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NEW YORK CITY, October 21, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Seven abortion doctors – including some who did illegal abortions – are telling their stories to New York Magazine.

According to Dr. Curtis Boyd, doing illegal abortions “was a matter of conscience.”

“[Women] said, 'If we're going to be equal in society, then we have to be able to control our reproduction. We have to be able to choose if and when we're going to have children and how many. We don't have that. We're at the whim of the pregnancies that come along,'” Boyd told NY Mag.

Boyd said that the explanation “was a really important realization for me. I hadn't understood things in that way before.”

According to Boyd, he “was asked if I would be willing to provide abortions by a multidenominational clergy consultation group in Texas. Pastors and priests from all sorts of denominations would refer women to me for abortions. I had a wife, small kids, and I had to decide whether I was willing to take on the risk. Of course, I said yes. It was a matter of conscience.”

Boyd did not indicate whether he or the clergy ever encouraged women to abstain from sexual intercourse, a method of pregnancy avoidance that is 100 percent effective with the exception of rape.

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Dr. Sadja Greenwood had an illegal abortion – and then decided to commit them.

“I provided my first abortion in the late '60s; 1968 was the year 100,000 teens came to San Francisco with flowers in their hair. Although the Pill had been legal since the early '60s, a lot of kids were getting pregnant,” she said.

“When Roe passed, it was just fantastic. The next day, we rolled one of the vacuum pumps [used in most first-trimester abortions] out of the UCSF hospital and took it over to Planned Parenthood so we could start doing abortions there. Abortions cost $25 back then.

“Every society that we know of, there have been abortions. Women are just as desperate not to have children as they are to have children,” Greenwood said.

“Boating is much more dangerous than having an abortion,” boat captain and abortionist Dr. David Grimes declared in his portion of the NY Mag article.

“The North Carolina General Assembly has been voting in further restrictions to abortion practice. There's no need for that. There hasn't been a death from abortion in this state in decades. I'm a licensed boat captain – that's what I like to do in my spare time. Last year, 23 people died in boating accidents in North Carolina. If the General Assembly truly cared about safety, they could make wearing life jackets mandatory.

“The evidence is clear and incontrovertible that abortion is a safe and an important part of women's health and yet we still see this broad campaign of deception,” said Grimes. “You're actually twice as likely to die from an injection of penicillin than an abortion, but no one is suggesting penicillin injections happen in a surgical ward.”

Several doctors outlined what they said were death threats, assaults, and murders by pro-life activists. Very few of the doctors noted that pro-life activists focus on legislative solutions, not violence – and none spoke of the sidewalk counseling, maternity homes, and other assistance provided by pro-lifers for women in crisis pregnancies.