Before Roe, terminating a pregnancy meant confronting a nightmare of quacks and butchers, knitting needles and wire coat hangers. The exceptions were people like Dr. X, “the stars of the underground abortion circuit.”
Originally published August 18, 1966
“The public image of an abortionist was of an evil, leering, drunken, perverted butcher at worst, and a cold, mysterious, money-hungry Park Avenue price-gouger at best. And then there was Dr. Spencer with his clinic on the main street of a small American town, who believed in abortions, and who was kind”
Originally published January 30, 1969
“Suppose I had to confront every day, every hour, the question of which side I'm on?
Such questions excite and disturb me.”
Originally published June 1, 1982
“Nearly four decades after it was first published in France... ‘The Second Sex’ remains the most cogent and thorough book of feminist theory yet written.”
Originally published May 27, 1986
Congresswoman ‘Battling’ Bella Abzug rebuts the assertions of an earlier Voice article on the failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in New York State
Originally published December 22, 1975
‘Two years ago, abortion was almost always discussed in feminist terms — as a political issue affecting the condition of women. Since then, the grounds of the debate have shifted drastically.’
Originally published March 5, 1979
‘A country without legal abortion is not a country without abortion. It’s just a country in which more women die.’
Originally published July 6, 2018