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Women's Rights - Leviticus 19
In 19 62, a psychiatrist named sidney bolter wrote an essay in the american journal of psychiatry warning doct sto stay out of it. A handbook even circulated to teach women how to fake a suicide attempt. Families were having three and four children in quick succession. Birth control wasn't easy to get. Abstinence was encouraged. Illegal abortions increased so did the number of deaths and injuries. In order to get a safe abortion, some pregnant women would go to a psychiatrist and say they were going to kill them. We just never questioned the fact that motherhood should be a free choice.
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