Abortion: Facts

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the feminist group Women on Waves built a gynaecology unit on board of ship and performs abortions in international waters?
the Lightning roller coaster was so rough that the phrase "take her on the Lightning" became a folk remedy for terminating unwanted pregnancies?
the fruit of the colocynth is such a violent laxative that it was even used by pregnant women to induce abortion?
some American slaveholders forced their slaves to drink an infusion of black haw to prevent abortions?
in 1990 former Louisiana State Senator Fritz H. Windhorst spoke on behalf of a vetoed bill which would have made abortion a felony punishable by imprisonment?
U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case?
a 1977 memo by Robert Derzon, overseer of U.S. Medicaid/Medicare programs, supported federal abortion funding for poor women, citing $1,000 in annual welfare savings on each unwanted child?
former Louisiana State Senator Lawson Swearingen in 1990 cast one of three critical votes to sustain Governor Buddy Roemer's veto of a restrictive anti-abortion bill?
poet and playwright Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (pictured), known as the Polish Sappho, discussed topics such as abortion, extra-marital affairs, and incest?

Facts on topics related to Abortion

the New York Assembly passed a 1970 abortion rights law sponsored by Constance Cook and Franz Leichter after George Michaels broke a 74–74 deadlock by switching his vote?

U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case?
Henry Wade never lost a case until Roe v. Wade?

Elvia Carrillo Puerto founded the first feminist leagues to provide family planning programs with legalized birth control in the Western Hemisphere?
Dr John Billings was an Australian neurologist who developed the Billings ovulation method of family planning?