Long before the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave women the choice to terminate a pregnancy, San Franciscans were charting a path for safer reproductive care in The City and far beyond.
An article on Patricia Maginnis that appeared in the Sept. 26, 1966 edition of The Examiner. Maginnis spoke openly and publicly about having her own illegal abortion and dedicated her life to sharing information with anyone who wanted to learn more about the topic, leading to a national shift in the way abortion laws were discussed.
Not only did Maginnis talk about abortion, something unheard of when abortion was still criminalized, but she created an underground system of abortion providers to help women who wanted them. The group, called the Society for Human Abortion, advocated for changes to laws around women’s bodies and abortions while secretly creating a network of doctors where women could safely receive abortions — all without the help of cell phones or the internet.
Maginnis advocacy and empowerment for women gave way to a new era for both people seeking abortions and physicians providing them in San Francisco. At the time, so-called “therapeutic abortions” could only be done by doctors if there was a determined need. More than 200 doctors from around the county and every medical school dean in California signed on to defend the San Francisco Nine, whose cases were dropped in 1970.
Jody Steinauer, a medical student who co-founded the group in 1993, connected with medical students in Los Angeles, New York and other institutions around the country and started a petition to make abortion training a requirement for obstetrician-gynecologists students.
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