Jeng Cherng-jye, obstetric gynecologist at the Cathay General Hospital, feels very strongly about this. He recalls that before 1985 he would often see women who had been subjected to a botched abortion come to the hospital with massive hemorrhaging, peritonitis, and other serious aftereffects. Some unlicensed quack doctors had even cut their patients 'intestines.
國泰醫院婦產科醫師鄭丞傑對此感受非常深刻，他表示，在民國七十四年以前，經常看到婦女因墮胎的後遺症前來醫院求醫，如：大出血、感染造成腹膜炎...... 等，有些技術欠佳的無牌密醫，甚至把墮胎婦女的腸子都刮了出來。