Abortion is a very controversial procedure that has been around for hundreds of years. It is estimated that just about three thousand abortions are done each day in the US. This procedure is done for a number of reasons, not just an unwanted child as many assume. It seems as if just about everyone has their own opinion when it comes to this topic, be it fueled by religious reasons or otherwise. “We do abortions here: a nurse’s story” is the first hand account of a nurse that provides these abortions.
Throughout the nurse’s piece she often finds herself struggling to find a balance within her job. She states, “ I look at abortion as if I am standing on a cliff with a telescope, gazing at a great vista. I can sweep the horizon with both eyes, survey the scene in all its distance …show more content…
As recent news would show, people are often incredibly hostile to abortion workers and those getting abortions both physically and mentally. “When a delivery man comes to the sliding glass window by the reception desk and tilts a box toward me, I hesitate. I read the package slip, assess the shape and weight of the box in light of its supposed contents. We request familiar faces. The doors are carefully locked; I learned to half glance around at bags and boxes, looking for a telltale sign. I register with security when I arrive, and I am careful not to bang a door. We are all little on edge here.”(Pg.381) the nurse explains. She also tells of a patient she had gone to the local crisis center when she first learned of her pregnancy. She was fed the lies that if she were go through with an abortion that she may never be able to conceive in the future and that the doctor would make her touch the fetuses dismembered body. They also called her several times a day at work and at home in order to try to manipulate her in to carrying the fetus to
Throughout the nurse’s piece she often finds herself struggling to find a balance within her job. She states, “ I look at abortion as if I am standing on a cliff with a telescope, gazing at a great vista. I can sweep the horizon with both eyes, survey the scene in all its distance …show more content…
As recent news would show, people are often incredibly hostile to abortion workers and those getting abortions both physically and mentally. “When a delivery man comes to the sliding glass window by the reception desk and tilts a box toward me, I hesitate. I read the package slip, assess the shape and weight of the box in light of its supposed contents. We request familiar faces. The doors are carefully locked; I learned to half glance around at bags and boxes, looking for a telltale sign. I register with security when I arrive, and I am careful not to bang a door. We are all little on edge here.”(Pg.381) the nurse explains. She also tells of a patient she had gone to the local crisis center when she first learned of her pregnancy. She was fed the lies that if she were go through with an abortion that she may never be able to conceive in the future and that the doctor would make her touch the fetuses dismembered body. They also called her several times a day at work and at home in order to try to manipulate her in to carrying the fetus to