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    I Helped Women Get Abortions in Pre-<em>Roe</em> America

    To think we’re going back to that world makes me angry and sad.
    by Ellen Gruber Garvey Jun 04, 2022 5 minutes
    Source: The Atlantic; Ellen Gruber Garvey

    When I was 16, I helped desperate women get abortions. This was in the sliver of time between New York State’s 1970 legalization of abortion and the Roe v. Wade decision three years later, which allowed women in every state to choose whether to continue their pregnancies. I answered phones for the Women’s Abortion Project at its headquarters in a shabby, unheated meeting space of the Women’s Liberation Center, on West 22nd Street in Manhattan.

    Before New York made abortion legal, the project had been part of an underground, directing women to two or three gynecologists who, for reasons of conscience, wanted to perform safe abortions. From 1970 onward, these doctors continued this medical work in the open, and the Abortion Project continued to collaborate with them.

    I loved being with the collective’s other volunteers, intense older women in their 20s and

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