the hospital university of pennsylvania and the fetuses were being carted across the street to hayflick'slab without the mothers being any the wiser, that whole issue let me to wonder what was the law? turned out abortion was a criminal offense in all 50 states. in philadelphia, in pennsylvania there wasn't even an exception for saving the life of the mother. it was still illegal. these two parallel universes in terms of the sort of authorities chasing the back alley butchers and self-inflicted abortions and so on and the hospital, the university of pennsylvania, and other major hospitals around the country where therapeutic abortions were allowed, the authorities tolerated them, small committees, whether a certain woman would get an abortion but by and large these were wider, wealthier, better connected women, women of color, for women, very very tough to get an abortion and what comes to me is the 15 week loss being challenged in the courts. mississippi has a larger proportion of african-americans stayed in the country so the one clinic that will not provide abortions for women after 15