Monday, Feb. 04, 1946

Abortion in San Francisco

Some 18,000 abortions were performed in San Francisco last year. The city's booming birth rate ran a poor second with 16,400 babies born. These startling statistics were figured out by San Francisco's District Attorney Edmund G. Brown. Fists flying, the D.A. was wading into a sordid abortion racket which he claims lures pregnant women to the Golden Gate city from all over the West Coast.

District Attorney Brown has plenty of ammunition for a showdown between law and organized abortion. A grand jury has indicted a doctor charged with the Christmas-Day murder of a mother of two. Brown has gathered as witnesses former customers whose names San Francisco newspapers have promised to withhold. He is also setting traps for "respectable" doctors who send their patients to the abortion milla or do unreported "repair work" after complications set in.

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