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From a Pro-Choice author who has interviewed dozens of abortionists:

“Each generation of activists – and physicians willing to engage with such a divisive social issue is abortion are indisputably “activists” – experiences its own defining moments. And just as the death of women in emergency rooms was such a defining experience for older abortion providers, there are indications that the murders of abortion providers and other recent extremist abortion activity are playing the same role today for many contemporary medical students.

Since David Gunn’s death in March 1993, there has been a significant mobilization among pro-choice medical students across the country. “Medical Students for Choice,” a new national organization, has contacts in over 100 medical schools. One of its first activities was to circulate a petition (which ultimately gathered over 3000 signatures) among medical students all over the country, demanding that abortion training be a required component in OB/GYN residency programs.… In Response to the notorious “Bottom Feeders pamphlet, a compilation of vulgar jokes directed at abortion providers, which was recently mailed to medical students in the United States by an antiabortion group, medical students at the University of California at San Francisco raise funds that were donated to the National Abortion Federation.

In a letter to the publishers of the pamphlet, the UCSF students wrote, “If your intentions included intimidating future abortion providers… Then you failed. In fact, “Bottom Feeders” has sparked effective discussions on-campus about how to ensure access to safe, legal abortion for every woman who wants one.”

USC S Medical Students, “Letter to Life Dynamics,” July 15, 1993

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 206 – 207

Here, we see that anti-abortion violence and bullying or insulting tactics only drive more ambivalent medical students into the field of abortion. The response to violence and harassment is a sense of self-righteousness on the part of the providers, and encourages, ultimately. the destruction of more babies. These tactics should be condemned by all pro-lifers, both because they are morally wrong and because they are counterproductive.

From a pro-choice author who interviewed dozens of abortionists for her book:

“As I have argued, it would be a mistake to overestimate the influence of antiabortionists in explaining the provider shortage, and thereby to overlook other factors, such as the long-standing ambivalence of the medical establishment toward abortion.”

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) page 187

The medical community is deeply ambivalent about abortion, because, perhaps due to their medical training. Doctors may intuitively know that abortion kills babies. All the Embryology textbooks say that life begins at conception. That is why there is so much stigma attached to abortion and abortion providers.