re: #78 wrenchwench

I think the feminists of the seventies made a big mistake encouraging abortions being performed in stand-alone clinics. Sure, there’s other health care done there too, but if abortions had stayed in family practice or gynecological offices, there would not have been so many doctors targeted and clinics bombed. Big mistake, and I suspect it was coldly calculated, but that may be a figment of my own imagination.

I think you’re right.

I’m pro choice but I do believe that politics (rather than women’s health) drove the movement early on- and that still resonates. When Hillary Clinton said abortions ought to be legal and rare, she was booed and called a traitor.