Word: unwantedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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How women react to unwanted pregnancy is the most crucial-and least acknowledged-issue in the current debate over U. S. abortion laws. Each year, an estimated 25 million legal abortions occur throughout the world (v. roughly 120 million live births). The fact is that women have always practiced abortion...
How many women have illegal abortions rather than suffer the far-reaching effects of unwanted pregnancy? Estimates range from 200,000 to 1,500,000 a year in the U. S. (v. 3,700,000 live births). No one records illegal abortions; all statistics are extrapolated from shaky sample studies...
Florida currently has an influx of skilled Cuban refugee doctors who once made Havana an abortion mecca and are now doing the same for Miami, where some 30 abortion mills last year paid off assorted officials and took in an estimated $20 million. But all too many U.S. abortionists are...
In one of Saigon's toughest slums, near the city's docks and up a narrow alley past teeming soup stalls, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Brenden of Minneapolis operate a center for teaching sewing and other skills to teen-age girls, a day nursery for children of working...
Somewhat Sanguine. This was hardly enough for California Activist Pat Maginnis, 39, a medical technician who has had three abortions herself. Uninvited to the conference, she led pickets outside the Hilton Hotel and gave public lectures on self-abortion. It was her startling opinion that no law held the woman...