Posted on 11/18/2021 4:41:47 AM PST by Scarlett156
One of the most shocking revelations about Scientology abuses, and one of the best documented, was Tom Tobin’s masterful reporting in 2010 about the church’s decades-long policy of forcing women in the Sea Org to undergo unwanted abortions.
We consider it one of the two or three best articles ever written on the subject of Scientology, and it featured some women we hold in high esteem for coming forward and telling their stories of undergoing forced abortions: Laura DeCrescenzo, Claire Headley, and Sunny Pereira.
In the Sea Org, recruits sign billion-year contracts and then work nearly around the clock, 365 days a year. There’s simply no time for raising kids. So when a Sea Org woman finds herself pregnant, she’s pressured to end the pregnancy and is taken to the local clinic. Laura, Claire, Sunny and others have said that when it happened to them there was simply no choice in the matter.
Since then a couple of the men whose job it was to convince women to have these abortions, and to drive them to the local free clinic, have also come forward to admit that this was a standard feature of the Sea Org, and started back as early as the 1970s.
Laura spent nine years trying to get her allegations about being forced to undergo an unwanted abortion into a courtroom, but with only days to go before a trial was to begin in 2018, Scientology leader David Miscavige threw in the towel and settled with her to keep the trial from happening.
More recently, a new defector named Bree Mood came out of the Sea Org in late 2018, and she said that women were still being forced to undergo unwanted abortions.
(Excerpt) Read more at tonyortega.org ...
https://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/no-kids-allowed/1101759/
The first paragraphs of that article:
"Laura Dieckman was just 12 when her parents let her leave home to work full time for Scientology's religious order, the Sea Organization. At 16, she married a co-worker. At 17, she was pregnant. She was excited to start a family, but she said Sea Org supervisors pressured her to have an abortion. She was back at work the following day."
As I've noted before, truly religious folks - whether you think that abortion should be legal or that it's murder - should be offended that this killer cult gets a tax exemption for being a "religion." Scientology IS NOT A RELIGION. Their tax exemption was given to them because they stalked and blackmailed IRS officials.
Bother your Congress critters about this as much as you can. Scientology gets a tax exemption so they can practice human trafficking and sex slavery. (I wonder whether ANY religion should be exempt from paying taxes, but that's another ball of wax, as the saying goes.)
Anyway, you may not care for "Underground Bunker's" ethical slant but they have a lot of ammunition you can use against Scientology. Which is not a religion.
Advice to women, shoot in head those forcing anything on you..
billion-year contracts
I think land guys get million year contracts.
Scientology was started by 2 Satanists.
“Scientology was started by 2 Satanists.”
And today they have their own TV channel. Trying to go mainstream with such shows as “Meet a Scientologist” and “I am a Scientologist”. Really soft selling their satanic pseudo religion.
Leah Remini’s series on Scientology revealed a lot of what goes on and what has gone on and I thought it would lead somewhere. It seems to have stalled without any more coverage or publicity. She did a great job.
You are absolutely correct - Scientology is not a church but it certainly is a “religion” to those who obey all their zany laws and pour money into it without question. Reading all the books written about it was interesting - written by those who experienced it. I checked them all out at the library and devoured them while her series was on.
I hope she hasn’t given up uncovering all that’s rotten about it. I believe her series ended with the Clearwater angle and the gobbling up of properties there. Empty buildings advertised as Scientology offices without people but lights left on to indicate occupancy. We can be thankful that the monster Miscavige never entered politics - we have too many like him in DC already.
Is this for real or a spoof? I never heard it...
Does not appear to have happened...sorry! I got excited thinking MAYBE - just MAYBE!!!!
Has David Miscavige’s ever re-appear after her disappearance?
They said he’s been sighted in FL. *shrugs*
Check out the site I have linked to. You can cross-reference many of the articles. All the reporting seems very sound.
Do you want abortion to be legal?
Do you want Christian churches to be taxed?
What does that have to do with the article?
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