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She’d drop tens of thousands of dollars on the latest Paris fashions. Through it all, Inez became extraordinarily wealthy.

Studios sent under-contract starlets to her San Francisco facilities, whisked away from the prying eyes of the scandal sheets, gossip rags and the tattler press. Many never bothered to tell their husbands where they were going for the day. Inez performed safe abortions on rich and poor alike the majority of her patients were married women who couldn’t afford another mouth to feed. Wade decision legalizing abortion, Inez was California’s go-to fixer for “women in trouble.” With her team of assistants, clad in crisp, white nurse’s uniforms, Inez, who had no formal medical training, performed what many considered a public service during a time when even the wealthiest wives or Hollywood starlets had few options if they found themselves with an unwanted pregnancy. In the first half of the 20th century, long before the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v.

He trumpeted that records seized at Inez’s properties showed “the names of a number of prominent San Francisco women,” along with dates when abortions were performed and fees paid, adding that many of Inez’s patients had come from throughout the state, “including Hollywood.” Brown publicly pledged that he wasn’t done trying to get her convicted. For 20 years, Inez’s clinic was California’s worst-kept secret.īut a grand jury had just voted against indicting Inez, despite the prosecution’s overwhelming evidence. She performed as many as 30 abortions a day at her clinic on Fillmore Street, a staggering 50,000 abortions overall. Whether they arrived in San Francisco by bus, automobile, train or plane, they’d discreetly ask other women, sometimes strangers on the street, “Know where that Burns woman lives?” Women came from around the corner and across the nation to Inez’s clinic. Word circulated, as it always does, when what you do, you do exceedingly well and your particular skill is highly specialized, in-demand and illegal. Physicians, lawyers, industrialists and pharmacists referred patients to her, as did an underground woman-to-woman network. Inez was able to stay open for so long through bribes to legions of cops and politicians. Charlize Theron and Issa Rae Honored at THR's Women in Entertainment Event: "Keep Using Our Voices and Platforms for Something Greater Than Ourselves"