An abortion doula, who tries to make a woman feel better as she is aborting her child, says she tries to prevent aborting women from seeing the blood but:
“…I can’t take away the sound. Most first-trimester abortions are vacuum aspiration. The machine sounds like a sucking through a straw when you’re at the bottom of the glass. The vacuuming is sometimes painful, but I think patients find the sound harder to bear. Lite FM stations play in the background. Most first-trimester abortions take fewer than four songs. Sitting in bars with my friends on summer nights, I hear the same songs and wonder after the women.”
Alex Ronan “My Year As an Abortion Doula” The Cut SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
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