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Abortion center\u00a0workers often avoid using the word “baby” at all cost when talking to abortion patients. Yet even though they try to hide the baby’s humanity, many women come to realize, sometimes years later, that their abortions killed their babies.<\/p>\n

Norma\u00a0Goldberger\u00a0was\u00a0director of\u00a0Open Door, a counseling and referral center for women seeking abortions. \u00a0When hiring, she carefully selected staff members who\u00a0would be “pro-choice.”<\/p>\n

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One thing they had to understand was that they were not to use the word “baby” under any circumstances.<\/a><\/p>\n

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I confirmed that each counselor was pro-choice\u2026 I did not allow anybody to work with our clients who referred to a fetus as anything but in that neutral term [ the word ‘fetus’]. I recall arguing with an applicant who couldn\u2019t understand that the term \u201cbaby\u201d was not neutral and a value judgment in and of itself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It was easier for a woman to have an abortion if her baby was dehumanized.<\/p>\n

Norma Goldberger went on to own and run her own abortion center where, presumably, women were never told they were carrying a “baby.”<\/p>\n

Reluctance to use the word “baby” in the abortion business is widespread. At a\u00a0convention of abortion providers, one of the speakers,\u00a0a nurse at an abortion facility, said:<\/a><\/p>\n

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These may seem very, very insignificant to us, but to the patient it can really imply that you are using a judgment, and quite often we are not aware of what we are saying. We have to be very, very sensitive, and very, very aware of what words we\u2019re using to describe the procedures used. Use the word \u201cfetus\u201d; This is a fetus; this is not a \u201cbaby.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Again we see clinic workers saying\u00a0that using the word “baby” is judgmental. \u00a0In fact saying “baby” might make a\u00a0woman think twice about her decision.<\/p>\n

Carole Joffe wrote a book<\/a> after interviewing abortion center\u00a0workers. Author Wendy Simonds quotes her:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In Carole Joffe\u2019s ethnographic work at an abortion clinic that performed first-trimester abortions, she found out, \u201cthe most interesting problem was how to refer to the product of the abortion. Although it was acknowledged that many clients would refer to this as \u201cbaby,\u201d or \u201cthe pregnancy,\u201d new counselors were, not surprisingly, urged not to use these charged terms, but instead to use the more neutral, though admittedly more awkward, \u2018products of conception\u2019 or \u2018tissue.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Simonds also wrote a book<\/a> about abortion. She observed abortions at an abortion center and interviewed the\u00a0workers. She says:<\/a><\/p>\n

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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>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Saying “fetus” or “tissue” instead of “baby” insulates a woman from the fact that\u00a0she is killing her child. In a sense, it “protects” the woman from the truth. But how long does this “protection” last?<\/p>\n

Not too long, according to this\u00a0social worker <\/a>from Portland, Oregon, who works at a counseling and referral center:<\/p>\n

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Most women when they have an abortion don\u2019t really know what they are doing \u2013 they are either so young, so ignorant, or so frightened\u2026 Down the line, 5, 6, or 7 years when they have children, some kind of trauma almost always comes up\u2026 And down the line, most women do think of the aborted fetus as a living being, as a baby.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In a survey<\/a> done by The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform<\/a>,\u00a0post-abortive women were asked how they viewed their preborn baby at the time of their abortion and then later. Here are the results:<\/p>\n

What was your opinion about the nature of the fetus before your abortion?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Human (26%)
\nNon-human (30%)
\nOther (40%)
\nNo answer (4%)<\/p>\n

What is your opinion about the nature of the fetus after your abortion?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Human (97%)
\nNon-human (0%)
\nOther (0%)
\nNo answer (3%)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As you can see, as time went on, nearly all of the women came to realize they had aborted a baby. Denial, even when aided and abetted by clinic workers, doesn’t last forever.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that many of these women suffered emotionally when they came to believe they’d\u00a0killed their babies. \u00a0 Surely, sugar coating abortion by avoiding the word “baby” doesn’t help women in the long run. \u00a0But if clinic workers referred to the fetus as a “baby” how many women would have abortions? \u00a0Some no doubt would still abort, but using such honest language would most likely\u00a0make some think twice. \u00a0 No matter what these clinic workers say about “judgement” and “neutrality,” the truth is that abortion clinics do not make money on women who choose to have their babies. There is great financial incentive to have women go through with their abortions, and one wonders if that is the real reason the word “baby” is never used in abortion clinics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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