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Life before choice. →
In this hard-to-digest essay for the New York Times, a veteran physician remembers the dark days before Roe v. Wade, when a lack of legal choice forced desperate women into dire situations.
“The worst case I saw,” he recalls, “was that of a nurse who was admitted with what looked like a partly delivered umbilical cord. But we realized that what we thought was the cord was in fact part of her intestine, which had been hooked and torn by whatever implement had been used in the abortion.”
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