Women herded through abortion facilities like cattle

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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "I could swear that there was only one doctor and he just went down the line, giving abortions. I started crying because I could hear that little [suction] machine going on and off. He just kept getting closer and closer. I heard his gloves pop off in the next room and then he came to me. He didn’t say a word.…

    I remember some of the women just squalling, just absolutely lost their minds, just crying. And I remember shaking constantly. It was just like you were a herd of cattle… Women were crying before they went in and they were crying after."​

    James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) 64


    "The abortion experience was like a cattle drive. The other women and I were herded together from room to room. …. We were then ushered into separate rooms where we waited for the doctor. It was a cold and humiliating experience. The worst part was the “recovery room”. All the women were put together into a large dark room where we were placed on cold vinyl beds to wait for the Valium to wear off. I’ll never forget the sickening feeling of lying in that room, listening to the moaning of other women… "​

    excerpt from a woman's story shared with Priests for Life and Rachel’s Vineyard


    One woman, who had experienced abortion many years ago, left the following comments in a review on Yelp:

    "I wish there had been a First Resort when I was a teenager. I was pregnant and confused. When I went to planned parenthood, I was not counseled, I was herded in like cattle and asked about when I wanted an abortion. I felt sad and abandoned."​

    https://www.yelp.com/biz/first-resort-san-francisco-3?osq=abortion+services&search_key=60401


    Eve Kushner shared the following accounts in her book “Experiencing Abortion: a Weaving of Women’s Words” :

    The doctor was an a**hole. While I was on the table, I asked him a question. I was so nervous that I couldn’t even hear his answer. He said, “Hello! Are you listening?” In a very rude tone. I’ll never forget or forgive that jerk as long as I live.​

    The book also told a story from a woman named Vivian:

    The clinic was, as Vivian describes it, “a real assembly line. It had probably 100 women on Saturday and it was really impersonal. I was told that you get some counseling. None at all.” Vivian found the clinic staff quite abrasive. The male doctor used the instruments quickly and “shoved the speculum up really hard,” which made Vivian scared and tense. She adds that one nasty woman barked, “Get up! Put your legs up!”

    Melinda T. Reist collected many testimonies from women who had less than pleasant experiences at abortion facilities. Here's an excerpt from one of those testimonies:

    They gave me no options and no information; my rights as a human being were not valid because of who I was, just another stupid teenager who got pregnant. I wanted so much to talk to someone, maybe someone would say, “Don’t do it, I will help you through,” or maybe, “You can keep your baby, there is help available and there are people who care,” but instead I was herded into a room with about 10 other girls like cattle and spoken to like I was a piece of dirt and treated as such.
    This testimony appeared in a book titled “Motherhood Interrupted: Stories of Healing and Hope after Abortion”, by Jane Brenan published the testimony of one woman who had an abortion at Planned Parenthood:

    I remember staff ushering me into a room with other women lined up on tables. I watched as they continued herding other women in like cattle while I awaited my own procedure. When it was my turn in the line of the deceived, I begged them to stop as I heard the sound of the vacuum. I looked over and saw a glass container beside me filling up with the blood and tissue of my baby. Reality set in.

    “Please stop,” I said, “I am going to throw up.”

    The nurse grabbed my arm, offering no more comfort than, “SHHHHH, BE QUIET!” I knew then it was too late, and I would never be the same…​
     
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    LOL! You couldn't come up with facts or a point, or a decent response in any other thread against abortion so you pop up here with totally irrelevant poppycock from Anti-Abortion, ant-woman sites....too funny .....
     
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    Thread closure- Rule 11
     
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