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Just a teeny-tiny perfect little baby floating in the jar. In the fridge. Forever a silent witness to the march of death of his immature brethren.<\/em><\/p>\n

So much became daily business-as-usual while working at an abortion clinic year after year: the tears, the shouting parents and boyfriends, the drivers who accompanied abortion patients who said they were \u201cgoing out for a cigarette\u201d and then disappeared and abandoned the pregnant mother they\u2019d brought in, the jokes in the lunchroom about the one who showed up with multiple other kids in tow. (We did not allow children in the waiting room. Ever.)<\/p>\n

Even the macabre became commonplace. The gallows humor I\u2019d seen in movies about medical staff who work around disease and death day in and day out was right at home in an abortion clinic.<\/p>\n

I vividly remember the cleaning lady who quit after finding a foot in the drain of the one of the sinks in the autoclave room where the medical instruments were cleaned and sterilized after abortions. We all laughed and joked about it in the staff lounge for days and weeks afterward.<\/p>\n

One time the power went out for hours and we were all explicitly instructed NOT to open the freezer where all of the medical waste was stored (read: dead baby parts in bio-hazard bags). Inevitably, someone did open that freezer and I will never, ever forget the stench of decaying human flesh for as long as I live\u2014but we all laughed as we gagged and joked how at least \u201cthey\u201d had it better in that non-functioning freezer because at least they couldn\u2019t smell it.<\/p>\n

One thing about the clinic never sat well with me, maybe because in my heart I always knew it was wrong. All of it was wrong, but especially this: the dead baby in the refrigerator in the lab. It was touted as a \u201cteaching tool\u201d and a \u201cmedical anomaly\u201d that this perfect 10-week-old fetus \u201csurvived\u201d the suction abortion procedure perfectly intact. So he (I thought I could tell it was a he) was given the dubious honor of being preserved in formalin in a translucent plastic jar in the laboratory refrigerator. I think we called him Charlie, but I can\u2019t really remember. I know he had a name, but blissfully I have either forgotten or repressed it. But he was there every day I worked there.<\/p>\n

Occasionally I peeked in on him, fascinated by the bizarreness of it all, but also with a scientific curiosity\u2014every other abortion resulted in parts, bits and pieces of human in the jar\u2014but this miraculous little creature was perfectly formed and complete in every way, with the heartbreaking exception that he was dead. There was no amniotic sac, no placenta, just a teeny-tiny perfect little baby floating in the jar. In the fridge. Forever a silent witness to the march of death of his immature brethren.<\/p>\n

How I pray his soul rests in peace, and that someday he is given decent burial\u2014or at the very least tossed out with the rest of the bio-hazardous waste, for that would be far more merciful than where I knew him to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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