Roe v. Wade | 1. Get Married or Go Home
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Is It the Abortionist or Shirley Wheeler?
It seemed like the police were just trying to scare shirley. Even though abortions were illegal in most of the country, it was still basically unheard of for a woman to be prosecuted for getting one. I looked at it as a manslarner case. If she is going to kill a fully formed, vauable child, then she is certainly responsible. And someone is helping her do it, they are certainly responsible. That's just a common senseshirley's only previous scrape with the law was an 18 dollar fine for cussing out a policeman who had given her a ticket jay walking. Now she was facing a felony charge and serious prison time. She wrote to
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