By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on our vacation through August 27. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked. Very recently a story...
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“Abortion Doula” Struggles with Saying 11-Year-Old’s Abortion, Sex-Selection Abortion Are Wrong
By Micaiah Bilger Editor’s note. I received some interesting feedback from a post I wrote Tuesday about an “abortion doula.” The basis was a BBC story about Vicki Bloom who proudly talked of being “in the room for more than 2,000 [abortion] procedures.” This prompted...
Abortion doula admits to being dishonest with women
By Sarah Terzo An abortion doula, who works in abortion facilities to comfort women as they have abortions, admits: “Sometimes you are dishonest. In the beginning, I shadow a more experienced doula as she reassures a patient that the woman in the next room screaming...
Abortion doula: Women feel they have no choice
By Sarah Terzo An abortion doula, who comforts women during their abortions, says that many poor women feel they have no choice but to get abortions. Their life circumstances force them into abortions they might not really want. They are not empowered by their...
Abortion doula describes lying to woman
By Sarah Terzo An abortion doula, who works in abortion facilities to comfort women as they have abortions, admits: “Sometimes you are dishonest. In the beginning, I shadow a more experienced doula as she reassures a patient that the woman in the next room screaming...
WashPost Offers Emotional Support for Those Emotionally Supporting Abortions
By Tim Graham Washington Post correspondent Monica Hesse specializes in pro-abortion valentines. Two years ago, Hesse penned a long, sympathetic story on a Wyoming woman who drove 400 miles to seek an abortion in Montana. On Wednesday, the Style section was dominated...
Another love story devoted to the “abortion doula”
By Dave Andrusko This is the last post of the day so it won’t be terribly long. Besides even by the puff-piece standards of the Washington Post, this is a dozy. The title of Monica Hesse’s can’t-love-‘em-enough piece is “The long five minutes: Abortion doulas bring...
Looking behind the justifications used by the first student-run abortion doula project
By Dave Andrusko You have to swallow hard when you read statements like this from a student at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Julie Vermeulen is a member of the “Wesleyan Doula Project,” which she fancies as a kind of bridge between the abortion...
Abortion doula’s bizarre account reveals disjointed loyalty to the cause
By Lauren Enriquez In September, “abortion doula” Alex Ronan wrote a piece for The Cut entitled, My Year As an Abortion Doula. Our readers may be familiar with the idea of birth doulas. Since ancient times, women helpers have been present during a woman’s labor...
Surprising truths from an “abortion doula”
By Dave Andrusko We’ve written multiple times about the rise of the “abortion doula,” women who counsel/console/comfort mothers who are aborting their children. Like everything abortion touches, the work of an abortion doula pollutes what a doula traditionally...