A well worth the read article that I just finished. Rather timely and a real eye-opener, especially for those who, like me, were born Post-Roe. (Cross posted in the PA forum)
The Worst of Times
By: Patricia G. Miller
Summary: Underground abortions: a patient, doctor, abortionist, and detective tell their stories
Abortion is one of the most explosive topics of our times. In her quest to make sense of it all, Pittsburgh lawyer Patricia G. Miller spent two years interviewing abortion survivors, practitioners, coroners, cops, and children of women who died--all ordinary people who happened to live during a time when abortion was illegal. Here are four firsthand accounts of their experiences, each of which sheds a "bright, painful light" on an issue that won't go away.
MARIE:
In 1957 I was living in Pittsburgh. I had graduated from high school a little more than a year earlier--the first person in my family ever to do so--and was working as a secretary. We were West Virginians. I was one of thirteen children, and we were what are known as "country people."
When I first set foot in the door of my high school, I vowed that I would graduate, even though no one in my family had ever done that. I was not going to get pregnant before I got an education and I was absolutely not going to live the kind of poverty-stricken life I watched my mother and older sisters live.
I graduated from high school still a virgin, so I felt I had a good chance of surviving the trap all the women in my family had fallen into. When I was nineteen or twenty, I met a sophisticated older man. Ray was twenty-five years older than I was. He had been married and had children older than I was. In addition to his maturity and sophistication, he had, by my standards, a great deal of money. With him, I embarked on my first sexual experience.
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http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19930501-000030.html
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