Despite pro-choice rhetoric, abortion providers know the seriousness of abortion. They are the ones that that have to clean up after abortions, rinsing off baby parts and disposing of them. For that reason, many of them become frustrated with women who take the abortion process to lightly or who have a repeat abortions. Here you can read about repeat abortions and providers’ attitudes towards them.
According to Marilyn Buckham, director of Buffalo GYN Womenservices Clinic:
“Women don’t do this [abortion] lightly. I’m sick and tired of hearing that. 98 percent of the women DO do it lightly in here, but I never say that. And they do it lightly. They think of abortion like brushing their dime teeth, and that’s ok with me.”
Quoted in The Revolutionary Worker [Revolutionary Communist Newspaper] March 6, 1989
Despite the clinic workers assertion that she doesn’t mind when women take abortion lightly, the tone of her comment betrays that she actually is disturbed by their lack of reverence for what they are doing.
