Pro-Choice Medical Student Shaken After Observing Abortions
A pro-choice medical student wrote in her blog that she was shaken after observing abortions at Planned Parenthood.
Here is a quote from her blog “Pudu Overload” (now down):
“The third patient was a girl my little sister’s age whose pregnancy was much farther along than the others I saw. Coming into the room, she was shaking and scared and the doctor took ten minutes (twice as long as the actual procedure) to make sure she was ready and sure about her decision. Once the patient calmed down and was anesthetized, the nurse hooked up ultrasound to help with the more difficult case. This time I could clearly make out a head and arms on the screen, and I sat down and had to look away during most of the procedure.
first trimester ultrasound
Afterwards, the nurse brought me to the back room again and I saw some things I can’t get out of my head. Leaving the clinic through a waiting room full of upset pregnant teenagers, I felt respectful of and impressed by the doctors I met, both of whom have been stalked and threatened many times because of what they do. At the same time, I’m incredibly freaked out by the whole thing and don’t know how to think about it. It simultaneously seems like a small and an enormous thing.”
From the blog “Pudu Overload” (now offline) Quoted in Dawn Eden’s blog The Dawn Patrol October 19, 2008 “I saw some things I can’t get out of my head: Med student ‘incredibly freaked out’ after day at Planned Parenthood
