“It is now becoming apparent that, contrary to wishful thinking, abortion can be a relatively uncomfortable procedure. For early abortion many patients can be managed adequately with mild sedation and paracervical local anesthesia, but for a “considerable” number this is not sufficient to provide satisfactory analgesia, nor to prevent agitated and abrupt pelvic movements which can only contribute to increasing the complications rate…”
Thomas W Hilgers “The Medical Hazards of Legally Induced Abortion” from Abortion and Social Justice edited by Thomas W Hilgers and Dennis J Horan (Kansas City, Missouri: Sheed & Ward, 1972)
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