{"id":207453,"date":"2019-07-29T11:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T16:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=207453"},"modified":"2019-07-25T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T02:55:36","slug":"abortion-workers-patients-rushed-instruments-sterilized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-workers-patients-rushed-instruments-sterilized\/","title":{"rendered":"UNSAFE: Former abortion workers say patients were rushed through so fast, instruments weren’t sterilized"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An abortionist quoted in the pro-abortion Ms. magazine wrote about how an abortion facility where she worked required her to commit abortions rapidly, one after another. This facility rushed women and allowed them limited time in the recovery room. She writes:<\/p>\n

I learned\u2026 why one facility was labeled a \u201cmill\u201d by anti-choice activists. I remember driving several hours to the clinic, performing 26 abortions, driving home and falling asleep on my bathroom floor. Staffed by itinerant providers like myself, this clinic was simply too busy to accommodate all of its patients. They had little time to recover after their procedures but had to be moved along to open the procedure room for the next patient.(1)<\/em><\/p>\n

Other abortion workers have written about similar practices in their own facilities. Former abortion worker Shelley Guillory, who worked at an abortion facility in Louisiana, said women were rushed through<\/a> the abortion facility because the more abortions they did, the more money they made:<\/p>\n

It was get \u2019em in, get \u2019em out. We found ourselves doing anywhere from 50 to 75 abortions a day. Now, mind you, there\u2019s only so many hours in a day. Our day was an eight hour day. So imagine getting 75 abortions done in an eight hour day. You can imagine that there was no cleanliness done in between. Basically, the paper was changed, and the next patient was put on there, the canisters were put in. They were rolled in like cattle, abortions performed, then on their way, with a 10 minute observation after [an] abortion was performed.<\/em><\/p>\n

She says this left little time for cleaning:<\/p>\n

It was very, very \u2013 it was horrendous. I mean, it was filthy. You still had blood splattered from, I mean, weeks of procedures ago that were still on the wall. This building was not cleaned on a daily basis. It wasn\u2019t even cleaned on a monthly basis. Our buildings got cleaned when we knew the state was coming in.<\/em><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0\u201cFilthy\u201d abortion clinic \u201ctreats patients like cattle\u201d according to patient reviews<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n