1. Abortion: A Social Issue
... century commercial preparations were so widely available that they had inspired their own euphemism ("taking the trade").(Katha Pollitt, Abortion in History, www.theatlantic.com, May 1997) A turning point in the history of abortion being regulated and legislated was the founding of the American Medical Association in ... at a rampant rate. "In the late 1920's some 15,000 women a year died from abortions " (Katha Pollitt, Abortion in History, www.theatlantic.com, May 1997). One of the main reasons so many abortions were taken place was that doctors, even if the woman died, "were rarely ar...
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