Abortion worker flees facility after seeing late-term aborted baby: ‘It’s alive!’

Live Action recently released videos of former Planned Parenthood workers describing how they saw torn apart bodies of aborted babies in the facilities where they worked. In the video below, former Planned Parenthood director Sue Thayer describes witnessing abortion procedures for the first time. She remembers noticing three arms in a jar of aborted baby parts and being told that the woman had aborted twins:

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Other abortion facility workers have written about what they saw in the “POC lab.” “POC” stands for “products of conception,” the euphemistic term used by abortion workers to describe preborn babies. Referring to women’s preborn children as “products of conception” dehumanizes them and makes it easier to kill them with a clear conscience.

In Abby Johnson’s book, The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories, an unnamed former abortion worker calls the POC lab “a horrific place full of unspeakable gore.”

This abortion worker describes how the facility she worked in would immediately put new workers in the goriest room in the place to see how they would cope. She says:

When the worker saw the torn apart bodies of aborted babies, she was surprised. The reality of abortion was nothing like what she had been taught:

Nevertheless, the abortion facility worker telling the story did “well” in the POC room – she didn’t cry hysterically or become sick. The facility administrator said to her:

A strong stomach is needed to work in an abortion facility. This worker was able to suppress her emotions and harden herself to the broken bodies of aborted babies she saw every day.

But not all the abortion workers at her facility were able to do so. The worker sharing her experiences described what happened when one of her co-workers was sent in with the aborted babies for the first time. The co-worker had worked in the abortion facility for five years, counseling women and encouraging them to choose abortions. Even though she had been at the facility for such a long time, she had never seen what an aborted baby looked like:

Here’s what happened next:

As she ran out the door, the worker screamed, “It’s alive! It’s alive!”

The aborted baby was still moving.

Imagine the shock and guilt this worker faced when she realized she had been lying to women for all those years. She was suddenly faced with the reality of abortion, all illusions stripped away. It was too ugly for her to bear.

The worker recounting the story, however, was merely annoyed at her co-worker’s reaction. She saw her only as an incompetent employee, leaving more work for everyone else:

This baby was still alive, with both of her legs ripped from her body.

In retrospect, the abortion worker who told this story couldn’t understand how seeing the baby didn’t change her mind about abortion. She is pro-life now, but it was not the torn apart bodies of the babies that swayed her. As she says before,  she was operating on denial – after all, she was responsible for aborting several of her own children as well as helping many women abort theirs. The truth was too painful to accept.

Her story is one of the many firsthand accounts in The Walls are Talking. It demonstrates how horrible abortion is, but also how a person can become completely desensitized to violence and killing to the point where examining dismembered body parts is just part of a job.

Source: Abby Johnson The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2016) 115-120