No kids allowed

By Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, Times Staff Writers

In Print: Sunday, June 13, 2010

Laura Dieckman was just 12 when her parents let her leave home to
work full time for Scientology's religious order, the Sea Organization.
At 16, she married a co-worker. At 17, she was pregnant.

She was excited to start a family, but she said Sea Org
supervisors pressured her to have an abortion. She was back at work the
following day.

Claire Headley joined at 16, married at 17 and was pregnant
at 19. She said Sea Org supervisors threatened strenuous physical work
and repeated interrogations if she didn't end her pregnancy. She, too,
was back at work the next day.

Two years later she had a second abortion, this time while
working for the church in Clearwater.

A St. Petersburg Times
investigation found their experiences were not unique. More than a
dozen women said the culture in the Sea Org pushed them or women they
knew to have abortions, in many cases, abortions they did not want.

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