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responsibility on our shoulders for the expansion of Scientology and
freeing mankind. Scientology's Senior management determined, we, at
this high level, could not afford the time and resources it would take
to raise children. Having children was found to undermine our
production and our purpose. It became an Ethics matter. An Ethics
matter is an offense against Scientology. An ethics matter arises when
a Scientologist does something which detracts from the spreading of
Scientology. Ethics matters are dealt with through Scientology rituals
administered to those who have "wandered off the straight and narrow".
(See definition of "out ethics", attached as Exhibit 1).
9. Furthermore, Sea Org members would be exiled, would be sent to a
non-Sea Org, lower organization called a Class IV Org to serve as a
staff member. The only concession to our years of devoted service was
the fact that we were entitled to keep our membership in the Sea Org.
10. The Flag Order established that Sea Org members who disobeyed
it and chose to have children would not be allowed to choose which Class
IV organization they would serve. Rather, Scientology's senior
management would send the offending Sea Org members to a Class IV
organization that was failing. This is a severe punishment. In a
failing Class IV Org an exiled Sea Org member would have to fend for
himself or herself and try and raise a child on the nominal compensation
provided to the staff of a failing Class IV Org. In addition, the
exiled Sea Org members would be obligated to revive the failing Org or
suffer more Ethics conditions.
11. While at the base, I knew of several instances of staff
getting pregnant and being coerced to get an abortion. Some instances
were relayed to me by the victims themselves and others were relayed to
me by another. In two instances, the couples to keep their child
despite extensive course of ethics method and thus were banished to a
failing Class IV organization. In every instance they had to go through
ethics handling designed to prevent them that it would be far more
advantageous to Scientology and the Sea Org for each of them to have an
abortion. Some of these women went through extensive pressure methods
to convince them to have an abortion. The severity of the Ethics
handling was directly proportional to the prospective mother's desire
and insistence to keep the child. I myself got pregnant in 1993 and
gave up my child due to my greatly misguided obligation and dedication
to the Sea Org.
12. During the year and a half before I discovered I was pregnant,
I was incessantly drilled, along with all other Gold crew, on becoming
perfect and on purpose Sea Org member who would always follow Command
Intention. Command intention basically means the intention of the
highest in command over all of Scientology and Sea Org. Like LRH, Mark
Yager and David Miscavige were expressed in various forms of publication
I was indoctrinated that I should never put my own personal desires
ahead of the accomplishment of the purpose of the Sea Org. I was
indoctrinated to believe that I should never put my own personal desires
ahead of the accomplishment of the purpose of the Sea Org. Although I
would have dearly loved to have had my child and the idea of abortion is
abhorrent to me, I did not dare to say it would be nice to keep my baby.
13. I told the Medical Officer (Martine Collins) of my pregnancy.
She immediately went into action to arrange for my abortion. She told
me, that I would naturally be expected to pay for it myself, since it
was considered Out Ethics to get pregnant. (Out Ethics in Scientology
simply means your reasoning facilities are no longer thinking in a
direction designed to promote Scientology and must be corrected).
14. Medical Office Collins told me to call for the appointment to
have an abortion myself. She told me not to give the address of the
base as my address or to acknowledge I was from the base. She said the
reason for this was because there were too many woman going there from
the base for abortions and it was probably becoming "out PR" (out Public
Relations, which means your public relations have gone bad).
15. The day after I returned from my abortion, I was weak and sore
and had cramps. I proposed a light work load that I felt I could
accomplish. My Senior, Megan Rae, refused this and instead gave me a
target that literally would have taken about many people to accomplish
in one day. I attempted to let her know what an impossible task it was
and that her order must have been a joke. I soon learned that she was
completely serious. My obvious protest on this was met with the barked
threat, "If you use this abortion cycle to dramatize inefficiency and
thus not accomplish your production targets, I will have you comm-eved."
A commev is short for Committee of Evidence. It is one of the severest
Ethics actions you can level at someone.
16. A friend of mine, Betty Hardin, who works in the treasury