“The public image of an abortionist was of an evil, leering, drunken, perverted butcher at worst, and a cold, mysterious, money-hungry Park Avenue price-gouger at best. And then there was Dr. Spencer with his clinic on the main street of a small American town, who believed in abortions, and who was kind”
Originally published January 30, 1969
Before Roe, terminating a pregnancy meant confronting a nightmare of quacks and butchers, knitting needles and wire coat hangers. The exceptions were people like Dr. X, “the stars of the underground abortion circuit.”
Originally published August 18, 1966
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court could make the procedure inaccessible to millions of U.S. women, but in many places that’s the case even now
August 28, 2018
‘A country without legal abortion is not a country without abortion. It’s just a country in which more women die.’
Originally published July 6, 2018
The Fourth of July protests against ICE and separating immigrant families are part of a long tradition of Statue of Liberty action, including one in 1991 for abortion rights
July 5, 2018
Abortion rights and PrEP prophylactics both allow for sex free of fear, which is exactly what opponents of sexual liberation don’t want
June 11, 2018