{"id":79612,"date":"2015-11-10T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T18:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=79612"},"modified":"2016-09-02T13:51:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:51:55","slug":"adopted-abortion-facility-worker-difficult-seeing-26-week-aborted-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/adopted-abortion-facility-worker-difficult-seeing-26-week-aborted-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopted abortion facility worker: It&#8217;s &#8216;difficult&#8217; seeing 26-week aborted babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>This quote is from an abortion facility\u00a0worker who was herself adopted. Her facility\u00a0had recently started doing abortions up to the 26th week:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There\u2019s lots of days when it\u2019s really, really hard\u2026 I don\u2019t know what makes it so much harder at twenty-six weeks than at thirteen weeks. I don\u2019t know what makes handling the tissue so much harder\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For me, there\u2019s a lot of probably some hidden guilt that I\u2019m not willing to look at about my adoption. That could have been me. You know, had my natural mother had access to abortion, this easily could have been me. And when you\u2019re, you know, putting a fetus\u2019s feet in over its head in a baggie, there\u2019s just that brief moment of \u201cthis could have been me,\u201d which I fundamentally believe is okay. She should have had a right to choose that, and I, being a religious person, believe that things happen for a reason\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It\u2019s much more difficult when you see a twenty-six week face.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The aborted babies she is talking about would be a week older than the one below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/slightly-open-right-eye.jpg\" alt=\"25 weeks. \" width=\"491\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/slightly-open-right-eye.jpg 491w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/slightly-open-right-eye-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wendy Simonds\u00a0<em>Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic<\/em>. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996)<br \/>\n84<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quote is from an abortion facility\u00a0worker who was herself adopted. Her facility\u00a0had recently started doing abortions up to the 26th week: There\u2019s lots of days when it\u2019s really, really hard\u2026 I don\u2019t know what makes it so much harder at twenty-six weeks than at thirteen weeks. I don\u2019t know what makes handling the tissue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":79241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[6115,4759,1106,1089],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adopted abortion facility worker: It&#039;s &#039;difficult&#039; seeing 26-week aborted babies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;You know, had my natural mother had access to abortion, this easily could have been me.... 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