Carol Everett

Carol Everett is an American pro-life activist and former owner/operator of several abortion clinics. A resident of Texas, she has written several books about abortion and appears frequently as a public speaker.
History
Carol Everett was married and the mother of two when she decided to have her first abortion in 1973. Soon after, she was divorced and went through a period of personal problems. Despite her original reluctance about abortions, she then started working in a Texan abortion clinic. Shortly thereafter, she took over positions of responsibility in the clinic. In 1983, she became a Christian and stopped working in the abortion clinics. In the meantime, she had herself undergone a total of three abortions. Since then, she has been an active pro-life campaigner, relating her stories of the inner workings of some abortion clinics.
According to her own account, Everett worked with abortion providers because it was a financially lucrative field. In the six years that she worked in clinics, she thought of herself primarily as a saleswoman who sought to maximize profits through various persuasive strategies. She dreamt about becoming a millionaire. As cited in Newsweek, Everett describes abortion as a consumer issue: "Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to a woman at a crisis time in her life," she says. "If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund." Everett also criticizes sex education in schools, because her work with Planned Parenthood and the Texas abortion clinics showed that pregnancy rates rose shortly after she visited schools and gave sex-ed classes there. She claims that the school-based programs were an investment for her, because they soon led to abortions. "The first thing was to get the students to laugh at their parents, because if they laughed at their parents with me, they would not go home and tell their parents what I told them."
In total she claims to have been involved with 35,000 abortions in four clinics as well as the death of one pregnant woman.
Everett has told her story in several books and videos, but also testified in several court cases and before state legislatures. In interviews, she recounts the sales strategies, the training done with telephone operators, the medical practices among the doctors, and the many interactions with women and girls seeking help. "Ms. Everett, who had an abortion soon after the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, now describes the abortion industry from an insider's perspective." In 1995, she founded The Heidi Group in order to convince pregnant women not to abort their children. Readers of her work have found it helpful in deciding not to abort.
The Lieutenant Governor of Texas, David Dewhurst, called Everett "one of Texas' most committed pro-life advocates" in a statement released in November, 2011.
Publications
* (with Jack Shaw): The Scarlet Lady: Confessions of a Successful Abortionist, ISBN 1-56121-073-0.
Video
* An Inside View of the Abortion Industry. Boston, Daughters of St. Paul, 1990.
* Blood Money - Getting Rich off a Woman’s Right to Choose. Nashville, Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1993. Reviewed by Mark Moring in Christianity Today, July 2011, vol. 55, issue 7, page 74.

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