{"id":59137,"date":"2015-02-02T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T15:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=59137"},"modified":"2016-09-06T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:24:39","slug":"abortionist-proud-of-doing-5000-abortions-in-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-proud-of-doing-5000-abortions-in-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist \u201cproud\u201d of doing 5,000 abortions in one year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Pro-choice writer Wendy Simonds interviewed abortionists and clinic workers for her book, <em>Abortion at Work:\u00a0Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic<\/em>. She quotes one abortionist saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_59138\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59138\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-59138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/unbornbaby24w-01-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"24 weeks\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-59138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">24 weeks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The thing I like about the procedure [abortion] is that\u2026 When you feel like you are indeed a talented abortionist, you can get through the difficult cases\u2026 it\u2019s dealing with a fibroid in the uterus; knowing what to do if you have an infection on the cervix, or if someone has put laminaria in there\u2026 when they really shouldn\u2019t have because the cervix was friable, then knowing how to do this with such delicate precision that you don\u2019t injure the cervix. Those kinds of things help me feel like I have really mastered something that I\u2019m very proud of\u2026 In the past year, I\u2019ve probably done close to 5000 procedures, which is more than many people do in 10 years of work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic<\/em> (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 68<\/p>\n<p>The clinic where this abortionist works does abortions up to 26 weeks \u2014 when babies are fully viable and able to live outside the womb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clinicquotes.com\/abortionist-proud-of-doing-5000-abortions\/\">Quoted from Clinicquotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-choice writer Wendy Simonds interviewed abortionists and clinic workers for her book, Abortion at Work:\u00a0Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic. 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