In the 1950s and 1960s, the LAPD's abortion squad hunted down women getting the procedure and the people performing them. They kept dossiers on hundreds of abortion providers and went on stakeout.
They posed as boyfriends or brothers to trap doctors into confessing. In a still unsettled post-Roe world, no one knows for sure what enforcement of abortion laws will look like. But L.A. in the 1950s and 1960s offers a hint into at least one possibility.
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