ok, this is going to sound weird, but i
was just wondering if i could get some
clarification, for my own sake. i got an
abortion about 4 years ago at around 12
weeks. i really don't have a whole lot of
recollection about the procedure as a
whole. i remember lying on the table,
feeling cramping and pain, and hearing
sucking noises, i guess. there was a nurse
there by me, holding my hand. and then it
was over and i got dressed and went out to
a room where other women were resting in
chairs. i now work in an OB/GYN office,
and the docs i work for don't do
abortions. but working there makes me feel
semi-weird about the whole thing. i think
about how we schedule women for diagnostic
D&Cs and they are put under anesthesia
and how an abortion is basically the same
thing (right?) and i wasn't under
anesthesia. i felt pain. i just guess i
don't understand what is all entailed in
the whole abortion procedure, and 4 years
later i find myself wondering...
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Carifairy
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Posted: 02-01-08 00:04am
I work in an abortion clinic..
ALMOST ALL abortion clinics DO use
anesthesia, but SOME do not.
Planned parenthood tends to NOT use
anesthesia a lot... They tend to have a
large number of appointments..
MY clinic includes the cost of IV
anesthesia for all women, but some choose
to have it because they may be
breastfeeding.
Most clinics that I know of offers
sedation/anesthesia, Planned parenthood
and a few others do not, but most do.
