“Just OK” fictional account of a British abortionist.
Gabriel Weston’s novel of a British abortionist under review after a mother nearly bled to death isn’t a surprising read. The hospital panel eventually finds Nancy Mullion fit to be a doctor. Since the hospital allows her to continue to be an abortionist, the plot has a sad ending.
Mullion’s language shows that she is a typical abortionist. She has no religious foundation, views abortion as just something that any doctor should do in the course of his or her duties, and is antagonistic towards pro-lifers, even venturing the ad hoministic opinion that all “civilized” people are anti-life (116).
The passage where she offers “some kind of reverence” to the aborted child by making sure all of his or her body parts have been gathered after the abortion is ridiculous, yet credible, now that David Daleiden’s investigative journalism shows that the abortion business Planned Parenthood does just that when it sells aborted baby body parts (179).
Also, like a typical abortionist, Nancy does not see the unborn child as her patient equal to the mother. These characteristics are typical of abortionists.
One well-written passage of process analysis writing occurs when Weston shows how her narrator slid to becoming a mere abortionist instead of a doctor (121-125).
Overall, this is a standard narrative of an abortionist undergoing, as the book says, “perpetration-induced traumatic stress”, a category of PTSD assigned to those who kill (163). Since abortionists are killers, it’s no wonder that the narrator is tortured in her 180-page attempt to resolve her trauma.
Unfortunately, Nancy Mullion’s perpetration-induced traumatic stress will endure as long as she continues killing the dirty work of killing the unborn.