But there is this quote from “Dr. Theodore Lidz, professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine” “The first general reaction, he pointed out, is a feeling of guilt at doing away with the baby. This reaction may be based on religious or cultural training, or it may be based on an instinctive feeling that she is destroying something that is part of herself.”

You write, “One issue I did have is that the author seems to assume that all illegal abortions are done by doctors as opposed to hacks and back alley shysters.”

Maybe we’ve been mislead about how many “hacks and shysters” there were.