Margaret Briggs, bookkeeper at an abortion clinic:
“I’m not completely and wholly for it. We’ve had several patients in here who came three times in two years… Abortion is not to be used for a birth control method. It’s ridiculous.”
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 25
One wonders why, if abortion is merely the removal of a collection of cells, the “termination of a pregnancy,” it should not be used as birth control. If abortion is in fact benign, as pro-choicers say, why should it matter how many abortions a woman has?
