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Women call visits to abortion centers ‘humiliating’ and ‘close to rape’

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Women call visits to abortion centers ‘humiliating’ and ‘close to rape’

The idea of getting an abortion is, understandably, scary for many women. And of course, the abortion industry and its friends want to convince women that abortion facilities are nothing but kind, professional, and compassionate. But the abortion industry, which makes money off of women’s abortions, is likely not the most reliable place to look for the truth, or for reassurance. A new “abortion AMA” posted on Bustle gave photos and descriptions of what an abortion facility looks like. The information came directly from the abortion industry, from “abortion spa” Carafem, and from abortion giant Planned Parenthood. The article naturally tried to shine a positive light on facility workers, and tried to present facilities and procedure rooms as warm and inviting. While this is the message being spread by the abortion industry, the real experiences women have had aren’t so rosy. Women have consistently spoken of the poor treatment they have received at abortion facilities, and some have compared it to a cattle line:

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Another woman compared her experience to being raped, saying, “It doesn’t matter what they say, it’s still close to rape in terms of that sort of feeling of being gutted emotionally as well as physically.” Yet another woman called the staff unpleasant, callous, and indifferent. “Inside I screamed protest at their treatment of me – the lack of attention when I awoke with severe pain; the looking through me as if I didn’t really exist; the fact that they weren’t interested in me, as a person, [enough] to hear my story or to help me make sense of it all,” she recalled.

READ: Woman dies in taxi after abortion facility discharges her ‘too weak to speak’

The comparison to a cattle drive was something that came up frequently.

Other women have said that they were yelled at and treated like trash. One woman described her abortion facility was “a dirty, poorly operated clinic, with zero transparency and zero care for the patients. The doctors try to spend as little time as possible with you, are condescending and basically seem like they all dread being there…. Avoid at all costs.… [the bathroom] is dirty and smells of dried urine (it was evident it hadn’t been cleaned in days).”

Similar sentiments were echoed by facility staffers, who said that they ran the facility like an assembly line, with women just “a line item on our budget sheet.” It also wasn’t unusual for abortion facilities to be found in decrepit, disgusting, unsanitary conditions — not safe for any woman to undergo medical procedures in.

On Yelp, negative reviews are commonplace — even among abortion supporters.

The staff came off as uncaring:

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Planned Parenthood extorts people:

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Beware of deceptive billing practices:

Women call visits to abortion centers ‘humiliating’ and ‘close to rape’ image

Be ignored while the workers sit around and gossip:

Women call visits to abortion centers ‘humiliating’ and ‘close to rape’ image

The people don’t seem to care:

Women call visits to abortion centers ‘humiliating’ and ‘close to rape’ image

The room was filthy:

Women call visits to abortion centers ‘humiliating’ and ‘close to rape’ image

Looks like a jail cell:

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Planned Parenthood of New York City, featured in the Bustle article, likewise had negative Yelp reviews, even from self-described supporters of Planned Parenthood.

They make you wait in a crowded room:

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“You put things in your vagina, right?”

Women call visits to abortion centers ‘humiliating’ and ‘close to rape’ image

You need to get your act together:

Women call visits to abortion centers ‘humiliating’ and ‘close to rape’ image

Laughed at me with a smirk on her face:

Women call visits to abortion centers ‘humiliating’ and ‘close to rape’ image

It was depressing… patients in raggedy hospital gowns:

Women call visits to abortion centers ‘humiliating’ and ‘close to rape’ image

Miserable, thirsty, hungry, and tired:

Women call visits to abortion centers ‘humiliating’ and ‘close to rape’ image

I hope others won’t have to experience the same heartache:

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The reality is that abortion facilities are not warm, welcoming places with friendly, caring staffers eager to help women and treat them with compassion. Pregnancy resource centers are the far better option, ready to help women with absolutely free limited medical services, without trying to kill their preborn babies in the process.

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