Does anyone remember Gerri Santoro?

[StarfishSaver]

4. My father was on a county welfare board in the 50s when a local MD who performed illegal abortions

maimed several women and killed at least one. He never forgot the photos and his conversations with some of the women who were so desperate that they risked their health and lives to end their pregnancies on a dirty table in a filthy room located literally off of a back alley.

He says that experience is one of the reasons he is staunchly pro-choice (that and the fact that he's a 90-something-year-old feminist badass brotherman)