On July 1, 1970, one of the first independent abortion clinics in the country opened on the upper eastern side of Manhattan. New York State has fixed its laws, allowing women to end her pregnancy in the first third of pregnancy – or at any time, if her life is in danger. Suddenly, the state had the most liberal abortion laws in the country.
Women’s services, as well as known for the first time, were supervised by an extraordinary team: Huras Hill Harvey III, PhD physician. In philosophy that, without the knowledge of the clinic, was illegal abortion in New Orleans; Barbara Bale, a 23 -year -old PhD student in philosophy, was looking for sexual education and abortion practices in Europe; And an organization known as the name Consultation service for abortionA group of Protestant Rabbes and Ministers who believed that women deserve to reach safe abortion and reasonable prices, and who have created a referral service to find those who would provide them.
What was distinguished by the services of women – a non -profit institution that works for the first time from a series of offices on Sharq 73 Street and we are on a slide scale, starting from $ 200 – its consultants were. They were not medical professionals, but ordinary women, many of whom were performed on abortions themselves. Their role was to graze patients through the miscarriage, using a pelvic model to explain the procedure in detail, and accompany women in the procedure room and sit with them after that. They also reported the doctor’s performance. It was a model on which other clinics depend on the coming months and years.
The humanitarian approach to the clinic was in a flagrant contradiction with the position of many hospital staff at the time, Jane Brody of the New York Times Written in 1970. “Don’t make it very easy for the patient,” one of the officials put it, to summarize the hospital’s philosophy. “If it is very easy, you will return here in three months to abort another.”
Women’s services had some other unique features as well. The waiting areas were decorated with joy, with music in the tubes, and operating tables had expanded with bright colored pots, Dr. Harvey Al -Azhar, who died on February 14, brought with him from working days outside the hotel rooms in New Orleans.
Unlike many illegal abortion providers in those days that were narrated by Wadi, who made this process naked and rapidly as possible in anticipation of the police cave, Dr. Harvey did not relieve the atmosphere from the procedure room in New Orleans to make it less terrifying; He was also offered to women’s cookies and Coca-Cola, to help them recover.
“Harvey’s condemnation is that even a healthy patient will feel the disease, in the face of a cold hospital environment,” wrote that even the healthy patient will feel the disease, in the face of a cold hospital environment, “she wrote that even the healthy patient will feel the disease, in the face of a cold hospital environment,” she wrote that “abortion abortion and social change from medical practice.” “Since abortion was not a disease, the atmosphere associated with hospitals should be avoided.”
His daughter, Kate Harvey, said that Dr. Harvey was 93 years old when he died in a hospital in the town of Dorscheter, in England, after his fall, his daughter Kate Harvey. He lived in England for many years.
Women’s services were opened with $ 15,000 in financing from Dr. Harvey. Mrs. Bale, who was responsible, described in an interview with the first chaotic days, where customers from all over the country were poured. The clinic operates from 8 am to midnight, where employees work in a working attack. Mrs. Bale slept on a sofa in the building. On average, she said the clinic conducted about 72 abortion a day.
Newspapers wrote glowing reports, and sorted by Dr. Harvey as a creator. But after less than a year, Mrs. Carmen and Mr. Modi discovered that the clergy consulting service was terrified that Dr. Harvey was working without a medical license. He surrendered in 1969, after the Louisiana authorities learned that he was illegal abortion. He had to go quickly, before he presented the legal status of women’s services.
Dr. Harvey became an abortion provider to combat what he felt was an insecure abortion epidemic at a time when unmarried women were deprived of access to contraceptives, and when comprehensive sexual education was discouraged. Low -income women have suffered inappropriately.
As a teenager, he grew up as a conservative Christian. During the Vietnam War, it was recorded as a conscience beneficiary; Instead of fighting, he worked as a health consultant at the Youth Christian Association at a later time, in New Orleans, created an independent program for sexual education, giving lectures, answering questions by phone and distributing brochures in universities.
Mrs. Harvey, his daughter, said the importance of abortion was the idea of preventing “losing the potential of women.” “It was a matter of its principle.”
Huras Hill Harvey III was born on December 7, 1931, in New Orleans in a coming family that developed what is known as the Harvey channel, which became part of the internal waterway in 1924. His father, Huras Haley Harvey Junior was the headquarters, and the family was poor; They have moved a lot as he tried many professions, including creating a loan company. His mother, Florence (Kurger) Harvey, was a secretary.
Horas studied philosophy at Louisiana State University, and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in 1955, and a medical certificate there in 1966. In 1969, he obtained a master’s degree in public health and a doctorate in philosophy, from the University of Toleen, in New Orleans.
His daughter said that Dr. Harvey moved to England after leaving the abortion clinic in New York – a choice he did, because he agreed to the national health service in Britain. He settled on White Island, another thoughtful option: according to his research, he had the highest average temperature and received more hours of sunlight than anywhere else in England.
Dr. Harvey worked shortly in public health in his new country, and advising for cervical cancer examination procedures, but he spent most of his time searching for aging – to prepare for his own aging – reading a philosophy and attending his duties as a owner.
He had bought Puckaster Close, a coherent Victorian house, and turned it into apartments that he renewed in a “strange and corresponding” style, as Dr. Harvey himself, his son Russell, said.
In addition to his daughter and son, Dr. Harvey survived three descendants. His marriage to Helen Cox, the principal of the school, ended in divorce.
