A woman who had an abortion said the clinic was like a grief warehouse:
“I remember the experience. I remember a little pain associated with it. I remember the rooms being very dark. I remember that there were many of us there, many other women there. And I remember just getting on the table, it was almost a slab, and having it done, and the doctor being pretty curt.
I mean they were, you know, polite, I’m sure. But it was definitely a very cold experience because a lot of other people were there. I don’t fault them for it, but it seemed kind of awful in some ways. And then I remember being put in a room with several other women afterwards. And at least one woman was just moaning. And it felt pretty horrible. I didn’t feel spiritually guilty. It just felt like we were these women who were trapped in this situation, left to grieve in this weird way, just sort of in this grief warehouse.”
Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 83
