A body of research that was done in the first years of legal abortion:
researchers found
“that attitudes toward abortion work were more positive among groups such as social workers and lay counselors who had extended verbal contact with the patient than among physicians and nurses. The argument is that those who had more experience with the “whole” woman were more likely to focus on her and see the procedure in light of her particular situation – in contrast to doctors and nurses who dealt with the more physically unpleasant aspects of abortion, without any mitigating sense of the individual patient.”
Judith Bourne, “Influences on Health Professionals’ Attitudes Towards Abortion,” Journal of the American Hospital Association 46 (1972): 80 – 83; FJ Kane et al. “Emotional Reactions in Abortion Services Personnel” Archives of General Psychiatry 28 (1973): 409 – 411; Howard D Kibel, “Staff Reactions to Abortion,” Obstetrics and Gynecology 39 (1972): 128 – 133; and Marianne Such–Baer, “Professional Staff Reaction to Abortion Work,” Social Casework 55 (1974): 435 – 441
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