Anti-abortionists send cards to discourage providers from the work they do, but they deserve our appreciation.

MERCEDES SANCHEZ
MARCH 10TH, 2021

Our clinics, like many others around the country, receives a card decorated with red hearts professing faux concern for abortion clinic workers. Every few weeks the cards come from anti-abortionists who want to “love an abortion care worker out of the industry.” While these “anti-abortion” cards don’t include physical threats—and even claim to care about abortion clinic workers—they are still incredibly stigmatizing. Our work is not shameful or wrong, and it is a misguided notion that we want to leave our jobs.

So many of us are proud to be abortion providers. We believe it is our duty to support people’s right to legal medical care. And despite the constant opposition, we will continue the fight for every person’s human right to have autonomy over their own body and future.

Continued: https://www.prismreports.org/article/2021/3/10/what-a-real-love-letter-to-abortion-care-providers-would-say