Glenna Halvorson-Boyd
American abortion counselor and activist
Glenna Halvorson-Boyd is an American abortion counselor and abortion rights advocate. She has worked in abortion clinics in the Southwestern United States since abortion was legalized nationwide in 1973 with now-overruled court decision Roe v. Wade. From 1984 to 1986, she was president of the National Abortion Federation.
Halvorson-Boyd and her spouse Curtis Wayne Boyd, an abortion provider, have been the target of violence because of their profession: their Dallas clinic was firebombed in 1988, their New Mexico clinic was destroyed in an arson attack in 2007, and in 2014 they were reported to have been monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as they were considered possible targets of domestic terrorism.
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Halvorson-Boyd has worked in abortion clinics since the legalization of abortion with Roe v. Wade (1973), working alongside her spouse Curtis Wayne Boyd, a physician and abortion provider of national prominence who helped found the National Abortion Federation, a professional association for the profession. In 1974, she became an abortion counselor at Curtis's clinic in Dallas, Texas, the Fairmount Center, which was later known as Southwestern Women's Surgery Center. The center was the first legal abortion facility in Texas to provide abortion care after the Supreme Court of the United States' ruling in Roe v. Wade.
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