Happy Abortion Provider Appreciation Day! Sending all the love and appreciation to abortion providers today. 💖
I stopped doing obstetrics in 2009 to provide abortion full time for women who needed help. Invariably I field questions regarding my decision, with the most often asked being: Why? The short answer is: Because I can. And: Because if I don’t, who will?
We who provide abortions do so because our patients need us, and that’s what we are supposed to do: respond to our patients’ needs. It is the deepest level of love that you can have for another person, that you can have compassion for their suffering and you can act to relieve it. That, simply put, is why I provide abortion care.
Read more about Dr. Parker’s experience as an abortion provider in his op-ed for the New York Times.
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