{"id":44293,"date":"2013-12-23T09:18:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T14:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=44293"},"modified":"2013-12-23T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T14:18:53","slug":"nursing-student-witnesses-abortion-rethinks-pro-choice-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nursing-student-witnesses-abortion-rethinks-pro-choice-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing student witnesses abortion, rethinks pro-choice stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"attachment_44397\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/medical-student.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44397\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44397  \" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" alt=\"medical-student\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/medical-student-300x189.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/medical-student-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/medical-student.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medical Student. File photo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A pro-choice\u00a0student nurse began having doubts\u00a0about her position\u00a0after witnessing\u00a0an abortion.\u00a0Author Jeff Lane Hensley quotes her in his book \u201cThe Zero People.\u201d This book contains pro-life essays on abortion from various\u00a0writers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was for abortion, I thought it was a woman\u2019s right to terminate pregnancy she did not want. Now I\u2019m not so sure. I am a student nurse nearing the end of my OB-GYN rotation at a major metropolitan hospital and teaching center. It wasn\u2019t until I saw what abortion really involves that I changed my mind. After the first week in the abortion clinic several people in my clinical group were shaky about their previously positive feelings about abortion. This new attitude resulted from our actually seeing a Prostaglandin abortion, one similar in nature to the widely used saline abortion. this method is being used for terminations of pregnancies of sixteen weeks and over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A prostaglandin abortion was done by inducing labor before viability. The contractions that a woman would go through through were very strong. They were painful for the mother. Babies who were aborted with this method\u00a0were often delivered with bruises over their entire bodies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A saline abortion was performed by injecting a caustic saline solution into the amniotic sac around the baby. It poisoned the baby, who died slowly over the course of several hours. Then labor was induced. These\u00a0methods of abortion has not been uses the 1980s because they were considered\u00a0dangerous to the mother and also caused so\u00a0many live births.<\/p>\n<p>Abortions after 16 weeks are now usually done by D&amp;E, where the baby is dismembered with forceps in utero, or by injecting the poison digoxin, which poisons the child.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the student nurse\u2019s testimony:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I used to find rationales. the fetus isn\u2019t real. Abdomens aren\u2019t really very swollen. It isn\u2019t \u2018alive.\u2019 No more excuses\u2026I am a member of the health profession and members of my class are now ambivalent about abortion. I now know a great deal more about what is involved in the issue. Women should perceive fully what abortion is; how destructive an act it is both for themselves and their unborn child. Whatever psychological coping mechanisms are employed during the process, the sight of a fetus in a hospital bedpan remains the final statement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This nurse\u2019s testimony reveals how many people who are initially pro-choice change their view when confronted with the reality of the abortion procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Jeff Lane Hensley The Zero People: Essays on Life (Ann Arbor: Servant Books 1983) pgs 221-223<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pro-choice\u00a0student nurse began having doubts\u00a0about her position\u00a0after witnessing\u00a0an abortion.\u00a0Author Jeff Lane Hensley quotes her in his book \u201cThe Zero People.\u201d This book contains pro-life essays on abortion from various\u00a0writers. &#8220;I was for abortion, I thought it was a woman\u2019s right to terminate pregnancy she did not want. Now I\u2019m not so sure. 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