On an otherwise ordinary Monday, Elizabeth Gillette walked into the law firm where she worked in Salem, Oregon, and told no one of what she had done the last Friday, as though what had happened had never happened. It was secret. Ms. Gillette’s colleagues may or may not have noticed the symptoms she was experiencing that persisted: nausea, chills, and profuse feminine bleeding. Although she could have called in sick, she told The Epoch Times, that would have raised suspicion, and so she struggled through the day in physical and mental anguish.
At age 24, like millions of other American women, Ms. Gillette had been prescribed abortion pills. She describes the clinic she went to as a dark-grey Planned Parenthood facility in Salem that no longer exists, calling it “very dirty,” “unprofessional,” and “not a happy, healthy, safe place to be.” She said its staff misled her by saying the drugs would not hurt her, when in fact they did. The drug’s side effects were not properly disclosed to her, she claims; nor was she given time to consider the impacts they might have on her physical and emotional well-being.
