Shelley Mains, pro-choice activist(Commenting on the book, Abortion Wars) :
“In what may be surprising to many feminists and prochoice activists, Solinger debunks the image of the exploitive, unskilled practitioner lurking behind every botched abortion before Roe. She points out that most illegal abortions were actually performed by skilled and competent practitioners, and that today’s attacks on abortion providers draw fuel from a “misreading of the past that says that cravenly greedy back-alley butchers were the chief source of danger to helpless women in the criminal era.” This persistent myth adopted by feminists as well as our opponents — has contributed to a climate today in which abortion providers are easily targeted for violence and too often defended only with reluctance.”
GenderWatch Sojourner: The Women’s Forum,The Uses and Abuses of Abortion History:11-30-1998
Read about illegal abortion deaths, and the deception surrounding them, here
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