One clinic worker says:
“Sometimes I loved working at the clinic: I felt like a miracle worker. Women came in and their futures were transformed. I was of use, and I thought how rare that was in this world: to get paid for doing something worth doing….but sometimes, I hated it. I hated to see women in pain. The pain never lasted for very long…but still it was probably the most painful thing they’d ever felt. I hated to hear women say:
“I just killed my baby.”
“I’m never going to have sex again.”
A few women told me, when it was over, that they understood how the “right to life” felt, or that abortion shouldn’t be legal.”
Anne Finger. Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth (Seattle, Washington: Seal Press 1990) p 52
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