Oral history interview with Jane Hodgson, 2000

Biographical Note

Clinical Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Scope and Contents

Early life at Carleton College; time spent as a teacher then pharmaceutical employee; decision to become a doctor; experiences at University of Minnesota; residency in Jersey City; first contact with women suffering from pelvic infections and botched abortions; time spent in Cairo; experiences in Grenada in 1984; first private practice in St. Paul in 1947; experiences as only woman physician practicing in St. Paul; general practice in Florida; treating women and college students at Ramsey Clinic in St. Paul before Roe V. Wade; arrested for performing an illegal abortion; humiliation of arrest; decision to use her case, Minnesota v. Hodgson, to challenge abortion law; work on creating a reliable pregnancy test; threats against abortion providers since Roe v. Wade; how medicine serves as a religion; fear about the future of abortion in the United States

Subjects

• Abortion--Law and legislation--Minnesota.
• Abortion--Law and legislation--United States.
• Abortion--United States.
• Fly on the Wall Productions, interviewer.
• Gynecologists--Interviews.
• Hodgson, Jane E.--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Obstetricians--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicians--United States--Attitudes.
• Pro-choice movement--United States.
• Reproductive rights--United States.

Access Conditions

Copyright by Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH), 2002