{"id":129813,"date":"2015-10-27T04:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T04:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/27\/no-matter-how-much-you-shame-and-scare-them\/"},"modified":"2015-10-27T04:12:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T04:12:55","slug":"no-matter-how-much-you-shame-and-scare-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/27\/no-matter-how-much-you-shame-and-scare-them\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>No matter how much you shame and scare them, women will still come for abortions. Pretty recently I had this young woman, 15 maybe, and we did the procedure. I said, \u2018Your uterus is empty, the procedure is over. I have to go check to make sure we got everything,\u2019 and I left the room to examine the tissue. Then I came back and told her, \u2018Everything\u2019s fine, your uterus is healthy.\u2019 And she said, \u2018So \u2026 when are you going to use the steel ball?\u2019 I picked my jaw up off the floor and said, \u2018Steel ball?\u2019 She said, \u2018Well, I went to the crisis pregnancy center and they told me you\u2019re going to put a steel ball that\u2019s covered with sharp blades into my uterus and twirl it around.\u2019 And this kid still came! I was thinking, How did you ever make yourself walk in the office believing I was going to do that?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2015\/10\/first-legal-abortionists-tell-their-stories.html\" target=\"_blank\">The First Legal Abortionists Tell Their Stories \u2013 The Cut<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/rhrealitycheck.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">rhrealitycheck<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how much you shame and scare them, women will still come for abortions. Pretty recently I had this young woman, 15 maybe, and we did the procedure. I said, \u2018Your uterus is empty, the procedure is over. I have to go check to make sure we got everything,\u2019 and I left the room &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/27\/no-matter-how-much-you-shame-and-scare-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1209,261,338,4,1397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}