From pro-choice author Carole Joffe in Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995)
“[influential physician Robert Hall said that women should have counseling before an abortion] Then if she still wants the abortion she should have it. When it comes to the doctor, I think he’s eventually going to be no more than a technician. This may be humiliating to him. But it is his unavoidable plight if we are to grant women their inherent right to an abortion.”
This may be part of the reason why abortionists are so hard to come by in United States. They often turn out abortions on an assembly line, seeing the woman only long enough to perform the operation and developing no rapport with her as a patient.
Often abortion clinics have very substandard counseling. Read about abortion counseling here.
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