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• 2012-01-20

  After a date rape (by a "poet") during a trip to Paris in 1967 when she was 23, she found herself pregnant. She tried the usual "remedies" -- scalding hot baths, violent jumping, having someone walk on her belly. When she got home to Minnesota, she was two months along. A doctor friend there said he couldn't help her himself, but sent her to a local prostitute who did abortions.

  motherjones:

  “The Way It Was”: Abortion in the US before Roe v. Wade.

  I read this just before I left work. And then cried on the way home.

  Source: motherjones

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