By Sarah Terzo This quote is from an abortion facility worker who was herself adopted. Her facility had recently started doing abortions up to the 26th week: There’s lots of days when it’s really, really hard… I don’t know what makes it so much harder at twenty-six...
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Clinic workers tell of abortionists who ignore, berate, and mock patients
By Sarah Terzo Sometimes even pro-choice clinic workers become frustrated with the attitudes of abortionists they work with. The truth is, with such a shortage of abortionists in the United States, clinics often must content themselves with whatever doctors they can...
Former abortion facility worker: Staffers were ‘callous’
By Sarah Terzo Pro-abortion author, Wendy Simonds, interviewed abortion facility workers for her book “Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice at a Feminist Clinic” [1] One staffer said of her former workplace: I quit my job at the clinic to write my dissertation but...
Clinic worker shocked by seeing aborted baby with hair
By Sarah Terzo Clinic worker “Diana” was comfortable with handling late-term aborted babies until she saw one with hair: Sterile room is so fast-paced. And I’m a person who’s really into learning….And so, okay, now I’ve got the technical down, so now I can, like, get...
Clinic worker troubled by the faces of late term abortion victims
By Sarah Terzo A clinic worker interviewed by pro-choice author Wendy Simonds wrote about how looking at the faces of late term aborted babies bothers her. Her clinic does abortions up to 26 weeks, the beginning of the third trimester. At 26 weeks, 80 to 90 percent of...
Clinic escort: We present abortion in the “cheeriest” way
By Sarah Terzo Many pro-choice activists know that despite the pro-choice movement’s propaganda that claims abortion is beneficial to women, at least some women suffer from grief and guilt after their abortions. It is an undeniable fact, as anyone can see by the sheer...
Clinic worker: The first time I saw an aborted baby’s arm, I couldn’t believe my eyes
By Sarah Terzo One could say that the best way to learn about abortion is to listen to the stories of those who have actually been there, in the rooms where abortions were performed-- the former abortionists and clinic workers. These first-hand accounts, like the one...
Nurses were left to handle the bodies of aborted children
By Sarah Terzo In the second trimester, abortions are sometimes done by dismemberment (D & E) and other times by inducing labor after injecting a poison into the preborn baby’s heart to kill him or her. Digoxin is now the poison of choice. In the past, it was a...
Young woman takes job at clinic, then finds out they do abortions
A young woman living independently of her mother for the first time gets involved in an abortion clinic without knowing it: “I enrolled at Miami-Dade College and answered a newspaper ad seeking a receptionist at a Women’s Clinic close by the house where I was...
“Abortioneer” talks about stigma of working in an abortion clinic
By Sarah Terzo An abortion clinic worker describes the stigma of working in the abortion industry. She uses a pen name on her blog, “The Abortioneers.” She is only one of several writers on that blog. She explains that abortion is still a taboo subject. This...