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CrispyQ

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3. In '74, two of my HS friends had abortions at Planned Parenthood.

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Mon Jan 22, 2018, 04:07 PM

Jan 2018

A few years earlier & they would not have been able to, so easily. One of them told me, "No way am I going to let the community shame me while my boyfriend is basically off the hook." And she was right. That's how it was in my small community. The girls that got pregnant were shamed & the boys that got them pregnant were forgotten.

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Before 'Roe v. Wade,' The Women of 'Jane' Provided Abortions For The Women Of Chicago [View all] CountAllVotes Jan 2018 OP

Kicking to read later. n/t demmiblue Jan 2018 #1

In my small town in California, during the early 1960s, MineralMan Jan 2018 #2

In '74, two of my HS friends had abortions at Planned Parenthood. CrispyQ Jan 2018 #3

That's how it was in EVERY community, large or small RandomAccess Jan 2018 #6

if you wanted a legal abortion in illinois, mostly you went to wis. mopinko Jan 2018 #4

In my hometown Orange Free State Jan 2018 #5