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A clinic worker identified as “Nell” was asked by a pro-abortion writer why handling fetal remains was hard for her. She responded:<\/a><\/p>\n

Because it looks like a baby. That\u2019s what it looks like to me. You\u2019ve never seen anything else that looks like that. The only other thing you\u2019ve ever seen is a baby\u2026You can see a face and hands and ears and eyes and, you know\u2026feet and toes\u2026It bothered me really bad the first time\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Nell tells\u00a0the interviewer that after working in the clinic for a while, dealing with the bodies of aborted babies became easier. Even so, Nell still remembers her\u00a0shock at seeing the torn\u00a0apart bodies for the first time. And she never really grew comfortable with the grisly task of sorting through the remains.<\/p>\n

Nell and the other clinic workers saw aborted children with human features regularly. These children, Nell admits, look like babies. \u00a0But in the center, the word “baby” was never used to describe the child to abortion patients. Rather, sanitized, \u00a0euphemistic terms were used.\u00a0\u00a0Simonds says:<\/a><\/p>\n

Center staff members commonly said \u201cthe pregnancy,\u201d \u201cthe tissue,\u201d \u201cthe products of conception.\u201d \u201cFetal tissue\u201d was the most explicit term I heard health workers use with clients.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These euphemisms were not used just\u00a0to describe preborn babies in the early stages, but also for preborn babies in the late second and third trimester.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0woman coming in for an abortion could leave completely unaware that her aborted child had “a face and hands and ears and eyes.”<\/p>\n

The clinic where Nell\u00a0worked did abortions up until 26 weeks of pregnancy. Babies have survived being born premature as early as 22 weeks. At 26 weeks, 80 to 90 percent of babies born premature survive.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The quote from Nell appears in the book “Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic” by Wendy Simonds. Simonds is unabashedly pro-abortion; she calls pro-lifers “antis” (short for for “antichoice”) and devotes an entire chapter to describing how the abortion facility thwarted pro-lifers’ efforts to save preborn babies. There is no sympathy for pro-life activists in the book.<\/p>\n

Because\u00a0Simonds is pro-abortion and\u00a0the book is written entirely from a pro-abortion perspective, one can assume there is no embellishment of Nell’s words. \u00a0The author is not trying to make the pro-life case in “Abortion at Work” –<\/em> quite the opposite – and yet the clinic worker’s words are a powerful pro-life testimony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A clinic worker identified as “Nell” was asked by a pro-abortion writer why handling fetal remains was hard for her. She responded: Because it looks like a baby. That\u2019s what it looks like to me. You\u2019ve never seen anything else that looks like that. The only other thing you\u2019ve ever seen is a baby\u2026You can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":57365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nClinic worker explains why it's hard to handle abortion remains - 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\/clinic-worker-explains-hard-handle-abortion-remains\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clinic worker explains why it's hard to handle abortion remains - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A clinic worker identified as “Nell” was asked by a pro-abortion writer why handling fetal remains was hard for her. 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