Oral history interview with Sadja Greenwood, 2001.

Biographical Note

Primary care physician

Scope and Contents

Early life and family: born in new York, mother's assistance of women in need of illegal abortions in 1920's and 30's, influence of family on career path; education: Radcliff college, where freshman roommate had illegal abortion in 1947; Pre-medical courses at University of Washington; medical school; internship at San Francisco General Hospital; volunteer work at Planned Parenthood; work as general practioner; residency obstetrics/gynecology; personal experience with an illegal abortion; assistance for women in raising money through underground referral network for abortions performed in Mexico and Japan; opened a teen clinic in San Francisco; political activism for abortion law reform; work for International Planned Parenthood Federation in Singapore from 1963-1965; began abortion clinic immediately following Roe v. Wade; descriptions of typical patients from the Haight Ashbury district during the 1960's of worst case, of procedures and technology

Subjects

• Abortion--Law and legislation--United States.
• Abortion--Personal narratives.
• Abortion--United States--History--20th century.
• Abortion--United States.
• Fly on the Wall Productions, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Greenwood, Sadja, 1930---Interviews.
• International Planned Parenthood Federation.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Physicians--United States--Attitudes.
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
• Reproductive rights--United States.

Access Conditions

Copyright by Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH), 2001