“… Reported in the Los Angeles Times on April 5, 1992. Canada’s Northwest Territories Status of Women Council reported that 85 women had suffered agonizing pain during abortions that were performed without anesthetics at Stanton Yellowknife Hospital. One of the women, who were mostly of Indian and Inuit (Eskimo) ethnicity, reported that as the doctor completed the abortion, he said, “This really hurt, didn’t it? But let that be a lesson before you get yourself in this situation again.” Another victim who had become pregnant after being raped reported that the abortion had been far worse than the rape. She stated that she had been pinned down during the abortion and had experienced excruciating pain. The victim was given no counseling and no sympathy. One woman who was scheduled to undergo both an abortion and a tubal ligation reported that just before the abortion, she was advised by the doctor that, “the anesthesiologist does not believe in abortions; we will administer the anesthetic following the abortion, for the tubal ligation.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 126
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