Life Before Roe: The Story of a 'Back-Alley Abortionist'
by Gillian Frank on Jezebel, shared by Tom Ley to Dea from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3Y3BK)
Last summer, I received the first of a string of emails from Joseph Blaine, a man who wanted to share his story with me: despite his lack of medical training, in the decade before Roe v. Wade, he provided illegal abortions. "I am most eager to confess," Blaine's first email read, "just how bad it was, with infections,"