Patricia Sandoval, a former industry nurse turned pro-life advocate, recently attended a march in Malta where she shared her conversion story after witnessing the horrors of abortion at a Planned Parenthood facility.
On 3 December, Sandoval, from the United States, praised Malta’s continued defence of the unborn, making it one of the last bastions against abortion in Europe.
The march itself, which this year took the theme “Life is a Right”, allowed Sandoval to share her own harrowing experience of abortion, not only as a former industry worker but also as a woman who had three abortions, the first when she was 19. Her abortions subsequently led to nightmares, anxiety, eating disorders, and suicidal thoughts.
Despite breaking up with her boyfriend after a third abortion, Sandoval later found a job a Planned Parenthood, where she worked as a nurse counselling 50 patients.
Even though she had no previous expertise, staff at the Planned Parenthood abortion facility were excited to hear that she’d had abortions, though Sandoval was told never to use humanising words like “baby” or even “fetus”, but instead to refer to an unborn baby as a “sac of tissue”, a “blob of cells”, or simply “it”.
“Working behind the doors of a clinic is a step away from hell!” Sandoval recalls. “I saw women screaming while our staff dragged them down hallways. I wanted to ask, ‘Isn’t anybody else horrified?’ But they had no expression; they worked like robots, traumatised by the abortions.”
The watershed moment for Sandoval came when she was asked to assist in an abortion when she saw the fingerprints on the aborted unborn baby’s fingers – she could also tell from the expression on the baby’s face that it had screamed just before death.
Sandoval later left the abortion industry and now campaigns for the right to life of unborn children.
CLICK HERE to see Patricia Sandoval’s appearance on SPUC’s Uplift show, hosted by Catherine Mockler.
Exposing the “vile, life-denying” abortion industry
SPUC’s Michael Robinson, Executive Director (Public Affairs and Legal Services), said: “The grim but powerful testimonies of former abortion industry staff expose the shocking practices of a sick profession that only wants more abortion, whatever the cost in unborn lives and broken mothers.
“We must not underestimate the bravery that it takes to come out publicly and repudiate abortion, as well as describe the horrific and often traumatising experience of working in an abortion facility.
“It is vital that abortion providers be exposed once and for all, not only for the sake of unborn babies, but also to prevent yet more the women and families from being harmed by its vile, life-denying ideology that kills millions of lives every year globally.”