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A legacy of compassionate medicine.


 The death from cancer of Dr. Elizabeth Karlin, in July 1998, was a major loss to the US abortion rights movement. Karlin, an internist, decided to become an abortion provider in response to the "abortion wars" of the 1990s and the backing away of other physicians from performing this procedure. As a result of her support for abortion rights, her home and clinic were picketed and her family was threatened. Karlin worked with the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and was a plaintiff in the Center's challenge to the constitutionality of a Wisconsin law requiring women to wait for induced abortion at least 24 hours after receipt of state-mandated information. Karlin stated, "I am an abortion practitioner because of my utmost respect for motherhood ... Being a mother requires precise abilities, arrangements, resources, and a community of support. Motherhood, then, is the true sacrament, and helping make it so is the essence of my work."
