When queried about a proposed clinic which would offer second-trimester abortions, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin said Monday she has received “a lot of phone calls from people on both sides of the issue.”
Physicians have proposed performing abortions for patients between 13 and 22 weeks pregnant at the Madison Surgery Center, a facility at 1 S. Park St. that is a private, joint venture of the UW Medical Foundation, UW Hospital and Clinics and Meriter Hospital.
The UW Hospital and Clinics Authority Board, of which Martin is a member, is slated to meet Wednesday afternoon to talk about the proposed abortion clinic and to give direction to hospital employees who sit on the board of the surgery center.