Susan Cahill Abortion Analysis

Susan Cahill lives in Flathead Valley in Montana and was the only person in the area providing abortions to woman. Since Susan opened her clinic in 1976 she has been harassed by the local populace that do not condone abortions and her building was even burned down once, but she rebuilt it. However, in 2014 Flathead Resident Zachary broke into Susan 's clinic and performed acts of vandalism to the point where the entire clinic needed to be shut down. Since it was the only abortion clinic in Flathead, woman now need to drive to the 120 miles to Missoula just to get an abortion. Susan explains that the teenagers and the underserved population are the ones that lose the most from the clinic being destroyed because most of them can not afford to

Fear is used here to disrupt people from paying attention to how important abortions truly are for woman that are not able to tend for a future child. Since the local physicians have become afraid of what will happen to them if they open up a clinic they have been fully persuaded through the use of fear. Another example of Social Psychology in this article is Normative influence which is when people change their thoughts and do not express how they really feel about a topic or something occurring because they do not want to be the weird person or outcast in the group. In this case it is the local physicians and future physicians that are displaying normative influence. At one point in the article Samantha Avery who is Susan 's protege explains that she did not want to be the future Susan Cahill in flathead because she is not brave enough and could not do that to her future family. Which shows that she did not want to be an outcast in Flathead so she is choosing not to do the thing that she believes is right. This ties into the theory that people are all social creatures and if something is going to affect how a person is seen to the public then they will choose not to do it. So that they may still be accepted by the people around