Pregnancies punished with shunning
(NEWSER) - Women in the Scientology sect who became pregnant were ordered to have abortions—and were punished with manual labor, interrogation, shunning, and separation from their husbands if they resisted, according to a lengthy expose in the St. Petersburg Times . Former members of the group known as Sea Org also recount having to fake suicide attempts or run away to escape the organization, and call the working conditions in the religious order "human trafficking." More»
