Horrifying stories of women chased down by the LAPD abortion squad before Roe v. Wade

[RandySF]

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police officers boarded the yacht with guns drawn.

The Westerly had been under surveillance for two months and came with a sordid history. The bodies of a wealthy couple were found after an onboard blast; their daughter was acquitted of murder. Now officers suspected the vessel of being the mobile headquarters of an abortion ring.

Danny Dyer would steer the nearly 50-foot yacht out on the water. His wife would assist another man, who didn't have a license to practice medicine, as he performed the procedures. They usually charged $450 per operation.

As officers moved in for an arrest that chilly winter morning, Dyer pulled a gun.

"Don't try it," Det. Danny Galindo warned Dyer as he raised his firearm. "I'll kill you."

It was Feb. 24, 1960, and the abortion squad had arrived.

Housed within the Los Angeles Police Department's homicide division, the detail investigated what were often known then as "illegal operations."




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[Celerity]

1. archived link, for those who are. like me, geo-blocked (as I am in the EU)

https://archive.is/IyeFv

[betsuni]

2. K&R

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. So many women died. nt

[czarjak]

4. The good old days? For some, for sure.

[mopinko]

5. and cook co hospital had a whole ward for

women whose abortions went bad.
i’m told it was the smelliest, grossest ward in the hospital. cook county hospital, that treats the poorest of the poor. and the most wretched ward was the women who had septic abortions.
that’s the image in my mind every time i think about the can of worms these idiots have opened.