Abortion clinic worker “Toby” who was adopted talks about handling the bodies of aborted babies:
“… I think also just that the more you think about what it looks like… It looks like a baby. And you know that sometimes… We go farther than we intend to, then that’s really, really hard too because I was premature, and looking at this thing that could’ve been me, you know? And I try not to personalize it that much because it could’ve been me, and I would never know because I wouldn’t be here, but it’s still hard to do…I think I probably cope with it better than some other people who work here who talk about having nightmares and stuff…In the first couple of months [when] I started working here, I’d have images of, like, the face, you know , when it comes into sterile room. And I always turn it over. But I don’t dream about it. I dont’ know if that makes me more repressed or better able to cope. [Laughing].”
- abortion at 20 weeks
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)84
The clinic this person works at does abortions up to 26 weeks.
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