Well, this is where DUmmies and their ilk may have shot themselves in the foot. I'm guessing if something goes wrong, even if there really is nobody to blame, it is likely a DUmmie who is most litigious and screaming for regulations of all kind on whatever professionals they believe wronged them in some way since we all know one professional who is a quack must shape the entire profession. When doctors are sued to death over making life and death choices on a moment's notice, many will refuse to make those decisions without all the proper i's dotted and t's crossed. So, DUmmies, had you been less of a burden to your average doctor, you might actually find your abortion paradise in a casual office visit a reality for the doctor's(and here's a big one) WILLING
to perform the gruesome deed.
BTW, the 'special' things a lot of those doctors did were very often to correct the botching either the woman did to herself or someone else did to her. I think you'd find mnay of those doctors still did not condone abortion and would have preferred someone had helped the young woman before she chose to mangle or poison herself to rid herself of a pregnancy. Of course, morals being different then too, doctors probably often saw this situation as a failing of a young woman's family to either not raise her properly or to put her out on her own far before she was ready and without the protection her family should have given her from men who would take advantage of her in that way. Either way, if a doctor approved they probably had a view of the woman as trash and was fine with practicing a sort of eugenics to keep the riff raff from multiplying or a doctor who saw the failings of the particular brand of society the woman belonged to and would have preferred the issues or crime that lead to unwed pregnancy be dealt with.
I'm tired of the DUmmies comparing women who would have really had their lives changed totally 50 or 60 years ago and would have tried any act of desperation to avoid that to a woman today who could have a litter and be applauded and supported for it. A woman who found herself pregnant in the 1950's and 60's is not the same as a woman who finds herself pregnant today. Not only are their options BEFORE pregnancy very different, but their outlook and morals and the outcome and effect on the rest of their lives is very very different. They are hardly the same thing and relying on the old worn out stereotypes of the past is a very unliberal thing to do anyway if we are to believe their sophisticated ways with wordly things