On a plane bound for the Midwest from an East Coast city, a lanky
55-year-old woman sits in the 12th row window seat, knitting a sweater.
Her waist-length, wavy white-blonde hair is held up in a bun behind her
head by a pair of silver knitting needles, while another set clacks away
at a gray top. Knitting is her way of keeping busy on this and the many
other flights she must take for her unusual, and these days much
in-demand job as a traveling abortion doctor, or as she puts it, a
“fly-in abortionista.”




