{"id":61029,"date":"2015-03-22T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=61029"},"modified":"2016-09-05T17:34:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T21:34:58","slug":"abortion-clinic-owner-i-had-no-conception-that-life-was-sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-clinic-owner-i-had-no-conception-that-life-was-sacred\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion clinic owner: I had no conception that life was sacred"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>From clinic owner and administrator Merle Hoffman, on counseling women for their abortions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Choice\u201d is sometimes not a choice at all. It is an outcome determined by the economic, physical, sociological, and political factors that surround women\u2026 At times this reality would move me profoundly as I sat opposite the women I counseled prior to their abortions, acutely aware of the potential lives growing inside them that would soon cease to exist.<\/p>\n<p>I began to think critically, to come to terms with what was going on. Each time I did that, I came out of that process more committed than before. I had no conception, either religious or philosophical, that \u201clife was sacred.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She uses the term \u201cpotential life\u201d to describe the preborn babies, but readily admits that she has no belief that life is sacred. Perhaps deep down she realizes that what happens in her facility dozens of times a day is the taking of actual, not potential, human life. However, by thinking \u201ccritically,\u201d she can come to terms with this fact, or at least repress it.<\/p>\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)\u00a0108 \u2013 109<\/p>\n<p>From Clinicquotes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From clinic owner and administrator Merle Hoffman, on counseling women for their abortions: &#8220;Choice\u201d is sometimes not a choice at all. It is an outcome determined by the economic, physical, sociological, and political factors that surround women\u2026 At times this reality would move me profoundly as I sat opposite the women I counseled prior to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":56807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[8,3058],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Abortion clinic owner: I had no conception that life was sacred - 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\/abortion-clinic-owner-i-had-no-conception-that-life-was-sacred\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abortion clinic owner: I had no conception that life was sacred - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From clinic owner and administrator Merle Hoffman, on counseling women for their abortions: &#8220;Choice\u201d is sometimes not a choice at all. 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