Right after Roe versus Wade, Robert Hall, whose Association for the Study of Abortion has struggled so hard to make abortion legal, was asked whether or not abortion clinics would “pop up everywhere.”
“Not very likely. We’re expecting to see about a million and a half legal abortions a year – about triple the number now. But instead of being concentrated in a few states, they’ll be distributed evenly among MDs in every state – probably about 20,000 in all. That’s an average of only a couple of abortions a week per doctor – hardly a big enough figure to constitute new specialty.”
Interviewed in Charlotte L Rosenberg “The Abortion Revolution: Don’t Rush It,” Medical Economics 5 no. 5 (March 5, 1973): 31 – 45
As we know, this abortion rights activist was very, very wrong. Legalizing abortion led to a huge jump in the number of abortions being performed. It opened the floodgates and allowed many women to have abortions who wouldn’t have before.
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