Doulas Being Used for Abortion Support

via Dawn Eden and Mark Shea.

**Note: The woman who wrote the piece, Miriam Perez, has a blog called Radical Doula. She is a frequent writer for Feministing.com.

A few points from the article:

1.For some women, the need for emotional support during pregnancy termination is high. Erin explained, “Even though I was very clear in my heart and mind that the abortion was exactly the right thing to do for me at that point in my life, it was nonetheless a very frightening experience. The medical staff at the hospital were not kind to me and there was no discussion about what was happening to my body, it was just a procedure that they were doing to me as coldly and clinically as possible.” Emphasis mine.

**I find this quote fascinating because isn’t THIS what abortion advocates have been trying to convince everyone about. A pregnancy is nothing more than a wart. Emphasis mine.

2. The program, fully funded by the hospital, provides women with support from the early stages of their pregnancy through the postpartum period, often from doulas who can provide culturally competent services to the burgeoning Latino immigrant population served by the Medical Center.

**Ah yes, those Latinos. We need to make sure they don’t overpopulate now.

3. Doulas employ a variety of techniques with women in labor, some that help prepare her mentally for the labor, others that mediate pain, and others that focus on relaxation. Many of these techniques could have useful applications in the support of women during pregnancy terminations, as Erin describes. Explaining how the abortion procedure works is similar to visualization used by doulas during labor, when the doula helps the woman to visualize the baby moving down into the birth canal with the strength of each contraction. These visualizations can help the woman better cope with the pain of labor by enhancing her understanding of the purpose and cause of the pain she is feeling. In addition, pain mediation techniques, like massage, acupressure and breathing could all be helpful for some women during these abortion procedures.

**I LOVE how they are trying to equate labor pain with abortion pain. Oh, except with labor pain, a woman delivers a living baby. With abortion pain, the woman delivers a dead baby that she chose to kill for whatever reason. Yeah, not the same thing, folks.