St. Pete Times on Forced Abortions : XENU TV
The St. Petersberg Times continues their terrific series of articles on Scientology fraud and abuse. This time they focus on how Scientology coerced Sea Org members to have abortions:
"Twenty years ago, when Natalie Hagemo was 19, pregnant and working for the Church of Scientology, she couldn’t wait to be a mother.
"She was near the end of her first trimester, she says, when colleagues in Scientology’s military-style religious order, the Sea Organization, began pressuring her to get an abortion.
"Two high-ranking officers said terminating the pregnancy would allow her to keep working. They berated her when she said no.
"Supervisors told her to hide her expanding belly lest co-workers start thinking it was acceptable to get pregnant. Friends and colleagues shunned her.
"Hagemo stood fast and, with her husband at her side, delivered Shelby on Aug. 20, 1990.
"Hagemo left the Sea Org but remained an active parishioner and raised her daughter as a Scientologist."
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"Twenty years ago, when Natalie Hagemo was 19, pregnant and working for the Church of Scientology, she couldn’t wait to be a mother.
"She was near the end of her first trimester, she says, when colleagues in Scientology’s military-style religious order, the Sea Organization, began pressuring her to get an abortion.
"Two high-ranking officers said terminating the pregnancy would allow her to keep working. They berated her when she said no.
"Supervisors told her to hide her expanding belly lest co-workers start thinking it was acceptable to get pregnant. Friends and colleagues shunned her.
"Hagemo stood fast and, with her husband at her side, delivered Shelby on Aug. 20, 1990.
"Hagemo left the Sea Org but remained an active parishioner and raised her daughter as a Scientologist."
More: http://www.xenutv.com/blog/?p=4876&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+XenuTv+%28XENU+TV%29