, he successfully ran two abortion clinics—one in Dallas and one in Albuquerque, N.M.—devoting much of his career to crossing and re-crossing the Texas-New Mexico border alongside his wife and business partner, Dr. Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, a reproductive rights activist and trainer of abortion counselors.
Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque has been providing abortions in all trimesters since 2010, when Dr. Susan Robinson and Dr. Shelley Sella , ob-gyns and former colleagues of Dr. George Tiller, joined the practice. ’s establishment, controversy and ultimate demise.
Boyd, a former child preacher in the Primitive First Baptist Church of Predestinarian Faith and Order, also known as the “foot-washing Baptists,” was born in Crossroads, Texas, which he described as a conservative, deeply religious town publicly identified by two roads that literally cross one another. Religion, he said, offered him a space to explore how to lead a life of service, compassion and obligation toward the poor and disadvantaged—values he has imported into his abortion care.
“Here she was, her life was shattered, and I thought, ‘This is not fair, someone needs to do something about this,’” Boyd recalled. “And that came back much later: I think that memory was stuck in there, inside of me.” “They started questioning her—they wanted to know where she had it done, who had done it and she denied having done anything,” he said.
Founded in 1973 by Boyd, the Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center in Dallas was was the first facility in Texas to provide high-quality, low-cost outpatient abortion care. Today, the Southwestern Women’s Clinic has been forced to stop providing abortion services, but it remains open to help arrange legal abortion options out-of-state, and to provide follow-up care and other reproductive services. e era also came from his involvement in progressive social movements of the ’60s.
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