The Supreme Court may strike down Roe vs. Wade. Here’s the story of a pioneering abortion doctor who believes one thing will happen shortly thereafter: 'We’ll see a lot of ... women dying”
If the U.S. Supreme Court allows states to further restrict or ban abortions, minority women will bear the brunt of it, according to statistics.School of Medicine in 1965, he served two years in the Peace Corps in Brazil, where he worked in a maternity ward. Then he went to graduate school, eventually earning his master’s in public health and doctorate in epidemiology.
The decision guaranteeing the right to abortion up to the point of fetal viability — now generally considered to be about 24 weeks — didn’t come until Jan. 22, 1973. Three months later, a group of Boulder residents persuaded Hern to help start Colorado’s first free-standing private abortion clinic.Antiabortion protesters pray in front of Dr. Warren Hern’s Boulder, Colo., abortion clinic in February.
As the clinic’s only doctor, Hern performed 20 to 25 abortions a week, all without major complications, he said. He spelled it out across the front of the yellow brick building in large, copper letters: “Boulder Abortion Clinic.”State lawmakers may help pay for people from other states to come to California for abortions if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade.
“It was such a journey to get to where abortions were legal at all,” she said. “At that point, we thought we were done.”But Hern’s job became increasingly dangerous as attacks on clinics surged. Dozens were bombed or torched in the 1980s. Protesters stalked Hern, tried to run him over outside his clinic and slashed tires in his parking lot.
He said the stress contributed to the end of his marriage in 1988. The same week his divorce was finalized, five bullets pierced the clinic’s window, barely missing a staff member. Hern offered a $5,000 reward, but no one was ever caught.“I really thought seriously about saying the hell with it, sell everything and move to Peru with the Shipibo,” he said, thinking maybe he would remarry and finally have a family. “But I decided against it.
“This week, I began wearing a bulletproof vest to work,” Hern wrote in the New York Times in 1993. “I am not a policeman setting out to raid crack houses. I am a doctor who does abortions.”
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