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

PUBLISHED 7/4/2018 by 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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Daring to Remember: Ms. Co-Founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin Looks Back on Illegal Abortions Before Roe

PUBLISHED 7/3/2018 by 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

PUBLISHED 7/3/2018 by 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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