Sallie Tisdale We Do Abortions Here Analysis

“We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story”
According to Sallie Tisdale abortion is necessary for women that shouldn’t be having children.

But her use of pathos and description shows that even she can’t handle the dark moments that experience with young pregnant women. She describes the process of abortion, the way she feels as well as the pregnant victims. Tisdale wants people to be educated in this area, so less abortion have to be performed. As she narrates her stories of teenagers receiving abortions, she believes that in some circumstances abortion is necessary, but it can also be a cruel, and tragic thing to be a part of, and could easily be avoided if people were more educated in the matter. “Soon I am talking to an eighteen-year-old women pregnant for the fourth time” (Tisdale 650). Tisdale’s use of pathos does not help her in this case. As she describes in detail what goes on during abortion, readers come to realizes how terrible and dark it really is. Tisdale describes the emotion pregnant women feel as they are having their child ripped away from them.

In “We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story” Sallie Tisdale reaches out to parents, schools, pretty much everyone. She tries to persuade them that abortion can be avoided if parents educated their kids about sex, and pregnancy. Tisdale choices her words carefully when

explaining to the pregnant women, what they are about to endure. “Later I describe the procedure to come, using care with my language” (Tisdale 652). She understand how touchy the subject can be for some women, but believes in certain situations it’s necessary. She uses these stories of women, to scare readers, to show them that if they aren’t carful this could be them.
In Tisdale’s writing she narrates the struggle the pregnant women go through while receiving abortions. “Some are stoic, some hysterical, a few giggle uncontrollably, many cry” (Tisdale 652). As she tells these story, you try to picture yourself in their shoes. Wondering whether you would be the one crying or even laughing, as your unborn child is slowly slipping away from you. If people were more careful, this wouldn’t happen so often.
Throughout Tisdale’s stories, and experiences with pregnant women she tries to get her readers to understand what you might have to go through if you’re not careful.

But she also stresses that it is a cruel, and terrible thing. “Abortion is the narrowest edge between kindness and cruelty. Done as well as it can be, it is still violent- merciful violence, like putting a suffering animal to death” (Tisdale 656). To Tisdale, if you are unfit or incapable of raising a child than, you are helping the suffering child by having them aborted. She relates abortion to putting a suffering animal to death. As if the child would be suffering if it was to come into this

world.
She tries to persuade readers that abortion is sometimes necessary, but never essential. For those women that can’t care for children, she believes it’s a way to stop the infant from suffering. But as she shares her own feelings toward the procedure, you come to find out that even she struggles with abortion too. “It requires a willingness to live with conflict, fearlessness