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Myra began working at Planned Parenthood as a counselor with the goal of helping women. Instead of receiving counselor training on her first day at the office, Myra was placed in the surgical abortion room because the facility was understaffed. It was here that she witnessed a surgical abortion for the first time and began witnessing the painful realities of abortion.

After a few weeks on the job, Myra was then trained in the ‘products of conception’ room. Once the abortion was complete, it was her job to assemble the limbs of the unborn child into a dish to ensure that there were no body parts left inside of the woman. This was done by putting the ‘products of conception’ into a strainer where she would dump out the blood clots and pour cold water on top. These tasks were nowhere close to the counselor role Myra had expected to start in her first few weeks on the job.

Finally, she did receive the training to become a counselor, and it was clear that Planned Parenthood cared more about women getting abortions, and less about women making the choice that was best for them. Myra was trained to spend just under five minutes with each patient and then sign off on them getting an abortion. This bothered Myra’s spirit because in some cases, she knew women did not truly want to get an abortion. After a particularly traumatizing event at the center, Mayra found that her compassionate instincts proved to be unacceptable to her superiors.

One day at the center, a young African American woman came to have an abortion. Myra’s counseling office was right across from the ultrasound room, and she heard her coworker gasp as she was performing an ultrasound on the young woman. Myra rushed in to see what had happened. They discovered that the young woman was pregnant with not one child, but with quadruplets at 13 weeks’ gestation.

Myra blurted out, “Oh my God that’s four babies!” The young woman started crying in shock. The workers had never experienced something this rare before.

The young woman called her boyfriend and told him that instead of one baby, there were four. She told him that everything was different now. On the phone, Myra could hear that the father was angry, spoke harshly, and still wanted the woman to go through with the abortion.

Myra said, “By then, as a counselor, and even as a human being, I realized that this woman was just being coerced.”

Myra took the woman into her office for counseling. Though Planned Parenthood had trained Myra to just quickly sign off on giving the woman an abortion, she felt it was her duty to make sure the woman truly wanted to go through with the abortion. If the woman hesitated, she would investigate it more.

After spending time with the woman through the counseling session, Myra’s instincts were confirmed. The young woman was sobbing and was not in a place to make a huge life decision, so Myra sent her home.

A few days later, the woman came in again and she was still unsure about getting the abortion. She was crying and could barely speak because of how distraught she was. Myra didn’t feel comfortable signing off and sent the woman home once again. When the clinical medical director, Myra’s superior, found out about this woman’s story, she berated Myra for sending the woman home twice in a row.

The clinical medical director coldly told Myra, “You know she’s pregnant with four babies and she could die? She could die; they could die.”

Myra looked at her director and blurted out, “Are you God? How do you know if she’s going to die?”

Myra’s spirit was beginning to break free from the callous ways in which her Planned Parenthood center treated women.

The following day, the young woman came back with her boyfriend, who was many years older than her. He was upset, and Myra was not asked for her professional opinion about the situation, nor was she even allowed to speak with the woman. Instead, the director took the couple to a private room to speak with them herself. Myra had no idea what type of advice or “care” the director was giving to the woman. She later found out that the director sent the woman home with abortion drugs.

The day after that, the young woman came into the Planned Parenthood center as they were closing up. She was crying and in excruciating pain. Her shaking hands were between her legs, fearful about what her body was doing. The workers took her to the recovery room bathroom when a baby fell out of her into the toilet. The workers picked up the baby and placed him onto a medical pad.

They then walked her towards the surgical procedure room and two more babies began to fall out of her. The woman could barely walk from the pain. The babies were hanging from her, still attached to the placenta as she tried to walk further to make it into the procedure room. The young woman screamed in horror. When Myra put the two babies into a surgical bowl, she could see that the two brothers were clinging onto each other.

Myra recounted, “It’s like they were comforting each other. They looked like they were so scared holding onto each other.”

The woman’s last baby ended up getting suctioned out of her via a surgical abortion. Myra’s job was to assemble the body parts of the baby back together to ensure there were none left inside the mother.

Despite experiencing such trauma, the woman’s boyfriend didn’t even come to pick her up. The Planned Parenthood workers had to put her in someone else’s car to send her home. As Myra helped the woman to the car, she recognized the blank stare on the face of the woman. It was the same blank stare that she saw on every woman who sat in the abortion recovery room after getting an abortion. The look of loss and emptiness is the last thing Myra remembers about the young woman.

A few days after this event, Myra had a shred of hope. Planned Parenthood brought in counselors for the staff. She thought that surely the counselors were there to help affirm and comfort the workers after such a traumatic experience at the center. However, these counselors were only there to make sure the workers were still on board with Planned Parenthood’s mission. They were there to make sure the workers were still on board with performing abortions, no matter what.

It was after this experience that Myra realized she couldn’t work for Planned Parenthood anymore. She ended up leaving the center after finding support from And Then There Were None. Thankfully, her story didn’t end with the painful, trauma-inducing “services” that Planned Parenthood offered. Instead, she now finds fulfillment as a pediatrician to provide truly compassionate care to each of her patients.