abortionistas

Yep, we get those pretty commonly. Not so much with the then showing up to protest, but it's really common to have a woman spend a lot of her time with me telling me about how different her abortion is from everyone else who is there that day's abortion.

-K

Sure. If she doesn't want to have an abortion, if someone is pressuring her and she really wants to continue the pregnancy, anything like that. My job really is just to be someone to listen to her and support her decisions.

-K

you would not believe some of the shit i hear on a regular basis. they call me demon, witch, dyke, slut, whore, murderer, nazi, auschwitz guard, babykiller, babyeater, on and on. two weeks ago a woman told me that i was worse than the guy who shot all those kids at sandy hook.

some things they yell at patients/partners: "name your baby before you throw it away." "be a real man and don't let her kill your baby." "she's a pretty girl, if you have the baby it could be a model and you can make a lot of money off of it." "if you kill your baby god will give you cancer." "don't go in there, they'll sacrifice your baby to satan." and of course, the old standbys of "you're going to hell," "you're a whore," "you're a murderer," etc.

general yelling: "they sell the babies to pepsi and they make pepsi with baby kidneys." "did you know they have a cookbook and they eat the babies after they kill them." a priest once told me that he could see the "devil's tentacles in [my] soul" and it was everything i could do not to tell him that i was unaware i was in a japanese animated porno.

i treat them like they're ghosts. and i'm not scared of ghosts. -C

That clinics are dirty and that we hate babies. Neither is true.

-K

A lot of reasons, really, I don't think there's a typical story. Many of them are already mothers, struggling to care for their existing children. Others are very young and not at all ready to begin a family. Some have been raped, some are in abusive relationships. Really, it's all sorts of things.

-K