At our request, Karen de la Carriere hurried to prepare part two of her interview series with Jillian Schlesinger, a woman who defected from Scientology’s inner “Sea Org” just a few weeks ago. (See yesterday’s remarkable Part One of the series.)
In this segment, Jillian talks about the snitching culture in Scientology, and about how pregnancies are still discouraged in the Sea Org. (See our big story about the lawsuit of Laura DeCrescenzo, who is suing Scientology over her forced abortion.)
“If you do get pregnant…they won’t make you have an abortion like they used to,” she said, and attributed it to the watchdogs that have gotten that news out about Scientology. But although things have changed, people are still encouraged to terminate pregnancies. “It’s more sneaky,” Jillian says.
Some couples, she says, use pregnancy as their only way out of the Sea Org.
Jillian also discussed the case of a woman who was being watched closely and monitored at the Big Blue headquarters in Los Angeles because she’d tried to make multiple escapes. Anyone else would have been “declared” a “suppressive person,” Jillian says, but this young woman got special treatment because her father was a major donor and a past Freedom Medal winner.
We’re already looking forward to part three. Fascinating stuff, Karen!
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Posted by Tony Ortega on March 24, 2014 at 07:00
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