Abortion

The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (1970 or 1971) issued this stirring demand for abortion rights and bears careful study.

Note: there is a major factual error that is especially serious today as the attack on women getting very late abortions intensifies. Only if a woman spontaneously gives birth to a fetus who is 24 weeks or more can the delivery be called a premature birth. An induced abortion at that stage cannot be preformed without seriously compromising the health of the woman or the fetus. It is impossible to safely induce a fetus of advanced gestation without harming the fetus, and vice versa. Therefore, a woman carrying a fetus over 24 weeks gestation cannot elect to just have a premature delivery and the viability of the fetus were it to be a spontaneos birth is irrelevant.

Abortion an individual decision. by JAN ROGERS. DT Staff Writer. Daily titan. Cal State fullerton. Vol.14No.96. Tuesday, May 16, 1972

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WHEN ABORTION WAS A CRIME, Women, Medicine and the Law in the United States, 1867-1973, Leslie J. Reagan.

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ABORTION AT WORK, Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic, by Wendy Symonds, 1996

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