How I Got Into Abortion Work, and Then Got Out
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In 1984, I decided to move to Boulder, Colorado, where a girlfriend from a Wisconsin nursing school now lived. I was unfamiliar with the area, and there were no day positions at the local hospital. I was not comfortable with a commute to Denver for night-shift jobs. Then I saw an ad in the paper:
“Nurse needed: Family Planning Clinic-Boulder”
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