Readers sound off on illegal abortions, white supremacy and pain relief
Manhattan: In response to the article “N.Y. to take stand as Roe end looms” (May 11): I am a semi-retired physician. Most of my years in training (1965-1975) preceded Roe v. Wade. I remember as a student in city hospital emergency rooms seeing many young women of color presenting profoundly ill and septic as a consequence of an illegal, incomplete abortion. Half of those women died.