Former Abortion Worker Now Ministers to the Women Whose Babies She Helped Abort

A powerful testimony to the witness of faith — and life.

When nurse Noemi Padilla first arrived in Florida in 2001, she needed to find a job fast.

She took a night shift at the county jail, which was a long bus ride away.

“One morning as my shift was ending, the thought of another long trip home irritated me,” Padilla recalled to the Register.

When she got off the bus, she impulsively walked into an abortion business to inquire about a job, figuring she could walk there in five minutes from her apartment.

“The executive director interviewed me on the spot and then introduced me to the doctor, and 20 minutes later, they offered me a job and asked if I could start that same day,” Padilla said.

The offer of a $500 sign-on bonus made the offer attractive — even after a 12-hour shift.

“The bribery and conditioning started immediately,” she remembered of her first day as the recovery-room nurse manager at Tampa Women’s Health Center.

“We began to see patients at around 11 a.m. The support staff got excited [because] once we saw 12 patients we got free lunch, usually pizza or sandwiches. If we saw 24, we would get the ‘good lunch,’ Chinese or Jamaican food. That day, we ordered Chinese.”

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