ClinicQuotes

One abortionist talks about how antiabortion protest that his clinic actually led to an increase in business:

“They would stage a picket at the office and would at the same time make it a media event. They would call the press, they would all arrive, and the next day I would get twice as many phone calls because people would know I was doing the abortions – so, in fact, they made my name known.”

This indicates that large media events in front of clinics, as opposed to peaceful sidewalk counseling, often work against the pro-life movement and, in fact, lead to more abortions.

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 165

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