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Fifteen Minutes of Feminism: Heather Booth and the Jane Collective

On The Issues With Michele Goodwin

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Women's Rights and the Choice to Have a Child

At that point, there were many professions in the US where if you were pregnant or had children, you couldn't even hold a job. Even for people who might want a child later in life, it was as it was argued before Roe that this is about the most intimate decision in a person's life. And so many women took it into their own hands and had forced improvised abortions with knitting needles, coat hangers. There were women who died and suffered terrible consequences. The decisions that women faced were just tragic decisions.

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