Abortion worker SA Davies:
“Ultimately I would then consider the possibility of suffering involved with the foetus. This again wasn’t an easy task, but I did eventually conclude that suffering before actual birth might be less on a scale of 1 to 10 In comparison with the suffering and distress I had seen on the geriatric ward where humans who presumably had earned their ticket for an existence on earth ended up in the “scrap heap” and received the same care and attention as scrap metal, often broken and discarded.
It was this that made me realize that life, unpredictable as it is, has no room for the already “unarmed and vulnerable…to me abortion is a matter of life and death and such comparisons of the unborn, defenseless, the innocent, seem to have the same unique similarities that the elderly and abandoned have….We should stand by our convictions if we believe that they are right.
However, in my basic nurse training, I witnessed once-conscientious colleagues and friends, soon begin to use the same old excuse: “I was only obeying orders” just as habitually they straightened pillows and checked fluid balance charts.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986)
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