{"id":56734,"date":"2014-12-09T09:07:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T14:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=56734"},"modified":"2014-12-09T04:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T09:09:48","slug":"abortionist-tells-patient-spread-your-legs-you-know-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-tells-patient-spread-your-legs-you-know-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist tells patient: spread your legs, you know how"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Merle Hoffman, who co-founded and ran an abortion clinic for many years, talks about sexist remarks several\u00a0of her\u00a0abortion doctors made to patients:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 some doctors would make blatantly sexist remarks. \u201cCome on, you knew how to spread your legs before you got here, you can spread them for the exam,\u201d a doctor once chided. Another commanded a patient to keep still, saying, \u201cKeep your backside on the table \u2013 you should know pretty well how to do that by now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Merle Hoffman <em>Intimate Wars: the Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room<\/em> (New York: Feminist Press, 2012)\u00a076 \u2013 77<\/p>\n<p>This is a pro-choice book, and in it\u00a0Hoffman defends her career as an abortion provider. So she has no pro-life bias.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can see how these doctors are not exactly champions of women\u2019s rights. \u00a0It is clear that these doctors are not motivated by wanting to help women.<a href=\"http:\/\/clinicquotes.com\/category\/quotes\/abortionists-and-money\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Perhaps it is the money they can make doing abortions that motivates them.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merle Hoffman, who co-founded and ran an abortion clinic for many years, talks about sexist remarks several\u00a0of her\u00a0abortion doctors made to patients: \u2026 some doctors would make blatantly sexist remarks. \u201cCome on, you knew how to spread your legs before you got here, you can spread them for the exam,\u201d a doctor once chided. 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