They said it.
From a survey of abortion doctors:
– 69% of abortionists say they are not respected in the medical community.
– 65% feel ostracized.
– 87% have been harassed.
– 50% have problems retaining staff.
– 20% have been denied hospital privileges because they do abortions.
-64% say that the non-abortion part of their practice has suffered because they do abortions.
Mark Crutcher, Project Choice, Feb. 1993
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Dr. Larry Burns has done abortions for roughly 40 years. He says:
“It seems like people don’t want to know that you really exist until they need you, and when they need you, they really need you.”
He performs abortions to 12 weeks. The clinic does about 50 abortions a day.
Share on FacebookA practicing abortionist wrote the following in an article:
“The party-goers have clearly talked before I arrived: Colleen is going to be here tonight. Did you know she does abortions? I am a symbol before I even ring the doorbell.
How could I expect the men I date to be any different? In the past, I’ve tried every strategy: Burying references in my online dating profile; waiting until the third date to talk about the specifics of my work; carefully dropping the word “abortion” in conversation and watching for a reaction.
And there’s always a reaction. Every man I have ever dated — no matter how liberal or open-minded he professes to be — has flinched, looked away, or gone silent when I first tell him what I do….
In more instances than I’d like to recall, this has meant that a new relationship ends before it really starts. The majority of American adults support a woman’s right to an abortion, but it’s another matter to date someone who performs them.”
Colleen Krajewski “I used to be quiet about the fact that I perform abortions. Now I’m upfront.” Washington Post July 10, 2017
Share on FacebookJames Gerrard, general practitioner who is often asked by women to refer them for abortions:
“Medically, abortion really isn’t a popular thing to do, it is not a very technical or demanding operation and it’s actually quite disheartening.
There’s no handshakes or slaps on the backs afterwards, or the sense that you’ve done something great for someone. The best you can hope for is sense of relief that it is over.
In my day to day work I deal with requests for terminations but I have a conscientious objection to that. During the consultation I will tell them because of my personal views I cannot refer them to hospital for the procedure and they will have to speak with another doctor. Out of the six doctors in our practice, three of us object to abortion.”
Jeremy Lauranc “ABORTION CRISIS AS DOCTORS REFUSE TO PERFORM SURGERY” The Independent, 16 April 2007
Share on FacebookIn an article on the declining number of doctors willing to perform abortions in Great Britain, it says:
“In Britain [abortion] was regarded as low status and unglamorous….
The head of the abortion service in Hull, Kate Guthrie, who performs terminations regularly, is aware that it is not a comfortable career choice.”
Guthrie says:
“In a social environment people can go cold on you. Others are really interested. But the worst are colleagues – they can be overtly rude.”
Jeremy Lauranc “ABORTION CRISIS AS DOCTORS REFUSE TO PERFORM SURGERY” The Independent, 16 April 2007
Share on FacebookKate Guthrie, a spokesperson on family planning for the RCOG (Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology) talks about the stigma abortionists face:
“You get no thanks for performing abortions; you get spat on. Who admits to friends at a dinner party that they are an abortionist? It is not a sexy area; it is a bog standard area of women’s care. The problem is that the more who exit the area, the more those that remain are dumped on [with extra work].
There is an increasing number of young doctors who are not participating in the training. The college and the Department of Health are really worried.”
Jeremy Lauranc “ABORTION CRISIS AS DOCTORS REFUSE TO PERFORM SURGERY” The Independent, 16 April 2007
Share on FacebookAn article in the British publication The Independent describes how more and more doctors in England are refusing to perform abortions:
“Britain is facing an abortion crisis because an unprecedented number of doctors are refusing to be involved in carrying out the procedure. The exodus of doctors prepared to perform the task is a nationwide phenomenon that threatens to plunge the abortion service into chaos, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has warned.”
Part of this is due to the stigma of performing abortions. Abortionists are looked down upon by the public and the medical community.
“Distaste at performing terminations combined with ethical and religious convictions has led to a big increase in “conscientious objectors” who request exemption from the task, the RCOG says. A key factor is what specialists call “the dinner party test”. Gynaecologists who specialise in fertility treatment creating babies for childless couples are almost universally revered – but no one boasts of being an abortionist.”
More and more medical students and doctors are refusing abortion training:
“There is an increasing number of young doctors who are not participating in the training. The college and the Department of Health are really worried.”
Jeremy Lauranc “ABORTION CRISIS AS DOCTORS REFUSE TO PERFORM SURGERY” The Independent, 16 April 2007
Doctors are reluctant to kill babies like the one below in abortions.
Dr. Ernie Young, a Stanford University School of Medicine, where they specialize in caring for very premature babies. He says some doctors feel revulsion ab0ut abortions:
“Gynecologists are sensitive individuals and many of them are beginning to feel a revulsion about abortion procedures. And abortionists are being somewhat looked down upon in the medical profession. And the major reason for this is the astonishing progress being made in being able to see the unborn child moving about in the mother’s body.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 295
One abortionist describes how nurses need pep talks to keep them in the abortion business:
Nurses who work in abortion clinics often don’t have a high sense of professional self-esteem. It’s not the sort of thing you brag about. “What do you do?” “Oh, I work at an abortion clinic.” Sometimes I have to give them a little pep talk. You’ll often find that after doing, say, 20 abortions, nurses can feel quite dejected. You have to help them along, tell them that they have made 20 women very happy that day.
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 166
It’s not hard to understand why many abortion workers feel “dejected” after helping a doctor perform abortions. They have to see and dismember babies like the one below all day, every day.
Former abortionist turned pro-lifer Dr. Bernard Nathanson talks about the stigma and the negative responses of other doctors when he became an abortionist:
“I was publicly identified with a cause which in the past had been associated with the stereotypes of failed, defrocked doctors or the filthy old women in grimy kitchens or hotel rooms. Through in the radicalism of the late ‘60s abortion was crossing over into acceptability, I felt that I was being eyed with the same circumspection as one who had come down with active TB.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 194
There is still stigma today within the medical community towards abortionists.
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