This will be the face of abortion,

[catsittingstill]

if the In Sorrow Shalt Thou Bring Forth Children crowd gets their way.

This way to the back-alley hack performing illegal abortions.

Keep abortion safe and legal.

[Later edit--one of my readers had trouble with my link.  Here is CNN's story on the incident.]

Comments

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Fascinating - it failed 4 times in a row and then worked. I am so confused.

The article is horrifying, however; it's so depressing to realize that things like this are happening here. Bah. This isn't 1950 - things are supposed to be better! and not just for the wealthy.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

It is bizarre that it would fail and then work like that.

And I agree with you that the article is horrifying. I assume that the women going to this guy were too poor to afford a regular abortion (given the current restrictions on funding for abortions.) And poor patients don't have a lot of clout and can be mistreated with fewer consequences.

Add into that that many of them may have been too young to get an abortion legally, given the parental consent rules in Philadelphia. I hate the idea of anyone being stuck with a place like that but I hate the idea of underage patients there even worse.