From one abortion provider:
“Well, you know, every now and then you get labeled an “abortionist,” which is a term I don’t really enjoy… At a medical meeting, something like that, as soon as you become identified with the [pro-choice] movement, you become an “abortionist.” Now that to me is an unpleasant term… “Abortionist” carries a still unpleasant connotation. It carries the connotation of a sleaze.”
Bob Phillips, M.D.
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 152-153
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