{"id":90638,"date":"2016-03-22T15:22:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=90638"},"modified":"2016-04-01T01:57:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T05:57:36","slug":"abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist talks about stigma, isolation from peers"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

An abortionist who wrote an article on the Maine Family Planning<\/a> website praises himself and the women who come to him. \u00a0He also admits that many doctors in mainstream medicine look down on abortionists like him.<\/p>\n

The abortionist, who credits himself only as “Tony,” had been doing abortions for ten years as of 2011, when the article was published. He says that committing abortions is “a profound privilege and honor.” \u00a0Nevertheless, he describes abortion as a “daunting and probably painful procedure” for women. \u00a0Despite acknowledging that abortion is a terrible experience for many women, he touts each abortion as a “victory”…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n

… in abortion work, clear victories happen every day as we give people back their lives.\u00a0I can remember a young woman, a high school student… I thought about what might have been her future if abortion were not available. Almost certainly a life of poverty, a slim chance of even finishing high school, let alone the college career she was planning. What is that worth?\u00a0 Everything.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Because a woman can’t possibly have both a child and an education. The abortionist’s\u00a0view underestimates women’s strength and resourcefulness. His way of “helping” women is robbing\u00a0them of their children. \u00a0While pro-life groups such as Students for Life<\/a> and Feminists for Life<\/a> work to set up resources for pregnant and parenting students, this abortionist attempts to eliminate the problem by eliminating the child.<\/p>\n

\"levatino-ad-LAN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But perhaps the most striking part of the abortionist’s article is this passage, where he admits that other doctors look down on his profession:<\/p>\n

\n

It is an unfortunate irony that abortion work has been cast to the fringes of medicine. Many of my colleagues, if they know at all what I do \u2014 and most don\u2019t and don\u2019t want to know \u2014 think that abortion work is for doctors who can\u2019t do anything else. They would rather not know about me or our patients, preferring to imagine that none of this goes on either for me or them. This makes for what is, in many ways, the hardest part of abortion work \u2014 the isolation. It is hard to find people outside of immediate colleagues and family to share the stresses and difficulties of the work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The isolation and stigma he describes may be a reason why so few doctors perform abortions. The shortage of abortion providers is a huge problem<\/a> for those who promote abortion.<\/p>\n

The isolation and ostracism abortionists face make abortion practice very unappealing to doctors who can make a living in other ways. A huge incentive in performing abortions is the money<\/a> that can be made. But that money comes at the cost of stigma and isolation. As fewer and fewer doctors enter the abortion field and more and more leave, pro-lifers have cause for hope that abortion numbers, already falling, will fall even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An abortionist who wrote an article on the Maine Family Planning website praises himself and the women who come to him. \u00a0He also admits that many doctors in mainstream medicine look down on abortionists like him. The abortionist, who credits himself only as “Tony,” had been doing abortions for ten years as of 2011, when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":62713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[4336,2538,4099,1506,7987,7986,1872],"yoast_head":"\nAbortionist talks about stigma, isolation from peers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As fewer doctors enter the abortion field and more leave, pro-lifers have cause for hope that abortion numbers, already falling, will fall even more.\" \/>\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\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abortionist talks about stigma, isolation from peers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As fewer doctors enter the abortion field and more leave, pro-lifers have cause for hope that abortion numbers, already falling, will fall even more.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-22T19:22:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-04-01T05:57:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/doctor-thinking.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"671\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"372\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sarah Terzo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sarah Terzo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sarah Terzo\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/2f32fb25f4ca350784baf5509b1b6eb2\"},\"headline\":\"Abortionist talks about stigma, isolation from peers\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-22T19:22:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-04-01T05:57:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/\"},\"wordCount\":476,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"abortion stigma\",\"abortionist\",\"doctors\",\"Feminists for Life\",\"Maine Family Planning\",\"medical profession\",\"Students for Life\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Investigative\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/\",\"name\":\"Abortionist talks about stigma, isolation from peers\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-22T19:22:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-04-01T05:57:36+00:00\",\"description\":\"As fewer doctors enter the abortion field and more leave, pro-lifers have cause for hope that abortion numbers, already falling, will fall even more.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Abortionist talks about stigma, isolation from peers\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/2f32fb25f4ca350784baf5509b1b6eb2\",\"name\":\"Sarah Terzo\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be2e9491114fa98a73c4031634f89b2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be2e9491114fa98a73c4031634f89b2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sarah Terzo\"},\"description\":\"Sarah Terzo is a pro-life author and creator of the clinicquotes.com website . She is a member of Secular Pro-Life, Pro-Life Humanists, and a board member of Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, and Consistent Life.. You can reach her at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sarahl.terzo. https:\/\/twitter.com\/PLClinicquotes\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/sarah-terzo\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Abortionist talks about stigma, isolation from peers","description":"As fewer doctors enter the abortion field and more leave, pro-lifers have cause for hope that abortion numbers, already falling, will fall even more.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Abortionist talks about stigma, isolation from peers","og_description":"As fewer doctors enter the abortion field and more leave, pro-lifers have cause for hope that abortion numbers, already falling, will fall even more.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2016-03-22T19:22:26+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-04-01T05:57:36+00:00","og_image":[{"width":671,"height":372,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/doctor-thinking.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sarah Terzo","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sarah Terzo","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/"},"author":{"name":"Sarah Terzo","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/2f32fb25f4ca350784baf5509b1b6eb2"},"headline":"Abortionist talks about stigma, isolation from peers","datePublished":"2016-03-22T19:22:26+00:00","dateModified":"2016-04-01T05:57:36+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/"},"wordCount":476,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["abortion stigma","abortionist","doctors","Feminists for Life","Maine Family Planning","medical profession","Students for Life"],"articleSection":["Investigative"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/","name":"Abortionist talks about stigma, isolation from peers","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-03-22T19:22:26+00:00","dateModified":"2016-04-01T05:57:36+00:00","description":"As fewer doctors enter the abortion field and more leave, pro-lifers have cause for hope that abortion numbers, already falling, will fall even more.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-talks-about-stigma-isolation-from-peers\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Abortionist talks about stigma, isolation from peers"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/2f32fb25f4ca350784baf5509b1b6eb2","name":"Sarah Terzo","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be2e9491114fa98a73c4031634f89b2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be2e9491114fa98a73c4031634f89b2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sarah Terzo"},"description":"Sarah Terzo is a pro-life author and creator of the clinicquotes.com website . She is a member of Secular Pro-Life, Pro-Life Humanists, and a board member of Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, and Consistent Life.. You can reach her at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sarahl.terzo. https:\/\/twitter.com\/PLClinicquotes","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/sarah-terzo\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90718,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90638\/revisions\/90718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}