A tribe of 650 and counting.
That’s the number of workers we’ve helped leave and heal from the abortion industry. Now, you can hear from some of them as they open up about their own personal stories.
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Pam Barr
I WAS JUST 27 YEARS OLD THE EVENING I walked into my home and faced my husband holding a shot gun pointed at me, with a look of murder in his eyes. His cocaine-addled brain had tormented him into believing that I was out having an affair, one of many he had accused me...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: April Smith
MY HUSBAND AND I HAD BEEN TRYING UNSUCCESSFULLY FOR A THIRD BABY for some months when I began working in the POC (Products of Conception) room at Planned Parenthood in Roanoke, Virginia. The timing of those two things could not have been worse. As anyone who has...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Cassandra Southall-Njoku
I GAVE MY LIFE TO CHRIST IN PRISON. I wasn’t guilty of the drug charges brought against me, but I was tangled up in the street life, addicted to opiates, and knew my life was out of control. Helpless to stop it, I committed my own string of crimes, so prison wasn’t...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Eva Rubalcava
I CONTACTED THE NEARBY PLANNED PARENTHOOD TO INQUIRE ABOUT A JOB because my husband at the time and I had just bought a home. If we were going to afford it, I needed to contribute financially. I made the call even though I was aware of what the organization advocated...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Takisha Tolbert
I remember the day a baby who was taken from his mother’s womb at 19 weeks and six days was placed in front of me. As I looked at him, his face was serene, and his lips and eyes were closed, giving him the appearance that he’d never had a chance to cry, like I was...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Malika Straker
ABUSE OF THE MEDICAID SYSTEM WAS JUST AS RAMPANT AS THE ABUSE OF WOMEN at the clinic where I took a job as a patient advocate. The fraud was not only brazen thievery of taxpayers’ money, but a perpetuated assault to actual victims of rape and incest. It seemed as if...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Bethany Engel
EXTREME FINANCIAL INSTABILITY MADE ME TAKE THE JOB. After my divorce, I moved in with a man who seemed to be the right one, finally, only to find out that he was wrong in every way. Selling drugs while telling me he was financially buttoned up, when in fact his house...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Vanessa Thompson
RIGHT AWAY, THERE WERE PLENTY OF REASONS TO FEEL UNEASY about the women’s clinic where I worked in North Carolina. The owner lived in the clinic and came out of her room every couple of days, disoriented by drugs of some sort, presumably sleeping pills. She would slur...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Margie Gintoli
I remember the dirty street corner in New York City very well on that cold November day in 1973, and the feeling of being scared for what I was about to do. My 17-year-old boyfriend and his buddy had picked me up early in the morning at the house of a girlfriend I...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Alicia Davis
THE NUMBER OF DANGERS—AND MAYBE EVEN CRIMES—perpetrated against the women of our community in Charlotte, North Carolina by the owner of the reproductive clinic where I worked are staggering. I watched, along with my coworkers, as she facilitated abortions for minors...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Sue Thayer
*Note: The stories shared by And Then There Were None about the courageous Quitters of the abortion industry are deep, personal, and sometimes very raw testimonials of the lives of those who have worked behind the scenes of abortion and have come out on the other...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Annette Lopez
Annette Lopez with Dave Franco I LIKED WHAT I DID FOR A LIVING. Between 2005 and 2010 I was working for the Planned Parenthood Los Angeles Teen Center seeking out schools and organizations that would allow me and the other educators in the office to make presentations...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Annette Sosa-Rodriquez
Annette Sosa-Rodriquez with Dave Franco In the driver’s seat of the van that drove us deep into the heart of Texas in sweltering summer heat was a white girl driving and talking to her white co-passenger about Pokemon Go. The rest of us black and brown girls sat in...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Sonia Torrez
Sonia Torrez with Dave Franco When my husband started going to church after his mom passed away, I began to go with him despite not wanting to attend. That is when everything began to change for me; when my heart could no longer accept where I was in the world, and...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Shelley Guillory
Shelley Guillory with Dave Franco You would think that a clinic that was going to lie about what they hired you for might wait a little bit before revealing the truth. But it was on my very second day that I drove up and saw a packed parking lot. “All these ladies are...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Noemi Padilla
Noemi Padilla with Dave Franco The tragedy of working at the women’s clinic is how slowly but surely they took me away from me. It’s slow enough that you can’t see it coming, and slow enough to put the fear of God in you with the eventual realization that the person...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Myra Neyer
Myra Neyer with Dave Franco The day that I heard my coworker gasp loudly was a fateful one. I was just outside the room where she was performing an ultrasound on a young, shy, petite black girl. Wondering what would make her react that way, I ran in to find her with...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Priscilla Hurley
Priscilla Hurley with Dave Franco I WAS 25 YEARS OLD WHEN MY BOYFRIEND BEGAN PUSHING ME TO SEE A DOCTOR and take care of a little mistake we had made. I did not want to do that. But he was a law student pursuing his dream career, and a real catch, I thought. I was in...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Julie Wilkinson
Julie Wilkinson with Dave Franco I FELT CERTAIN THAT THE REASON why I was able to take the job at a Boulder, Colorado abortion clinic was because I was raised by parents who were enthusiastically pro-choice. My dad, a physician, and my mom, a nurse, were a liberal...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Caroline Strzesynski
Caroline Strzesynski with Dave Franco IF I HAD TO CHOOSE THE MOMENT the Enemy began to lose his grip on me, it was during my pregnancy with my daughter. I was glowing as life grew within me and loved all the body changes that accompanied. I had been working for...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Kelly Lester
Kelly Lester with Dave Franco The beginning of the end of my employment with an abortion clinic in Richmond, Virginia began with a conversation. “Kelly, make sure you take care of the magazines in the waiting room.”I knew exactly what my boss meant by “taking care”...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Sarah Eubanks
Sarah Eubanks with Dave Franco IN A RATHER ODD ATTEMPT TO ASSUAGE THE ACHE IN MY OWN HEART for having an abortion, I applied for and was given a job at the very same abortion clinic where I had my procedure. The best I can do to make sense of it is— I think I thought...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Adrienne Moton
Adrienne Moton with Dave Franco PERHAPS YOU'VE HEARD THE FABLE: If you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will jump right out; but if you put a frog in a pot of tepid water and gradually heat it, the frog will complacently let itself be boiled to death.That is...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Monica Cline
Monica Cline with Dave Franco “PLEASE STEP INSIDE, EVERYONE,” THE INDIAN GURU SAID with a thick accent as he led us to an empty conference room. “Lay on the ground. We’re going to keep the lights low.” I stepped in with the other people and lay down wondering what I...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Franne Valle
Franne Valle with Dave Franco UNLIKE SO MANY COLLEGE GRADUATES, I knew exactly what I was going to do with my degree. Although I love my daughter more than I can say, I lived through the hard reality of becoming a teenage mother some years earlier.At some point, I...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Mayra Rodriguez
Mayra Rodriguez with Dave Franco WHEN MY MOTHER TOLD ME THAT SHE WANTED OUR FAMILY TO LEAVE Mexico City and cross over to the United States, the idea was unthinkable. As a young woman, I dreamed of being a doctor in Mexico City. Mexico was my home. My mother didn’t...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Janet Brown
Janet Brown with Dave Franco IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR ME TO FIGURE OUT that the new job I had just taken at a Planned Parenthood in Missouri was not nearly as defined as I had hoped. In fact, as the new Director of Quality and Risk Management, a position that would...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Jason Wilson
Jason Wilson with Dave Franco I ROLLED UP TO THE ADDRESS printed on my itinerary sheet, got out of my truck and walked to the building. Suddenly, I stopped. By the signage and writing on the glass doors, I realized I was about to walk into an abortion clinic. As a...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Keysha Lockett
Keysha Lockett with Dave Franco “OH, KEYSHA, NO!” my mother said into the phone when I told her I had just taken a job at Planned Parenthood. “They kill babies!”But Mom really had nothing to worry about. The particular branch where I had just accepted a job didn’t...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Sarita Munoz
Sarita Munoz with Dave Franco “AM I READING THIS CORRECTLY?” THE JUDGE SAID as he reviewed the charges against me. “Miss Munoz is being accused of stealing a sonogram machine?”I didn’t know whether to laugh or scream. I hadn’t yet heard the charges against me, ones...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Claudia Solitaire
Claudia Solitaire with Dave Franco I REMEMBER THE FEELING AS I WALKED OUT OF MY JOB INTERVIEW at a women’s health clinic in Texas; that I was about to join a group of women committed to women’s health. There was an all-for-one feeling running through me and I loved...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Nallely Perez
Nallely Perez with Dave Franco Looking back now, it is difficult to understand. But when the Planned Parenthood clinic that I worked for advanced me from receptionist to the person whose duties it was to strain for the baby pieces and rinse them off, I was...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Yolunda Davis
Yolunda Davis with Dave Franco I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG the very first moment of my first day. I had a wonderful job as a nurse in Jackson, Louisiana, when I received a call from a friend who worked at an abortion clinic in Baton Rouge. She told me they needed a...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Barbara Beute
Barbara Beute with Dave Franco THERE WAS NO LIGHT IN THE WOMEN'S HEALTH CLINIC WHERE I WORKED—just one; over me. Every other room or hallway in the place was still and dark as night. After hours was a good time for me to get work done, I thought, the kind that builds...
Abortion Industry Quitter of the Month: Lisa Searle
Lisa Searle with Dave Franco WHEN THE HIRING MANAGER AT THE GYN CLINIC SLID THE PIECE OF PAPER IN FRONT OF ME suggesting what might be my starting salary, my eyes nearly fell out. They’re going to pay me how much?I had been a nursing student studying to get into...