Blood Money: Getting Rich Off a Woman's Right to Choose

If you want to know what the abortion industry is like, then you should find out from someone who has been on both sides. Read and share. It's a shame more people haven't gotten their hands on this book.

A powerful addition to the anti-abortion library is Blood Money (Portland: Multnomah Press, c. 1992), by Carol Everett, with Jack Shaw. This is the very personal account of a woman who had an abortion, got involved in the business of "providing abortions," and then rejected all she stood for to become one of its most impassioned opponents. Everett grew up in west Texas, lost her virginity in high school, got pregnant with another boyfriend, whom she married at the age of 17; she then had a baby boy and girl. Her husband was still in college, but they seemed to have a good chance to make it as a young family. Immaturity and self-centeredness, however, destroyed the union and Carol divorced her first husband. She remarried in 1970 and unexpectedly became pregnant two years later. Her husband didn't want the child, so she followed his urging to get an abortion. Overcoming her own feelings, she found a surgeon who performed the operation. At that time she "bought the big lie: 'It's only a glob of tissue--not a baby'" (p. 69). The abortion, however, failed to keep her marriage intact, so she went through a second divorce soon thereafter. Needing to support herself and her children, she developed some shrewd business skills, and (fortuitously, it seemed) got involved in the now-legal abortion business, working with the physician who had performed her own abortion. Though she at times had reservations, particularly when they "botched abortions" (as they did on a regular basis), though she felt grief-stricken when one woman died, she enjoyed the big bucks, hoping ultimately to clear a million dollars in one year. Retaining at least a veneer of religiosity, she regularly prayed, kept a Bible in her desk, and tithed her income! She assured herself she was helping women who desperately needed her help and that God wanted her to do so. What God actually wanted of her, however, became clear as she came under the influence of a minister, Jack Shaw. He loved her, refused to reject her, yet never allowed her to live at ease with her abortion activities. In time, as she studied Scripture, prayed, and sought counsel, she resolved to leave the abortion business. She knew it would mean giving up the new cars, the fine clothes, all the "goodies" she enjoyed with her work. But she knew she had to do so to make peace with her soul--and with her God. She found that "for the first time in my life I was part of a purpose bigger than making money. I was involved in a goal, a worthy goal. Not my goal, but God's goal" (p. 183). First, she just spoke out against abortion in general, for she received many invitations to speak, as a former clinic director who had orchestrated 35,000 abortions. Then, one night in church, she confessed to her own abortion, and "my healing as a post-abortive mother started. I began to cry uncontrollably. Tears flowed non-stop for five months" (p. 187). God then began to do marvelous work in her li

This book is definately an eye opener. I had no idea what went on in an abortion clinic prior to reading this book. Shocking!Absolute must read!

Rather than providing textbook examples of lies, deception and illegal activity across the country, this book tells the story of a woman who lived that life and turned away from it.This book is easy to read (except for the fact that it makes you wonder why abortion is still legal). Furthermore, it is great evidence for that friend of yours that doesn't believe that the abortion industry is unethical.

If my wife and I had not been against abortion, and the clinics that provide these services, this book would have convicted us of it! Carol Everett showed the reader of the immoral and even illegal practices of falsifying pregnacy reports to con young, and sometimes not so young women, into obtaining an abortion; killing of babies that managed to be born alive in the late tri-mester and dumping them into dumpsters, and falsifying medical reports with the hospital to avoid legal consequences for their mistakes during the abortion. She tells of how she "sold" abortions to women with the added pressure of "it will cost you more the longer you wait." Carol Everett has shown the deception of a multi-million dollar industry to the general public in the hopes that women will try alternates to abortion, like adoption or even keeping their child. It is a must for anyone interested in fighting this industry.