Clinic worker “Diana” was comfortable with handling late-term aborted babies until she saw one with hair:
“Sterile room is so fast-paced. And I’m a person who’s really into learning….And so, okay, now I’ve got the technical down, so now I can, like, get lax in my thought processes. You know, it becomes more robotic. And I think that what happened one day [was] I stepped back inside of myself, and I was just like, “Oh my God, what are you doing? When I saw the hair…”
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic. (Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick) 1996, p 72
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