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Daring to Remember: My Illegal Abortion Gave Me My Life Back

Catherine A.

The gynecologist who examined me was unhelpful, referring obliquely to “some doctor someplace in Pennsylvania.” But that was all she could offer me. This was 1966. Abortion was illegal.

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