{"id":221643,"date":"2020-04-10T17:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T22:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=221643"},"modified":"2020-04-10T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T20:06:17","slug":"screaming-agony-abortionists-admit-abortion-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/screaming-agony-abortionists-admit-abortion-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"‘They are screaming in agony, but we just do what we do’: Abortionists admit abortion is like ‘torture’ for women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an article for the journal Social Science & Medicine, abortionists and abortion workers discuss disturbing parts of their jobs in the abortion industry. The article, entitled \u201cDangertalk: Voices of abortion providers,” is about all the unpleasant details of abortion that abortion workers don\u2019t want the public to know. The article bemoans the idea that there are few spaces for abortion industry workers to be honest about their jobs without threat of their stories being leaked and used against their livelihoods.<\/p>\n

One issue \u201cDangertalk\u201d addresses is the physical pain abortion procedures cause women. The article says, \u201cProviders worried that patients’ experience of pain could color their perceptions of providers and the work.”\u00a0One abortionist is quoted saying:<\/p>\n

Doing the work [i.e., doing abortions] may cause people pain; they are screaming in agony, but we just do what we do. In any other situation [it] would be considered torture but we do it, and you know all of us just kind of pack it away.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The article goes on to state, \u201cParticipants acknowledged that sometimes they must ignore a patient’s physical discomfort in order to complete the procedure.\u201d\u00a0It then quotes another abortionist:<\/p>\n

It’s sort of basically that I have to get the procedure done, I can’t stop and say oh, I’m sorry I’m hurting you, and do you need a minute? You know, you just have to get it done.<\/em><\/p>\n

One wonders why the abortionist can\u2019t stop and give a woman a minute to collect herself. Is the abortionist rushing through abortion procedures so the facility can do more abortions and increase their profits? According<\/a> to former abortion workers<\/a>, this is quite common<\/a>.<\/p>\n