WHY DID WOMEN PUT UP WITH BACK-ALLEY BUTCHERS?
In The Worst of Times, “Detective Jack” explained something that puzzled him. “These women were having abortions done with coat hangers, under horrible conditions, and the women I would see in hospitals were in terrible shape. Hell, alot of them were sick enough to die! But they wouldn’t talk. They simply wouldn’t tell who did it or where it was done. I’d plead with a woman to tell me, and she would just look away or turn her head to the wall. Even when they thought they might die, they wouldn’t tell. That just made no sense to me. If one of these people who did the abortion had robbed her on the street or done any other criminal act, she would have told, real quick. But there sure was something different about this. No one talked about it, especially the women. In those days, a lot of women were losing their lives or their health as a result of abortions, but still they wouldn’t talk. Why?” This detective has a point that must have occurred to a lot of people. One perspective to answe
