story don’t meet that criteria.
Please – let this be a lesson to all of us: Let us think before we speak. Especially when dealing with those whose pain should touch our hearts – and inform our consciences.
personally, i have no problem with the way james expressed himself, except perhaps his comment that “they should be ashamed of themselves”. no doubt they should, but it appears that they already are, so we needn’t pile on. however, in general, his comments strike me as just the type of reaction that most of us probably had while reading the story. he compared them with concentration camp guards, and the telling part of that comparison is that a camp guard could NOT leave or he would be shot for desertion. these women had the freedom to leave at any time, but chose to remain. that said, i am very glad that they have now left (we hope, for good) and are seeking genuine employment somewhere else.
as far as having blood on one’s hands, true genuine confession of this sinful participation – asking the Lord for the forgiveness only He can give, is the only real way to have sins “as red as scarlet” to be washed “as white as snow” as it says in the book of isaiah. i pray that will be the case here.
i too, was wondering about the continued references to the “need” that these two women had to return to their “jobs”. i am glad that they repented and have come out of that lifestyle. but to continue to work at that type of job when you know how evil it is, is hard to comprehend.
it’s hard to imagine that there were no other jobs available or that the “medical experience” they sought was that important.
it’s true, songbird, that we are not to sit in judgement on repentant sinners. but note in the article that the woman quit several times and then returned to the job. time will tell if she has truly repented or not, though i pray she has.
of course we rejoice in the fact that people in the baby killing industry would leave, and that if their repentance is sincere, they will NEVER EVER go back. i hope that is the case here.
as far as whether people who kill babies for a living are “medical professionals”, i can’t give them that honorable title. the abortion industry is a horrible perversion of what medicine was intended to be, which is a healing art. as hypocrates said “above all, do no harm” in the oath which all true medical professionals used to adhere to. now, of course, the hypocratic oath has been bastardized, and only refers to “doing nothing illegal” so as to accomodate the child killing industry. but i don’t consider what is chronicled in this story as “medicine”.
there are many stories of former abortion mill workers who left, or former abortionists who left, because they reached the point where their consciences had been violated to the degree that they could not live with it anymore. and again, we rejoice in those victories. working at burger king or something for minimum wage would at least allow someone the peace of mind of an honest day for a honest dollar, and i think james is referring to the fact that both women continued doing this when they knew beyond any doubt how evil it was. and that is puzzling to me as well.
as far as the references james made to irresponsible and selfish men, i concur with that fully.
This looks to me like another case of abuse. Yeni could be seen as a victim of abuse. She relived her own horrible abortion with every abortion she saw. But like many who are abused, she apparently couldn’t see the ridculousness of her staying where she was. She was proabably psychologically in bondage and certainly living in fear of change, fear for her and her child’s survival. What a different outcome there might have been if demonstraters had even shouted to her that they would HELP her find a different job. Is this what is needed? When I have been jobless or making a smaller amount than seems reasonable, I have found it frightening and demeaning. Then too, if she would quit her job as opposed to being fired, she would not be eligible for the support of unemployment for some time. Not knowing if or that there are temporary resources available to get through the change can keep people stuck in their rut. So maybe there is more to do, like say to mill workers, “If you want to leave, I will help you find a job.” That is quite a committment, but could possibly be done as a network, if that would be an offering for these women. Therapy and great change might be necessary in these workers hearts in order to even be employable elsewhere. If we point a finger at these women, maybe we need to see that there are still 3 fingers pointing back at ourselves. God bless you all in your pro-life work! There is a group that works to help doctors get out of abortion because they seem to get stuck. They might have some ideas to help other workers come out of the mills as well. Cecilia Levantino, who was the executive director of Physicians Life Alliance (which helps people come out of the abortion industry) says we have to love people out of the industry. I assume the Physicians Life Alliance is available on the web, but it is an assumption. Blessings to all who are working to end abortion!
Jerome:
Perhaps it’s me. Perhaps I haven’t expressed myself adequately. Maybe the part of me that inspired the “Rev. Jim” character on the “Taxi” television program still plays a mournful dirge – beats the sheet music out of me sometimes. (and I never even took illicit drugs!)
Let me be clear on this: post-abortive women do not – I repeat, DO NOT – need additional agony from the self-righteous. I’m not criticizing you – or demeaning your own beliefs and/or faith. If I wished to be judgmental (and my heart precludes this) – I’d probably have to agree with you about some of the more troubling aspects of the story. However, one would have to have carbolic acid running through one’s plasma to fail to be moved by the women’s plight in this story.
Condemning the act and the evils of abortion is one thing – demonizing others is quite another. Yes, my heart is cold when it comes to individuals such as Dr. Tiller, my ex-boyfriend, the man James cited, etc. But heaping additional pain upon the repentant is something I simply cannot – and will not – do. I’m not a masochist, so I am not in love with my own pain, Jerome.
I swear – on a stack of scapulars.
Cynthia,
It was because pro-lifers (one lady in particular) befriended these clinic workers that they eventually gave the interview and came out of the killing industry. Even the reporter, (according to our information from pro-lifers on the scene), befriended them and gave them encouragement to do the right thing and leave. I believe you are correct that they felt trapped. It seems like all they needed was a little encouragement and support.
In case any clinic workers may be reading this, I would like to say that pro-lifers and not the enemy. In fact, they are probably the best friends a clinic worker could have, who is looking to free herself from the burden of participating in abortions. Every former clinic worker I have ever heard of, tells of how they are finally able to have peace in their lives, and how much better their lives are, since leaving the abortion industry. I extend an invitation to anyone who wants to stop working at an abortion mill to take a leap of faith and make a phone call to your local pro-life group. You will find love, support, and help (not condemnation) there along with any assistance that may be needed to transition out of the abortion business and build a better life.
Congratulations to Miguel Vazquez and his excellent interview, obviously he must have been friendly to the clinic staff or else Jeni would not have agreed to the interview, maybe this was the last step needed to persuade her to quit her job. I invite all of the readers to pray for Sonia and Jeni so they do not fall again into this temptation, because the devil will try to lure them back, but with Christ we have the victory.
Moli
We must always remember that abortion produces two victims, one dead, but in God’s merciful Hand, the other despairing of ever receiving that mercy. Who is more at risk?
The battle to save souls is so crucial, we must be vigilant in prayer, but also active to stop this carnage whose source is the evil one. Meet me in Washington DC on January 24th at the March for Life, so we can free Jeni and Sonia, and save those precious babies. We really do ‘love them both’Amamos a los dos.
leticia
“Pray my angels, persevere! Do not let the enemy take possession of you in anything. Be courageous.”
These are words of the Virgin Mary spoken on 02-11-82 at Medjugorje, Croatia.
We must never give up. We must pray constantly. We must stand our ground and never surrender to the evils of the abortion industry. This story is heartening and I implore all persons of goodwill to make the effort to stand outside an abortion clinic. Pray. Pray. Pray. Do what you can. You will never regret the time spent doing God’s work. You will only regret the time you did not spend in His service.
this is an interesting link in regards to the nightmares that abortionists and abortion mill employees suffer from:
http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/issues/16.7docs/16-7pg22.html
interesting, but the usual proabortion, in-your-face, sanctimonious commentary is conspicuously absent from this link….
i guess they do have some semblance of shame left after all….
Again – Debates are for the forum – not the comment area. Thank you.
Pray that all the clinic workers would be grieved by their “jobs”. Also that the doctors would admit to themselves that they are taking human life and STOP! Remember that each individual is precious to God and needs to know his saving grace. Satan, the enemy of our souls, wants us to look down on abortion providers and think we are better than them. We should each remember the expression “there, but for the grace of God, go I.” Thank God for each worker that walks out and never goes back. Pray that Jeni and Sonia will be able to ask for and accept God’s forgiveness
I am pro-life, but I am not active in the movement anymore because I am really sickened by what I see. Yes, we should have compassion for people, but the rationale for many abortions can be boiled down into six words: “I don’t want to be bothered.” I get sick of pro-lifers talking about the e-vell abortionists and clinic workers, but what about the women? More often than not, no one is forcing them to go into the clinic. We all have a free will. There is a great deal of selfishness involved in these abortion decisions, but it’s taboo to talk about it.
Here in Philadelphia I used to stand in front of PP and other clinics trying to offer help to women going in for abortions. Many of them acted like it was a joke, would tear up the literature, etc. For them it was like getting their nails done or something. It was nauseating. I admire the sidewalk counselors, because they really do take alot of abuse, from both the clinic personnel, the women, and sometimes the police.
It was all about THEM — their careers, figures, schooling, etc. I went to an elite university and the attitude of most of the young women was basically the same. It has nothing to do with feminism, and everything to do with ME, I, ME.
I have an (ex) friend whose 21 year old son got a young lady pregnant. The kid has some problems, but he’s basically a nice person. Well, the kid and his girlfriend wanted to have the baby, but both mothers — I mean grandmothers — talked them out of it. This woman told me this proudly, like it was a wonderful thing to do. She said that the young man and his girlfriend were both crying and crying when they went for the abortion. And believe me, this young man isn’t the type of person that cries easily. I was really upset, because I could of hooked up this young man with people who could have helped him and his girlfriend. This woman helped in the destruction of her own grandchild, and it didn’t bother her a bit. After she told me this, I never spoke to her again.
disgusted
it’s hard to argue with a word of what you said.
however, may i suggest that you consider becoming involved with either a CPC or a post-abortion ministry? because i’m sure you have a great deal to offer. many of those same women who have exhibited that attitude on the day of the abortion are suffering tremendously about 10 years later, wishing they had not done what they did. and men are certainly to blame for quite a few of the abortions, by coercing the woman into doing it against her will, as the ‘grandmother’ did in your example.
as mother theresa eloquently pointed out a few years ago, both the woman and the man in a crisis pregnancy must be encouraged to ‘give until it hurts’.
the motivation for abortion is sometimes selfish in nature, but can just as often be because of spiritual blindness.
disgusted,
I haven’t been to “Philthadelphia”, I have witnessed, many times, the scenarios you describe in several other cities.
I notice, however, that you only describe the behavior of women ENTERING the deathcamps; did you ever stay to see them coming out post-killing? I have, and highly recommend it to any street lifer who isn’t doing this already.
Sometime ago there was, in one city, a shocks/struts repair company that had painted on it’s service truck the phrase, “LIMP IN, LEAP OUT”. This is the reverse of what one sees at the death mills; we see women leaping in, thumbing their noses, tearing up lit, scoffing, cursing, taunting us, etc…but it’s a different story coming out. Limping, staggering, weeping, bleeding, vomiting, pale as ghosts, many of them…and even more hurting then than when they went in…and less inclined to blow you off, having learned the hard way that it was the prolifers whose warnings were true, not the prodeath propaganda. Hang in there.
And remember, that number for legal assistance with abortion malpractice is 1-800-U CAN SUE;
and CONSENT DOES NOT EXCUSE MALPRACTICE.
i am a mother of 2 wonderful boys and to think that of even aborting my babies i would rather die then kill them. I don’t understand how it is ok to kill babies that are months or even weeks old, but it is not ok to kill people even helpless babies. This abortion issue sickness me to think that women use this as a form of birth control. How dare they kill helpless babies that haven’t even had a chance to live. The only choose the mothers have is to not have sex out side of marriage. I applaude the men and women that are standing for what is right not what is “normally” AMEN
Wow that is crazy and horrible that’s so sad how these things happen every day, how can they take a life a an inocent child that did not asked to come to this world how can those doctors sleep at night thinking tomorrow they will take more inocent life. I hope one day they make abortion illegal! I pray that they do. And for Sonia and Yani I’m proud of them for leaving that horrible job. I will pray for those inocent babies may God have them in his hands. :(
We thank the Lord for moving these women out of harms way and not to stand for the slaughter of the innocent anymore.
Thank you, Jim and the others that were there faithfully praying and counseling women at the steps of the killing rooms for untold days to years. The pamphlets work and the prayers are mighty! Your presense I know moves many through your love and concern for them and their babies…if not immediately, but later onto freedom and forgiveness in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit uses all you do to rescue not only the lives of the babies, but these staff workers and the mothers that make these appointements with death.
I hope Yeni made her way back to the church. Yeni, if you read this: GO BACK! Talk to the priest. He will show you compassion. Do not be afraid. Jesus died for sinners, he did not come for the righteous. Divine Mercy is available to you, no matter what you have done. All you have to do is ask for it! The more you have sinned, the greater celebration in heaven at your return. It’s NEVER to late to go back. You can use this terrible knowledge for something good, to prevent some of the misery and horrors you’ve seen.