British student nurse Amy Quinn worked in a hospital that did abortions for part of her training. She got pregnant while working there and says:
Falling pregnant myself while unmarried and not having finished training, while working on the ward, was predictably somewhat embarrassing. The trained staff were inquisitive and aghast, and there were hints that an abortion would be the logical step to take. One houseman who was friendly and whose wife was pregnant suggested he help me get “fixed up” so that I could finish my training without interruption. Presumably his expected baby was a loved individual, and mine was simply a barely-differentiated lump of lifeless cells. My only supporter on the ward, indeed the only person who didn’t see me as positively weird, was a first-year student nurse who had been adopted- she said she was glad I wasn’t having an abortion, because if her mother had not taken the same course, she wouldn’t be here now. Judy is a good example of the waste of life with abortion.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 268-269
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