NEVER AGAIN!!!!!! We will NEVER go back!!

[Olafjoy]

15. Summer 1988

Dr. Grimes took us students to a shuttered ward at LA County women’s hospital. There were 2 long rows of old metal bed frames lined up along each wall. He explained to us that this was the septic ward. Pre-Roe, Women would start rolling in around 9 pm each night at hospitals like this all over the country. Young women bleeding out from a perforated uterus or septic from infections like gas gangrene. High mortality rates because by the time they would come in, they were almost dead. He explained “when abortion is illegal, women don’t stop having abortions. They are forced to go to back alley butchers and have a greater than 50% chance of dying. No one celebrates abortion. It must be safe and legal so women don’t die. Do you know who never died in this ward? Men.”
Never. Never. Never. We are not reopening the septic wards.