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

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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.

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!

Blood Money was written by a woman who ran an abortion clinic. It was the best one in her state and it made a fortune. The money--not the women who came into the clinic was the bottom line. I wasn't prepared for this book. It shocked me. The sloppy medical practices, the rough treatment of patients, the doctors who were just barely hanging on to their licenses. The endless strife and bickering; it was all one shock after another. Highly recommended. Bring a strong stomach and a box of tissue.

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 life and the life of her family. She feared her children would reject her, but they loved her even more. She even found reconciliation with her former husband, the one who'd pushed her to abort their child. Even better, she felt reconciled with the little one she'd aborted, allowing her self to grieve for her and accept her forgiveness. At last she felt at peace, loved by God and her loved ones.
The book reads easily and illustrates that the women who have abortions--as well as the children aborted--pay a heavy price for this nation's permissive abortion policies.

This book will draw back the veil on the underside of the abortion industry. The book Unplanned by Abby Johnson was written by a woman who really thought she was helping women. This book was written by a woman who acknowledges she was in it for the money. She started out as it would seam a lot of women do when they go into the abortion business, as a post abortive woman. She told herself at the start It was to help women and to make lots of money for herself. Then her clinic killed a woman and she had to lie to her self more and more each day as more women died and were maimed. she even got her daugher and son involved when they were teens. She of couse comes to see the truth and come out of the industry and deal with her own issues and her past. It's eye opening to say the least and very informative. I the book spans many years of her childhood and youth and them the many years in the abortion industry. It comes close to answering a question many pro-lifers ask "How can those people do what they do and live with themselves".

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.

This book was very informative and eye opening. A must read. It is a look inside the abortion industry and how it is really about the money not the woman involved.

I read this book years ago and have since become good friends with the author Carol Everett - she is an amazing lady now standing up for the lives of the unborn, working with crisis pregnancy centers and state legislatures across the nation. I've heard Carol speak on numerous occasions and it is such a blessing to see what the Lord has done in her life and through her life-changing testimony! I'm excited that a new film by the same name Blood Money is being released and I'm hoping that it will come to a location and theater close to you - read the book, watch the movie, and then get involved in the business of protecting the weak and innocent of our society from the destructive abortion industry. This debate isn't pro-life vs. pro-choice - it's pro-life vs. pro-death.

Carol Everett was responsible for the deaths of 35,000 people. No, she wasn't a Nazi. Nor was she a KGB agent. She was a successful career woman working in a legitimate Texas business. Carol Everett was an abortionist. And with Hitler and Stalin, the abortion industry is quickly becoming one of the greatest means of mass murder of modern times.

Blood Money is the story of how Carol Everett rose in the abortion industry to become one of the most successful, most well paid, and most deadly abortionist in America. In the six years that she worked in the trade, she helped to kill 35,000 babies - 35,001 if you include her own abortion. It was only a conversion to Christianity which put a halt to this barbarism.

This book is the ghastly story of her career as an abortionist and her escape from it. The reading is so horrible at some points that it's like reading about prison life as described in the Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn. Yet this book is essential reading because it demolishes so many myths of the abortion industry. These myths are:

-Abortion is all about freedom of choice and control over one's body. As Everett shows, the abortion industry is anything but about choice. Everett set up what she called Advisory Referral Centres which advertised sexual counseling and pregnancy tests - both free of charge. Of course, once in, women were steered in the direction of abortions.

The use of fear was often a good tactical weapon. Women who feared having their parents discover they were pregnant were especially susceptible to being sold on abortion. "I knew how to sell abortions - take the fear, amplify it, get their money, push them through."

Staff were in the business of pushing abortions, not offering choice. One clinic assistant who showed a woman a book on fetal development was sacked. Says Everett: "Although Barbara was a good employee, if she could not sell abortions, she had to go." (Italics added.)

-Legal abortion prevents back alley abortions and the risks they entail. Not only were deaths due to `back alley' abortions relatively rare before the Roe v Wade decision, but that decision simply made all the illegal back alley abortions legal! Nothing changed. The same shoddy practitioners who were once outlawed were now legitimate, running their own clinics!

Dishonesty among doctors was as prevalent before Roe as after. Whenever Everett opened a new clinic, the doctors who did her abortions would simply steal the needed equipment from hospitals at which they worked. Falsification of medical reports and lying to pregnant women was also commonplace.

-Abortion is about helping women. Wrong. Abortion is about making money - big money. Greed, not love, is the motivating factor behind the abortion industry. At Everett's clinics (she had several), an abortion for a woman eighteen weeks pregnant cost $375. At twenty weeks it cost $500. Her abortion clinics became abortion mills, working with assembly line efficiency. Operating seven days a week, she would oversee 400 abortions a month. She received a $25 commission for each abortion. Thus she was earning $10,000 a month. Her plans were to have five abortion clinics operating full-time in the Texas area, performing 600 abortions a month, earning her $15,000.

Abortion was definitely big business for Everett. She had ads in the Yellow Pages of five southern states, each with a toll-free number. Ads in newspapers offered coupons with 10 per cent discounts. Setting up clinics near high schools was an effective tactic. She even planned to set up a clinic by a mall so customers could go shopping while waiting for their abortion. Says Everett: "Greed - the love of money and the things I could have with it - blinded me. [I was] an abortionist who used whatever means available to get a woman to have an abortion for the sake of money."

This insatiable lust for money resulted in abortions being performed on women who were not even pregnant! Indeed, the temptation was to get every woman who came into the clinic to have an abortion. Says Everett: "Do you think an abortionist who works on a straight commission is going to tell a woman who has signed her consent form and has already paid in full that she is not pregnant?"

-Abortion is a safe and harmless operation. False. It is not safe for the mothers, and it is certainly not safe for the baby. A rash of injuries and deaths occurred in her clinics. In one instance a doctor perforated a fifteen-year-old girl's uterus and had pulled her colon through her vagina. A thirty-two-year-old Mexican woman also had her uterus perforated, with a forceps severing her urinary tract. One woman had the head of her fifteen-week-old baby pushed into her abdomen. These patients were rushed to hospital, and elaborate cover-ups were implemented. As Everett learned early on in the abortion business, a "successful abortion clinic needs doctors willing to put their licence on the line in the cover-up of botched abortions, in order to keep families from filing lawsuits."

Deaths of patients were inevitable, since Everett was willing to do abortions on very late pregnancies. She even performed abortions on women as late as twenty-five weeks. In fact it was the death of a girl twenty-weeks pregnant which led to Everett's eventual resignation from the abortion business.

Her death and the deaths of a number of other women at Everett's clinics finally resulted in her renunciation of the abortion industry and her embracing Christianity. Blood Money is a powerful book about one of the twentieth century's greatest evils, and about one woman's involvement with it. Buy this book and buy one for a friend.