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Pro-abortion activist Carole Joffe wrote a book about abortion clinic workers entitled,\u00a0The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0For the book, she interviewed women from\u00a0different abortion facilities about their centers’\u00a0day to day operation. Joffe\u00a0wrote\u00a0the following<\/a>\u00a0about the training abortion counselors received:<\/p>\n

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\u2026 A good deal of time was devoted to \u201cword sensitization\u201d \u2013 the need to choose one\u2019s words with extraordinary care when discussing the abortion procedure with clients.\u2026<\/p>\n

The 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 the \u201cbaby,\u201d or the \u201cpregnancy,\u201d new counselors were, not surprisingly, urged not to use these charged terms, but instead to use the more neutral, though admittedly more awkward, \u201cproduct of conception\u201d or \u201ctissue.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If clinic workers used the term “baby” they would be less effective in selling abortion to pregnant women. Fewer women might have abortions if abortion\u00a0workers acknowledged the humanity of preborn children. \u00a0When a \u00a0woman comes to the abortion center\u00a0convinced she is\u00a0killing her baby, a helpful abortion worker is there to assure her that she\u00a0is\u00a0only getting rid of some “tissue.” After all, abortion facilities are businesses<\/a>, and they only make money if a woman chooses to abort. \u00a0There is plenty of evidence<\/a> that abortion\u00a0workers sometimes lie or withhold information from women, or put pressure on them to abort.<\/p>\n

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But there may also be another reason why abortion\u00a0workers don’t use the term “baby.” They\u00a0preside over killing preborn children every day. \u00a0When they refer to the baby as “fetal tissue,” “products of conception,” or other euphemisms, they insulate themselves from the truth. As one abortion\u00a0worker says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I feel some sadness [about second trimester abortions]\u2026And I think part of the problem is that we don\u2019t talk about that\u2026. Do you see what I\u2019m saying – that somehow your pro-choice stand is compromised by saying the word \u201cbaby.\u201d\u2026 We don\u2019t allow ourselves to say or think that word\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s hard to face up to the fact that you help kill babies for a living.<\/p>\n

Whether in an effort to sell abortions to vulnerable women or to hide the reality of abortion from themselves, abortion\u00a0workers avoid the term “baby.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pro-abortion activist Carole Joffe wrote a book about abortion clinic workers entitled,\u00a0The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers.\u00a0For the book, she interviewed women from\u00a0different abortion facilities about their centers’\u00a0day to day operation. Joffe\u00a0wrote\u00a0the following\u00a0about the training abortion counselors received: \u2026 A good deal of time was devoted to \u201cword sensitization\u201d \u2013 the need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":78362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[1950,7178,3994,1039,4976,3075,6606,2577,298,8413,8412,4515],"yoast_head":"\nAbortion workers told never to use the term 'baby'<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""Although it was acknowledged that many clients would refer to this as the 'baby,' or the 'pregnancy,' new counselors were... urged not to" use those terms.\" \/>\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\/abortion-workers-told-never-to-use-the-term-baby\/\" 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