Posted on 03/26/2014 9:23:46 PM PDT by Pinkbell
She was chit-chatty at first, began full-spectrum doula Annie Robinson, describing one of her first clients. She didnt seem anxious, didnt seem like she particularly had much to say. And then, the [abortion] procedure began and I stood beside her, holding her hand, and she went into this other zone. She turned to me and just started going back in time to when she was six years old, eight years old, just telling me these horrific stories of sexual violenceabuse that her body had been subject to. It was astounding to witnessto feel palpably how the body holds memoryholds trauma. It was profound and it was an honor to be there. When were seized by something that needs to be shared, its so crucial for someone to be there to receive it, because to share it is to let it go.
Robinson is one of over 20 volunteers for The Doula Project, a New York City-based nonprofit organization. The organization was started in 2007 as a way to provide caregivers to women undergoing abortions. In the words of the projects mission statement, their doulas offer all of the benefits of what is typically known to be the territory of birth doulas: pain management and relaxation techniques, information and education about pregnancy, and above all, emotional support and empathy.
In 2009, the project expanded to encompass birth-work as well, though the majority of their clients are still women terminating pregnancies.
I met with the 27-year-old Robinson to discuss her experiences in this role over the past two years.
Why is the work of The Doula Project important?
I believe that when youre going through something thats morally and physically exhausting and confusing, its so important to be seento have your emotions and your physical being recognized and acknowledged...
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How does the abortion doula role compare to being a birth doula?
There are different emotional textures that you encounter in these rooms. I think also the aftermath is different. One of the things that really draws me to this work is that Im really interested in loss and grief, and thats whats happening here. Even if the grief is celebratory, it still is grief and it still is loss. Theres something lost with birth tooloss of pregnancy, loss of the in-utero experience.
I had some devastating losses as a very young child and ongoing through lifemostly the deaths of people very close to me. Ive grown from my exploration of what it is to lose and to understand that life is all about loss. How can we embrace that? How can that be something that shapes us, and colors us, and gives us substance by appreciating what it is that absence offers? Ive never had an abortion. I have never experienced that loss, but I think there are overarching themes of the loss experience that are communicable.
The difference is that this "loss" and "grief" is not something that happens from a loss from a natural death, but these feelings come from these women as they deliberately end the lives of their unborn children.
She says she was raised by a liberal feminist, so it's no surprise that she's involved in abortion work.
This is absolutely Satanic and disgusting.
Evil.
No other word for the abortionists.
There is just so much screwed up moral relativism and mushy-brained pseudo-religious babble going on there.
Everyone mentioned in that story is a deeply disturbed, deeply flawed, nearly inhuman wreck. The only things missing from that story are a handful of shrooms and a heartfelt, colorful, emotional story describing the spiritual growth of the death doula and her abortion barbie as they roast marshmallows over the “medical waste”.
Dear God how much pure evil we do embrace.
Ya' think?
What is even more pathetic is that she was born in LA and adopted by the Liberal Feminist and her husband in Chicago. Had her mother been a Liberal Feminist she would have been torn to bit in utero while some sympathetic cow had held her mothers hand.
icked people in active denial.
tells us that it’s just tissue, abortion is just like removing a tumor or diseased organ,
yet then talk about loss and are pissed when a sex-selected abortion is done.
if it ain’t a person/baby, why the loss? why cry over a piece of tissue removed? i would not cry over a tumor being removed.
these people know what they are doing yet deny it to us who tell them it’s murder. lying sick murdering bastards.
Exactly. I’ve had feminists say in debates with me that what is in the womb is no different than getting fat liposuctioned or a cavity filled. If that is so, why does this woman have a job? No one needs a doula to deal with feelings of “loss” when getting a tumor removed.
emotional textures... encounter... loss and grief... celebratory... the in-utero experience... exploration... life is all about loss... embrace that... shapes... colors... substance... absence... overarching themes... the loss experience... communicable.
it’s the liberal duplicity/hypocrisy/pretzel logic.
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