sea org leadership appears to be that children hinder adults from performing their vital assignments, researchers should not be surprised to learn of pressures that sea org women felt to either abort pregnancies or give-up children for adoption." he commented, "taken together, the interviews, legal declarations, media accounts, and internal documents present troubling glimpses into the lives of scientology's most committed members. sea org obligations override many personal and family obligations and responsibilities, and devotion to the scientology cause often appears to take priority over the needs of children." in a 1998 speech, attorney and scientology critic graham e. berry commented on mary tabayoyan's affidavit about scientology and abortion, "mary tabayoyan has testified as to how she and other scientologists were ordered to have abortions; and i have argued before a court that that constitutes instructions to commit murder. at the very least, it denies a woman freedom of choice with regard to abortion. and why does scientology do this? because children require "family time" and "family time" interferes with production; the production of things that produce money." in a may 2009 speech before the cult monitoring organization fecris, berry cited "forced abortions" among what he referred to as "scientology’s many secular abuses and crimes".