Abortionist who set up a clinic shortly before Roe versus Wade, when abortion was only legal in a few states:
“We did about 60 abortions a day. It was a wonderful service, and women were coming from all over the United States where it was illegal. They traveled long distances… And then the problem of getting care for them after they’d go home. They’d call up and be in trouble and we didn’t know where to send them. There were no doctors to take care of them. It was quite an experience… Back in the early days, the clinic had an ambulance that was kept on hand all the time. It was rarely, if ever, used and finally they got rid of it. It just fell apart from no use but we didn’t know if it might be necessary if a woman started bleeding in the clinic and we had to rush her to the hospital…”
Sending women home without follow-up care and operating without a means of transportation for injured women put women’s lives and health at risk in his clinic.
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) page 18
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