Stigma and fear of harassment have kept physicians from incorporating abortion into their practice.
...reports of protesters showing up outside clinics, openly carrying guns, menacing and frightening patients and staff. "We wouldn't tolerate this in any other medical field," she said. "If people saw it on their way to the dentist, it would be deemed unacceptable."
The passivity and silence of the medical establishment, of medical school deans and hospital officials, and of too many (privately) pro-choice physicians, is not the only reason such intimidation fails to elicit outrage, or even to be noticed, when it happens outside an abortion clinic. But it is definitely part of the reason. Thanks to their acquiescence, terrorism, intimidation and violence have won. nyt
...reports of protesters showing up outside clinics, openly carrying guns, menacing and frightening patients and staff. "We wouldn't tolerate this in any other medical field," she said. "If people saw it on their way to the dentist, it would be deemed unacceptable."
The passivity and silence of the medical establishment, of medical school deans and hospital officials, and of too many (privately) pro-choice physicians, is not the only reason such intimidation fails to elicit outrage, or even to be noticed, when it happens outside an abortion clinic. But it is definitely part of the reason. Thanks to their acquiescence, terrorism, intimidation and violence have won. nyt
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