“The woman may find a physician who disregards the law — he may feel a need to help such women; he may just want the money,” the article said. “Or she may make connections with an abortion ring, secretly meeting someone on a street corner and suffering the degradation of an operation on a table set up in temporary, often unclean quarters that are moved every few days to elude police. Or she may be packed with irritating gauze, be given some pills, and rushed out after 15 minutes, to await pain, bleeding and expulsion of the fetus. Or she may go to a friend or stranger who tries to induce abortion with caustic soda solution … or who tries scraping the uterus with stiffened rubber tubing or crude instruments or even coat hangers, nails or knitting needles. …”
My illegal abortion: One Chicago woman recounts ending her pregnancy pre-Roe v. Wade as more states pass near-bans on the procedure – Chicago Tribune
