As critical as Roe is, it has not turned out to be a panacea for abortion access, attacked as it's been since the moment it was decided. In a guest essay today, Eyal Press looks at, in his words, "the role that lawlessness and terrorism — and the medical community's response to it" have played in the crippling of Roe. Press, whose father was an abortion provider in the Buffalo, N.Y., area at the time that Dr. Barnett Slepian, another abortion provider, was murdered there, understands why "physicians might wish to avoid turning themselves — and, potentially, their patients, co-workers and families — into targets of wrath and violence" by performing abortions. Still, it's hard not to wonder how things might have turned out differently if the mainstream medical establishment had not spent decades distancing itself from abortion care. |
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