{"id":180209,"date":"2018-03-13T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=180209"},"modified":"2018-03-12T18:20:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:20:33","slug":"abortion-worker-pressured-abort-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-worker-pressured-abort-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion worker pressured by other workers to abort her wanted baby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In England, some abortions<\/a> are done in private facilities, but others are done in public hospitals. In many hospitals, being an obstetric nurse means having to care for women who are having abortions as well as patients having miscarriages or other procedures. One\u00a0British student nurse who became pregnant while working in a hospital that did abortions wrote about her experience.<\/p>\n

Amy Quinn was a student nurse assigned to a gynecological ward that did abortions as part of her training. Shortly after arriving at her new workplace, Quinn was confronted with the reality of abortion. She saw the dead body of a baby who was aborted by prostaglandin. Prostaglandin abortions are seldom done in the United States but are common in some European countries. In this type of abortion, labor is induced and the woman delivers a dead (or dying) baby. This method is often very distressing for women, who may see their aborted children.<\/p>\n

Author Mary Kenny, who witnessed prostaglandin abortions, says:<\/p>\n

Prostaglandin abortion is … a more distressful experience for the woman. The procedure takes between twelve and thirty-six hours to complete. The woman endures the contractions and pains of labor, and delivers at the end of it, what she may perceive (if she actually sees it, which she may do) as a dead baby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kenny gives a possible reason why abortions are done by this method — research:<\/p>\n

From a laboratory viewpoint, the delivery of a foetus intact is more useful than a dismembered foetus. Better research can be done on a foetus which is in one piece and if it happens to be abnormal, more can be learned from it when it is delivered whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amy Quinn describes finding the body of the aborted baby on her first day of work:<\/p>\n

While a third-year student nurse at a London teaching hospital, I was sent to work on a gynae ward. Entering the sluice on my first shift I was surprised, not to say horrified, to see a dead foetus of about 14 or 15 weeks\u2019 gestation in a plastic bowl, and this set off the tone of my 13 weeks on the ward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n