Abortionist

She plays a timid, caring but nonetheless controversial 1950s London housewife who is also a back-alley abortionist.

Mad. Restell, the celebrated Abortionist [is arrested].

The quack abortionist, with “a little knowledge,” impudently, remorselessly, and secretly employs his craft for filthy lucre’s sake, perpetrating one crime to conceal another, at which science and charity blush.

Such a fetus is perfectly viable save for the act of the abortionist.

According to Bray, “there is a difference between taking a retired abortionist and executing him, and killing a practicing abortionist who is regularly killing babies.” The first act is in Bray’s view retributive, the second defensive.

In 1962, when abortion was still illegal, I published an anonymous interview with Dr. Robert Spencer, a humane abortionist who was known as “The Saint.”

[…] a gruesome procedure in which the abortionist dismembers a child who could survive outside the womb.

Then she asks her to go first to meet the abortionist. Then she neglects to make a reservation at the hotel the abortionist specifies. That almost sinks the arrangement: The abortionist has experience suggesting that hotel will be a safe venue, and suspects he may be set up for a police trap.