The story of the time I was a dick

Why does she keep shouting ABORTION at me?   Yesterday our guest blogger Amy mentioned that phone calls about abortion care often sound li...

Guest post: Caring for the Ones Who Never Call

I'm incredibly pleased to introduce a guest writer today. Amy Littlefield is a former abortion counselor and founder of The Provider Pr...

Guest post: Telling my patients "No"

Happy Friday! Please warmly welcome Candid Cannula, a fellow abortioneer who's graciously joined us for a guest post this morning. I lo...

How to Know When to Let Go

One of the most difficult lessons I have learned as an abortioneer is when to let go of your patients. We hear many difficult stories, stori...

You've got mail

Dear Patients, Maybe I met you years ago or days ago, and maybe I'll meet you tomorrow or years in the future. I hope I made or will ma...

Nurturing Choice

I've heard the argument for parental notification/consent laws that reasons, "Why shouldn't the parent be involved in the daugh...

What I hear you saying is...

Part of the pre-abortion process at my clinic is counseling. Clients talk with a counselor one-on-one to review their medical histories, di...

What's love got to do with it?

"Sex is painful, but I'm fine." "He said he'd pull out, but I guess he didn't." "I don't think I...

Trust

I'm not an optimist by nature, but by God, I force myself to be one. There's enough negativity in and around abortion care; no one ...

What's your Story?

Please enjoy this one last wise blog by our guest guru, deliverance: “How can you feel so much for another person, a complete stranger?” Rec...

(Un)Comfortably Numb

Sometimes when I'm counseling, clients will use the session not only as an opportunity for their questions and fears about surgery, reco...

Lean on Me

I was fortunate enough to have several friends come to me recently to tell me their abortion stories. I had only mentioned my work in passi...

Close your eyes and imagine something for me

welcome to your new home What if you moved to another country and had no family there, and your first language was one that very few people ...

All I Need to Know About Life I Learned from Working at an Abortion Clinic

Item #9: 1. It pays to be nice When I'm taking payments, some clients are a few dollars short. If they've been a pleasure to work...

Sisterhood of the traveling mesh underpants*

"Tell your abortion story!" we implore you. "Erase the stigma!" "I'm here to listen." In nearly every c...

Happy pills

The other day when I answered the phone at the clinic, a Spanish-speaker was on the other end of the line asking about "the pill that b...

Heath Educator?

Part of my job description is health education, and I totally own it. Some of my co-workers aren't big fans of counseling our teenage c...

To Abortioneers: Help Out About A Girl!

Dear Abortioneers Out There: I have a confession. I'm having a mini - tiny even - crisis. OK. "Crisis" is a bit dramatic; but ...

Lessons on Assumptions, Altruism, and Abortion

Without violating HIPAA, let me just tell you that I've interacted with several clients who are a little bit unlike me. Let's say t...

Friday morning at the movies: praise and pans

Recently I organized a local screening of If These Walls Could Talk. If you've ever seen it or remember its HBO premiere in 1996, you ...