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She fought Scientology for the child they wanted to abort

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Title: She fought Scientology for the child they wanted to abort
Date: Monday, 14 June 2010
Publisher: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Authors: Joe Childs, Thomas C. Tobin
Main source: tampabay.com
Alternate and/or complementary: Church of Scientology's response
Tags: "Routing out" • Aaradona Walker • Abortion • Brad Hagemo • Children, youth • Dan LaFreniere • Disconnection • Estates Project Force (EPF) • Ethics (Scientology) • Joe Childs • Natalie Hagemo • Natalie LaFreniere • Operating Thetan (OT) • Pregnancy • Recruitment • Salary • Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) • St. Petersburg Times (Florida) • Statistics (Stats) • Suppressive person (SP) • The Truth Rundown (St. Petersburg Times' special report) • Thomas C. Tobin • Tommy Davis • Wog

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Twenty years ago, when Natalie Hagemo was 19, pregnant and working for the Church of Scientology, she couldn't wait to be a mother. She was near the end of her first tri­mester, she says, when colleagues in Scientology's military-style religious order, the Sea Organization, began pressuring her to get an abortion. Two high-ranking officers said terminating the pregnancy would allow her to keep working. They berated her when she said no. Supervisors told her to hide her expanding belly lest co-workers ... [Read the rest at tampabay.com]