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Now, you can “meet” them in an upcoming documentary titled “After Tiller.”<\/p>\n
Only four doctors in the U.S. offer third-trimester abortions, knowing they risk their own lives every day to carry out such <\/span>controversial <\/span>procedures.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If you recall, Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider, was assassinated in ’09.<\/p>\n
Although late-term procedures make up just one per cent of all abortions in the United States, they are the most controversial, facing particularly virulent protests by abortion opponents.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nAside from death threats, such doctors face ‘institutional barriers,’ Dr Susan Robinson, a former colleague of Tiller who still performs such procedures, told AFP following a screening of the documentary at Sundance.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Docs who perform this procedure face interesting professional obstacles.<\/p>\n
‘If you do abortions, it is very hard to get the privilege to work in a hospital, because they don’t like abortion providers.<\/span><\/p>\n
‘They are almost all done in outpatient clinics, free-standing clinics, in this country,’ she says.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n‘Being an abortion provider is very stigmatized. Other doctors look down on you and think of you as like the lowest of the low.’<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, what was Tiller like?<\/p>\n
‘We learned at his knee. Kindness, courtesy, justice, love and respect are the hallmarks of a good doctor-patient relationship.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n‘People tell me every single day, “Dr Robinson, you’ve given me my life back”. For these women it is life or death. Many women try to self-abort. The less available it is, the poor will have the hardest time.’<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As for their clientele:<\/p>\n
‘This woman has struggled with this decision, herself. She’s not coming because she saw the clinic while she was on her way to the grocery store.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n‘Underlying all of what I do is the belief that women are capable of having ethical struggles, working on ethical questions and arriving at the best decisions for themselves.’<\/span><\/p>\n
Abortion has, and probably always will be, a controversial topic and late abortions are particularly controversial and sensitive.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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http:\/\/youtu.be\/dDyVW1BLIXY<\/p>\n
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