{"id":49451,"date":"2014-05-10T22:21:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T02:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=49451"},"modified":"2014-05-11T00:29:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T04:29:17","slug":"staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff at abortion clinic was “callous” says clinic worker"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

\"\" Pro-abortion feminist Wendy Simonds interviewed a number of abortion clinic workers for her book Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic.<\/em> The interviews shine a light on some of the grisly practices taking\u00a0place inside abortion clinics. Because it was written from a pro-choice perspective, complete with a chapter on how to deal with \u201cantis” (i.e. anti-choicers, or pro-lifers) the book is difficult for pro-choice people to refute. There is no way that they can accuse the author of pro-life bias. One of the quotes that I found interesting was the following by a clinic worker. This clinic worker had eagerly swallowed the neo-feminist propaganda that abortion helps women live happy and productive lives. She came into the abortion industry with a rosy picture of abortion work, fully believing that abortion clinic staff were dedicated to helping and serving women. However, which she started working in an actual clinic, she discovered that the reality of abortion practice was different from the idealized picture she had in her mind. In this passage, she describes why she left her job at the abortion clinic:<\/p>\n

I quit my job at the clinic to write my dissertation but also because I had enough of the clinic. I didn\u2019t consider it to be a feminist place. While the clients got adequate medical care and the counselors were solicitous, I thought the staff, in general was overly directive, paternalistic, and even callous at times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The pro-choice view of helpful abortion clinics staffed by compassionate heroes who bravely serve women in spite of anti-choice persecution is seldom challenged in pro-choice circles.\u00a0 And yet, many former clinic workers have revealed that the clinics where they worked were motivated by the desire for profit <\/a>rather than compassion towards women. \u00a0In other cases, emotional burnout among clinic workers led to callousness towards the women seeking abortions. Cases of indifference or outright cruelty<\/a> by abortion clinic staff towards patients have been documented in many sources. Future articles will discuss other cases of callous clinic workers and clinics who treated their patients with disrespect and sometimes outright cruelty. Source: Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic<\/em> (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) \u00a07<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pro-abortion feminist Wendy Simonds interviewed a number of abortion clinic workers for her book Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic. The interviews shine a light on some of the grisly practices taking\u00a0place inside abortion clinics. Because it was written from a pro-choice perspective, complete with a chapter on how to deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":47507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nStaff at abortion clinic was "callous" says clinic worker - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Staff at abortion clinic was "callous" says clinic worker - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pro-abortion feminist Wendy Simonds interviewed a number of abortion clinic workers for her book Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic. The interviews shine a light on some of the grisly practices taking\u00a0place inside abortion clinics. Because it was written from a pro-choice perspective, complete with a chapter on how to deal […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-05-11T02:21:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-05-11T04:29:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/coathangerpendant.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"475\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"356\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sarah Terzo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sarah Terzo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sarah Terzo\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/2f32fb25f4ca350784baf5509b1b6eb2\"},\"headline\":\"Staff at abortion clinic was “callous” says clinic worker\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-05-11T02:21:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-05-11T04:29:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/\"},\"wordCount\":380,\"commentCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Investigative\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/\",\"name\":\"Staff at abortion clinic was \\\"callous\\\" says clinic worker - Live Action News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-05-11T02:21:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-05-11T04:29:17+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Staff at abortion clinic was “callous” says clinic worker\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/2f32fb25f4ca350784baf5509b1b6eb2\",\"name\":\"Sarah Terzo\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be2e9491114fa98a73c4031634f89b2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be2e9491114fa98a73c4031634f89b2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sarah Terzo\"},\"description\":\"Sarah Terzo is a pro-life author and creator of the clinicquotes.com website . She is a member of Secular Pro-Life, Pro-Life Humanists, and a board member of Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, and Consistent Life.. You can reach her at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sarahl.terzo. https:\/\/twitter.com\/PLClinicquotes\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/sarah-terzo\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Staff at abortion clinic was \"callous\" says clinic worker - Live Action News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Staff at abortion clinic was \"callous\" says clinic worker - Live Action News","og_description":"Pro-abortion feminist Wendy Simonds interviewed a number of abortion clinic workers for her book Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic. The interviews shine a light on some of the grisly practices taking\u00a0place inside abortion clinics. Because it was written from a pro-choice perspective, complete with a chapter on how to deal […]","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2014-05-11T02:21:48+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-05-11T04:29:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":475,"height":356,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/coathangerpendant.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sarah Terzo","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sarah Terzo","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/"},"author":{"name":"Sarah Terzo","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/2f32fb25f4ca350784baf5509b1b6eb2"},"headline":"Staff at abortion clinic was “callous” says clinic worker","datePublished":"2014-05-11T02:21:48+00:00","dateModified":"2014-05-11T04:29:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/"},"wordCount":380,"commentCount":4,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Investigative"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/","name":"Staff at abortion clinic was \"callous\" says clinic worker - Live Action News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-05-11T02:21:48+00:00","dateModified":"2014-05-11T04:29:17+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/staff-at-abortion-clinic-was-callous-says-clinic-worker\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Staff at abortion clinic was “callous” says clinic worker"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/2f32fb25f4ca350784baf5509b1b6eb2","name":"Sarah Terzo","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be2e9491114fa98a73c4031634f89b2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be2e9491114fa98a73c4031634f89b2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sarah Terzo"},"description":"Sarah Terzo is a pro-life author and creator of the clinicquotes.com website . She is a member of Secular Pro-Life, Pro-Life Humanists, and a board member of Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, and Consistent Life.. You can reach her at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sarahl.terzo. https:\/\/twitter.com\/PLClinicquotes","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/sarah-terzo\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}