They said it.
“If you do abortions, it is very hard to get the privilege to work in a hospital, because they don’t like abortion providers….Being an abortion provider is very stigmatized. Other doctors look down on you and think of you as like the lowest of the low.’”
Dr Susan Robinson, who performs late term abortions
After Tiller: Meet the only four doctors in the U.S. who still perform third-trimester abortions despite constant threats to their lives” Mail Online Jan 21, 2013
Share on FacebookOne doctor comments on the stigma of abortion among medical professionals:
“I was thinking of doing a study last year,” one resident said. ”I wanted to look at different gestational ages and then compare them to outcomes among different types of abortion. But then I started to think, Well, gosh, wait a minute, I don’t want to end up being known as the abortion person, do you know I mean?”
Jack Hitt “Who Will Do Abortions Here?” New York Times Jan 18, 1998
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/18/magazine/who-will-do-abortions-here.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Share on Facebook“After you work at Planned Parenthood, you’re set apart. It’s a stigma. As a single parent it’s lonely… people look at you differently. The medical community does too. Planned Parenthood makes you feel like you’re stuck there because you’ve been involved with abortion… When I left Planned Parenthood, I never wanted to think about it again. It worked for a few years, but eventually I went out to pray during 40 Days for Life. I figured after that I’d be done, but God has more in store for me.”
Mary, former clinic worker
And Then There Were None
Share on FacebookTwo abortionists quoted by Delese Wear “From Pragmatism the Politics: a Qualitative Study of Abortion Providers” Women & Health, volume 36 (4), 2002
“I don’t get to talk shop with my peers… No intelligent conversations with real smart colleagues the way most doctors get to… I don’t feel like I’m part of the medical community. I’m on my own, floating on an iceberg. I miss feeling connected.”
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“Who would want my life? Very few would be willing to put up with the bullshit I do. It’s low prestige, medically isolated… I have no doctor friends and have very little support from the medical community.”
It is hard to be an abortion provider due to the emotional impact of the job ,. the stigma that many of them face in the medical community, and pro-life activities.
Share on FacebookAlexander Sanger, president of Planned Parenthood of New York City:
“Back in the early 70s, Planned Parenthood led the fight to get abortions to be done in outpatient clinics, and it seemed like a good idea at the time, a way of providing easy access to good, cheap care….but it turns out that it has led to a stigmatization of abortion, as something most doctors opt out of.”
New York Times 3/22/93
Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 178
Read more about stigma and abortion providers here.
Share on FacebookRetired New Jersey abortion provider Robert Livingston was a champion for abortion rights in the ’60s and ’70s — once, in 1972, he even held a press conference outing himself as an illegal abortion doctor. But now, almost half a century later, Livingston avoids talking about reproductive rights because he believes the issue has become more “emotionally charged” than it was back in the day.
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Livingston said he thought the stigma of being an abortion doctor is greater now than it was in the 1960s and that public opposition is stronger than he’s ever seen “
Katie J.M. Baker “Retired Doctor Says It’s Harder to Be an Abortion Provider Now Than Before Roe V. Wade” Jezebel September 3, 2012
http://jezebel.com/5940087/retired-doctor-says-its-harder-to-be-an-abortion-provider-now-than-before-roe-v-wade?post=52384729
Note: Dr. Livingston has no medical license – it was suspended in 2007 after he neglected to attend a treatment program after abusing prescription painkillers. Unsurprisingly, the Jezebel article did not mention this fact
Share on FacebookA post on the”The Abortioneers,” a blog that is written by people who work in the abortion business, said the following about stigma:
“You will never see an abortioneer [abortion provider] nominated to the Department of Health and Human Services.”
The Abortioneers “All Stigma Great and Small” September 29, 2011
http://abortioneers.blogspot.com/2011/09/var-gajshost-https-document.html
Share on FacebookAbortion clinic administrator Diane Derzis discusses the stigma that abortion providers face, and how it comes from people on both sides of the political debate.
“There’s still the shame thing, even among people who are pro-choice. We [abortion providers] are still seen as dirty, even among our own people.”
“Abortion Doctor Says it’s the Cause, and the Cash that Keeps him Driving” The Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 16, 1993
Quoted by Life Dynamics
Abortionist quoted shortly after abortion laws were repealed in New York:
“I will do abortions. Everybody I know will do abortions. But, while I am intellectually ready, willing, and able, I will still have an emotional reaction. I have been so emotionally attuned to this attitude toward abortion throughout my whole career that it will be difficult. It’s a challenge…[the stigma] will persist until I die.”
Betty Sarvis and Hyman Rodman “The Abortion Controversy” Columbia University Press June 1, 1974 p 50
Share on FacebookDr. Warren Hern, famous late-term abortionist, relates a conversation he had with a friend:
“He is one of my best friends, a medical colleague who is strongly pro-choice and who has done abortions himself. I called him late Saturday afternoon and said I wanted to come over. He asked me where I was and I told him I was at my office. ‘Still killing babies this late in the afternoon?’ It was like a knife in my gut. It really upset me. What it conveys is that no matter how supportive people may be, there is still a horror at what I do.”
Mark Crutcher “Access: The Key to Pro-Life Victory” p 23 (from The New York Times, January 8, 1996
