Charlotte Taft
abortion clinic owner
Fairfield County Weekly: Listening to Women About Abortion, A new wave of abortion rights activism is spreading across the country–from zines to documentaries– that focuses on telling women’s stories rather than spouting stale feminist aphorisms, by Jennifer Baumgardner – May 26, 2005
“I was shocked by how many who seemed fine during the (abortion) procedure were now having thoughts and feelings that no one had anticipated.”
The biggest thing she noted was that women felt sadder than they had anticipated.
Taft went on to say, “They wondered, How can I feel sad about something I chose?” ….
“I would go out there and scream at them. [the anti-abortion protesters] Then I would come back in and listen to a woman talk. Frequently the words were almost the same. The protesters would be saying, ‘You’re murdering your baby,’ and the women inside would be saying, ‘I feel like I’m killing my baby.’ I used to think, well, they’re just echoing what they are hearing. There was a time when I would correct them if they used those words.” “The word killing was hard. It was so difficult to see women that guilty or distressed….But eventually we got into conversations about the difference between murder and killing. Now our reaction is more: well, does it feel like killing to you and how are you going to make peace with that?”
Quoted by Life Dynamics
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