I interviewed a girl today who was recently a nurse at Planned Parenthood. We started talking about some of the things she did and how most of the patients she saw were young girls needing birthcontrol. Then she told me how her location (In Iowa) recently became an abortion clinic too. She told me they do the abortions only on Saturdays and typically they do around 100.. that is right.. 100 abortions each Saturday. I asked her how this many could be done - she told me it only takes about 3 minutes. The Dr performs the procedure and then the nurses have to sort through it.. to check and see if everything was taken out. The saddest part was.. she said 80% of the patients are girls ages 12-17 yrs old... They don't have to have a parent's consent, they just have to go to the Judge in Pottawotomie and he will sign off on it..
When she was telling me this I started to get tears in my eyes.. thinking about this HUGE number.. She was pregnant when she worked there too. She quit after she had the baby. She said it doesn't matter if your pro-choice or pro-life, it is hard to sit and see 100 people come in every Saturday and abort their baby and leave... or the young ones.. get dropped off and have their boyfriend or whatever waiting in the parking lot. :(
Just had to share.. this broke my heart.
2 comments:
12 to 17 year-olds? Wow, that's really young. That would be crazy hard. (I promise I won't get on my soap box of education for these kids.) Thanks for sharing, Jill.
Incredible. Makes me cry. I just don't understand I guess.
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