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Pro-lifers have often written<\/a> about biased and dishonest \u201ccounseling\u201d <\/a>in abortion facilities. Women who have had abortions often talk about how little information<\/a> they were given about the developing baby and abortion\u2019s risks. In fact, in one survey,<\/a> 90% of post-abortive women said they were not given enough information to make an informed decision.<\/p>\n

Many times, they say they were not encouraged to ask questions <\/a>and were not\u00a0told the truth. <\/a>\u00a0Pro-choicers usually rationalize or deny the stories. But now a prominent abortionist has come forward and admitted that counseling at abortion facilities leaves much to be desired.<\/p>\n

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Abortion doctor Don Sloan wrote a book entitled Choice: A Doctor\u2019s Experience with the Abortion Dilemma<\/em>.<\/a> In it, he says:<\/a><\/p>\n

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So we have these centers where patients are counseled, but don\u2019t make the mistake of thinking it\u2019s a thorough job. The counseling is less than might be desirable at times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He then explains why the counseling is inadequate:<\/p>\n

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For someone performing abortions, the volume can be so great it\u2019s overwhelming. I\u2019ve sent out tens and tens of thousands of women, and I know so little about so many of them- most of them. How could I? In a sense, the doctor is only a tradesperson, a technician performing a task, like any other\u2026There are many times- frequently, in fact, and I do to this very day- when I will get a referral to do an abortion on a woman I\u2019ve never seen, will see only for those fleeting minutes of the termination, and then never see again. That scenario isn\u2019t peculiar to me- it goes with the territory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So much for abortion being between \u201ca woman and her doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sloan describes a situation\u00a0where women are rushed through the abortion procedure, one after another. Women who regret their abortions have described the experience <\/a>as being on an assembly line, processed through the abortion machinery rapidly with no time to ask questions or think about what they were doing. \u00a0Obviously, counseling fell by the wayside.<\/p>\n

Dr. Sloan has been unusually honest for an\u00a0abortionist. In the same book he debunks the argument<\/a> that abortion is sometimes necessary to save the life of the mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pro-lifers have often written about biased and dishonest \u201ccounseling\u201d in abortion facilities. Women who have had abortions often talk about how little information they were given about the developing baby and abortion\u2019s risks. In fact, in one survey, 90% of post-abortive women said they were not given enough information to make an informed decision. Many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":79303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[1503,3486,6036],"yoast_head":"\nAbortionist: Counseling at clinics is \u201cless than desirable\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pro-lifers have often written about biased and dishonest \u201ccounseling\u201d in abortion clinics. 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