Ms Liz McDermott:

Yes. The Senator asked me for that. The discussion is titled, "Don't mention the "A"-Word". This is what Dr. Parsons said. I think I was halfway through when I was interrupted.

When you are doing termination procedures... you are exposed to a rather gross, destructive process dealing with bits and pieces of fetuses, which are not very nice... This is why we are not keen on people observing abortions. I was recently asked if I would have a journalist join me at work, who wanted to write [about this] for the Daily Telegraph. After discussing with other people we decided this was probably not a terribly good idea because it does not really help women who have got to make this decision to hear how unpleasant it is.

My point is that we are keeping the truth from women.