Judith Arcana, who was active in the organization JANE, which performed illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade, was interviewed. She and the interviewer made reference to the reluctance of doctors to do abortions:
Interviewer: There is a similar trend [in England], where younger doctors are also not opting enthusiastically for abortion work. The reasons may be different though. It perhaps is not because of the level of risk involved, but because abortion work is perceived as boring, unchallenging and also unglamorous, compared say to working in infertility, providing IVF.
Judith: That also is why in the past not many doctors in the US got involved in abortion work, even in the first few years after Roe… Abortion – who wants to do that? … It is not like brain surgery, or anything like the high-tech reproductive medicine that can be done now.
Judith Arcana ““Feminist politics and abortion in the US,” Psychology and Reproductive Choice
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