The year I wrote Coat Hangers and Knitting Needles was one of the hardest writing years of my life.

It tells the story of abortion mainly in the U.S. prior to Roe v. Wade. I listened to tragedy after tragedy of women who died because abortion wasn't available except by backroom butchers. Survivors told the story of being told to lay down on dirty newspapers. One talked about the abortionist who made sexual advances. 

Children whose mothers could not handle another child, told of the loss of their mothers.

Doctors spoke of melted vaginal tissues and ruptured organs.

Almost every major hospital in the U.S. had beds for women who would come to die after an illegal abortion.

I researched a group of rabbis and ministers who wanted to do something about it. This is what Wikipedia says of the Clergy Counsultation Service.

The Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (CCS) was a group of American clergy that counseled and referred people to licensed doctors for safe abortions before the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade made abortion legal nationwide. Started in 1967 by a group of 21 Protestant ministers and Jewish rabbis in New York City, the group operated out of Judson Memorial Church and grew to incorporate chapters in thirty-eight states with some 3,000 clergy as members. By the time of the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, it is estimated that the Clergy Consultation Service had nationally referred at least 450,000 people for safe abortions."

People who think abortion will be stopped are as deluded as those that thought prohibition would stop people drinking alcohol. The only thing new laws will do is have women with money go where it is safe and women with less money will find a way out of an unwanted pregnancy. 

Anyone who wants a free copy of the book contact me via PM at my Facebook page Donnalane Nelson.