Daily News | Before Roe, The “Angel of Ashland” performed thousands of abortions in Pennsylvania coal country
Today, his office is gone, an empty lot filled with grass and dandelions.Fritz was among a group of men sitting outside the Ashland VFW Tuesday afternoon. None of them, including the mayor, wanted to discuss the leaked Supreme Court draft that could overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision — but all of them mentioned Spencer.
“I still remember his phone number ‘Ashland 404.; We all knew it,” Brownmiller told the Inquirer Wednesday. “I don’t want the government telling me what I should do with my body,” said Karen Geiger, a patron at the Pottsville Pub. ‘It’s a women’s right to choose.” “I would prefer a child is born,” Chelsea Houser, his wife, said. “But that’s not always how it works.”purchased Spencer’s former office in 2017 and hoped to turn it into a counseling center for women considering abortion. The building was demolished in 2020 and that ministry group could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
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