Eugene Fox, doctor who referred for abortion shortly after Roe V Wade:
“Some of these places were terrible. They were just back alley shops that open their doors…”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 138
Many people don’t realize that very few legal safeguards will put in place after Roe versus Wade to protect women from unscrupulous and negligent abortion providers. In many cases, “back alley” abortionists simply hung up their shingles and began performing legal abortions. To read more about illegal abortions before Roe V Wade, go here.
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