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Pro-abortion\u00a0author, Wendy Simonds, interviewed abortion facility\u00a0workers for her book “Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice at a Feminist Clinic.”<\/a> One staffer\u00a0said of her former workplace:<\/p>\n

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I quit my job at the clinic to write my dissertation but also because I had enough of the clinic. I didn\u2019t consider it to be a feminist place. While the clients got adequate medical care and the counselors were solicitous, I thought the staff, in general was overly directive, paternalistic, and even callous at times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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After completing her dissertation, the worker got a job at a different abortion mill. \u00a0At the time of the interview, she was working at the second facility; however,\u00a0“Abortion at Work” does not indicate whether she was pleased with how\u00a0women were treated\u00a0at the second facility.<\/p>\n

The quote came from a worker who remained pro-abortion and stayed in the abortion business. Her criticism is mild compared to the allegations coming from former clinic workers, such as Carol Everett<\/a> and Dina Madsen<\/a>. But the fact that her testimony appears in an extremely pro-abortion book by a self-proclaimed feminist writer makes it significant.<\/p>\n

The book has an entire chapter dedicated to the ways staffers\u00a0work to foil “anti-choice” activists, who are described in unflattering terms. \u00a0Because of her loyalty to the abortion industry, this worker may well be understating the problems in her old facility. Regardless, her quote is another piece of information in a growing pile of evidence, showing that abortion mills\u00a0are not the caring, women-centered facilities\u00a0abortion supporters\u00a0want us to believe\u00a0they are.<\/p>\n

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic<\/em> (New Brunswick, New Jersey: \u00a0Rutgers University Press, 1996) 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pro-abortion\u00a0author, Wendy Simonds, interviewed abortion facility\u00a0workers for her book “Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice at a Feminist Clinic.” One staffer\u00a0said of her former workplace: I quit my job at the clinic to write my dissertation but also because I had enough of the clinic. I didn\u2019t consider it to be a feminist place. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":65872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[5212,1950,5118,694,5211,1196,5210],"yoast_head":"\nFormer abortion facility worker: Staffers were 'callous'<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""I quit my job at the clinic to write my dissertation but also because I had enough of the clinic. 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