She quit Planned Parenthood after seeing 'fully formed' 16-week aborted baby

The moment former Planned Parenthood worker Nallely Perez changed her mind about abortion is so traumatic, it still brings her to tears.

Her job was to rinse the fetal remains after abortions and place them in the freezer. The oldest babies were about 12 weeks, until one day when she was faced with a 16-week-old baby who had been aborted.

Key Takeaways:

• Nallely Perez says she was working in the products of conception lab at Planned Parenthood when she was given the body parts of a 16-week-old baby boy to rinse off and put in the freezer.

• She realized that she had been going through the motions robotically at Planned Parenthood, rinsing and packaging aborted babies one after another.

• Shortly after seeing the baby's body, she quit Planned Parenthood.

• Perez now works as the operations manager for the pro-life organization, ProLove Ministries.

• Seeing the truth of what abortion is changes hearts and minds on abortion.

The Details:

Perez recalled that she was ready to assist with abortions at Planned Parenthood, just as she would on any other day. Her job required her to work in the “products of conception (POC) lab,” the room where she pieced together the body parts of aborted babies to ensure they had all been thoroughly removed from their mothers’ wombs.

The Christian Post reported:

After each abortion, a jar containing the remains of the aborted child was brought into the lab, she recalled. Perez's task was to empty the contents into a petri dish lying under a bright light, and then an abortionist would come and count the pieces of the baby.

Then it was Perez’s job to rinse the remains, seal them into a red bag, and place them in the freezer. By the end of the day, there were usually around 13 or 14 bags filled with remains stacked inside.

This particular day, the traveling abortionist on staff at the facility was going to abort the baby of a woman who was 16 weeks pregnant. The baby boy was four weeks older than the facility’s normal 12-week gestational age cutoff for abortions.

Perez said a Planned Parenthood staffer had made a mistake while reading the mother’s ultrasound, and the abortionist had agreed to do the second-trimester abortion.

READ: Abortion workers suffer emotionally: ‘You see arms and legs torn off’

Perez was shocked by what she saw following the abortion of that baby:

"In the past, I would see little arms, little legs, but this baby, his head was complete," Perez said, crying at the memory. "The baby was just sitting there, and his arms were a little longer than the other babies."

"You could even see his little spine, his little legs, and everything was just so fully formed. You could see the place where his little eyes were going to be," she continued. "And the doctor came in and, just like with any other baby, he counted the pieces. And then we bagged him up and put him in the freezer."

Traumatized, Perez had a nightmare about the dismembered baby boy lying in the petri dish, but when Perez asked one of her coworkers the next day if she was bothered by that particular abortion, the woman responded: "No, this is normal. We do it all the time."

Desensitized and robotic

Perez admitted to the Christian Post that before seeing the aborted 16-week-old baby boy, she also had been desensitized to the violence of abortion. Perez even had four children when she worked at Planned Parenthood, and she had chosen life for her first baby at the age of 14.

She was lured to Planned Parenthood by the promise of enough pay with a receptionist position to support her family. Perez was eventually moved from her receptionist role at the facility to a position as a counselor, then as a staffer in the recovery room, procedure room, and POC lab.

Perez convinced herself that she was helping women, even as she noted that many of the women undergoing abortions were clearly distressed.

“There were a lot of women in there who looked like they didn’t really want to be there, because they were crying,” Perez recalled.

Perez described her previous attitude at the facility as "robotic." She and her co-workers handled a large amount of baby remains each day — almost as if they were in a factory.

“We were just like robots,” Perez explained. “We were just handed the jar, we emptied it in the POC lab, had the doctor come in, and then we did that for the next one, and then the next one, and then the next one. It was just non-stop.” 

Pricking the conscience

In addition, a group of pro-lifers had pricked her conscience while she worked at Planned Parenthood. Their quiet prayer across the street from Planned Parenthood while displaying an image of the Virgin Mary, upset Perez, who is Catholic — more than any other pro-life protestors did, even those who openly confronted her.

Perez put in her two-weeks notice to Planned Parenthood shortly after seeing the baby boy's body. She couldn’t get the memory of him out of her mind. The father of her children had also begun a faith conversion around the same time, and this played a role in her decision to leave the abortion facility.

Perez has since connected with Abby Johnson and other former abortion workers through Johnson’s organization, And Then There Were None, and has attended a healing retreat through the organization. Now a pro-life speaker, Perez was also featured in a 2023 documentary, "She Was Stronger.”

Today, Perez serves as the operations manager of ProLove Ministries, counseling women while drawing upon her unique and instructive experiences, both as a former teen mom and a former abortion worker.

The Big Picture:

Many abortion workers have reported having nightmares, as if their minds are attempting to process the violence to which they have been desensitized and numbed during the daytime hours. They also report having emotional breakdowns.

As Live Action News previously noted, one abortion worker said:

I have fetus dreams, we all do here: dreams of abortions one after the other; of buckets of blood splashed on the walls; trees full of crawling fetuses...

One late-term abortionist reported that he was "troubled by a recurring dream of a fetus trying to hold onto the walls of a uterus by its tiny fingernails."

A nurse who once assisted with abortions recalled, "I’ll never forget that day as I watched in horror as the doctor dismembered and removed the baby’s bloody limbs and I had to account for all the pieces. I still have nightmares about that day."

The Bottom Line:

Seeing the truth of what an abortion is — the direct and intentionally killing of preborn children —changes hearts and minds, at times turning even long-term abortion workers into pro-life advocates.