Pro-choice author Carole Joffe interviewed clinic workers for a book she was writing. She said the following:
“Though at the time of this study about 20 facilities offered abortion services in the metropolitan area in which Urban [the name the author gave to the abortion clinic featured in her book] is located, the clinic’s most immediate reference group was a group of four or five other clinics that resembled Urban in that they were also freestanding facilities that were private and nonprofit. Indeed, one of the factors that linked the small group was the common conviction that in some of the other abortion facilities – for example, certain hospitals and for-profit clinics – the quality of abortion services offered was questionable.
Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 50
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