Dateline: February 12, 2001
In a previous Feature, we looked at the Society of Centurions, founded with the help of Dr. Philip Ney. Originally founded to help abortionists in Eastern European countries, the Society of Centurions is supported by prolife leaders such as Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life. In more recent years, former abortion nurse Joan Appleton started a branch of the Society of Centurions in the United States.
In the next Feature, we looked at the need for time to heal from the wounds of working in abortion. Now we'll look more into what the abortion worker is living before leaving the industry.
Appleton says, "The one thing that people do not understand is that there are three things that can happen to you when you are in the abortion business.
First, you can realize the horror that you are involved in, and you get out.
Second, you can realize the horror that you are involved in, but you do not have the courage to get out, so you get a little mentally ill. By that I mean that your life just isn’t right. In particular, personal relationships fail. You may start doing drugs or abusing alcohol during that time, but you are miserable and you really have no idea why. Your life is falling apart.
Third, you can realize the horror that you are involved in, and you don’t have the courage to get out, so you take it a step further, and you begin worshipping the horror, and then “the choice” becomes your god. This is a real diabolical side of it, and people need to understand the spiritual warfare that goes on. This is where you sell out, one way or another. And many physicians, in particular, have done that. These are primarily the partial-birth abortionists—those who really relish what they are doing."
Appleton noted that most abortion workers espouse an atheistic or agnostic bent toward religion, sometimes vehemently rejecting the faith they were raised in. Others, she said, may be very active in Christian churches, even taking a leadership role. These people, she says, are just going through the motions, and no longer truly believe.
Appleton now admits that as a member of the National Organization for Women, and as an abortion clinic nurse, she deliberately gave false testimony in support of a lawsuit which eventually became an important Supreme Court test (Bray v. Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic), and that she also lied in her testimony before the US Congress in support of a law banning protests outside abortion clinics. There is a depth of deception -- even to deceiving yourself -- involved in being immersed in the abortion business.
Admitting to yourself, much less to other people, that you'd been living a lie is a difficult thing to do. Breaking away from that tangle of deception takes courage from within, and love from without. And it's something that you can't do alone. Next, we'll at what sends workers into the abortion mills in the first place.
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