From a nursing supervisor at an abortion clinic:
“[Abortion] hasn’t had any effect on me at all. Really. I don’t look on an abortion in a strange way. I don’t know if it’s because I’m a male, but when I leave here I don’t feel worried, as if I’ve done something wrong. It’s like any other type of surgery, I just consider it a job. I once did say to myself, “Gee, suppose I’d one day have a dream and see thousands of fetuses running after me.” I just think it’s because we were talking about abortions and how it’s in the dark, you know. People still sometimes feel kinda funny about it. They don’t want openly speak about it ….I feel funny sometimes taking on a fetus by D&C even, when you can see the heart beating. Even with D&C’s you get these feelings that you are doing something wrong. Especially when you see arms and legs coming out. It comes out in so many pieces. We had nurses that couldn’t adjust to this type of work. Many of them quit.”
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc) 1976 236 – 237
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