The Aradia Women’s Clinic opened on Seattle’s First Hill in February 1972. A feminist women’s clinic, it provided birth control, health care, counseling, and advocacy by women for women. Once the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal, it also became one of Seattle’s first abortion clinics and a model for similar operations elsewhere in the country. Aradia closed at the end of January 2007 mainly due to financial limitations on subsidized health care for low-income women and the rising cost of malpractice insurance.

Here, at the Aradia Women’s Clinic, lab specialist Carol Isaac (left) runs a pregnancy test as clinic volunteer Charlene Parker (right) looks on.

Caption information source: “Prescription is Education: Aradia Women’s Clinic Taking The Mystery out of Gynecology”, by Susan Paynter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 19, 1972, page D6.
Caption information source: “Aradia clinic a pioneer in women’s health”, by Cara Solomon, The Seattle Times, December 14, 2006.