”If you do 12 i[abortions] n a row, it can make you feel bad…No matter how pro-choice you are, it makes you feel low..
She said she preferred doing second trimester abortions. When asked why:
”Because the patient is asleep”
Of her patients:
”They look at you as an evil person who is deliberately putting them through a painful procedure. I just feel like explaining to them that this is not something that I am going out of my way to do. It’s their whole attitude that bothers me. I feel like a simple thank-you is in order instead of ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ ”
Jack Hitt “Who Will Do Abortions Here?” New York Times Jan 18, 1998
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/18/magazine/who-will-do-abortions-here.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
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