Abortion provider to colleagues: Don’t let women see the sonogram
By Sarah Terzo
Dr. Sally Faith Dorfman, who worked at Einstein Medical College, gave the following advice to abortion providers:
Transcript excerpts from a talk entitled “Abortion Update” (talk no.
1065), given by Dr. Sally Faith Dorfman, director of Family Planning,
Development and Research at Albert Einstein Medical College in New York,
at the American Public Hospital Conference November 18, 1985, in
Washington DC. Recorded by Robert G Marshall, director of research,
Castello Institute.
Quoted in Robert Marshall, Charles Donovan Blessed Are the Barren: The Social Policy of Planned Parenthood (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press 1991)
Editor’s note. This appeared at liveactionnews.org.
Dr. Sally Faith Dorfman, who worked at Einstein Medical College, gave the following advice to abortion providers:
A compassionate and sensitive
sonographer should remember to turn the screen away from the plane of
view [of the woman having an abortion]. Staff, too, may find themselves
increasingly disturbed by the repeated visual impact of an aspect of
their work that they need to partially deny in order to continue to
function optimally and to concentrate on the needs of the women who come
to them for help.
Quoted in Robert Marshall, Charles Donovan Blessed Are the Barren: The Social Policy of Planned Parenthood (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press 1991)
Editor’s note. This appeared at liveactionnews.org.
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