An abortionist, after explaining the stigma attached to providing abortions, explain the following:
“Definitely then, and even maybe more so today, the academic people saw you couldn’t afford to get your hands dirty with this stuff unless you were an extremely powerful person and just happened to be enough of humanist…”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 152
He was talking about how performing abortions could ruin a person’s reputation and lead to persecution.
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