Contributor: ATTWN Staff
Noemi Padilla is a New Yorker with an attitude to match. She’s one of our fiery former abortion workers who has had a journey worthy of a movie screen. Noemi is a nurse by trade and ended up working in an abortion clinic in Tampa because they gave her a new phone, a $500 bonus, and it was within walking distance to her home.
While she went there with the expectation that she would help women navigate difficult periods in their lives, that wasn’t the case at all. Even though she wasn’t trained to do abortions, she did them anyway when the doctor couldn’t be there. She was putting together baby body parts in the lab. She was dealing with staff who were constantly hungover, drunk, or under the influence of drugs.
She revealed in her interview with the National Catholic Register that if the abortion clinic saw more patients than usual, the staff got free pizza. The more patients they were able to see, the better the lunch options were.
Noemi knew what it was like to be in a desperate situation with seemingly no way out. She got pregnant at 17 and ended up having an abortion. She was carrying twins.
This is a common experience of many former abortion workers.
“Many, many of our former abortion workers have had abortions themselves,” said Abby Johnson, CEO and founder of And Then There Were None and former Planned Parenthood director herself. “This is so common and a thread to tie many of them together.”
Noemi felt she was helping women at the abortion clinic and wanted to be that person who had “helped me when I was 17. I wanted to empower and give women choices so that they could have a better life.”
But it didn’t turn out like that. Noemi was horrified to find out that “pro-choice only means pro-abortion. Abortion was the only choice ever offered — and many times forced onto — the women.”
So why did she leave? It was because of a mother who was told her baby had a fetal anomaly at 24 weeks and was referred to Noemi’s abortion clinic for a late second-trimester abortion. Noemi’s gut told her the diagnosis was wrong.
You can read the rest of the story at the National Catholic Register.
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