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When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories (1992)

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CarleeCork6/13/2012 6:01:18 pm PDT

re: #16 sagehen

In 1967, Governor Ronald Reagan signed what was then the most liberal abortion law in the country, at the urging of the California Medical Association — doctors were just goddamn sick and tired of seeing constant, daily admissions to emergency rooms and morgues of women with sepsis or hemorrhage or a whole range of other entirely preventable results brought on by unqualified practitioners working in unsanitary conditions.

The girls and women that didn’t die from it were usually left sterile, they knew the risks going in and did it anyway.

Why is it that we always have to repeat history?