Sallie Tisdale is a nurse who works at an abortion clinic. She does abortion everyday, which makes her sick and tired of her work. She takes two positions in looking at her

Tisdale says " I slip the tissue gently into a bag and place it in the freezer, to be burned at another time. Abortion requires of me an entirely new set of assumptions. It requires a willingness to live with conflict, fearlessness, and grief. As I close the freezer door, I imagine a world where this won't be necessary, and then I return to the world where it is."(397). She is sad that the life of the life of this creature is taken away. She claims that whatever she does is wrong. This place is not the right place for her to be in. At the same time she argues that this job allows her to take a strong position in order to face those kinds of situations. She cannot ignore the fact that she is a nurse at an abortion clinic. She is having a big conflict, which she cannot escape from.

"There are weary, grim moments when I think I cannot bear another basin of bloody remains, utter another kink phrase of reassurance. So I leave the procedure room in the back and reach for a new chart."(391). Seeing the blood everyday disgusts her. She is suffering from going through the same thing everyday. She tries to escape from it by interviewing another client but the same thing is waiting for her. She is not enjoying her work at all. Everything reveals the same to her no matter how hard she tries to make it different. Tisdale says "But all it takes for me to catch my breath is another interview, one more story

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Approximate Word count = 956
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)