One abortionist said the following:
“Today, though, there are so few providers who will perform terminations that the people who do agree to provide them end up taking the bulk of procedures. It can be hard… Doing them over and over and over again can be really taxing. All of us who provide abortions believe in what were doing and think it’s a good thing and a right that needs to be available. But when you’re in the clinic and in that group of people doing it, it can be tough, and you can get really tired. I don’t think it will ever make me stop doing terminations, but it can move people to tears. And it’s not just me – it extends to the nurses and the people who help us in the operating room… I even know people who feel they can’t tell their families what they do; their families think they work on labor and delivery.”
Cheryl Alkon “Confessions of an Abortion Doctor” Boston Magazine, December 2004
