Unlawful abortions earlier than Roe formed these Tennessee medical doctors’ careers

Greater than 50 years later, Dr. Frank Boehm nonetheless remembers the determined faces.

The mom in Wichita, Kansas, when Boehm confirmed her teenager’s being pregnant. Single teen motherhood shamed the household. Every week later, the mom introduced her daughter again, bleeding from an incomplete abortion.

The Navy wives in Maryland, pregnant whereas their husbands have been in Vietnam, and never with the husbands’ infants.