Pre-Roe, many hospitals had boards of doctors who would approve/disapprove abortions. TAB was the notation if they ruled an abortion would be "therapeutic", and was permitted. Knowing a doctor on the panel was helpful.
I know a fellow who ran for state office a few years ago; I was talking with him about the abortion question, and he was recalling the days when his father was on one of those hospital panels. Abortions were approved pretty easily, and it was seen as just a nod-and-wink formality. He didn't see what would be the problem with just going back to that. So, I guess it depends on whether you want abortion to be really illegal, or just have it be kept out of sight. In the old days, it was mostly just kept out of sight.
Weird that she would lie?????...........
I'd settle for out of sight over what we have now. Abortion is so readily available that some women in distress are tempted beyond what they can bear to have abortions. A seventeen year old who is panicking over her religious parents' potential response to hearing she's pregnant would have a hard time resisting quick and cheap abortions advertised in the yellow pages. If there were any kind of barrier to having an abortion quickly, the number of abortions would drop.