ClinicQuotes

From a survey of abortion providers:

“One respondent expressed increasing resentment of the casual attitudes of some patients considering the emotional cost to those performing the service.”

Warren M Hern and Billie Corrigan “What about Us? Staff Reactions to the D&E Procedure” Boulder Abortion Clinic, Advances in Planned Parenthood 15 (1): 3 – 8, 1980

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 124

Dr. Warren Hern looking at emotional reactions of his own staff

“Six respondents denied any preoccupation… outside the clinic. Several others felt that the emotional strain affected interpersonal relationship significantly or resulted in other behavior such as an excessive need to talk about the experience.”

Warren M Hern and Billie Corrigan “What about Us? Staff Reactions to the D&E Procedure” Boulder Abortion Clinic. Advances in Planned Parenthood 15 (1): 3\ – 80, 1980  Quoted in Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)11

A study published in 1974:

noted that “obsessional thinking about abortion, depression, fatigue, anger, lowered self-esteem, and identity conflicts were prominent. The symptom complex was considered a “transient reactive disorder,” similar to “combat fatigue.”

Marianne Such–Baer, “Professional Staff Reaction to Abortion Work,” Social Casework, July 1974 Quoted in Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 9

Although this study was old, it reveals how abortionists and clinic workers struggle to cope with seeing the dead bodies of aborted babies and performing abortions on a daily basis. There have been more recent studies that show this. Also, many former clinic workers and doctors discuss the emotional trauma of performing abortions. You can read some of their stories in the former abortionist and former clinic workers categories.