“The first time I attended a late termination it was upsetting. I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t sometimes question what I was doing. But above all I believe that the woman must come first. In fact, I feel so strongly about this that when I was 20 weeks pregnant, I assisted in a [late] termination when all my colleagues refused on moral and religious grounds….
I don’t look at it as the taking away a life because embryos cannot sustain life outside the womb. If women could not have abortions, what would happen to the thousands of unwanted babies? “
Clinic Worker Pippa Jenkins
Ann Barrowclough “Abortion: This is What Our Nurses Really Think” Sunday Mirror August 18, 1996 p 16
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