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16. A friend of mine, Betty Hardin, who works in the treasury
division of Golden Era Productions, told me that she used to transport
the pregnant women at the base to Riverside, California for their
abortions. For about a year, she transported women almost weekly to the
Planned Parenthood Center, in Riverside, so that they could have their
abortions and follow up check ups that were needed. She said it just
became routine. Pregnant Sea Org members were sent to the Planned
Parenthood Center to get their abortions. When they returned to the
base they went to Ethics.
17. The term "Ethics" is used to name the place you go to have
your ethics be back put in. To explain this in regular terms, you are
sent to ethics any time you've gone off the rails, like went against
Command Intention, mistakenly or purposefully, and the ethics officer
would then work with you until you were again unswervingly dedicated to
advancing Scientology and had made up the "damage". I will explain more
about Ethics and its methods later.
18. Betty Hardin said, once formerly pregnant women were back from
having their abortions, they would be sent to Ethics and made to do
"lower conditions". Lower conditions are, from the lowest on up;
Confusion, Treason, Enemy, Doubt, and Liability. Each one of these
lower conditions have an exact set of steps you follow. once you get
through all the steps of all the lower conditions, successfully, and
only the Ethics officer can officially determine if you have gotten
through it correctly, and thus let you go on to the next higher
condition, you are a gung-ho Sea Org member again with new and
revitalized determinism to never make a mistake again that would cause
or threaten any harm to your group.
19. My senior made me do the steps of the condition formula called
"Danger", which is the next higher condition higher than liability.
This was to handle my ethics on the fact I got pregnant. The reason I
didn't have to do treason and all the lower conditions is I professed
that the Scientology auditing I had prior to my pregnancy had healed my
body to such a degree that I was able to get pregnant despite the fact
that a doctor told me years earlier that I probably would never have any
more children. This wasn't altogether true but it was my only solution
to avoid going to Ethics and being put through those lower conditions
again. I knew eventually in my future confessional, it would come up
and I would have to come clean on it and then do the lower conditions,
but I simply was not up to it at that time. This was really quite
unusual for me too, as I had made it a constant necessity in my life to
always be very truthful.
20. Also, to preserve my own integrity and dignity in my own mind,
I professed to myself and to a couple of friends that my husband and I
had a real fear of either me or my baby not living through a birth due
to complications in an earlier unsuccessful delivery I went through.
But the truth was and is, had I been in my normal frame of mine, I would
never have considered abortion. My husband and I still wish to have
another child.
21. I asked Betty how many women she had actually taken to
Riverside to have their abortions. She didn't want to tell me. From
the way she had been talking, it sounded like quite a few, so I asked,
conservatively, "Was it more than 20?" She waived her arm and said very
emphatically, "Oh yes!"
22. Betty also told me how she finally flat out refused to be the
driver anymore and it was getting to be quite an embarrassment as there
were often anti-abortionists petitioning going on in front of the
Planned Parenthood center and they kept seeing her bringing woman to get
abortions.
23. The following are the brief stories of women I knew who had
abortions after undergoing coercive ethics sessions and being threatened
with exile to a Class IV organization. Because this topic wasn't
something that we were supposed to talk about, for the sake of Public
Relations, within and outside the Base to protect the women involved
from retribution and to preserve their privacy, I have not given their
names.
A. Case I: She was my friend and also worked in my department at
the time of her pregnancy and abortion. She appeared very upset about
it and really wouldn't talk about it at first. I got her to talk about
it one day when we were alone. She said she would have loved to have
kept her baby but after she got through her ethics cycle (which I
remember lasted for at least a week) she realized she wasn't ready to
have a child. (She was 20 years old). She said her husband was
completely thrilled she was pregnant and wanted so much to keep the
baby. He was very adamant on keeping the baby. But after the ethics
cycle he looked at the fact that he would probably never be able to come
back to the base and he would lose his beloved job and position in Gold.
He would have to go to a Class IV Org. At any rate, the ethics actions