Abortion is not the answer.

Abstract

To the Editor.— Soon after July 1970, when New York state's liberalized abortion law went into effect, two newly formed and well-equipped abortion began their operations the same professional medical building midtown Manhattan. By sheer coincidence, these two freestanding clinics had selected their locations the very same building where I practice. By stroke of chance, my patients and I on the fourth floor were sandwiched between one abortion clinic on the floor above and the other on the floor below. This might not be too unusual except that my practice specializes infertility women who have been striving to achieve a pregnancy! When I first learned of the new tenant groups the building and their plans for large numbers of in and out abortions on a production-line basis, I feared for the possible psychological ill-effects of these on my already-frustrated barren patients.