Oral history interview with Jane Hodgson, 2000
Oral history interview with Jane Hodgson, 2000
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- Name
- Hodgson, Jane E (Interviewee)
- Fly on the Wall Productions (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Jane Hodgson, 2000
- Abstract
- 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 practi cing 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
- Collection Name
- Physicians for reproductive health and choice oral history project
- Subjects
- Gynecologists; Obstetricians; Abortion--United States; Abortion--Law and legislation--United States; Abortion--Law and legislation--Minnesota; Pro-choice movement--United States; Physicians--Attitudes.--United States; Reproductive rights--United States; Hodgson, Jane E
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2000
- Note (Biographical)
- Clinical Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Note
- Interviewed by Fly on the Wall Productions, July 2000
- Note (Provenance)
- Jane Hodgson, Gift 2000
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13795000
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-xsd6-m445
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.