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I worked as an RN on the labor and delivery floor of a hospital in Key West in the late 80s. I was treated with disdain by the staff because I did not assist with abortions. I had patients I didn't even know who unloaded on me about being against abortion from what they'd been told by the staff while I was off duty. I would have to listen in during morning report when they would discuss how they would handle the new abortion patient coming in that day so that "this one wouldn't hear her baby cry". A previous baby had survived an abortion and lived in a crib on the L&D floor until it was a year old. At that point the doctor who delivered it took it home overnight and it came back with a respiratory infection that killed it. I have since left nursing from that sort of thing. There is a shortage of nurses as it is. Healthcare can't afford to lose more; which is what will happen if nurses are forced to commit murder in order to keep their job.
Patricia S.
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