{"id":192402,"date":"2018-12-17T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=192402"},"modified":"2018-12-12T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:31:41","slug":"abortion-not-healthcare-former-abortion-workers-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-not-healthcare-former-abortion-workers-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion is not health care: Former abortion workers speak out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned\u00a0 Parenthood’s new president, Leana Wen, posted the following tweet calling abortion<\/a> “health care.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>But former abortion workers, even those who are still pro-abortion, have admitted that it is not “normal” health care. Abortion is very different than a Pap smear or a gynecological exam.\u00a0 Health care does not take human lives. And “normal” health care does not typically leave women with emotional trauma.<\/p>\n

Jim Sollisch worked in an abortion facility for three years. He is, in his own words, “a longtime supporter of Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the ACLU.” He remains strongly pro-abortion.<\/p>\n

READ: Psychiatrists admit: Abortion isn\u2019t \u2018health care\u2019 or a form of \u2018treatment\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In an article in The Christian Science Monitor<\/em><\/a>, Sollisch writes:<\/p>\n

Pro-choice organizations should make it clear that every abortion ends a life, albeit a potential one. They should stop euphemizing and start making it clear that they really understand how emotionally wrenching an abortion can be… .<\/em><\/p>\n

[I] counseled men accompanying their girlfriends, wives, daughters, and friends to their abortion procedures. I learned to stop emphasizing the medical procedure and just listen. What I heard from many of them was that they were grieving. Some called it a death. Some called it a loss. Only a tiny percentage treated it like a medical procedure.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to Sollisch, men interpret their partner\u2019s abortions as a \u201closs\u201d and a \u201cdeath.\u201d No one responds to an appendectomy or other minor surgery this way. Clearly, it is something very different from routine health care.<\/p>\n

Sollisch says the following about other facility workers:<\/p>\n

Many of the women who worked at the clinic were mothers. They knew exactly what their patients were giving up. And for the most part, they said so. They weren’t afraid to speak the language of loss. They acknowledged the pain.<\/em><\/p>\n

Abortion causes emotional pain to women (and men). \u201cNormal\u201d health care does not.<\/p>\n

Jewels Green, another former abortion worker, sterilized the instruments in the facility\u2019s autoclave, and had to empty\u00a0jars of fetal remains when she worked in the industry. She writes about<\/a> seeing \u201cteeny tiny hands and feet and arms and legs and a rib cage and a spine and a hollow, flattened, misshapen, torn head\u201d up to \u201c30 times a day, four days a week.\u201d<\/p>\n