“… The struggle facing this branch of medicine [providing abortions] is most evident in the enormous difficulty many facilities have in finding an adequate supply of abortion providers. At the NAF [National Abortion Federation] meeting, some clinic administrators told of being able to offer abortion services only every other week. Other administrators recounted how they are forced to fly in physicians from halfway across the country in order to hold regular clinics. The director of one clinic related to colleagues that she recently sent out letters of inquiry to every single graduating resident of obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) programs across the country and received no replies.”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) page 3
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