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Want to know more about the history of Eve Surgical Center? Check out this article from the LA Times from Jan 7, 1990.
Here is the reference and the opening lines:

Eve Surgical Center exterior view

The Abortions of Last Resort: The Question of Ending Pregnancy in Its Later Stages May Be the Most Anguishing of the Entire Abortion Debate

By KAREN TUMULTY
Jan. 7, 1990 12 AM PT
Karen Tumulty is a Times staff writer.

FROM THE BUSY street, it is easy to miss the little building hidden behind a high stucco wall and a locked gate. Its courtyard is a sculpture garden, where the soothing burble of a fountain smothers the din of the Santa Monica Freeway. Inside, the pastel-washed waiting room could be the lobby of a fancy small hotel. Vivaldi and Chopin play softly from hidden speakers; tropical fish make neon streaks in an oversized tank.

This tranquil spot is where thousands of women have brought their anguish and their desperation. Those who could afford it have sought this place out from Kansas City, Philadelphia, even the Philippines. For here they find an abortionist of last resort–one who will take the cases that others turn down.

The last of the morning’s patients has gone. Dr. James T. McMahon retreats to the chaos of his paper-strewn office to take a call from another physician hoping to refer a patient. “I would say she has no more than one week,” McMahon warns. “I wouldn’t start that case later than next Monday.”

Dr. Seletz was the last doctor to provide the abortions at the original Eve from 2001 till 2011.

Want to find out more about the Ryan Teaching Program?

Here’s where to find out more about the Ryan Residency Teaching Program and a list of the hospitals in California that participate:

Twenty Years of the Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning Uta Landy 1, Jema K Turk 2, Kristin Simonson 1, Katheryn Koenemann 1, Jody Steinauer 1
PMID: 33359544 DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2020.12.009

  • Contraception. 2021 May;103(5):305-309. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2020.12.009. Epub 2020 Dec 24.

Participating California Teaching Sites

  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
  • Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles
  • Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, Oakland
  • Kaiser Permanente Medical Group/University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
  • Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Santa Clara, Santa Clara
  • Los Angeles County Harbor, UCLA Medical Center, Torrance
  • Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose
  • Stanford University, Stanford
  • University of California, Davis, Sacramento
  • University of California, Irvine, Orange
  • University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
  • University of California, San Diego, San Diego
Ryan Teaching Program

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