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Word: virshup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graphic film that shows ultrasound images of a fetus being aborted, The Silent Scream, has received wide play and inflamed antiabortion passions, even though a number of medical authorities have denounced it as a distortion. "We are responding to what the pro-lifers have done," says Lauren Virshup, executive director of the California branch of NARAL, "but what we do will have a life of its own." Argues Virshup of what she hopes will be a reinvigorated pro-choice movement: "When people really understand that we may be on the brink of losing legal abortion, the energy we once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silent No More | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

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