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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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Daring to Remember: Ms. Co-Founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin Looks Back on Illegal Abortions Before Roe

Amy DePoy

“I would have killed myself. This isn’t hyperbole. If I couldn’t have had an abortion at 18, I would have killed myself—because I couldn’t see how I could possibly live my life.”

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Daring to Remember: When Ann Called Jane

Amy DePoy

In the years before Roe, the women of the Jane Collective took the fight for abortion access into their own hands—literally.

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