Pro-Choice author Carole Joffe reveals that the main reason for the abortion provider shortage is lack of support within the medical community, not the actions of violent antiabortion activists:
“While the dramatic, violent assaults on clinic facilities and abortion providers by antiabortionists have dominated headlines as the late 1980s and are commonly viewed as the chief reason for physicians’ withdrawal from abortion, in fact much of the medical establishment had already distanced itself from abortion services in the years before antiabortion violence began to escalate – mainly by supporting legal abortion in principle, while refusing to take part in the practice of abortion.”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 161
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