Charles Swenson, an abortion practitioner in the years after Roe V. Wade, expressed how disturbed he was at the lack of good quality medical care in the clinics he observed. See here. He said the following about how the public would perceive abortion:
“What I realized was that the first accident would be the toughest to defend, and the longer we could put off the first accident, the first death, the first perforation, the first infection, and get more experience and credibility under our belt, the better off we were going to be.”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 139
This quote reveals two things. First of all, the doctor was saying that it was not a matter of “if” a terrible complication would happen, but a matter of “when.” Second, he shows a remarkable lack of concern about the woman who might be injured or killed. Rather, he sees this potential tragedy as simply an obstacle against legal abortion, and a bit of bad publicity for what he does. Unfortunately, this attitude towards complications remains common among abortionists today.
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