Abortion worker pressured by other workers to abort her wanted baby

In England, some abortions are done in private facilities, but others are done in public hospitals. In many hospitals, being an obstetric nurse means having to care for women who are having abortions as well as patients having miscarriages or other procedures. One British student nurse who became pregnant while working in a hospital that did abortions wrote about her experience.

Amy Quinn was a student nurse assigned to a gynecological ward that did abortions as part of her training. Shortly after arriving at her new workplace, Quinn was confronted with the reality of abortion. She saw the dead body of a baby who was aborted by prostaglandin. Prostaglandin abortions are seldom done in the United States but are common in some European countries. In this type of abortion, labor is induced and the woman delivers a dead (or dying) baby. This method is often very distressing for women, who may see their aborted children.

Author Mary Kenny, who witnessed prostaglandin abortions, says:

Kenny gives a possible reason why abortions are done by this method — research:

Amy Quinn describes finding the body of the aborted baby on her first day of work:

Baby Development Week by Week

A baby at 14 weeks is fully formed. A living 14 week old preborn baby has a heart that has been beating for 10 weeks. He or she has a brain that is giving off waves. The baby responds to touch and will have a startle reaction when he or she is touched with something. The baby can have the hiccups. She is already right or left handed. She has lungs and “breathes” amniotic fluid to practice for breathing air when she is born. If she is a girl she has ovaries and a uterus of her own. He or she not only has hands and fingers, but also fingerprints.

Here are two ultrasound photos of babies at 14 and 15 weeks from The Endowment for Human Development.

Quinn writes:

The dictionary definition of “callow” is “immature, juvenile, and inexperienced.” Quinn implies that the other workers did not acknowledge the fact that they were helping kill human beings. They seemed to take abortion lightly. Quinn says that women coming in for abortions, particularly young women, were not troubled by what they were doing. This illustrates the dehumanization of preborn children in the culture.

Quinn then talks about becoming pregnant herself:

Despite pressure to abort from those who disapproved of her decision to carry to term, Quinn had her baby and left the abortion ward.

According to an American abortion worker, it is not unusual for abortion workers to have unplanned pregnancies.

Abortion may seem to be the go-to solution for unplanned pregnancies among abortion workers, but some do carry their babies to term. Others choose to get pregnant while working in the facility. Unsurprisingly, abortion facility directors and owners are not supportive of pregnant employees.

Pro-abortion feminist Wendy Simonds interviewed workers at one abortion facility. One worker there spoke about a woman whose pregnancy was not accepted by other workers:

The abortion facility’s management was not supportive of employees’ pregnancies:

Even though the abortion facility advocated for “choice” they did not respect a woman’s choice to reject abortion and have a baby. Author Wendy Simonds says:

A basic indifference to children and motherhood was prevalent in the abortion facility Simonds wrote about. It is not surprising that an industry that thrives off the destruction of children would have indifference to mother and child’s welfare after birth.

Amy Quinn’s experience illustrates the dehumanization of preborn babies and a negative view of motherhood. It was only another student, who had a personal reason to be against abortion, who sympathized with Quinn’s choice to have the baby.

Quinn story and the other quotes give insight into the mentality of the abortion industry, an industry that the devalues fetal life and is not supportive of pregnant women who want to have their babies.

Source: Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 180, 268-269