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According to Laura Kaplan who wrote a history of the group, members assisted women in having 11,000 safe abortions. [50] [51] Another estimate put the total abortions assisted by the group as 12,000 between 1969 and 1973. [51] The Chicago Abortion Fund was established in 1985, which assists low-income people in obtaining abortions. [52]
The Jane Collective or Jane, officially known as the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, was an underground service in Chicago, Illinois affiliated with the Chicago Women's Liberation Union that operated from 1969 to 1973, a time when abortion was illegal in most of the United States.
Bas relief at Angkor Wat, c. 1150, depicting a demon performing an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the underworld. The Vedic and smrti laws of India reflected a concern with preserving the male seed of the three upper castes; and the religious courts imposed various penances for the woman or excommunication for a priest who provided an abortion. [3]
Then and now, Chicago was “a town where people did stuff.” It got things done, stirred up trouble, made no little plans. That, says one of the underground abortion providers interviewed in the ...
A look back at U.S. abortion laws and the Roe vs. Wade decision.
Contrary to claims by anti-abortion activists, history shows that abortion bans hinder women's health ... (one of whom, Kristin Atwell Ford, contributed to this essay). Cox’s case featured many ...
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right to have an abortion prior to the point of fetal viability.
The abortion debate most commonly relates to the induced abortion of a pregnancy, which is also how the term "abortion" is used in a legal sense. [nb 1] The terms "elective abortion" and "voluntary abortion" refer to the interruption of pregnancy, before viability, at the request of the woman but not for medical reasons. [39]