In The Cider House Rules, Homer Wells follows in the footsteps of Dr. Wilbur Larch, who performs these procedures safely using his training as an obstetrician.
After an argument about this subject, April Wheeler sleeps with Shep Campbell in Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road. Another character begins performing this task after adopting the identity of "Fuzzy Stone". Dewey Dell is raped by MacGowan after he gives her a faulty substance intended to be used for this purpose in As I Lay Dying. Jig is told this practice is "really not anything... it's all perfectly natural" in Ernest Hemingway's (*) "Hills Like White Elephants", which repeatedly alludes to it as an "operation". In The Cider House Rules, Homer Wells follows in the footsteps of Dr. Wilbur Larch, who performs these procedures safely using his training as an obstetrician. For 10 points, name these medical procedures, long performed in secret on pregnant women.
After an argument about this subject, April Wheeler sleeps with Shep Campbell in Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road.
performing abortions [or illegal abortions; prompt on "miscarriages"]