Word: helped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That idea is being widely discussed by women's groups and has already drawn sharp criticism not only from right-tolifers but from medical authorities and some pro-choice supporters. Promoters of self-help abortions are looking at several methods, including RU 486, the controversial French pill not yet available in the U.S. But most of the attention is focusing on menstrual extraction, a technique that can be used to end a pregnancy through the eighth week. At a recent meeting in Dallas, sponsored by the local unit of the National Organization for Women, more than 100 women...
...women from seeking back-alley butchers or resorting to the horrifying home measures, such as inserting coat hangers and douching with Lysol or Coca-Cola, that were common before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal nationwide in 1973. NOW's national headquarters in Washington takes no position on self-help abortions but has not discouraged its local affiliates...
...Hakim Elahi, medical director of Planned Parenthood: "It's a wrong notion that abortion is very easy." He and others fear that cursory instruction will lead to medical complications. "There's no way that watching a video and seeing someone demonstrate this is going to make self-help procedures safe," declares gynecologist Michael Burnhill of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J. Possible dangers: missing the tiny fertilized egg, lacerating the cervix, perforating the uterus, and spreading bacterial infection...
Many feminists call the effort politically misguided. They argue that it gives the wrong impression that abortion is already illegal and unobtainable. They are also concerned that it diverts attention from their battle to keep abortion legal. Whether that battle is won or lost, the pursuit of self-help abortions makes one thing clear, warns Patricia Ireland of NOW: "The demand for abortion will continue and will be met one way or another...
...future in light of Solidarity's sweep. Some of their Deputies began arguing for a break with the regime, to build a political base independent of the Communists in time for the next elections. On July 19 the National Assembly elected Jaruzelski as President, but only with the help of seven senior Solidarity parliamentarians. Eleven Deputies from the Communist alliance voted against...