In one abortion clinic, a worker named Mira is quoted saying:
“We don’t counsel women- we assume if a woman says “I’m here to have an abortion” that she’s thought about that”
The interviewer herself then says:
“Several health workers pointed out that they occasionally dealt with ambivalent clients, even though Center methods were predicated on not probing women for doubts.”
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, NJ) 1996 p 37
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