We haven't really done a very good job of making the physicians who work with us really feel connected . . . They're isolated in terms of the medical field, because as you well know, it's been marginalized as a sub-specialty of gynecology . . . And then there's the social isolation that happens when someone is scared to tell what they do . . . These guys are pitiful. That doesn't seem to fit the rhetoric of what abortion defenders say is supposed to happen when abortion is legal and accessible.
Opponents of abortion believe it to be killing.
If abortion is the taking of a human life, and therefore is violence, then certain psychological consequences could be expected among those who perform abortions. Human history is tragically full of instances of massive violence, and therefore we have knowledge of what those kinds of reactions might be. We will look at this in the next chapter. If we find no such aftermath, the case that abortion is not violence at all is strengthened. If so, it could help to explain a decline and predict an eventual fall.